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At the working session between Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son and Switzerland’s State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) Martina Hirayama on November 26. (Photo: VNA) Bern (VNA) – Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son and Switzerland’s State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) Martina Hirayama on November 26 discussed measures to improve the efficiency of educational cooperation between the two countries. Their working session took place within the framework of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s official visit to Switzerland. Son suggested strengthening collaboration between Vietnamese and Swiss universities, covering training programmes in such areas as tourism, hotel, insurance, banking and high-tech, along with innovation. The two sides should step up the exchange of lecturers and students, and establish research groups that gather professors from Vietnamese and Swiss …

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During the working session, Ngoc highly valued the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on legal and judicial cooperation (MOU) in 2018 between the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice and the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP), and thanked the FDJP for its practical implementation of this MoU. He said that apart from international justice, the two ministries should expand cooperation to other areas within their functions and tasks such as civil status, nationality, international adoption, especially Switzerland's acceptance of Vietnam's accession to the Hague Convention on Taking of Evidence. Ngoc suggested the Swiss side continue to support Vietnam in studying the experience of joining and implementing the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; implementing the U.N. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958, and experience in formulating and implementing international judicial laws, …

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During their meeting, the two officials agreed that it is necessary to further strengthen cooperation in science, technology and innovation amongst science and technology communities and businesses of the two countries, saying that this will bring mutual benefits and promote sustainable development in both countries. Dat said he was impressed at Switzerland's achievements in growth and prosperity, saying that Vietnam always considers science - technology and innovation as a main motivation to realize its goal of becoming a modern industrial country by 2030, and a developed nation with high income by 2045. Vietnam has focused on strengthening the capacity of the national innovation system, developing innovative enterprises, encouraging large private corporations to invest in research and development, and attracting foreign enterprises to invest in technology transfer, he said. The minister suggested Hirayama support the upgrade of the 2019 letter of intent on innovation, science …

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The official made the affirmation in an interview granted to the press after Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the 13th ASEM Summit and relevant activities via videoconference from November 25-26 at the invitation of his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen. According to Giang, PM Chinh put forward four proposals to enhance cooperation among Asian and European countries while addressing the 13th ASEM Summit on November 26. The PM said the countries should stay united and join hands to boost global cooperation since no country can single-handed deal with global issues. The government leader said they should cooperate to share and ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatment drugs and developed nations should assist developing countries to improve the capacity of coping with global issues. PM Chinh said it was necessary to step up digital transformation and human resource training for developing and poor countries, while enhancing public-private partnership …

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Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) speaks at the forum. (Photo: VNA) Bern (VNA) - Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Swiss counterpart Guy Parmelin co-chaired a Vietnam - Switzerland Business Forum in Bern on November 26. Addressing the forum with the attendance of representatives from over 100 businesses of the two countries, the Vietnamese leader called on Swiss businesses to invest in Vietnam and partner with Vietnamese enterprises in areas where Swiss firms have strengths and Vietnam is giving priority to, especially in banking and finance, science and hi-technology, innovation and digital transformation. For his part, President Parmelin highlighted the huge potential for stronger cooperation between the two countries, and the necessity to have new cooperation framework s to encourage Swiss businesses to invest in Vietnam. The interest and commitment of businesses and representatives of the private sector of Switzerland at the forum …

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Demand for industrial, logistics estates at core of enquiries next year: Savills Demand for industrial and logistics estates in addition to ready-built factories and warehouses will continue to be the core of enquiries next year, according to an expert from property consultancy Savills Vietnam. “However, in terms of new trends, data centres and cold storage facilities are in demand and have gained traction in 2020 and 2021,” John Campbell, manager of Industrial Services at Savills Vietnam told the Vietnam Investment Review. “Next year, we expect this to continue, as Vietnam is now on the radar for hyperscale facilities.” Low-value industries are beginning to set up elsewhere in Southeast Asia as Vietnam no longer offers the same incentives, he said, adding that these industries such as textiles and furniture struggle to source affordable labour and land in Vietnam. However, foreign and high value-added investors remain bullish on Vietnam’s long-term growth, …

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The United States has additionally offered Vietnam over two million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, bringing its total donations to the Southeast Asian country to more than 18 million doses. “Another shipment of 2,074,410 doses of Pfizer vaccine arrived in Hanoi early this morning,” the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam said in its verified Facebook page on Friday. The U.S. has so far donated over 18 million vaccine doses to Vietnam through COVAX as part of its steadfast commitment to support Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19, the embassy said. “And more are on the way!” it added. The two countries have cooperated to improve Vietnam’s capacity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on their long-term cooperative relationship, according to the embassy. The U.S. has aided nearly US$1 billion to Vietnam over the past years for develop health infrastructure development, and the former has also committed $26.7 million as support for Vietnam to respond to the pandemic. In …

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Vietnam’s agriculture minister on Wednesday called on his Japanese counterpart to accelerate quality assessment process for longan exports from the Southeast Asian country to enter the East Asia market in 2022. Le Minh Hoan, Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, joined a working session with Kaneko Genjiro, Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Vietnamese agriculture ministry reported on Thursday. During the discussion, Hoan urged his Japanese counterpart to accelerate procedures at Japanese appraisal authorities in order for Vietnamese longans to enter Japan in the 2022 harvest. The Vietnamese minister also suggested that Japan apply online inspection or facilitate procedures for enterprises to ship heat-treated poultries to Japan. Mechanisms for Vietnam’s pomelo and Japan’s grape harvests to enter the other market will also be devised, the two ministers concurred. Vietnam is promoting agriculture development to ensure food …

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The view was shared by Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and Swiss State Secretary for Economic Affairs Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch during their working session on November 26, as part of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s ongoing official visit to Switzerland. Dien expressed his belief that economic and trade cooperation will be the center and main momentum of the relations between the two countries, and suggested Switzerland work together with Vietnam to successfully build up new cooperative foundations in the time ahead. Both officials lauded efforts of the two countries’ negotiators during the talks on a free trade agreement between Vietnam and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). They held that after 16 rounds of official negotiations and various online meetings since 2012, it is time to conclude the talks. Dien proposed Switzerland, with its great role and prestige in the EFTA, urge other members to take a more practical approach, especially …

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Major General Nguyen Hung Thang, Second-in-Command and Chief of the Staff of the General Department of Logistics, Head of the committee, chaired the event. In this first-ever exercise, coded HB-21, the two militaries will deploy the level-2 field hospital of each side. As scheduled, from December 6 to 12, in Mong Cai city of the Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh, the two military medical forces will rehearse the collaboration between the two countries’ joint military medical headquarters, deploy search and rescue forces, receive and give emergency aid to a large number of victims at level-2 field hospitals of each side, practice cholera prevention and control for people in earthquake-hit areas, to name but a few. Stressing the importance of the exercise to boost the intensive and substantive cooperation between the two militaries, General Thang said that through the exercise, the command, coordination capability in medical relief and disease prevention and control will be raised …

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