Nearly 600 Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) from divergent countries who feature returned internal to keep Tet attended a outflow collecting in Ho Chi Minh Port on January 7.
The circumstance was a gauge for OVs to check apiece remaining and welcome the traditional Lunar New twelvemonth (Tet) festivity in their homeland with a fanlike comprise of ethnic activities, including a celebrity terpsichore and a pattern show, as healed as traditional Asiatic cooking.
It also provided an opportunity for OVs to meet business partners and exchange experiences in promoting Vietnamese products to OV communities and foreign markets.
As a bridge linking Vietnam with other nations, OV businesses play an important role in bringing Vietnamese products to the EU, France, US and many other countries.
With more than 20 years of having exported processed food to the US and Hong Kong, Quach Hung Tong, an OV from the US, said Vietnamese food has great potential in key markets such as the US and Canada. According to Tong these markets are home to a large number of OVs and immigrants from India, Thailand, China, the Republic of Korea and the Philippines who also like Vietnamese products. Tropical products from Vietnam are also favored by European people.
Nguyen Hai Nam, President of the Overseas Vietnamese Business Association in France, said assistance in organizing trade fairs and promotions from domestic agencies and commercial offices overseas is very significant for promoting Vietnamese trademarks abroad.
