VOV holds Tet reunion for overseas Vietnamese

Officials attending the January 23 celebration in Hanoi included representatives from the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA) as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

They were joined by 50 members of expatriate Vietnamese communities in countries and territories all over the world.

Participants shared their anticipation ahead of the year’s largest festival and contributed impressions regarding the ten years of the Political Bureau‘s Resolution 36.

Resolution 36 encourages OVs to contribute to the homeland’s national construction and defence. 

About 400,000 Vietnamese expatriates return home annually to visit relatives, conduct research, teach, and seek investment opportunities.

Deputy VOV General Director Vu Hai briefed his guests on the broadcaster’s 2013 activities, noting its renewed emphasis on media diversity and island and coastal audiences.

He revealed VOV’s plans for a TV programme on the National Assembly’s activities in the second quarter of 2014 and its ambitions to establish a correspondent agency serving the large Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic.

Hai affirmed the OV community’s indispensability to the Vietnamese nation and pledged to keep all Vietnamese nationals abroad up to date on issues in the homeland.

He introduced a number of VOV programmes specialising in OV affairs on VOV1, VOV5, and its online newspaper.

Russian expatriate Nguyen Huy Hoang wished VOV leaders and staff a very happy Tet. “Though distance may separate me, I savour the real flavours of Vietnamese Tet. My fellow Russian residents always respond to flood and storm victim assistance back home,” he said.

Hoang thanked VOV for strengthening the solidarity uniting Vietnamese citizens at home and abroad.