US launches cooperation strategy for Vietnam The US Consulate General in HCM City has announced the US Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for Vietnam in 2014-2018. The strategy aims to help strengthen the comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and the US. At a March 25 launch for the strategy, USAID Mission Director in Vietnam Joakim Parker gave a presentation on the contents of the strategy to partners, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and representatives from the private sector and provinces and cities in Vietnam. Over the next five years, USAID will provide Vietnam withUS$344 million to help implement support programs pertaining to trade, enhancement of competitive edge, the development of the private sector and the widespread participation of all sectors in economic activities. The strategy will also help upgrade the healthcare system, provide services to prevent bird flu, treat HIV/AIDS cases and cope with climate change towards green growth. In … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 27/3
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Family of Vietnamese in ferry tragedy arrives in RoK Family members of 29-year-old Vietnamese Phan Ngoc Thanh, who was on board the capsized vessel off the Republic of Korea’s southwestern coast on April 16, have arrived in the RoK to wait for new information about her fate. Born in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, Thanh got married and naturalised in the RoK last July under the name “Han Yun Ji”, with two children. She and her husband and son onboard the vessel are still unaccounted for while her five-year-old girl Kwon Ji-yeon was saved as the youngest passenger from the disaster. Thanh’s father Phan Van Chay and her sister Phan Ngoc Hanh flew to the RoK on April 19 evening, with the assistance from the Vietnamese Embassy and the RoK’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Family and Gender Equality. They relatives met with Kwon Ji-yeon and were taken to Chindo district where the center overseeing the rescue operation of the capsized Seawol ferry is … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 23/4
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Deputy PM Ninh to visit Sweden, Britain Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh will make a week-long tour of Sweden and Great Britain and Northern Ireland from April 9-17, to strengthen bilateral cooperation in various areas, especially economics, trade, and investment. While in Sweden, Ninh will pay a courtesy visit to Parliament Speaker Per Westerberg, and meet with acting Governor of the central bank Kerstin Jochnick, Minister for Financial Markets Peter Norman, Minister for Trade Ewa Helena Björling, and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Frank Kurt Claude Belfrage. He will visit Erickson multinational company, Volvo-Bus corporation, and the Vietnamese embassy in Stockholm. The ties of traditional friendship and multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and Sweden have developed well in all areas. Two-way trade reached more than US$1 billion in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 24% over 2012 and a twofold increase compared to 2008. Currently, more than 60 Swedish companies are … [Read more...] about Political News Headlines 11/4
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Father-son duo to regale piano fans Master pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and his son Vovka Ashkenazy will play at a concert tonight at the Ha Noi Opera House. The repertoire for the duo will include Schubert's Divertissement a la hongroise, Johannes Brahms's The Variations on a Theme, and Igor Stravinsky's The Rites of Spring. Climax of the night will be Night on the Bare Mountain. Music lovers can enjoy pieces transcribed by Vovka, according to Katherine Chu, the concert artistic advisor. Born in Gorky, Ashkenazy senior began playing the piano at the age of six. He inherited his musical gift from both sides of his family. His father was a pianist and his mother was the daughter of a chorus master in the Russian Orthodox church. He is one of the few artists to have combined a successful career as a pianist and conductor. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and won several prizes, including first prize, in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1956, and joint first … [Read more...] about Art & Entertainment News Headlines 20/3
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Japanese drum troupe tours Vietnam Japan’s traditional drum troupe Bati-Holic will make a performance tour of Vientam next month, with the first show at the Hanoi-based Youth Theater on April 4. The announcement was made recently by the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam. Free tickets are available at Japan Foundation from 14:00 on March 28. The troupe will then perform at the opening ceremony of 2014 Hue Festival on April 12 and a drum concert at Ngo Mon (Noon Gate) Square in Hue city on April 13. This is the second time the troupe will have performed in Vietnam; the first was at the Nippon Genki Festival in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012. Founded in Kyoto in 2004, the six-member group play rock, using traditional Japanese instruments. They stage more than 100 shows a year at various venues in Japan and overseas. Youth concert to showcase enthralling orchestral music Musical pieces composed by artists from Vietnam and across the globe will be performed live … [Read more...] about Art & Entertainment News Headlines 26/3