January 18th, 2020: The Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS) celebrated the New Year of the Rat 2020 with overseas Vietnamese in the city of Toronto, Canada. This year’s event was attended by the Vietnamese community, ASEAN and Latin American friends from, representatives from local and federal governments, businesses and universities.
On this occasion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent his greetings to the CVS, affirming that the New Year is a great opportunity to recognize the enormous and continuous contributions of Vietnamese-Canadians to Canada. The event included a food festival with New Year traditional dishes (chung cake, roasted pork, green bean tea, etc.) and national dances (lion dance, Long dress dance, …) which has brought warmth to the Vietnamese community in the GTA area.
