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Activities celebrate Lunar New Year abroad

VNA
Published: February 18, 2018

Many activities celebrating Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet) have been held among the Vietnamese community abroad.

OVs in the Netherlands at the get-together (Source: the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands)
OVs in the Netherlands at the get-together (Source: the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands)

A ceremony to pray for happiness, peace and prosperity was held at Buddha Vihara pagoda in New Delhi, India, on 16 February (the 1st day of the Lunar New Year), bringing together monks and nuns, and representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

Venerable Thich Hanh Chanh, the President of Representatives of Vietnamese monks and followers in India, read the New Year letter from Most Venerable Thich Pho Tue, Supreme Patriarch of the Viet Nam Buddhist Sangha (VBS).

Participants chanted and prayed for peace, luckiness and happiness in the lunar New Year.

Previously, in his speech in the New Year’s Eve on 15 February, Ambassador Ton Sinh Thanh wished all staff of the embassy, those working in agencies to the embassy and Vietnamese expats working and study in India a successful and happy New Year.

At a recent get-together to celebrate the Year of the Dog with Dutch friends and representatives from diplomatic agencies in the Netherlands, Vietnamese Ambassador to the European country Ngo Thi Hoa stressed 2017 witnessed the fruitful development of the Viet Nam-Netherlands relations.

She thanked ministries, sectors, individuals and organisations of the Netherlands, as well as diplomatic delegations and international organisations in the country for their support for Viet Nam in 2017.

She hoped Viet Nam will continue receiving cooperation and assistance from its partners and friends, thus making greater achievements in the coming time.

On the occasion of the Tet festival, overseas Vietnamese in France shared their desires and plans to promote economic ties between the two nations in 2018.

President of the The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Association in France (ABVietFrance) Nguyen Hai Nam affirmed the organisation continues serving as a bridge linking Vietnamese and French businessmen, towards attracting more investment from France to Viet Nam and vice versa.

(Source: VNA)
 

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