PM congratulates Khmer people on Chol Chnam Thmay festival
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter to the Khmer ethnic people, congratulating them on the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival.
Border guard officers of southern Soc Trang province present face masks as support for Khmer monks in the COVID-19 prevention and control (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc has sent a letter to the Khmer ethnic people, congratulating them on thetraditional Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival.
In his message, on behalf of the Party and Stateleaders, the PM offered the best wishes to the people, monks and expatriates ofthe Khmer ethnic group on the occasion of the festival.
He highlighted the country’ssignificant achievements in all aspects and attributed those successes partlyto the important contributions by the Khmer people.
He said this year’s Chol ChnamThmay festival is special as 2020 witnesses a number of major national eventslike the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam,the 130th birthday of late President Ho Chi Minh, and the secondnational congress of Vietnamese ethnic minority groups. The festival is alsospecial as it takes place amid the complex developments of the COVID-19pandemic, with the whole country taking actions to protect people’shealth and lives.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging all of us, but Ibelieve that we will join efforts, stay unanimous to soon push back and triumph over the disease, and I also believe that compatriots, comrades, monks andexpatriates of the Khmer ethnic group will continue upholding the tradition ofpatriotism and solidarity, actively study, work and make unceasing efforts toobtain even greater achievements, thus joining hands with the whole country tosuccessfully realise the set socio-economic development targets and tasks,” PMPhuc wrote./.
Many communes in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, which are home to a large number of Khmer ethnic people, are enjoying a warmer, merrier Sene Dolta festival this year as they have met new-style rural area status with povery rate declining, according a local official for ethnic minority affairs.
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President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man sent his “warmest greetings” and “best wishes” in a letter on April 3 to all Khmer ethnic minority people on the occasion of their traditional new year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.
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Border guard officers of southern Soc Trang province present face masks as support for Khmer monks in the COVID-19 prevention and control (Photo: VNA) 
