The National Committee for Overseas Vietnamese forecasts that more than 500,000 overseas Vietnamese or Viet Kieu will return to Vietnam to welcome the lunar New Year (Tet), the highest number so far. There are two reasons for Viet Kieu to come back home at record number: the recovery of the global economy in 2009 and 2010 will be a year of great events in Vietnam.
Le Phu Hoa, Deputy Director of provincial Foreign Affairs Department said that according to statistics by the local functional agencies, southern Binh Duong provincial annually welcomes more than 3,500 overseas Vietnamese for Tet. It is expected that the number of overseas Vietnamese returning Binh Duong for Tet this year will be higher than the previous years.
Binh Duong has also made a plan to organize a get-together for overseas Vietnamese to inform them of the province’s socio-economic performance as well as the State and Party’s preferential policies for them. It is expected that more than 200 overseas Vietnamese will attend the get-together, said Mr. Hoa.
Along with realizing the State and Party’s preferential policies and organizing the annual get-together, provincial Party Committee and People’s Committee have over time instructed sectors to create favorable conditions for overseas Vietnamese in terms of entry and exit procedures, residence, repatriation, home-ownership…
Through provincial Fatherland Front Committee and Union of Friendship Organizations, the operations of the Associations of Relatives of Overseas Vietnamese in Di An, Thuan An district and TDM town have also been reinforced with the goals of making coherence between overseas Vietnamese and domestic citizens; calling for overseas Vietnamese, especially those who are born abroad to look toward homeland, preserve cultural identities, contributing to the cause of national development.
Reported by Ho Van-Translated by K.T
