Speaking at the opening ceremony on March 22, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN, highlighted the importance of preserving and promoting the Vietnamese language abroad, particularly in the US.
Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on the morning of September 23 (local time) met with experts and scholars at Columbia University, in the framework of his working trip to the US for the UN Future Summit and related events.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam on September 23 morning (local time) visited and delivered a policy speech at Columbia University in New York as part of his trip to the US to attend the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 79).
The development trend of the Vietnam - United Nations relations will be further consolidated following Party General Secretary and State President To Lam’s trip to attend the UN Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 79), and to hold working sessions in the US, a Vietnamese-American professor has said.
The Vietnamese language has become a bridge to connect overseas Vietnamese with the homeland while serving as a messenger to popularise the country’s culture among US people, who previously only knew Vietnam as a war-torn land, according to a scholar in the US.
Top scholars from Columbia University today presented prospects for the burgeoning field of Vietnamese Studies at a conference in Hà Nội titled "Understand the Past - Transform the Future."
Columbia University, one of the eight “Ivy League” schools in the US, has opened a Vietnamese studies programme aimed at helping young people not only from the United States but from around the world learn more about Vietnam.
