PANO – Major General Tran Quang Phuong, Military Zone 5’s Commissar, visited and presented Tet gifts to four Filipinos on January 23rd as part of celebrating the Tet (Lunar New year) festival in Vietnam, as well as extended Tet wishes to them.

Recently, their fishing boat went adrift while fishing at sea. On January 5th, fishermen Nguyen Huu Phuc in Binh Chau commune, Binh Son district, Quang Ngai province, discovered and approached the troubled boat to save them.  These four fishermen are now receiving treatment from Border Flotilla 2. 

Madsaik Arak, a representative of the four fishermen, said that they are pleased to celebrate Vietnam’s traditional New Year festival. “We will never forget these memories”, he added.

Translated by Tran Hoai