Viet Kieu are allowed to buy and own houses in the country. In a bid to help overseas Vietnamese (Viet Kieu) maintain a close association with the homeland, Vietnam has recently publicized the Politburo Resolution on Overseas Vietnamese in which the State creates a lot of favourable conditions for Viet Kieu to stabilize their lives and work as well as integrate into the homeland, especially allow them to buy and own houses in the country.

Speaking to a reporter of Sai Gon Giai Phong daily, Nguyen Phu Binh, Deputy Foreign Minister cum Chairman of the Overseas Vietnamese Committee, said the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese will co-ordinate with relevant ministries and branches to create favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to join political and social forums and attain leadership posts in economic, scientific and technological organizations.

The move will enable overseas Vietnamese to make greater contributions to the nation, Binh said.

On favourable conditions given to Viet Kieu who wish to make contributions to the nation, the official said overseas Vietnamese investors can choose suitable investment forms either stated in the Law on Foreign Investment or the Law on Domestic Investment.

Asked about the rights of those Vietnamese who hold citizenship of other countries and have no Vietnamese citizenship, Binh noted that the government plans to grant them a paper that allows them to enjoy the same rights as Vietnamese citizens, for example clearing customs, applying for entry and exit visas, and purchasing land-use rights.

In order to attain more effective cooperation between the overseas Vietnamese community and domestic enterprises in selling Vietnam-made goods abroad, the committee has been working with the Ministry of Culture and Information on establishing a Vietnamese cultural and commercial centre in France, Binh said. He added that the centre is expected to be operational in 2005. Similar centres will be opened in North America and Russia.

In addition, the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese will co-ordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training in sending Vietnamese language teachers aboard to serve the overseas Vietnamese community there.

Currently, there are about 2.7 million Vietnamese living and working in 90 countries and territories. Their remittances transferred to the country increased from US$2.1 billion in 2002 to US$2.7 billion in 2003, and are expected to rise to US$3.5 billion in 2004.

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Good news for all the Viet supremacists, I mean nationalists on AF.

wait, vietnamese who were born here are considered overseas too right.. or overseas mean only ppl who came here during war?

If it means all vietnamese then once i get the money, imma go right to vietnam and build my own traditional vietnamese house. haha...

don't fall for their traps.

dammit

They're still communist, they still have so much power over you it's not even funny.

They give you the SAME rights as a Vietnamese citizen. Meaning they'll whip you and take your bread without asking. Personally if i wanted to buy a home i'll wait atleast 15 years till i know they're not going to violate their agreement in any way, fashion or form.

They're still just people like us,, aren't they?
So won't they be a little nice.. they are vietnamese just like us...

man iunno about this might as wel be another commie trick planned so that can make more money and streghthening their power over people

I wouldn't do it cause Communist believe in "sharing"

You could just buy homes and land and have family members on the title for you. This is nothing new. Our family has been doing this for years. They've given non-citizens land rights, but those non-citizens are also first on the list if the gov't is looking to reclaim land. It is mainly Vietnam's greater involvement in the international community that keeps them in line with that kind of behavior. It still isn't fool proof.

For example, I can own land and homes in Vietnam but they won't give me a motorcycle license. They haven't worked everything out yet, if you ask me.

go ahead and try and see what will happen.

i asked my dad.... about this stuff, he said overseas vietnamese building houses over there has been happening for year. He says my uncle has this 5 Story House very big, and he built it like 7 years ago... My dad showed me the video of their house, haha VERY nice indeed it was like only US 30,000 or so, but my uncle lives here still but owns a house over there for when he visits.

Yea, but the real commies died in 89.. I think the VC are sincere.. cheers to the communist..

7 years ago? Depending where the house is located it can be worth hundreds of thousands by now. Property goes up like crazy in Vietnam right now i hear.

Yea Saigon lands nowaday are going up daily

$hit... lol ill tell him to sell it and make me a huge mansion lol..

Yeah, from what I heard one square foot is around 5 bills, damn that's something isn't??? if you have a house there it would be in the hundreds of thousands by now, sounds like a good investment.

The new flag idea is pathetic. So who cares of Viet have a simple ugly looking flag. Making a new one isn't gonna do anything.