Ministry signs agreement with Intel

HA NOI — The Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT) yesterday concluded a comprehensive non-commercial agreement with IT major Intel to improve access and viability of technology in Viet Nam’s ministries, organisations, businesses, public sector, healthcare and education.

This was announced jointly by the Minister of Post and Telematics Do Trung Ta and Intel’s new president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Otellini in the capital.

Chronology of Vietnam-US relations

Sept. 29, 1990: US Secretary of State J. Baker and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach met in New York for the first time to discuss bilateral relations.

April 9, 1991: The United States introduced a four-step "Roadmap" on normalizing bilateral relations.

Nov. 21, 1991: Deputy Foreign Minister Le Mai and US Assistant to the State Secretary in charge of Eastern Asia-Pacific R. Solomon conducted the first round of negotiations on the normalisation of bilateral relations in New York.

Vietnam, U.S. initial child adoption deal

The governments of Vietnam and the U.S. initialed a cooperation agreement on adoption in Hanoi on June 15.

The signatories were Vu Duc Long, head of the Justice Ministry's Department for International Child Adoption, and Ambassador Muara Harty, assistant secretary of state for U.S. Department of State’s Consular Affairs and Children Issues.

The two sides committed to create every favourable condition possible to facilitate the adoption of orphaned children on humanitarian grounds and for the purpose of child protection.

Vietnam, US speak same language on POW/MIA issue

A US officer who heads a POW/MIA mission recently praised Vietnam's commitment as well as its efforts to help the US account for Americans missing in action (MIA) after the war.

Lieutenant Lenfort Mitchell, Commander of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Detachment Two in Vietnam, made these remarks in an interview with Vietnam News Agency on the celebration of 10 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Vietnamese PM’s visit to US to yield large business contracts

A series of economic deals and agreements are expected to be reached between Vietnamese and American businesses during the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s six-day visit to the US, which begins June 19.

Among Vietnamese companies which are to strike contracts with US partners are military-run telecoms firm Viettel, the country’s largest rubber producer Geruco, according to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or VCCI.

Fulbright Vietnam: the tool of knowledge

Enthusiastic and strong-willed Thomas Vallely, an US veteran from the Vietnam War, has returned as a dedicated educator.

Thomas, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts and holder of a postgraduate degree from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, is director of the Harvard program in Vietnam (Fulbright Economics Teaching Program) and is one of the founders of VEF (Vietnam Education Fund).

VEF founder Thomas Vallely: Vietnam- big market for education

During online talks with VietNamNet yesterday, VEF founder Thomas Vallely, shared his ambition to establish an international university in Vietnam was well as views on Vietnam’s economy and relations with the US.

Vietnam’s economy and relations with America

US dancers take up residency in Ha Noi

HCM CITY — A New York City-based dance troupe is performing and teaching classes in HCM City and Ha Noi, as part of a series of cultural exchanges to mark the 10th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the US and Viet Nam.

Yesterday, the Battery Dance Company gave a presentation on International Collaborations in the Arts at the HCM City College of Culture and Arts.

The troupe will also teach a master ballet class and hip-hop class at the HCM City Dance School and a master modern dance class at the HCM City Theatrical Company.

U.S. documentary portrays Vietnam’s next generation

A new documentary, to be broadcast on American TV station PBS in mid-May, sets out to answer the question of what Americans, who still remember the Vietnam War, know of those Vietnamese born in its aftermath.

The hour-long “Vietnam: The Next Generation,” produced by Sandy Northrop, profiles eight young Vietnamese — entrepreneurs and streets kids, farmers and students, artists and engineers — who were born in the final days of the war or in the decade that followed.

Vietnam’s wooden furniture sales to U.S. surge

Vietnam’s wooden interior furniture exports to the U.S. have risen substantially in the last three years and the trend continues in the first few months of this year, according to U.S. figures.
In the first two months of 2005, Vietnam’s wooden furniture sales to the U.S. hit 103 million USD, up roughly 174 per cent over last year’s same period, says figures of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).

In 2001, sales were only 13 million USD, but topped 374 million USD in 2004, ITC sources say. In the last year, exports grew by 111 per cent from the previous year.

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