Over the past two decades, the two-way trade has expanded 8.6 percent, much higher than the average growth rate of 5.8 percent between Australia and other ASEAN countries. (Photo: VNA)
The Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy sets out a road map to increase trade and investment opportunities, forging closer ties between the two countries.
The Strategy is unique, the first of its kind for Vietnam and Australia and reflective of both countries’ mutual interests.
At a meeting in Hanoi with Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, Tran Quoc Phuong, Australia’s Ambassador to Vietnam, HE Robyn Mudie, said: ‘We are proud to have publicly released this strategy in partnership Vietnam. It is the strongest reflection yet of our confidence in our shared economic future. Through this strategy we can recover our economies and prosper together.”
“Our economies are highly complementary. Australia is a reliable supplier of the services and raw materials that Vietnam’s exporters require, and our consumers enjoy Vietnam’s high-quality products in their homes and workplaces. There is enormous potential to take this relationship even further as we emerge from COVID-19,” she added.
The Ambassador said that the Strategy would help guide the two countries towards an inclusive and sustainable growth path.
Australia’s Ambassador to Vietnam, HE Robyn Mudie and Vice Minister for Planning and Investment, Tran Quoc Phuong present the Australia Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Strategy. (Photo: The Embassy of Australia to Vietnam)
At the meeting, Vice Minister Phuong said: “The economic potential between Australia and Vietnam is great. This strategy will be central to realising this potential. It demonstrates our commitment to promote economic, trade and investment links across key sectors and will help support the post COVID-19 pandemic economic recovery.”
To support Australian and Vietnam businesses, the strategy outlines a series of mutually beneficial, practical initiatives to deepen trade and investment links in key sectors including across agriculture, education, energy, services and the digital economy.
The Strategy also highlights the importance of strengthening the rules-based global trading system as the basis for open international trade and working together to address economic challenges and coercive economic practices
Binh Thuan attaches QR codes to tourist attractions
People scan QR codes at an attraction. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
From December 21, local people and tourists to tourist attractions in Phan Thiet city in the central province of Binh Thuan only need to scan a QR code to find destination information.
The pilot installation of QR codes by the Binh Thuan Tourism Promotion Information Center is part of the strategy of applying science and technology and digitizing tourism data in tourism activities.
QR codes are installed at 5 attractions, including: Duc Thanh School relic, Po Sah Inu Tower, Phan Thiet Water Tower, Van Thuy Tu Palace and Thanh Minh Tu Palace.
As local people and tourists use their phones or smart devices to scan the QR code, they will be directed to the link to the official website of the tourism industry www.dulichbinhthuan.com.vn. All informational content, images and video clips introducing the attractions will be displayed.
The provincial Tourism Promotion Information Center said that in the near future, it will continue to deploy additional QR codes at other tourist attractions of Phan Thiet city and other localities.
Additional address for tourists to Hoi An
The opening of the "Hoi An Prison" Relic Gallery. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
On December 21, the Hoi An Cultural Heritage Conservation Management Center in the central province of Quang Nam inaugurated the “Hoi An Prison” Relic Gallery as a tourist attraction combined with traditional education.
Hoi An Prison, commonly known as Xom Moi Prison, or Quang Nam Re-education Center, was built in 1960 to hold cadres, soldiers and compatriots in all localities in Quang Nam and other provinces.
In 2007, Hoi An Prison was recognized as a provincial relic by the provincial People’s Committee. The restoration project started in 2012, on the basis of thousands of pages of collected documents and hundreds of opinion votes.
The “Hoi An Prison” Relic Gallery received 62 artifacts from former prisoners, 3,390 resumes and many other works. Initially, the place will be a space to display documents and artifacts, contributing to enriching types of sightseeing in Hoi An./.
Vietnam, Cambodia enhance cooperation in agriculture
The two sides agreed to boost cooperation in the agro-forestry-fishery sector; strengthen control of timber import and export activities; and prevent and control diseases on plants and animals.
Overview of the working session between the two sides. (Photo: VNA)
The agreement was made during a working session between the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Phnom Penh on December 21.
The working session took place within the framework of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s ongoing State visit to Cambodia.
At the event, representatives of the two ministries also agreed to propose and study the signing of a number of cooperation agreements on agriculture and fisheries between the two Governments in the coming time.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said Vietnam is the biggest among 90 importers of Cambodian agricultural products, and it wishes to speed up the implementation of cooperation projects in agriculture and aquaculture with the neighboring country.
Notably, there is a project to build a model of aquaculture technology transfer in the Tonle Sap region of Cambodia, worth 70 billion VND (about 3 million USD).
Meanwhile, Cambodian Minister Veng Sakhon said that in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two countries have recorded remarkable achievements in cooperation in growing industrial and agricultural trees, especially rubber and banana./.