Deputy Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang affirmed that people-to-people diplomacy and friendship between Vietnam and Malaysia form an important part of the countries' Strategic Partnership.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam, his spouse and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation visited the Vietnamese Embassy and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Malaysia on November 23.

The year 2024 marks a significant advancement in promoting the Vietnamese language in Malaysia, with the number of students enrolled in the Vietnamese Embassy’s related in-person and online classes increasing and the Vietnamese language course at the Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) maintaining a steady enrollment of 100 to 140 students.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur held a Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration programme for the Vietnamese community in Malaysia on January 26.

A number of charity groups founded by the Vietnamese community in Malaysia called on the public to make donations so as to provide relief aid to disadvantaged people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The forthcoming visit to Vietnam by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the first since Mahathir took office in May 2018, is expected to further strengthen the friendship and extensive cooperation between the two countries.

The Vietnamese Embassy and expatriate community in Malaysia have raised enough funds to send the body of suicide victim Tran Thi Mai to Vietnam.