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Geneva (VNA) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has shown its strong commitments to promoting and ensuring the rights of children through a multitude of important documents such as the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025. Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, made the affirmation while representing ASEAN member countries to address the 43rd session of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva on February 24. Mai stressed that with the dogged determination to realise the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the ASEAN members would continue close cooperation with the UN’s organisations to promote children’s rights, particularly in the context of evolution of the fourth industrial revolution, climate change, and disease outbreaks. The Vietnamese … [Read more...] about Vietnam highlights ASEAN’s efforts in protecting children’s rights

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Art Photo Contest and Exhibition 2020 was launched at a ceremony in Hanoi on February 25. Deputy head of the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ma The Anh said the contest is open to both professional and amateur Vietnamese photographers aged 18 and above. The entries must belong to the categories of realism and thought, and should be taken in 2019 and 2020. They can be sent to the organising board from now until the end of June 30 as single photos or photo groups. Each photographer can submit a maximum of 10 single photos or five photo sets, which have yet to be displayed or win prizes at any national and international contests held by the ministry and the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists. The biennial event aims to introduce to the public, both locally and internationally, outstanding works of Vietnamese photographers./. … [Read more...] about Vietnam Art Photo Contest and Exhibition 2020 launched

Bamboo Airways to suspend flights to RoK over coronavirus concerns Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways will suspend flights from the central cities of Da Nang and Nha Trang to the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Incheon city as from February 26 over coronavirus concerns. … [Read more...] about Vietnam, foreign airlines suspend flights to South Korea on epidemic fears

Binh Dinh (VNA) – A Vietnam – Republic of Korea project on addressing the consequences of bombs and mines left by wars was reviewed in the central province of Binh Dinh on February 25. The event was co-hosted by the National Steering Committee on the Settlement of Post-War Unexploded Ordnance and Toxic Chemical Consequences (Steering Committee 701), the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The project, which receives 20 million USD in non-refundable aid provided by the RoK government, has been underway in the central provinces of Quang Binh and Binh Dinh from 2018 to December 2020. It has helped remove bombs, mines and explosives on over 14,282ha of land in the two localities. This year, 21 teams will be set up to take technical survey of over 3,800ha of land while 55 other teams will defuse bombs and mines on an area of more than 3,000ha. The project will also help raise public awareness of bomb and … [Read more...] about Vietnam, RoK address post-war bombs, mines

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam has so far granted licences to 460 US producers of meat and meat products and 210 exporters of aquatic products, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh. Doanh is leading a Vietnamese delegation on a working trip to the US from February 24 – 29 to discuss boosting farm produce trade between the two countries. He was accompanied by representatives from 19 enterprises and one trade association operating in cereals and animal feed; meat, dairy and seafood products; fruits and vegetables; wooden furniture; and chemicals and fertilisers. During a working session on February 24 with US Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney and Ambassador Gregg Doud, Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative, Doanh said Vietnam has also allowed the import of six kinds of fresh fruit from the US, which are cherry, pear, grape, apple, blueberry and orange. … [Read more...] about Vietnam, US enhance farm produce trade