Challenges and ways of speeding up the integration of the logistics
industry among the ASEAN nations topped the agenda of a semianr in the
central city of Da Nang on August 22.
Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the first Vietnamese mathematician to win the
Fields Medal, was warmly welcomed at the Noi Bai International
Airport in Hanoi upon his return from India on the Aug. 28
morning.
Participants at an ASEAN energy forum in Da Lat city, Central Highlands
Lam Dong province on July 20, stressed the need to boost research and
cooperation to develop green energies in the region.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong, Chairman of the Central
Advisory Committee on Amnesty, met 250 former prisoners who had received
amnesties, in the northern province of Bac Giang on July 11.
The State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) signed an agreement with the Ernst
& Young Vietnam Co., Ltd (EYVN) signed a cooperative agreement in
Hanoi on June 25 on cooperation on an equal and mutually-beneficiary
basis.
The Party General Secretary and State President of Laos, Chummaly
Sayasone, on June 8 received a delegation from the Office of the
Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), led by its Head
Ngo Van Du.
An advisory council to develop policies
for the software industry made its debut in Hanoi on April 21 with the
task of raising the capacity of software firms and drawing up
development policies for Vietnam’s software and information technology
(IT) industry.
Dot VN, Inc. said it intends to apply
the benefits of best of breed technology through strategic partnerships
to deploy hardware, software and a wireless point-to-point layer one
solution in Vietnam.
More than 800 representatives from 90 member countries of the
International
Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) gathered in Hanoi on May 25 for its 78
th
annual meeting on irrigation, hydropower and the environment.
Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
(FES) on May 6 said the foundation is willing to continue its support
for the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) in building
worker-related laws and policies.
Since the Baha’i Community of Vietnam has been recognised as a religious
organisation by the Government, the entire community has entered a new
development stage and gained numerous achievements in a wide range of
its
activities.
A training workshop began in Hai Phong
on April 27 for Buddhist monks, nuns and followers in northern
provinces on the use of the tenets of Buddhism in providing advisory
services to people infected with HIV/AIDS.
Farmers will be allowed to borrow up to
500 million VND (26,300 USD) without collateral, five times higher than
the current limits, according to a Government decree on credit
regulations intended to raise agricultural and forestry production.
Vietnamese State President Nguyen Minh
Triet on April 11 delivered a speech at the consultative council of
Saudi Arabia - the Ash Shura Council - as part of his three-day visit
to the country.
The International Finance Corporation
(IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has signed an agreement to
establish the first training centre for Vietnamese coffee farmers.
XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
