Thousands of Hanoians and foreign tourists flocked to Hoan Kiem Lake to
contemplate the hundreds of thousands of flowers displayed at the
capital’s second flower festival, which kicked off on Dec. 30.
To join in the celebration of Hanoi ’s 1,000 th anniversary, the Netherlands
will present more than 22,000 tulips as a gift to the capital city during the
Hanoi Flower Festival from December 30, 2009 to January 3, 2010.
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development Cao Duc Phat and Iranian Minister of Commerce Mehdi
Ghazanfari shared similar opinions on Dec. 22 that friendship and
cooperation between the two sides have developed considerably over the
past few years.
Vietnam and Iran signed agreements to
mutually invest in fisheries and general trade at the sixth meeting of
the Joint Commission on Economic and Commercial Cooperation.
Kubota, the largest manufacturer of
farming and fisheries machinery, generators and related components in
Japan, opened a plant in the southern province of Binh Duong on Dec. 3.
Scientists and environmental managers
discussed measures to deploy the UN-REDD programme in Vietnam at a
seminar in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Nov. 26.
A get-together was held by the Vietnam
Union of Friendship Organisations and the Vietnam-Mongolia Friendship
Organisation (VMFO) in Hanoi on Nov. 17 to mark the 55th anniversary of
Vietnam-Mongolia diplomatic ties.
The first component of a technical
assistance project to enhance irrigation management and quality of the
Bac Hung Hai system in southeast of Hanoi was assessed at a seminar in
the city on Nov. 11.
Vietnam has called on natural rubber producing countries to work together in
research and development, share market information and effectively manage
natural rubber supplies and reserves.
The Vietnamese government will work closely with the Danish government
to facilitate business relations to increase the value of two-way trade
to a targeted 1 billion USD.
Vietnamese companies are joining
businesses from 42 countries and territories at the 2009 Asian
Livestock Expo & Forum being held in Kuala Lumpur from Oct. 27-29.
ODA providers will continue to give top
priority to Vietnam’s agriculture and rural development over the next
five years, a World Bank senior official has pledged.
Ranking first among ASEAN countries and
fifth in the world in tea production and export volume, Vietnam is
courting investors in the burgeoning industry.
Almost 100 Vietnamese and Egyptian
businesses attended a seminar on boosting agro-forestry and fisheries
cooperation between Vietnam and Egypt in Cairo on Oct. 15.
Vietnam and Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) on veterinary quarantine certificate form for German frozen pork
products imported in Vietnam in the future.
More than 30 international
organisations joined representatives from various Vietnamese ministries
and agencies at a donors conference on how to cope with climate change
in Hanoi on Oct. 9.
Vietnam is a delta country with which
the Netherlands would especially like to cooperate in water resource
management and addressing climate change, an official from the
Netherlands said on Oct. 5.
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