VN and China agreed to take bilateral ties to a new height

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:34

Ha Noi, Mar. 1 (VNA) -- A communique on a three-day official visit to Viet Nam from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1 by Party General Secretary and President Jiang Zemin of China reflects both countries' resolve to take bilateral ties to a new height of development.

The communique, released in Ha Noi on Mar. 1, says Viet Nam and China agreed to maintain the fine tradition of conducting high-level meetings in diverse forms to discuss their bilateral ties as well as regional and international issues of mutual concern.

FM Spokeswoman on UNHCR's halt to the repatriation

Tue, 02/26/2002 - 09:24

On Feb. 25, 2002, MOFA's Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh answered question from many correspondents: Please provide Viet Nam's reaction to reports that the UNHCR temporarily halted the repatriation of Central Highland ethnic illegal border crossers back to Vietnam.

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FM Spokeswoman on Vietnam-China land border treaty

Mon, 02/25/2002 - 12:18

On Feb.5, 2002, MOFA'S Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh answered question from Vietnam News Agency, asking for Vietnam's reaction to assertions that Vietnam made concessions in negotiating and concluding the land border treaty between Vietnam and China.

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The list of high-profile projets calling for foreign investment

Mon, 02/25/2002 - 11:45

OIL AND GAS

1. New exploration and exploitation

Gulf of Tonskin:- Block 104, 107- Block 110, 113, 114

Statement by the MOFA Spokeswoman on return of ethnic people

Tue, 02/19/2002 - 12:32

Today, 19 February 2002, on the basis of the 21 January 2002 tripartite agreement between Vietnam, Cambodia and the UNHCR, the first group of the ethnic people from the Central Highlands, who illegally crossed the border to Cambodia due to deception by malefactors and hostile forces, has returned to their homes, reuniting with their families.

Vietnam promotes information technology development

Sun, 02/17/2002 - 00:45

Ha Noi, Feb. 15 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's information technology sector plans to earn software and service turnover of USD 229 million and train 50,000 IT experts by 2005. The number of Internet subscribers is expected to increase from 200,000 to 1.2 million in the next four years.

According to the International Data Group (IDG), the country will become a potential market for the world's leading IT corporations by strongly developing IT applications.

FM Spokeswoman protests U.S CIRF's slanderous allegations

Sun, 02/17/2002 - 00:42

Ha Noi, Feb. 15 (VNA) -- Viet Nam has strongly condemned the denunciation of religious maltreatment in Viet Nam made by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) on Feb. 13.

Answering Ha Noi-based AFP correspondent on the country's reaction to the above-said denunciation, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, Phan Thuy Thanh, on Friday described the CIRF's continued slander against and distortion of the situation in Viet Nam as a wrongful action, grossly interfering in the country's internal affairs and totally unacceptable.

FM Spokeswoman pn repatriation of VN ethnic people from CPC

Sun, 02/17/2002 - 00:37

Ha Noi, Feb. 16 (VNA) -- Vietnamese Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should bear responsibility for the delay (of the first repatriation batch of Vietnamese ethnic minority people in the central highlands who had illegally fled to Cambodia last year).

The following are answers by MOFA's Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh to journalists on Feb. 16, 2002

1. UNHCR should make expeditious arrangements for illegal border crossers from the Central Highlands to return to their homes

UNHCR provides list of voluntary returnees from CPC back to VN

Thu, 02/14/2002 - 23:32

Ha Noi, Feb. 14 (VNA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is likely to provide Viet Nam with a list of voluntary returnees from camps in Cambodia on Feb. 15 so as to help them be back home on Feb. 16.

It was the outcome of a two-day working visit ending on Feb. 13 of a UNHCR delegation led by Javier Riedmantten, Deputy Regional Representative in Thai Land, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, to the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum.

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