Day: December 8, 2022

With the Young Persons’ Achievement Award, Dr. Nguyen Huyen Duc has become the first Vietnamese scientist to receive the prize from the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

 

Duc is the only to win the RAeS’s highest award for those under 30 this year.

 

The RAeS awards are among the world’s most long-standing and prestigious prizes reserved for individuals or teams with exceptional achievements or inventions in the aerospace industry.

 

The scientist, born in Hanoi in 1995, said he hopes more Vietnamese scientists and engineers will be recognised by international associations and organisations.

 

He received a Master of Engineering degree in 2019 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2021 from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol.

 

His research outputs include eight articles published on journals of Quartile 1, which are the top publications of a subject area, and 10 contributions to international aerospace conferences in the UK, the US, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

 

Founded in 1866, the RAeS gathers aerospace organisations and enterprises around the world, including Boeing, Airbus, BAE Systems, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Asian Business Aviation Association, the UK Space Agency, and the US Federal Aviation Administration./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

 

 

The freshly-ended trip to Australia and New Zealand by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue helped strengthen cooperation between the legislative bodies of Vietnam and the two countries, contributing to promoting bilateral partnership in various fields as well as coordination at regional and international parliamentary forums, said Chairman of the NA Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha.

 

Ha said that during the top legislator’s visit to Australia, the two sides discussed various issues in the bilateral strategic partnership, from politics, diplomacy to defence, security, trade, investment, education-training, tourism and people-to-people exchange.

 

Particularly, the Vietnamese NA leader underlined that labour cooperation is a priority of Vietnam, stressing that Vietnam is willing to send holiday workers to Australia. Alongside, the two sides also agreed to promote cooperation in issues of global concern such as digital transformation, climate change and just energy transition, said Ha.

 

He said that Vietnam and Australia also shared common interest in peace, security and cooperation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, including the ASEAN and the Mekong sub-region.

 

Ha said that regarding parliamentary cooperation, the two sides signed a new cooperation agreement on the promotion of their ties in the new period after lifting up their ties from a comprehensive partnership to a strategic partnership, while affirming their commitments to working together towards a strategic comprehensive partnership.

 

NA Chairman Hue emphasised that political and diplomatic relationship is a foundation, while the trade and investment cooperation is a motivation, and the people-to-people contact is a catalyst for the promotion of the Vietnam-Australia relations to a new height in the time to come.

 

The two sides shared interest to discuss the contents of the bilateral relations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties in 2023.

 

Meanwhile, during his visit to New Zealand, the first by a Vietnamese NA leader to New Zealand after 18 years, Chairman Hue had various high-level activities, including talks with his counterpart, and a meeting with the Governor-General of New Zealand.

 

Vietnam is the only strategic partnership of New Zealand in Southeast Asia, he said, adding that the bilateral relations have been promoted strongly, especially in economy, trade and investment.

 

Leaders of the two sides shared the determination and wish to further bolster their partnership in trade and investment. Vietnam held two forums in education, and economic, trade and investment cooperation in the country. At the economic forum, NA Chairman Hue witnessed the exchange of an agreement between the two governments, which included Vietnam’s opening of market for New Zealand’s pumpkins and strawberries. Earlier during the New Zealand PM’s visit to Vietnam, New Zealand also announced its opening of door for Vietnamese pomelos and limes, said Ha.

 

He held that the opening of market for each other farm produce will help farmers of the two countries expand their production, contributing to increasing two-way trade.

 

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NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (R) meets Governor-General of Australia David Hurley and his spouse (Photo: VNA)

 

Regarding the cooperation potential between Vietnam and Australia and New Zealand, Ha said that after a new cooperation between the parliaments of Vietnam and Australia was signed with new and in-depth contents, the external relations agencies of the two sides will work together to specify the deal, while sharing experience in law and institution building regarding issues of global concern such as climate change, sustainable development, digital transformation and just energy transition.

 

For New Zealand, Vietnam hopes to sign a cooperation agreement between the two parliaments to create a legal framework for the promotion and deepening of their parliamentary partnership, contributing to strengthening political trust and mutual understanding and optimising the bilateral strategic partnership, Ha said.

 

Australia and New Zealand are both important strategic partners of Vietnam in the South Pacific. The two countries have showed strong attachment to Southeast Asia as well as Asia and the Pacific, and sharing a close political, diplomatic, foreign relations, defence, security, trade and investment relations with countries in the region.

 

Both countries highly value the position and role of Vietnam in the current world situation. Australia and New Zealand are all important members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

 

These are very important legal foundations for Vietnam and the two countries to continue to promote their economic, trade and investment relations, especially in the field of agriculture, where both foreign countries are strong in and Vietnam has strong cooperation demand, stated Ha./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley has lauded Vietnam’s reform achievements, especially in reducing poverty and ensuring food security.

 

Vietnam has transformed from an aid recipient to a big exporter of rice and other agricultural products in the world, Beasley told Ambassador Duong Hai Hung, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the WFP, who came to present his credentials in Rome on December 7.

 

The WFP leader suggested Vietnam share its experience with and provide technical assistance for underdeveloped countries, as the world is facing huge food security challenges as a result of wars and climate change.

 

For his part, Hung praised the WFP’s role in the fight against poverty and coping with other emergencies, as well as its long-term support for agricultural building and development in poor nations, contributing to ensuring sustainable food security worldwide.

 

The ambassador thanked the WFP for its assistance to Vietnam in handling the serious food shortage in the Southeast Asian country in the 1980s, helping it emerge as a leading rice producer and exporter globally.

 

He called for WFP support in improving Vietnam’s national capacity for guaranteeing food security and developing livelihood of rural residents, especially in extreme weather and climate change response.

 

Hung reiterated Vietnam’s commitment to closely cooperating with the programme and other UN agencies in fulfilling the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly in poverty reduction.

 

The two sides should continue their discussions on cooperation potential in contributing to emergency relief, the sharing of experience and knowledge, and technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, he suggested./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The southeastern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has been paying attention to trade promotion with a goal to bring local key products to more markets and raise their value.

 

Asserting local strengths

 

Leaders of the province’s Centre for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion said Ba Ria – Vung Tau has a wide range of products in various industries and services, from fisheries, cultivation, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, petrochemicals to travel, maritime transport and logistics services.

 

The network of wholesale and retail establishments has reached all districts and cities in the province, comprising of many large-scale and modern facilities like department stores, commercial centres, supermarkets and logistics centres (supplying goods storage, sorting and transporting services). Therefore, the province has great potential in trade promotion, particularly for fisheries and farming sectors, which supply large and stable volumes of products in diverse kinds, meeting the demand of both domestic consumption and export.

 

According to statistics of the provincial Centre for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion, the province is home to about 130 enterprises and 290 household businesses engaging in aquatic product processing. Of them, over 40 factories have satisfied HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System) standards with total capacity of more than 250,000 tonnes of products a year. Some 30 facilities have received EU Code of Export Compliance certificates, while most of the remaining facilities have met requirements for exporting to the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Brazil regarding key products such as surimi, shrimp, fish, octopus, and crab in either frozen, fillets or processed forms. Ba Ria-Vung Tau’s aquatic products have been exported to more than 40 countries and territories worldwide.

 

Local processing facilities are capable of supplying large volumes of products to wholesale and retail networks in and outside the province.

 

As for the agricultural sector, Ba Ria – Vung Tau is aiming to become a hi-tech agricultural hub at national level. At present, the province counts more than 50 businesses, cooperatives and establishments operating in cultivation and farm produce processing. More than 30 of them have been granted certificates of food safety and Good Agriculture Practice (GAP).

 

Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Do Minh Tuan said the province produces a diverse range of farm produce, such as bean and nut products (coffee, cashew nut, pepper bean and cacao bean), fruits (green-skin pomelo, longan, banana) and safe vegetables, among others. He affirmed that local products have good quality, meeting strict requirements of both domestic and foreign consumers and businesses.

 

Enhancing trade connectivity

 

Leaders of the Centre for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion said the province has constantly promoted and reformed trade promotion work, bolstered e-commerce and enhanced trade connectivity so as to facilitate access to material supply sources and markets of businesses both in and outside the province.

 

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Ba Ria – Vung Tau is aiming to become a hi-tech agricultural hub at national level.

 

The province has proactively provided information to enterprises and supported them in promoting their brands, expanding distribution channels, increasing market share and reaching out to potential and important domestic and foreign markets.

 

Regarding trade promotion for farm produce, particularly products of the OCOP (One Commune One Product) programme, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has coordinated with relevant agencies to organize trade promotion events focusing on those products. The department also worked together with the Department of Information and Communication, the Department of Industry and Trade, and Vietnam Airlines to introduce local products on e-commerce platforms and chains of stores and supermarkets. Nearly 23,790 digital accounts and hundreds of shops on commercial platforms have been created for local products. The department also encouraged makers of certified OCOP products to attend exhibitions and trade fairs to introduce their products./.

 

Source: Vietnam News Agency