Singapore helps train Vietnamese officials
This is the first group of some 160 officials to
receive further training in 2014 and next years with sponsorship of
Singapore’s Temasek Foundation.
Over the past seven years since
2007, Temasek Foundation has sponsored 17 programmes worth about 10
million SGD for Vietnam in education, healthcare and public
administration fields, Gerald Yeo, Programme and Partnerships Director
of Temasek Foundation, told Vietnam News Agency correspondents in
Singapore.
He expressed his hope that this training programme for
senior officials will be a “multiplier”, having “core training effect”,
saying that “the participants would be able to implement some of what
they have learnt back into the institutions.”
According to
Professor Liu Hong, Director of Nanyang Centre for Public
Administration, in two weeks, the participants will interact with senior
professors, former ministers and current Parliament members who will
speak on Singapore’s experience in terms of urban development, economic
development, social management, development of talents; leadership; and
anti-corruption practices in Singapore.
The Vietnamese senior
officials will also visit some Government agencies, the Parliament,
industrial parks, gardens… so that they could have “first-hand knowledge
about how Singapore has been successful in terms of social, economic,
political development over the past years”, he added.
According
to the Professor, the main objectives are to introduce Singapore
practices, especially Singapore’s successful experiences, in public
governance and administration, leadership development; to enhance
relationship between Singapore and Vietnam; and to exchange opinions
about how countries in Asia can develop fast and work closely.-VNA