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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Red Cross lifts ties in Laos, Cambodia

HCM CITY — The Viet Nam Red Cross will help its Lao and Cambodian counterparts train their staff, increase medical services and conduct free eye surgery for people in their border provinces.

Tran Ngoc Tang, President of the Viet Nam Red Cross, made the commitment at a Viet Nam-Laos-Cambodia Red Cross Leaders' Meeting in HCM City last Saturday.

Tang said co-operation between the three countries' associations had contributed to improving the living conditions of people in border provinces.

During the past four years of work in the field, the Viet Nam Red Cross has helped provide health care and services worth more than VND8 billion (US$410,000), he said.

The meeting reviewed the implementation of co-operation agreements between the three Red Cross organisations during the 2006-10 period. Participants also discussed co-operation programmes for the next five years.

The three associations would encourage all border provinces to better share information on natural disasters and diseases while increasing discussions on preventive measures, mutual assistance and improvement of health care during emergency situations, Tang said.

He noted that the three groups would also share information on their activities, international Red Cross movements and humanitarian co-operation programmes. — VNS

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Australian broadcaster to help boost media links

Vietnam News Agency general director Tran Mai Huong shakes hands with Chief Executive Officer of Radio Australia Mike McCluskey after the signing of a memorandum of understanding to facilitate co-operation between both sides. — VNA/VNS Photo Ngoc Quang

Vietnam News Agency general director Tran Mai Huong shakes hands with Chief Executive Officer of Radio Australia Mike McCluskey after the signing of a memorandum of understanding to facilitate co-operation between both sides. — VNA/VNS Photo Ngoc Quang

SYDNEY — A memorandum of understanding to facilitate bilateral co-operation in multimedia between the Vietnam News Agency and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was signed in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday.

Under the document, the two sides agreed to study co-operation methods such as sharing development experiences, multimedia information exchange, programme production, consulting and management sharing, as well as exchanging reporters.

Also on Wednesday, VNA general director Tran Mai Huong discussed specific measures to realise the potential for co-operation with Chief Executive of Australia Network Bruce Dover, Chief Executive Officer of Radio Australia Mike McCluskey and ABC's corporate strategy and international co-operation director Julia Thoener.

During his five-day working visit to Australia, which will end on Sunday, Huong will also visit and discuss co-operation possibilities with the Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency. — VNS

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