Speaking at the final 2022 meeting of the WTO’s General Council on 19-20 December, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged Geneva-based delegates to use the upcoming year-end break to reach out to their respective capitals for guidance and instructions and get the organization “back on track” in the new year. In her [...]
Remarks by DDG Zhang Excellencies, Her Excellency, Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Professor Ova Emilia, Deputy Minister of Trade, Dr. Jerry Sambuaga, Mr. Yudi Triantoro, representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Indonesia, H.E. Vice-Speaker for Industry and Development of the House of Representatives of the [...]
Remarks by DG Okonjo-Iweala Excellencies, I am very pleased to join you this morning. I understand you had a productive regular meeting earlier this week ahead of this session on technical assistance and capacity building support. The Trade Facilitation Committee provides a valuable feedback mechanism for the implementation of the [...]
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh raised some proposals to help the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) enhance its role in fostering multilateral cooperation, while addressing the 14th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Madrid on December 16. The meeting gathered foreign ministers and officials of the 53 ASEM members, [...]
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) with Việt Nam’s Government Office and the Ministry of Planning and Investment kicked off the USAID Linkages for Small and Medium Enterprises (USAID LinkSME) project today in Hà Nội. With a planned budget of US$22.1 million over five years, the USAID LinkSME project [...]
Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and his spouse are paying an official visit to Vietnam from August 22-24 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. This is the first visit to Vietnam by Scott Morrison after he was elected as the Prime Minister of Australia. The visit [...]
On January 24, 2019, at the Ha Giang provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Ha Giang Provincial People’s Committee organized a meeting for the acceptance of the provincial project “Research and construction of the Dong Van Stone Plateau Global Geopark Museum of Nature, Ha Giang”, Code: DTKH.HG-04/16, from 2016 [...]
The information was announced at a press brief on May 24, held by the Da Nang city authorities and real estate developer Sun Group to provide information on the annual festival. Accordingly, the festival promises local people and tourists eye-catching fireworks performances on Han River in the central city early [...]
Twenty one member economies of the Asia – Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum have voiced their support for free trade in the context that global economy is being affected by the US-China trade war. The APEC ministers responsible for trade, who met in Viña del Mar, Chile on May 17 [...]
The relations between Vietnam and South Africa have developed in all fields since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1993, especially in politics, diplomacy, economy-trade, security-defence, science-technology, and education, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung. He made the statement in a recent interview granted to correspondents [...]