UK to build on Viet Nam partnership (10-06-2009) As a prelude to the UK's National Day today, Ambassador Mark Kent spoke toViet Nam News. Are you satisfied with what bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Viet Nam have achieved in the last year? Bilateral relations are developing well. Last year was successful for the countries in terms of exchanges of high level visits, with the visit of PM Dung to the UK followed by several other ministerial visits to UK and several high level UK visits to Viet Nam, including the visit of the British Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, John Hutton, Secretary of Justice Jack Straw, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The UK and Viet Nam have agreed on five priorities for co-operation, which are all important on the common agenda. It's important, especially during the global economic crisis, for the countries to further intensify their co-operation. We have good trade and investment partnership, and both … [Read more...] about UK to build on Viet Nam partnership
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APEC Ministers See The Sights Of Quang Nam
APEC leaders attending their Tourism Ministerial Meeting in Hoi An took yesterday off and visited some of the traditional craft villages in surrounding Quang Nam province. The 21 ministers were taken by the Hoi An Travel Center to the vegetable-growing village of Tra Que, where they did some planting, watering and food processing, then to Kim Bong, where the villagers specialize in wood-turning and carpentry, and on to the pottery village of Thanh Ha. Before they leave Viet Nam, the visitors will go on another special tour, this time arranged by the Quang Nam People's Committee, to the Champa ruins at My Son and the traditional bronze-casting village of Phuoc Kieu. The idea is that they will be so impressed by what the province has to offer tourists that they will pass the word on when they return home. "Viet Nam has great potential for tourism development. It is a rising star of the Asia-Pacific region," Deputy Secretary-General Taleb Rifai of the UNWTO told Chairwoman Vo Thi Thang … [Read more...] about APEC Ministers See The Sights Of Quang Nam
Viet Nam Wishes to Join WTO As Soon As Possible
Viet Nam believes the US's granting of PNTR status to Viet Nam will bring practical interests to both sides. The country also supports non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Answering correspondents' questions about the next bilateral talks for Viet Nam's WTO accession at a regular press briefing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on July 13, MOFA's spokesman Le Dzung said: "On the basis of the finished bilateral talks, we are actively working with the Working Party on the accession of Viet Nam and WTO Secretariat to complete bilateral talks and other procedures for WTO entry at the soonest time. The thirteenth bilateral talk is expected to take place on July 20, 2006. This talk is of great significance, which will review totally the report of the Working Party and discuss unsettled issues in the previous talks. Viet Nam will provide information on its action plan for law-making, which includes the updated bills issued by the National Assembly since the bilateral talk in … [Read more...] about Viet Nam Wishes to Join WTO As Soon As Possible
Viet Nam, US Sign Trade Deal Wednesday
It also paves the way for Viet Nam's bid to join the 149-nation WTO before Ha Noi hosts an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, due to bring leaders including US President George W. Bush. "This truly is an historic step in the relationship between our two countries," said Deputy US Trade Representative Karan Bhatia after signing the pact with Deputy Trade Minister Luong Van Tu. "It marks the passing of another milestone on the road to full normalization between our two countries." The United States was the last of 28 countries to sign a trade deal with Vietnam, which hopes to conclude multilateral WTO entry talks in July. Under the trade deal, the benefits of which will apply to all WTO members once Viet Nam joins, the Asian country must eliminate industrial subsidies and cut tariffs and other trade barriers on a range of goods and services. Import duties will be scrapped on IT goods and aircraft and reduced on auto parts, and service providers including … [Read more...] about Viet Nam, US Sign Trade Deal Wednesday
Dailies acclaim increased Viet Nam-China ties
Vietnamese national dailies, on Nov. 16, welcomed the official friendship visit to Viet Nam by Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of China. An editorial in the Nhan Dan (People), the leading newspaper in Viet Nam "shares its joy and pride at the significant progress made in nearly three decades of reform and openness, which have made China a powerful economy in the world." Great achievements in all areas along with foreign policies of promoting peace, openness and willingness to cooperate with other countries in the world, with importance being placed on developing cooperative and friendly ties with neighbouring countries, have improved China's position and prestige in the world, the paper continues. "The achievements will help the Chinese people to successfully realise the targets of the 11th Five-Year (2006-2010) Plan on socio-economic development and the Resolution of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of … [Read more...] about Dailies acclaim increased Viet Nam-China ties