From February 22 to 24, 2016, Prof.Dr. Vo Van Sen, President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh City and two representatives of the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies had attended the kick-off meeting of the ENHANCE Project in University of Alicante, Spain. During the meetings, many issues related to the dissemination and implementation of the project had been addressed and discussed in detail by project partners, including HCM-University of Social Sciences and Humanities. 

The International Storytelling Festival 2016 in Ho Chi Minh City was successfully organized (March 1, 2016) by Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies. 

Dr. Tran Dinh Lam attended the certificate graduation ceremony of the 2015 VEMBA class held by the University of Hawaii at GEM Center on July 12, 2015. 

On November 20th 2015, a delegation consisting of Vietnamese representatives led by the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung attended the 27thAsean Summit and other related summits in Malaysia.

In the next day, TienPhong Newspaper interviewed Prof. Carlyle Thayer from Australian Defence Institution and Dr. Tran Dinh Lam, Director of Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies.

The delegation of the University of Innsbruck, Austria came to Ho Chi Minh City to attend Summer School Program 2015 was hosted by the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asia Studies (CVSEAS), USSH, VNU – HCMC, jointly organized by University of Innsbruck from September 14th to 18th, 2015.

On July 28th, 2015 a report on the field trip of the research Group from Ecole Francaise d’Extreme – Orient (EFEO) with the topic “Report on the field trip about Cham Manuscripts in the Central Area, Vietnam” took place in the room D102, hosted by the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies (CVSEAS), USSH, VNU – HCMC. On behalf of the research group, Dr. Amadine Lepoutre reported on the field trip.

On August 27th, 2015, Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies participated in the Inauguration ceremony of the faculty of Japanese Studies at USSH. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Vo Van Sen, USSH’s President received the inauguration decision from The Director of Vietnam National University – HCMC.

On August 11th, 2015, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies participated in the seminar “Vietnam’s Relationship with Great Powers: Lessons from the Vietnam War” by Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh, Vice President of the Vietnam National Unversity – Hanoi, who received a PhD degree in Southeast Asia in Humboldt University – Germany in 2002 and is a former director of the Faculty of International Studies.

(PL) – It is necessary for us to stay alert to compliments since they can subconsciously make us have illusions about the quality of Vietnam’s education.  

That was the statement by Niimi Tatsuya, an officer of the economic division at the Consulate General of Japan in HCMC when he talked to Dr. Tran Dinh Lam, Director of CVSEAS, on the occasion of attending the Fifth May Festival – the biggest annual celebration of the Department of Japanese Studies on May 23.