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Media contribute to success of Vietnam’s ASEAN
Chairmanship
Media
agencies made important contributions to the success of Vietnam ’s ASEAN
Chairmanship 2010, said a Foreign Ministry’s official.
Deputy Foreign Minister Dao Viet Trung gave out the assessment at a meeting to
review information and cultural activities during 2010, the year that Vietnam is
the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
He praised local media in particular the Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam
Television, radio The Voice of Vietnam, the Nhan Dan and Quan Doi Nhan Dan
newspapers for their diverse and wide-ranging coverage of all ASEAN-related
events and Vietnam ’s participation in the association.
In addition to dissemination, the country also held many cultural and arts
activities, exhibitions, exchanges and contests on the sidelines of those
events, effectively promoting the image of Vietnam , especially the country as
ASEAN Chair, to international friends.
Trung added that regional and international media carried out tens of thousands
of articles on ASEAN’s activities throughout the year.
Would-be thief flees smashed ATM
A would-be thief fled empty handed after a hotel
security guard spotted him on Thursday at a smashed Vietcombank Automatic Teller
Machine in Hang Bac Ward, Hoan Kiem District, reports the Ha Noi police. The police are continuing their investigation.
Donation to help fund surgery for poor kids
The United Parcel Services Foundation has donated
US$32,000 to Operation Smile, Viet Nam, for global volunteer month. The not-for-profit charity provides corrective surgery and
healthcare for needy children and this is the second successive year that has
given money for facial surgery.
Blue ear disease recurs in Ha Tinh
The Ha Tinh Provincial People’s Committee has issued
instructions for implementing urgent measures to prevent the spread of blue ears
pig diseases in the province. The disease has become more complex
with more than 50 confirmed cases of the disease inThach Hoi and Van Thach
communes. The reasons for the outbreak of the
disease are the low rate of vaccination for the pigs and the lack of control and
supervision transportation and slaughtering.
HCM City to celebrate volunteers on Sunday
Thirteen HCM City volunteer organisations will offer
opportunities for people to join the activities of non-profit, volunteer
organisations as part of International Volunteers Day on Sunday. This first-time event is expected to attract more than 200
people, say its organisers. Eleven of the 13 organisations are domestic and the
other two international. The briefing will be at the Sai Gon Pearl International School,
the Binh Thanh District.
Top students get Toyota scholarships
Toyota Viet Nam Fund in collaboration with the Ministry
of Education and Training yesterday, Dec 3, granted a VND544 million scholarship to 144
outstanding university students nationwide studying engineering, technology and
environment. Eighty-one of the total scholarship receivers are from the Ha
Noi University of Technology.
Landslides threatens 600 households
Landslides threaten
about 600 households near Ba Hoa Mountain, Dong Da Ward, central Binh Dinh
Province’s Quy Nhon City. Seventeen houses
collapsed and mud flowed into hundreds of others after a landslide last Sunday.
Community initiatives on HIV/AIDS awarded
The Ministry of Health closed the fourth National
Conference on HIV/AIDS in Hanoi on December 3 with an awards ceremony to mark
Innovations Day for HIV/AIDS Prevention.
Thirty out of the 60 most outstanding initiatives in
the final round were presented with awards at the ceremony, each one worth
US$10,000.
These excellent initiatives were selected from 200 entries that the organising
board received after four months of launching.
At the ceremony, the Deputy PM and chairman of the National Committee for
HIV/AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control, Truong Vinh Trong,
stated that the conference on 20 years of HIV/AIDS prevention and control in
Vietnam, the fourth national conference on HIV/AIDS and Innovations Day for
HIV/AIDS Prevention in 2010 was successful.
Over the past 20 years, the fight against HIV/AIDS nationwide has made many
encouraging achievements and contributed to reducing the transmission of the
virus throughout the community, he said.
The deputy PM added that Vietnamese government and people have pledged to work
closely with the international community in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He also
called on foreign governments and organisations to continue to support the
Vietnamese people in this fight.
He said that he believes Vietnam will fulfill its Millennial Development Goal of
halting, then decreasing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
Meeting links Vietnamese alumni in Germany
The Vietnamese embassy in Germany, the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and Studio Babelsberg has held a meeting for
Vietnamese alumni in Potsdam Germany. At the three-day event, the alumni
reported on their achievements in study and research and exchanged their
experiences of living and working in Germany. They were also told about some of
the new policies ò the Ministry of Education and Training as well as some of the
available opportunities available in Vietnam The alumni watched movies by
Vietnamese and German producers as well as some short films made by Vietnamese
students studying at Studio Babelsbergs. They also took part in a cultural
exchange programme and visited some interesting sites in Potsdam and Berlin.
French-speaking universities in Asia enhance
co-operation ties
Almost 100 university senior officials from
Asia-Pacific region met in Thua Thien-Hue city province, Vietnam, on December 3 to
promote French language training in the region. The French-speaking university
summit was co-sponsored by the Association of French-speaking Universities (AUF)
and Hue University as a curtain raiser for a series of activities celebrating
the AUF’s 50th founding anniversary early next year. Prof. Michael Ferrier from Chuo
University of Japan recommended a diversity of languages in tertiary education
with a focus on French as “a door open to the world” for university students. Numerous initiatives were raised at
the meeting to strengthen alliance among member universities such as holding
annual meetings for leaders of member universities, increasing projects in
support of tertiary education, providing consultancy for major projects,
exchange of experiences among members and seeking partners. Vietnam emphasized that need for
strong commitments by members to young generations in order to provide fresh
impetus for the bloc’s university system, scholarship programmes and IT
training. It also pledged to diversify its
language training programme in tertiary education while providing good
conditions for students to study and improve French.
The AUF was founded in 1961 and its worldwide network now consists of 759
universities and research centres in 90 countries.
JVPF
member honoured
The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO)
has presented an insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to Hosoya
Kumiko, member of the Japan-Vietnam Council for Peace and Friendship (JVPF). Addressing the presentation ceremony
in Hanoi on December 3, VUFO Vice President Tran Dac Loi thanked Kumiko for her
great assistance to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and disadvantaged Vietnamese
children and scholarships to boarding school ethnic students over the past 15
years. Kumiko has written a diary about her
visits to 29 families of AO victims and AO victims at the Peace and Friendship
Villages in Hanoi and the AO Victims Rehabilitation Centres in the northern
province of Thai Binh, central Da Nang city, the southern province of Tay Ninh
and Tu Du Hospital in HCM City during 16 visits to Vietnam.
She also made a DVD recording memories of AO victims in Thai Binh province. Kumiko said she would like to convey
to younger generations of Japanese an image of the life of Vietnamese AO victims
that she had witnessed with her own eyes. She also promised to provide further
assistance to the victims. Also on this occasion, Hiramatsu
Tomoko, a member of the JVPF delegation, presented a book on former Vietnamese
Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh to VUFO Vice President Loi.
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