93rd ANNIVERSARY OF THAILAND'S NATIONAL DAY (05/12/1927 - 05/12/2020)

On December 04th, 2020, the Royal Thai Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony in celebration of the 93rd National Day of the Kingdom of Thailand and the birthday of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (December 05th, 1927) which also marks Father’s Day.

THE ROLE OF DEVELOPING VIETNAM'S HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE EYE OF PROFESSOR YAMADA

At the end of October 2020, after attending the Vietnam Employability and Entrepreneurship support network signing ceremony in Hanoi, Dr. Tran Dinh Lam - Director of the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies, had a conversation with Prof. Yasuhiro Yamada - Special Assistant to the President of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia  (ERIA) on Cambodia - Laos - Myanmar - Vietnam (CLMV) Affairs. The conversation is about changing the mindset to develop the human resources in Vietnam.

WORKING VISIT WITH HEAD OF QUANG DIEN DISTRICT, THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE

On November 9th, 2020, Dr. Tran Dinh Lam had a visit with Dr. Tran Dinh Hang – Director of Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies in Hue and Mr. Tran Quoc Thang – Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quang Dien District, Thua Thien Hue Province to discuss the potential for tourism development in Tam Giang lagoon. The discussion also welcomed the participation of Mr. Doan Sung – CEO of Doan Anh Duong J.S.C. and Mme. Nguyen Thi Diem Kieu – Director of Go Co cooperative, Quang Ngai Province.

VISITING AND WORKING WITH LEADERS OF THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE ABOUT POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM

On November 9th, Dr. Tran Dinh Lam- Director of CVSEAS had a meeting on “Potential Development of Community Based Tourism” in Thua Thien Hue with Mr. Nguyen Thanh Binh - Vice Chairman of Thua Thien Hue Provincial People’s Committee, Dr. Tran Dinh Hang - Director of Hue Sub-Institute, Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies, Mr. Doan Sung - CEO of Doan Anh Duong Joint Stock Company and Ms. Nguyen Thi Diem Kieu - Director of Go Co Co-operative.

DISCUSSION WITH TOPCV COMPANY ABOUT THE TOPIC: APPLYING TECHNOLOGY FOR RECRUITING AND LOOKING FOR A JOB

On November 18th, 2020, at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, members of the Board of Director of the V2WORK project had a meeting with the representatives of TOPCV – one of the top e-recruitment platform in Vietnam, about supporting students seeking for a job by using technology applications. 

EXPLORING MODEL OF VOLUNTOURISM

On November 17th, 2020 in USSH, the executive committee of TOURIST project and TOURIST’s members had a workshop with Ms. Dinh Thi Minh Xuan - HeartVentures Travel Company about the model of voluntourism in Vietnam. The meeting is within the framework of work package No.4 implementing the Center for Development of Sustainable Tourism.

''ENTREPRENEUR STARTING UP BY EXPORTING BANANAS'' COULD ONLY BE HUY LONG AN

Võ Quan Huy, intimately called Út Huy (Út means the youngest child), is the Director of Huy Long An Co., Ltd located in Mỹ Bình Commune, Đức Huệ District, Long An province. He has been well-known as a notable entrepreneur in the banana exporting sector.  Adopting organic agriculture, Huy Long An has successfully exported ten thousands of bananas to strict markets such as Korea, Japan and Singapore.

BUSINESS BRUNCH BETWEEN BUSINESS LEADERS AND FACULTY HEADS ABOUT V2WORK - CAREER DAY 2 On October 20th, 2020, the executive committee of project V2WORK had a business brunch with the business leaders and the faculty heads on planning the V2WORK - Career Day 2 in 2020.  

THE VIETNAM EMPLOYABILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT NETWORK SIGNING CEREMONY IN HANOI On October 29th and 30th, 2020 in Hanoi University of Science and Technology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University had attended the signing ceremony VEES-NET within the framework of the project V2WORK. The representatives of HCM USSH were Dr. Phan Thanh Dinh – Vice Chancellor, Dr. Tran Le Hoa Tranh - Director of the Center for Career Orientation and Human Resource Development (Career Center), Dr. Tran Dinh Lam – Director of the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies. This is the network of cooperation from 8 universities around Vietnam with the aim of helping post-graduate students looking for a job. The network is conducted with the support of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and AIESEC Vietnam.  

TALK WITH DR. HA VAN SIEU ON TOURISM POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC “Tourism after Covid-19 is geared toward community-based tourism”, said Dr Ha Van Sieu, Vice Chairman of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Discussing the TOURIST project* with Dr Tran Dinh Lam, he strongly emphasized the idea of developing community-based tourism. The meeting took place on October 10th, 2020 at the headquarters of VNAT in Ha Noi.