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Hanoi (VNA) – Education New Zealand (ENZ) and the Consulate General of New Zealand recently presented the Global Competence Certificates (GCC) to 25 Vietnamese students. It is part of an education initiative launched by ENZ and various partners in New Zealand and Vietnam, aiming to provide necessary skills for young generations and maintain education connectivity between the two countries despite the impact of COVID-19. The students joined a four-week course which features 18 virtual self-study lessons and four discussions with their New Zealand peers on self-awareness, awareness about others, emotional intelligence, and bridges to others./. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese students receive New Zealand global competence certificates

Politburo member and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue (standing) moderates discussions of the 13th National Party Congress on January 28 morning. In the previous day, 23 delegates delivered presentations assessing the implementation of the resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and the “Doi Moi” (Renewal) policy over the past 35 years. … [Read more...] about Party Congress continues discussion of draft documents on January 28

Speaking at a conference yesterday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory (January 7, 1979) over the Khmer Rouge held in An Giang southern province,  Senior Lieutenant General, Deputy Minister of Defence Lê Chiêm, said when Việt Nam launched the attack on the regime, it was purely out of the desire to support Cambodia’s people and its revolution troops. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam remembers just war against genocidal Khmer Rouge

Hervé Lemahieu, director of Power and Diplomacy Program at Lowy Institute, told the ABC's Coronacast podcast that poorer countries would soon lose ground as they struggled to obtain Covid-19 vaccines for their citizens because "with the uneven distribution and hoarding of vaccines we may well see rich countries get a decisive upper hand in crisis recovery efforts." … [Read more...] about Vietnam ranks second in world Covid-19 response

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam has earned three awards in the latest round of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), an international programme that funds scientists and engineers in developing countries who partner with US government-funded researchers to address global development challenges.  Vietnamese researchers have earned 20 awards under this programme since 2011, including these three new grants. Recently, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced more than 5.8 million USD for 26 new worldwide research projects to discover, test, and scale breakthrough solutions for critical challenges in international development through the PEER programme, funded by USAID and implemented by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The awards range in value from 54,000 USD to 300,000 USD. Three researchers in Vietnam received awards under this latest round Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh of the Asian Institute … [Read more...] about Vietnamese scholars win US scientific research awards