PM attends World Economic Forum on East Asia
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the 2012 World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia in Bangkok on May 31 at the invitation of Thailand ’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the WEF President, Klause Schwab.
Themed, “Shaping the Region’s Future through Connectivity,” the forum will focus on the roles played by the ASEAN economies with high economic growth to help rebalance the global and regional overall economic outlook.
The forum will discuss the roles of governments and institutions in the development of financial policies to manage inflation, capital outflows, the volatility of commodity prices and a more balanced growth to stimulate a greater domestic and regional demand.
The participants will also discuss how the region will use its demographic dividends and technology base to develop a model that will increase growth through innovation, introduce a mobile workforce, help entrepreneurs and raise the level of workers’ skills.
WEF for East Asia this year is taking place at a time when the world’s economic situation has seen a more positive growth rate over the last year, with the East Asia region recording a growth rate of 8 percent in 2011 and expected to reach 7.4 percent in 2012.
The ASEAN member countries also hope to establish an ASEAN community by 2015, which includes a general overall plan for ASEAN connectivity.
Vietnam has increasingly integrated into the world and actively participated in international forums. The country successfully hosted the WEF in June, 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City . The forum attracted 450 delegates, including government leaders from Cambodia , Laos , Myanmar , Thailand and Vietnam .
With the theme, ‘Responding to the New Globalism’, the 2011 forum was held in Indonesia. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.
VN eager to discuss defence co-operation
Viet Nam would actively engage in discussions at the sixth ASEAN
Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus (ADMM6) to help make it a success.
The fruitful outcomes of this meeting would further contribute to promoting peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region.
The remarks were made by Minister of Defence Phung Quang Thanh during a bilateral meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Tea Bank in Phnom Penh yesterday, May 28.
On this occasion, Thanh expressed his thanks for the support of the Cambodian Government, Defence Ministry and Cambodian Royal Army towards Vietnamese military-owned enterprises operating in Cambodia.
For his part, Tea Banh spoke highly of the operations of these companies and affirmed his country's continuing support.
The two defence ministers also discussed opportunities for further co-operation.
Previously, Thanh visited Metfone Telecom, owned by Viettel and a Military Bank branch in Phnom Penh.
President Sang receives five incoming ambassadors
President Truong Tan Sang yesterday, May 28, received the incoming ambassadors of Iran, Mozambique, Georgia, Eritrea and Ethiopia as they presented their credentials.
Sang warmly welcomed the newly arrived diplomats and wished them all a successful working term in the country.
He affirmed Viet Nam always attached importance to the development of its relations with other countries.
VN, Laos see good results in educational cooperation
A total of 150 students from eight of Laos’ northern provinces are studying in Vietnam’s northern province of Son La as part of a joint education and training programme.
After completing a Vietnamese language course at Son La College, the students go on to continue their studies at vocational schools, colleges and universities in Son La.
Since 2002, Son La has helped to train over 500 students for the eight Lao northern provinces in health care, agro-forestry, teaching and economics.
MA Le Anh Tuan, the rector of Son La Medical College, said that his institution first started admitting students from Laos in 1970 and 35 students from seven northern Laotian provinces are currently studying there.
After graduating, the students return home and help to take care of ethnic minority peoples in Laos’s northern mountainous region, said Tuan.
Son La and Laos’ northern provinces plan to cooperate together in the future and the province will continue to offer more scholarships to Lao students.
Vice President attends opening of Vietinbank's Berlin branch
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan yesterday, May 28, attended the opening ceremony of the second branch of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade of Viet Nam (Vietinbank) in Berlin.
She said the pioneering bank, in expanding into the German market in particular and Europe in general, has created to a turning point in the expansion strategy of Vietnamese banks.
It marked the development of the local finance and banking sector during the country's international integration process.
Doan also chaired a forum on accessing credit and business opportunities in Germany, co-hosted by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vietinbank.
She said this was an opportunity for businesses from both countries to explore investment prospects and further boost their trade relations.
As part of her three-day working tour, which concludes today, she also visited the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese overseas community of some 100,000 and said they played a key role in consolidating ties between the two countries.
VNN/VOV/VNS/VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the 2012 World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia in Bangkok on May 31 at the invitation of Thailand ’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the WEF President, Klause Schwab.
Themed, “Shaping the Region’s Future through Connectivity,” the forum will focus on the roles played by the ASEAN economies with high economic growth to help rebalance the global and regional overall economic outlook.
The forum will discuss the roles of governments and institutions in the development of financial policies to manage inflation, capital outflows, the volatility of commodity prices and a more balanced growth to stimulate a greater domestic and regional demand.
The participants will also discuss how the region will use its demographic dividends and technology base to develop a model that will increase growth through innovation, introduce a mobile workforce, help entrepreneurs and raise the level of workers’ skills.
WEF for East Asia this year is taking place at a time when the world’s economic situation has seen a more positive growth rate over the last year, with the East Asia region recording a growth rate of 8 percent in 2011 and expected to reach 7.4 percent in 2012.
The ASEAN member countries also hope to establish an ASEAN community by 2015, which includes a general overall plan for ASEAN connectivity.
Vietnam has increasingly integrated into the world and actively participated in international forums. The country successfully hosted the WEF in June, 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City . The forum attracted 450 delegates, including government leaders from Cambodia , Laos , Myanmar , Thailand and Vietnam .
With the theme, ‘Responding to the New Globalism’, the 2011 forum was held in Indonesia. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.
VN eager to discuss defence co-operation
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The fruitful outcomes of this meeting would further contribute to promoting peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region.
The remarks were made by Minister of Defence Phung Quang Thanh during a bilateral meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Tea Bank in Phnom Penh yesterday, May 28.
On this occasion, Thanh expressed his thanks for the support of the Cambodian Government, Defence Ministry and Cambodian Royal Army towards Vietnamese military-owned enterprises operating in Cambodia.
For his part, Tea Banh spoke highly of the operations of these companies and affirmed his country's continuing support.
The two defence ministers also discussed opportunities for further co-operation.
Previously, Thanh visited Metfone Telecom, owned by Viettel and a Military Bank branch in Phnom Penh.
President Sang receives five incoming ambassadors
President Truong Tan Sang yesterday, May 28, received the incoming ambassadors of Iran, Mozambique, Georgia, Eritrea and Ethiopia as they presented their credentials.
Sang warmly welcomed the newly arrived diplomats and wished them all a successful working term in the country.
He affirmed Viet Nam always attached importance to the development of its relations with other countries.
VN, Laos see good results in educational cooperation
A total of 150 students from eight of Laos’ northern provinces are studying in Vietnam’s northern province of Son La as part of a joint education and training programme.
After completing a Vietnamese language course at Son La College, the students go on to continue their studies at vocational schools, colleges and universities in Son La.
Since 2002, Son La has helped to train over 500 students for the eight Lao northern provinces in health care, agro-forestry, teaching and economics.
MA Le Anh Tuan, the rector of Son La Medical College, said that his institution first started admitting students from Laos in 1970 and 35 students from seven northern Laotian provinces are currently studying there.
After graduating, the students return home and help to take care of ethnic minority peoples in Laos’s northern mountainous region, said Tuan.
Son La and Laos’ northern provinces plan to cooperate together in the future and the province will continue to offer more scholarships to Lao students.
Vice President attends opening of Vietinbank's Berlin branch
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan yesterday, May 28, attended the opening ceremony of the second branch of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade of Viet Nam (Vietinbank) in Berlin.
She said the pioneering bank, in expanding into the German market in particular and Europe in general, has created to a turning point in the expansion strategy of Vietnamese banks.
It marked the development of the local finance and banking sector during the country's international integration process.
Doan also chaired a forum on accessing credit and business opportunities in Germany, co-hosted by the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vietinbank.
She said this was an opportunity for businesses from both countries to explore investment prospects and further boost their trade relations.
As part of her three-day working tour, which concludes today, she also visited the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese overseas community of some 100,000 and said they played a key role in consolidating ties between the two countries.
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