>NA deputies discuss Fire Control Bill > >NA deputies held group discussions on the Fire Control and Fighting Bill in >the morning of November 8, the 21st working day of the NA’s on-going session. > >The Bill on Fire Control and Fighting presented at the NA’s session includes >nine chapters with 70 articles. After hearing the bill, deputies contributed >their opinions to the Bill so that the Drafting Board can work to revise the >Bill before submitting it to the NA for approval at the next session. > >Deputies also suggested their opinions on some other issues relating to the >Bill on Fire Control and Fighting and its plan. > >In the afternoon, deputies held group discussions to evaluate the session. > >Today, deputies continue working in the Meeting Hall to ratify the session’s >Resolutions and end the session. **** >PM praises effective Kyodo-VNA co-operation > >Prime Minister Phan Van Khai expressed pleasure at the fine relations and >effective co-operation between Japan’s Kyodo News and Vietnam News Agency >(VNA) in Hanoi on December 8. > >Receiving the visiting Kyodo News president, Ichiro Saita, Prime Minister Khai >spoke highly of the intellectual potential and the advanced technology of >Japan. He said he hoped that Kyodo would continue to help VNA in personnel >training so that technicians, reporters and sub-editors could get access to >and master information technology when entering the new millennium. > >The Vietnamese leader answered some questions by Mr Saita on the Vietnam’s >socio-economic development after ten years of renovation; on the fields given >priorities in the next decade; on the efficiency of Japan’s Official >Development Assistance (ODA) to Vietnam and its policy on economic integration >and its foreign policies. > >Earlier, the Kyodo News president and his entourage paid a working visit to >VNA. The two parties held talks, reviewing the implementation of the >agreements reached in the recent past and discussing ways to boost >co-operation in the future. > >While in Vietnam, the Japanese delegation visited Ha Long Bay, Tay Phuong >Pagoda, Temple of Literature - Imperial College (Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam) and >Bat Trang ceramics and porcelain village. **** >Vietnam, Australia sign meteorology minutes > >Vietnam and Australia signed minutes on hydro-meteorological co-operation in >the 2000-2004 period in Hanoi on December 8 on the occasion of the Vietnam >visit by the president of the World Meteorological Organisation, Mr John W >Zillman, who is also the director of Australia’s National Meteorological >Bureau. > >In a reception given to Mr Zillman, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem >praised the co-operation and assistance of the World Meteorological >Organisation in general and the Australia’s National Meteorological Bureau to >Vietnam in particular over the recent past, especially Australia’s help in >improving Vietnam’s capacity in weather forecast. > >Mr Zillman expressed his pleasure at the result of the working session with >the Vietnam General Department of Hydro-meteorology. The two parties set up >plans of co-operation in the years to come in a bid to mitigate the >consequences of natural disasters in Vietnam. **** >Vietnam joins international co-operatives' forum > >A Forum of co-operatives alliance was held in Brazil from December 3 to 8 with >the participation of more than 1,000 representatives of international >organisations and 70 countries. > >Participants discussed many issues relating to co-operative economy. > >The Vietnamese representative is Dr Nguyen Ty, chairman of the Vietnam’s >Alliance of Co-operatives. He had a working meeting with the chairman of the >International Co-operatives Alliance and the Brazilian Alliance of >Co-operatives and leaders of co-operative alliances of other countries. **** >Vietnam, Sri Lanka farmers' associations promote ties > >A high-ranking delegation of the Sri Lanka's Farmers' Federation led by its >secretary general, Sugathapala Sudasingue, who is also the deputy secretary >general of the Sri Lanka Communist Party, paid a working visit to Vietnam from >November 29 to December 6. > >The visit was made at the invitation of the Vietnam Farmers' Association >Standing Board. > >During their stay in Vietnam, the Sri Lankan guests had working sessions with >the Vietnam Farmers' Association Standing Board. They exchanged notes on >issues of mutual concern. > >A memorandum of understanding was signed as the basis for the strengthening of >friendship and co-operation between the two organisations. > >The delegation also visited and had working sessions with the Party Committees >and the Farmers' Associations of the two provinces of Quang Ninh and Thai >Nguyen; the Vietnam Labour Confederation and the Vietnam Union of Friendship >Associations. > >The guests were received by Mr Pham The Duyet, Politburo member and president >of the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee. **** >FAO provides rice seeds to farmers in Dong Thap > >The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has provided US $399,000 >to farmers in Dong Thap, the worst-hit province of the worst flooding to hit >the Mekong delta in 40 years. > >The grant, signed over on December 8 in Hanoi by representatives of the >Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and FAO, will be spent on buying >1,000 tonnes of high quality rice seeds to provide to the local farmers for >the winter-spring crop. > >About 50,000-70,000 farmers in the districts of Tan Hong, Hong Ngu, Tam Nong, >Thanh Binh and Dong Thap will directly benefit from the aid. **** >An Giang protects people's lives in flood season > >The Mekong delta province of An Giang has built 136 residential areas and >evacuated about 18,000 households, who live in the low-lying areas, to live in >safer areas temporarily in the flood season. > >According to statistics, about 119,000 households in An Giang will live in >deeply submerged areas when flooding occurs; more than 24,000 others have no >land, but live temporarily on canals. > >The province has also planned to build more residential areas to provide >shelter to people in submerged areas. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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