Day: April 7, 2024

Tokyo: A ceremony was held on April 6 in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, to launch the Day for Honouring Vietnamese Language 2024.

Addressing the event, which aims to foster Vietnamese teaching and learning among the Vietnamese community in the country, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu affirmed that supporting and encouraging the community to maintain cultural identity and preserve the Vietnamese language are one of the key tasks of the embassy.

The embassy and its community affairs board always create favourable conditions for teachers and Vietnamese language centres to promote the preservation of the mother tongue for generations of Vietnamese children in Japan.

The ambassador asked the Vietnamese community in Japan to be more active in the Vietnamese language teaching and learning movement. He also hoped that more attention will be paid to researching and compiling a curriculum which is suitable for children living in the East Asia nation, adding that the Vietnamese language learning movement
in Japan will develop strongly in the coming time, meeting the needs of the community.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang, who is also Chairwoman of the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOVA), hailed associations in Japan for organising activities that help connect Vietnamese people at home and abroad and for their efforts to preserve the Vietnamese language.

Hang affirmed that the SCOVA will accompany the Vietnamese community in Japan through providing textbooks and organising training courses on Vietnamese language teaching skills for teachers and volunteers.

The same day, Deputy Minister Hang held working sessions with representatives of 10 Vietnamese associations in Japan during which they briefed about the outcome of their activities, including supporting each other to overcome difficulties, integrating into the host society, maintaining the Vietnamese language and national cultural identity as well as providing assistance to local residents who were affect
ed by natural disasters.

The representatives also proposed to strengthen the teaching and learning of the Vietnamese language, connect with mass organisations in the home country, and promote communications work with the goal of building a united, strong community in Japan./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Paris: The Union of Vietnam Students in France (UEVF) held a charity fair at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris on April 6 to raise fund for residents and soldiers on Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly).

The event attracted the participation of not only Vietnamese students, but also other representatives of the Vietnamese community in France.

Proceeds from the fair, to last until April 14, will be used to buy seawater filters and seedlings for the soldiers and residents, or presented directly to them, said UEVF President Nguyen Phan Bao Thuy, adding the event is expected to offer an opportunity for Vietnamese students and young people in France to contribute to national construction and defence.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang said the fair has helped strengthen solidarity among Vietnamese students and young people in the host country, and affirmed that the embassy always supports the union’s activities./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Nghe An: A statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin will be positioned at the intersection of V.I.Lenin Avenue and Nguyen Phong Sac street in Vinh city, the central province of Nghe An to commemorate the 154th anniversary of the late Russian leader’s birthday (April 22).

Vinh city in Nghe An province – the homeland of late President Ho Chi Minh – is the second locality, after Hanoi, selected for the placement of Lenin’s statue.

The statue, which weighs 4.5 tonnes and measures 3.6 metres in height, was crafted from pure copper in Ulyanovsk as a gift from the Russian city to Nghe An.

Nghe An province and Ulyanovsk – the native land of Lenin – have boasted close relations since the 1990s. Ulyanovsk has named a square, an avenue and a school after President Ho Chi Minh.

The erection of the statue is expected to contribute to creating a highlight for the urban landscape of Vinh city as well as deepening the relationship between Nghe An and Ulianov in the fields of investment, trade, health, education-training and touri
sm.

Earlier in 2017, Ulyanovsk unveiled a 5m-tall bronze statue of President Ho Chi Minh in an area of 2,000 sq.m next to the Ho Chi Minh Boulevard in Zasniazhsky district./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Phnom Penh: The Vietnam-Cambodia Business Association (VCBA), Metfone under military-run telecom group Viettel and other units on April 7 offered medical check-ups, medicines and gifts to 600 Cambodians and those of Vietnamese origin in the neighbouring country’s Kampong Chhnang province.

The activities were carried out on the occasion of the Chol Chnam Thmay New Year, the biggest festival on the Khmer calendar, with the participation of 15 doctors from big hospitals in the two countries.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Huy Tang said the programme demonstrates the traditional friendship and fine cooperation between the two countries, and expressed his hope that the VCBA will expand such activities to other Cambodian localities.

President of the Khmer-Vietnamese Association in Cambodia (KVA) Sim Chy affirmed that Vietnamese in Cambodia have significantly contributed to the solidarity and friendship between the two countries, as well as national construction and development in Cambodia.

Born Sophy,
Deputy Governor of Kampong Chhnang province, thanked the Vietnamese side for the organisation of the programme, and called for joint efforts to preserve the time-honoured relationship./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Beijing: Flights from Vietnam to Taiwan (China) are still running after a strong earthquake hit Taiwan on April 3.

For tours to Taiwan, Vietravel said its three delegations with 71 members were visiting Taiwanese cities when the earthquake occurred.

However, none of them travelled to quake-hit areas, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism and the company’s partners in Taiwan.

The firm also said it has not received any cancellation requests from clients for tours scheduled between April and June so far, adding the earthquake struck the eastern district of Hualien, while most of Vietravel’s tours are in Western Taiwan.

Vietravel is working to ensure the safety of its clients and trips will be rescheduled flexibly based on the natural disaster situation in Taiwan, it said.

Nguyen Thanh Hoang Nhu, a Vietnamese student in Hualien, said she and her friends have gradually returned to the normal life after the quake.

Trieu Van Tuan, a Vietnamese worker in the Taiwanese district, said factories t
here have resumed their normal operations following the natural disaster, adding as Taiwan frequently experiences earthquakes, his company has equipped its labourers with basic knowledge and skills.

As of April 6, the death toll from the quake had risen to 13, with six others still missing./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

ANKARA: China’s military on Sunday conducted a naval and air patrol in the disputed South China Sea, the same day the Philippines, the US, Japan and Australia held joint drills amid heightened tensions in the region.

‘The Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army will conduct a joint air and sea combat patrol in the South China Sea on April 7,’ South China Morning Post reported citing the Southern Theatre Command.

The military activities ‘intended to sabotage the situation’ and create ‘hotspots’ in the waters were ‘well under control,” the command said in a statement in an apparent reference to the four-nation military drills.

The US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines are staging a ‘maritime cooperative activity’ Sunday within what they called the ‘Philippine exclusive economic zone.’

The exercise is taking place in the disputed waterway – which Beijing claims almost in full – days before US President Joe Biden is due to hold the first trilateral summit with the leaders of the Philippine
s and Japan.

It features anti-submarine warfare training, communication drills, and sailing information to strengthen the interoperability among their defense forces.

The territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea remain highly contested, despite repeated calls for a negotiated settlement and avoiding breaches of sovereignty.

In 2016, China was dealt a blow when the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an international tribunal based in The Hague, ruled that Beijing’s nine-dash line claim has no legal basis under international law.

Source: Philippines News Agency