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Vietnamese Ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau (fourth from left) speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)   New Delhi (VNA) – The Embassy of Vietnam in India joined hands with the International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry of India (ICMEI) to arrange an exhibition featuring paintings by Vietnamese artists that opened in New Delhi on November 21. On display are works by seven painters including Le Anh Van, Tran Tuyet Mai and Hoang Duc Dung who have actively promoted Vietnam’s contemporary arts to international friends. Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau said the exhibition is part of Vietnam Month which aims to celebrate the three years of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and India. Over the last three years, in addition to outstanding results in the fields of politics-diplomacy, security-national defence, trade-investment and science-technology-education, the countries have teamed up to arrange … [Read more...] about Exhibition on Vietnamese paintings opens in India

  Checkered scarves made in Long Khánh A Scarf Weaving Village in Đồng Tháp Province. – VNA/VNS Photo Chương Đài ĐỒNG THÁP – Craft villages in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp operate efficiently, providing steady jobs and incomes to many people. The province has the largest number of craft villages in the delta - 39 - whose workers produce ornamental flowers and plants, weaving products, processed foods, fine arts products, and others.   These are also popular destinations for both Vietnamese and foreign tourists. The Mỹ Tân bamboo weaving village in Cao Lãnh City’s Mỹ Tân Commune makes baskets and flower pots from bamboo and provides steady jobs to locals. Trương Văn Dũng, whose family has been making bamboo baskets for more than 10 years, said traders bought the village’s products year round. Each … [Read more...] about Đồng Tháp craft villages do well

At the reception (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem on November 21 hosted a reception for visiting Minister of Economic Affairs, Science and Digitalisation of Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany Armin Willingmann. During the meeting, Liem highlighted the sound development of the Vietnam-Germany strategic partnership across fields, especially in economics, trade, culture and education. HCM City established cooperative ties with Leipzig and Frankfurt cities of Germany, which is a foundation for expanding cooperation between the Vietnamese southern city with other German localities in the coming time, he said. Liem highly valued Saxony-Anhalt state’s strengths in energy, mechanical engineering, IT, biotechnology and medical technology, saying that HCM City is in need of these fields and others such as railway, infrastructure, transport and seaport, and science-technology as well. The municipal … [Read more...] about HCM City, Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state look to expand cooperation

Education and training is at the core of success for students moving into work (Photo: Shutterstock) Despite pouring her heart and soul into the field of ­education, Jennie Hoang Phuong – chief marketing officer of the INTEK Institute of Applied Technology – has to admit that she feels very worried at a time when the “brain drain” situation in Vietnam seems to be getting worse. “This is partly due to the fact that the quality of training has not really met the actual needs of businesses, the ease of enrolment at universities and especially the shortage of experience, soft skills of the students,” said Phuong. She lamented that the first INTEK enrolment received thousands of applications, but after the entrance exam, there were only 13 eligible students. At the end of the first year of study, this number has decreased to five students. Despite a lot of difficulties, Phuong said that she and INTEK are still consistent with the way they are … [Read more...] about Releasing potential of quality labour

Chol Young Joo, Chairman of the Korea-Vietnam Friendship Association (KOVIFA), and Lee Jae Hyon, Senior Fellow, Ph D. Director of the Centre for ASEAN and Oceania Studies, the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, talk about relations between RoK-VN. Chol Young Joo, Chairman of the Korea-Vietnam Friendship Association (KOVIFA) Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will visit the Republic of Korea (RoK) at the end of this month. What’s the significance of the event in promoting the two countries’ friendship, especially with Vietnam and the RoK celebrating the 10th anniversary of upgrading bilateral ties to the Strategic Cooperation Partnership level? First of all, we welcome Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 25-26 for the ASEAN-Korea Special Summit. The ASEAN-Korea summit, held in Busan on November 25-26, recognises ASEAN as one of South Korea's important partner partners in the New Southern Policy. 'People, Peace and Prosperity' are the … [Read more...] about South Korea-Vietnam relations going from strength to strength