Eight Danish professors have been awarded the Ho Chi Minh City Badge, along with the Vietnam National Univeristy’s honorary awards given by the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (HCMUS), for their contribution to the development of postgraduate training and research activities. The awards ceromony took place on February 1, hosted by the Vietnam National University’s member school HCMUS. The eight professors receiving the awards were Erik Thulstrup, Fritz Duus, Poul Erik Hansen, Jens Spanget Larsen, Ole Vang, Torben Lund, John Mortensen, and Soren Hvidt from Roskilde University, a public university in Eastern Denmark. The professors have played a pivotal role in the development of postgraduate training and the improvement of academic research in Vietnam. Such achievement was the result of the cooperation between the Roskilde University’s Chemistry – Life Science Department and the HCMUS’s Chemistry Department in 2002, initiated by Professor Erik Thulstrup and Dr. Tran Thi Ngoc Huyen. The two universities signed a formal memorandum on academic research training via the ENRICA program spanning seven years, from February 2004 to February 2011. The program was sponsored by DANIDA, an international development and cooperation entity under Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a budget of DKK12 million (US$2 million). Forty-two master’s degrees and nine doctorates meeting European academic standards have been produced since the initiation of the said programme. The cooperation also resulted in about 100 research articles published globally, and many articles and symposium reports published in Vietnam. The Ho Chi Minh City Badge is awarded to… [Read full story]
On behalf of city leaders and people, Chairman of HCMC People's Committee Le Hoang Quan yesterday offered Ho Chi Minh City Badge for Russian Ambassador in Vietnam Andrey G. Kovtun on the occasion of the ambassador's farewell meeting with city's leaders after his working term in Vietnam.... [read more]
Danish Prince Joachim arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on March 17th, continuing his March 13-18 trip to Vietnam as the sponsor of Care Denmark, a non-governmental organization conducting development projects in Vietnam. Prince Joachim met with Ho Chi Minh City's Mayor Le Thanh Hai, who hailed the Danish royal's visit as a new step in the development of Vietnamese-Danish relations. The Mayor told his guest that Danish-funded development projects have brought benefits to many disadvantaged children and adults and especially to the country's poverty reduction programme. Prince Joachim said he was impressed with the changes in many localities of…... [read more]
Malaysian businesses had invested 5.8 billion USD in 169 projects in Ho Chi Minh City by June, becoming the largest foreign investor in Vietnam's southern economic hub. A project invested by Malaysia's Berjaya Land Berhad Co. (Source: Internet) The figures were released by Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Hua Ngoc Thuan at a ceremony on September 7 to mark Malaysia ’s 55 th National Day. Thuan said that Malaysia has always been an important economic partner of HCM City , adding that the city has welcomed many business delegations from Malaysia who came to study investment opportunities.…... [read more]
Over the past 42 years, Ho Chi Minh City has made remarkable contributions to national building, defense, industrialization, modernization, and international integration. Ho Chi Minh City at night The city was one of the few localities in Vietnam to record double-digit growth for many consecutive years from 1991-2010 thanks to the creative implementation of the Party's guidelines on developing the socialist-oriented market economy. It recorded annual average growth of 9.6 percent between 2011 and 2015, 1.66 times higher than the national average. In 2016, the city achieved economic growth of 8.05 percent. The economic structure was shifted to services and industry-construction,…... [read more]
NDO/VNA – A German passenger on Vietnam Airlines’ flight VN36, which landed at the Noi Bai International Airport in the morning of January 1, was the first foreign visitor to set foot in Hanoi in 2017.Thomas Bauche and his wife were greeted with musical performance and gifts presented by representatives of local agencies.President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan delivered a welcome greeting in German.The German couple said this is the second time they have travelled to Vietnam. Besides Hanoi, they planned to go to Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City and the southwest region.Bauche said…... [read more]
