VN and Indian professionals celebrate countries relations

HCM CITY — "I am half Indian, half Vietnamese," said Nguyen Minh Chau, director of the Southern Food Research Institute, as he waxed nostalgic about his five-and-a-half year stay in India, pursuing post-graduate and doctorate courses with scholarships from the Indian government.

Chau was among many recipients of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scholarships who gathered at the General Sciences Library in HCM City last weekend to mark the ITEC Day 2010.

Chau said that many Vietnamese professionals trained in India were heading agricultural, horticultural and other scientific research institutes in the country.

Chief guest Dang Cong Luan, Director of the Department of Interior of the People's Committee of HCM City, said "the ITEC Programme is an earnest attempt by India to share the fruits of its socio-economic development and technological achievement with other developing countries, including Viet Nam."

"Thanks to the ITEC programme, many researchers, cadres, officials, students have been engrossed in scientific research and are applying the technical breakthroughs in production as well as in life, bringing high socio-economic efficiency," Luan said.

Abay Thakur, Indian consul-general, said that the most popular courses for the Vietnamese students going to India have been IT, English proficiency, financial management, agricultural practices (including soil management, farming systems and agronomy), environmental technology and biotechnology. — VNS

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State President Triet receives Fields laureate

State President Nguyen Minh Triet congratulated Prof. Ngo Bao Chau for winning the top mathematics award, describing it as a national honour, during his meeting with the Fields laureate in Hanoi on Sept. 1.

The State leader took the opportunity to praise the national education service for overcoming prolonged war difficulties and post-war poverty and backwardness to foster young talents, culminating in Prof. Chau’s success.

He expressed an expectation that the Ministry of Education and Training would try harder to nurture as many as possible talents like Prof. Chau in order to put the national economy and science on a par with world standards.

Triet also expressed thanks to the professor’s parents and wife for their contributions to his success.

“Family should continue to be a momentum for Prof. Chau to win more successes in his career of scientific research in the interest of the nation and the world of mathematics,” said the national leader.

Prof. Chau said it was touching to his heart for the State President’s deep thoughtfulness to be given to him personally, as well as to his family and the entire scientific and technological community of Vietnam .

“I was very proud to be the first Vietnamese to step onto the highest platform for mathematicians in the world. The Fields medal is not only my honour but also an honour for the entire Vietnamese nation and a huge momentum for Vietnamese youths advancing on the scientific research road,” Prof. Chau confided.

He also looked happy at hearing the Government’s approval of a national programme on mathematic development up to 2020 and the project to build a high-grade mathematic research institute.

“They are very important conditions for the development of basic sciences and show the government’s renewal in this field,” said the Fields laureate./.

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