The Belgium Rent A Port Group handed over the draft feasibility study of the Ha Long Bay restoration project to the People's Committee in the northern Quang Ninh province on December 23.
President of the Lower House of Belgium Siegfried Bracke and Senate President Christine Defraigne said they support measures to enhance Belgium-Vietnam ties that the two Prime Ministers agreed upon.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his entourage arrived in the Brussels Military Airport on December 2, beginning his working visit to Belgium and the EU.
The Belgian Government will provide 252 billion VND in official development assistance for a 439-billion-VND project on wastewater treatment and drainage systems in Thai Nguyen province.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay working visits to Belgium and the EU on December 2 to discuss measures to enhance bilateral cooperation in priority fields.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Hanoi on November 29 for Paris to attend the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21).
Vietnam appreciated multi-faceted cooperation with Belgium, particularly in economics, trade, investment, said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung.
A recent Vietnam visit by a Belgian delegation, led by Senate President Christine Defraigne, has helped deepen ties between the two nations and people.
Belgium pledges to increase assistance projects for Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City, in particular in health care, human resources training, and waste treatment.
Vietnam and Belgium have agreed to foster links between their business communities towards greater affiliation, including in the form of public-private partnership (PPP) .
The Vietnamese and Belgian legislative bodies will maintain delegation exchange and experience sharing, and work together to inspect the implementation of agreements reached by the two Governments.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has suggested Vietnam and Belgium develop new cooperation programmes to actualise efficiently reached cooperation agreements.
A Master’s Degree Programme between Vietnam and Belgium celebrated its 20-year implementation at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management under the Free University of Brussels on Oct 21.
The central province of Quang Nam and the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance of Belgium have agreed to cooperate in improving local pre-school education.
The past few days saw more celebrations organised abroad to mark the 70th anniversary of Vietnam’s August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).
The Vietnam Fine Art Museum and Belgium’s Royal Museum of Mariemont have collaborated to expedite programmes to develop art museum education at the VFAM under the cooperation framework 2013-2015.
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