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At the ceremony. Photo: Thanh Luan A solemn ceremony was held in Hanoi on November 29 to celebrate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people (November 29), Vietnam News reported. The event was co-hosted by the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO), Hanoi’s Vietnam – Palestine Friendship Association and the Palestinian embassy in Hanoi, which gathered representatives from the United Nations, the Vietnam’s Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian People, various embassies in Hanoi and friends of Palestinian people. At the ceremony, Nguyen Quang Khai, standing vice chairman of the Vietnam’s Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian People, read the letter from President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Chair of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Cheikh Niang, and President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas. In his message, President Phuc

The 2022 Kochi-Vietnam winter exchange festival was held in Kochi prefecture of Japan on November 27, VNA reported Monday. This is also the first time this kind of cultural exchange festival has been held in Kochi prefecture. The Kochi-Vietnam Cultural Exchange Festival has been organised in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, for first time in an effort to boost cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. At the festival, local residents expatriated Vietnamese, and foreigners were entertained with displays of unique art performances and a showcase of the culinary culture of both countries. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the event, Tsuji Akinori, chairman of the Kochi-Vietnam Exchange Association, thanked the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, the Kochi prefecture government and donors for their support in the organization of the festival. He said he hopes that the event will popularise the cultural and traditional beauties of the two countries, helpi