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Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and heads of delegations to WEF ASEAN 2018 pose for group photos (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) – Heads of state from across Southeast Asia on September 12 hailed the technological opportunities for the region in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The leaders are attending the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF on ASEAN), themed “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industry Revolution” that attracted the participation of over 1,000 delegates who are WEF members and representatives of businesses from around the world. “The opportunities brought about by the 4IR are indeed enormous,” Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the opening plenary of the ongoing event in Hanoi. “The start-up atmosphere is truly permeating throughout ASEAN,” he said.    Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan … [Read more...] about ASEAN leaders highlight opportunities in 4IR

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (L) meets with Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong in Phnom Penh on February 26 (Photo: VNA) Phnom Penh (VNA) – Party General Secretary and President of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong met with Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong and Supreme Patriarch of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya order Bour Kry of Cambodia on February 26, part of his State visit to the country. Meeting with Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong at Unalom pagoda and Supreme Patriarch Bour Kry at Svay Pope pagoda in Phnom Penh, the Vietnamese leader sent the best wishes to all Buddhists in Cambodia. Noting the outcomes of his talks with King Norodom Sihamoni, he said the two sides shared the view that for the last over 50 years, the friendly neighbourliness between Vietnam and Cambodia has weathered every challenge to obtain comprehensive achievements, which serves as a foundation for their solid development. Such great attainments have been contributed by the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese leader hails Cambodian Buddhists’ contributions to relations

Director of the Department of Computerisation under the MoIC Nguyen Thanh Phuc (Photo: itcnews.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – A programme to train 100 key experts for the e-Government building scheme will be launched on December 20. Implemented by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), the programme aims to improve capacity of IT human resources to serve the e-Government project. According to director of the Department of Computerisation under the MoIC Nguyen Thanh Phuc, the experts will include heads of IT divisions of departments, directors of IT centres and heads of IT application divisions. “Participants are not only key IT workers of each unit, but also leaders who will bear the responsibility in the IT sector across the country,” he said. Most of the contents under the programme will run on the online format, which will be shared on the website egov.mic.gov.vn. It is the website of the centre which supports the e-Government’s … [Read more...] about Expert training programme to be launched for e-Government building

School has become a second home for many ethnic minorities students in the mountainous districts of Cao Bang Province in recent years. A student receives help in studying from a teacher of Kim Cuc Secondary School, which is applied boarding school model, in Cao Bang Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Chu Hieu The boarding school model, which provides meals and dorm for students, has helped reduce the number of students who drop out of school. Nguyen Hai Yen, principal of Kim Cuc Secondary School in Bao Lac District, said the model made it easier for teaching and studying. In 2019-20, the school has 183 students, of which 98 per cent stay at the school. Yen said most of them were ethnic minorities and lived tens of kilometres from the school. For nearly three years, a small room at Kim Cuc Secondary School has been a second home for Ha Minh Hanh, an eighth grade student. Hanh said before she lived in Phieng Tac Village, and had to walk more than 9km along a narrow mountainous road … [Read more...] about VN’s boarding school model encourages more students to class

Sappers are searching for war-left bombs and mines (Source: VNA) Quang Tri (VNA) – Several foreign-funded projects have been conducted in the central province of Quang Tri over the past two decades, helping the locality to clear bombs and mines left from war. Quang Tri is one of localities most affected by the aftermath of war, with 81 percent of the province’s total area polluted with unexploded ordnance (UXO).  Statistics from the provincial centre for overcoming bomb and mine consequences show that by April 2018, bomb and mine accidents had killed 3,430 people and injured 5,100 others, including many children. Demining projects in Quang Tri have been funded by many foreign agencies, including the foreign ministries of Germany, the US and Norway, the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, the UK’s Department for International Development, Ireland’s development assistance fund, UNICEF and the … [Read more...] about Foreign-funded projects help Quang Tri deal with unexploded ordnance