>National Emulation Congress reviewed
>
>The Party’s Emulation and Reward Council (PERC) and the Party’s Commission for
>Ideology and Culture (PCIC) held a press conference on December 12 to give
>guidelines on dissemination of success of the sixth National Emulation
>Congress.
>
>A report to evaluate the result of the sixth National Emulation Congress
>highlighted that the congress, which was held at the time when the country is
>entering the new millennium, is the congress of the ever largest scale. The
>congress represents the national great unity block and is a pinnacle of all
>emulation movements nationwide over the past 15 years. The congress ended in
>success with the positive contributions made by sectors, ministries and media
>agencies.
>
>State Vice President and PERC’s first vice president, Nguyen Thi Binh, PERC’s
>permanent vice president, Nguyen Van Tu and deputy head of the PCIC’s Standing
>Board, Dao Duy Quat praised agencies and units with outstanding achievements
>recorded in the preparation and implementation of the congress. They outlined
>orientations for dissemination of information in the coming time, including
>promoting success of the National Emulation Congress, particularly introducing
>and multiplying outstanding examples and experiences; raising new emulation
>movements with feasible targets and measures in a bid to make outstanding
>achievements to welcome the Party’s ninth Congress and finding out, fostering
>and building up new factors and outstanding models and stimulating learning
>the emulation movement.
****
>Party senior official visits Laos
>
>Permanent member of the Vietnam Communist Party Central Committee's Politburo
>Executive Board Pham The Duyet has been in Laos for the inauguration of the
>museum to and celebrations of the 80th birthday of the late President Kaysone
>Phomvihane of Laos.
>
>Mr Duyet was received in Vientiane on December 12 by President Khamtay
>Siphandone of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).
>
>He emphasised the great significance of the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum and said
>it would help train various generations of Lao people in their country's
>tradition.
>
>He hoped that the President Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi and the President
>Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Vientiane would always be the national cultural
>and historic projects, contributing to maintaining and unceasingly developing
>the Vietnam-Laos special friendship and comprehensive co-operation.
>
>After thanking the Vietnamese Party, government and people for their help in
>building the museum, President Khamtay and Mr Duyet briefed each other about
>the situation in their countries. (VNA)
****
>Heroic Mothers are always wished to be good examples
>
>The Politburo member in charge of the Party’s ideology, culture, science and
>technology work, Le Xuan Tung, said he hoped that the Vietnamese Heroic
>Mothers of Haiphong city would always be good examples to encourage and
>educate their offspring to positively participate in the patriotic emulation
>movements in localities, thus contributing to build a more prosperous and
>stronger country.
>
>Receiving Vietnamese Heroic Mothers from Haiphong city in Hanoi on December
>11, Mr Tung inquired after their health and living conditions. Reviewing the
>glorious days of the national struggle, Mr Tung spoke highly of the great
>contributions and sacrifices of war heroes, war martyrs, Vietnamese Heroic
>Mothers and families with contributions to the national revolution of Haiphong
>city.
****
>ASEAN Standing Committee Chairman stresses ASEAN-EU dialogue relations
>
>Dialogue between the Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN, and the
>European Union is that of two regional groups, says Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy
>Nien.
>
>This means that relations between the European Union and any ASEAN member
>should be solved bilaterally and should not affect the two organisations, he
>says.
>
>Mr Nien was speaking for Vietnam in its capacity as Chairman of the ASEAN
>Standing Committee at the ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on
>December 11 and 12.
>
>He said that ASEAN has shown its capability to surmount difficulties, undergo
>dynamic development, maintain its operating principles, strengthen internal
>solidarity and establish appropriate co-operative orientations.
>
>As such it plays an important role in peace, security, stability and
>co-operation in the Asia-Pacific region.
>
>Mr Nien renewed Vietnam's pledge to soon adopt the Code of Conduct for the
>East Sea and described it as a measure to build confidence while contributing
>to maintaining peace, and stability in the region.
>
>The 13th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting closed on December 12 after passing the
>Vientiane Declaration focusing on international political, security and
>economic issues and assessing the future of ASEAN-EU relations.
>
>The two-day meeting emphasised that the successful implementation of the 1998
>Hanoi Declaration would contribute to translating the goal of ASEAN Vision
>2020 into practice and boosting the ASEAN-EU relationship.
>
>ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the
>Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the ASEAN Secretariat and the
>European Union consists of Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland,
>France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
>Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
>
>The meeting was also attended by the European Union Commission and the General
>Secretariat of the EU Council. (VNA)
****
>
>FM explores European economic potential outside ASEAN-EU meeting
>
>Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien sought stronger economic ties with several
>European countries at bilateral meetings in Vientiane, Laos, on December 11
>during the ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting.
>
>He spoke with delegates from France, Italy, Ireland and Spain about Vietnam's
>policy to accelerate economic co-operation with other countries.
>
>Mr Nien emphasised the importance of the economic ties between Vietnam and
>European countries to relations between the Association of Southeast Asian
>Nations, ASEAN, and the European Union, EU.
>
>At his meeting with the French Minister for Co-operation and Francophony
>Charles Josselin, who co-chaired the just-concluded 13th ASEAN-EU Ministerial
>Meeting, Mr Nien discussed details of French economic initiatives.
>
>These included the economic development of the Francophone community.
>
>Italy's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Ugo Intini, Ireland's Finance
>Minister Matin Cullen and Spain's Deputy Foreign Minister Miguel Nadal, all
>expressed their wish for further development of bilateral co-operation in
>economy, trade, investment and information technology as well as in
>international forums.
>
>The 13th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting was held in Vientiane, Laos, on December
>11 and 12. (VNA)
****
>Foreign currency control in border areas tightened
>
>Vietnam has issued a regulation to tighten its management of neighbouring
>countries' currencies in its areas along the common borders and economic
>regions at its border gates, sources from the government say.
>
>The regulation, which was made public on December 8 by decision of the prime
>minister, says that the neighbouring countries' currencies include the Chinese
>Yuan, Lao Kip and Cambodian Riel.
>
>Border areas are defined as the communes, wards and district towns adjacent to
>the national land borders, while economic regions at the border gates comprise
>those envisaged under the prime minister's decision, the regulation says.
>
>Border residents include Vietnamese nationals residing in the border areas and
>others (including Vietnamese residing outside border areas and citizens of the
>neighbouring countries) who have business licences operating in border areas
>and economic regions at the border gates.
>
>The regulation will be effective 15 days from signing, and all other
>already-promulgated documents contrary to the regulation will be anulled.
>(VNA)
****
>Vietnam attends Portuguese Communist Party Congress
>
>A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam attended the 16th congress of
>the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) in Lisbon, Portugal, from December 8-12.
>
>The delegation led by Nguyen Tan Trinh, member of the Communist Party of
>Vietnam Central Committee and deputy director of the Party Central Committee's
>Economic Commission, was received by Antonio Abreu, member of the PCP Central
>Committee and Lisbon's Deputy Mayor.
>
>Mr Trinh expressed the Vietnamese Party and people's gratitude to the PCP and
>the Portuguese people for their support to Vietnam's revolution over the past
>more than half century.
>
>Mr Abreu, who is the PCP nominee for the Portuguese President at the elections
>next January, expressed the PCP's interest in Vietnam's renovation. (VNA)
****
>Officials attend global seminar on educational re-creation
>
>A delegation of the Hanoi Education Service led by Director Nguyen Kim Hoan
>attended a global seminar on educational re-creation in New York on December
>11 and 12.
>
>The seminar, which was organised the International Business Machines (IBM), a
>leading computer company in the United States, drew 200 delegates from 21
>States of the US and seven other countries.
>
>Addressing the seminar, Nguyen Kim Hoan, who was one of the seven members of
>the seminar's presidium, said that the Vietnamese government had paid special
>attention to education and training. Vietnam was the first country in the
>Asian-Pacific region to receive financial and technical support from IBM to
>include information technology in school curriculum, Mr Hoan noted, adding
>that this has helped the country improve the quality of teaching and learning.
>
>Hanoi effectively conducted a pilot project funded by IBM for two years from
>September 1998 to September 2000. IBM has decided to extend the project for
>another year. (VNA)
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