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Photo: PM Nguyen Tan Dung and USVTC-EF Chairman and Former Ambassador Pete Peterson with their spouses
at the banquet hosted by the Vietnamese Mission in New York,
September 26, 2007. (VNGOP)
Photo: PM Nguyen Tan Dung rings the opening bell at the NYSE,
September 28, 2007. (VNGOP)
Click below for News Articles on Vietnam PM Dung's Trip to New York:
Prime Minister meets US business giants, VNGOP, September 29
Prime Minister meets UN Secretary General, VietNamNet Bridge, September 28
PM gains support for Viet Nam's UN security council bid, Vietnam News Agency, September 26
PM Nguyen Tan Dung sits down with Wall Street Journal, Vietnam News Agency, September 26
Click here for the Press Release
Click here for the News Article
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Click here for the Transcripts
Photo: Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet shakes hands with President Bush in the Oval Office, June 22, 2007. (Reuters)
Click below for News Articles on Vietnam President Triet's Trip to United States:
Vietnam and America (By H.E. Nguyen Minh Triet)
Presidents Bush and Triet's White House Remarks
Vietnam Calls for More U.S. Investment
Viet Kieu to Get Visa Exemption from September
Vietnamese President's US Visit Attracts Front Page Coverage
Wall Street Journal Issues Special Insert on Vietnam
Two Sides to Triet's U.S. Visit
U.S., Vietnam to Cooperate on Agent Orange Damage
Bush Pushes Vietnam Leader On Human Rights
USVTC President Virginia Foote's interviews with Radio Free Asia, and BBC Vietnamese on Vietnam President Triet's Visit to the U.S.
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Photo: USVTC-EF Chairman and Former Ambassador Pete Peterson and USVTC-EF President Virginia Foote with the delegation at the USVTC office |
Photo: Tulsa City Mayor Kathryn L. Taylor with the delegation at the Mayor's office |
The U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council Education Forum ( USVTC-EF) was pleased to organize a program for 12 Vietnamese professionals to Washington, DC, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for a three week program on Governance. The delegation included representatives from central and local governmental agencies, universities, businesses and civil society organizations from Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. The delegation spent the first five days in Washington, DC to meet with agencies at the Federal level. Then the major part of the program was anchored in Oklahoma, a mid-west state that has built the relationship with Vietnam since 1996. The program was made possible by the grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Culture Affairs (BECA) and orchestrated by the USVTC-EF and the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.
Click here for more information about the Governance study mission
Photo: Mr. Nguyen Dong Tien (C), the Deputy Governor of the SBV and Dr. Janet Yellen (C) ,
the President and CEO of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank,
with the Vietnamese delegation and SF FRB staff in a group picture.
Pursuant to the financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S-Vietnam Trade Council Education Forum and STAR-Vietnam organized a study mission to Hong Kong and the United States for a delegation of high-level officials from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) from May 29 to June 9, 2007. The delegation, led by Mr. Nguyen Dong Tien, the SBV Deputy Governor, studied and exchanged the policy framework and practices on banking, monetary and other financial services. In their visit to Hong Kong, the delegates met with officials from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Institutes of Bankers Training and Development of Banking Staff. In the United States, they visited and held discussions with officials from San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank (SF FRB), the Department of Treasury, Office of the Thrift Supervision (OTS), the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Office of the Comptroller for Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Vietnam's Delegation on Transparency to the United States and Singapore (April 10-22, 2007)
Pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. - Vietnam Trade Council Education Forum and STAR-Vietnam organized a study mission for a delegation of high-level Vietnamese Government officials led by H.E. Minister Doan Manh Giao, the Chairman of the Government Office. The delegation studied the regulatory framework and practice on transparency from April 10 to 22, 2007 in the United States and Singapore. In the United States, they met with the Department of State, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of Federal Register, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Law Revision Office of the House of Representatives, the California Office of Administrative Law, California State Senate and other government agencies. During their visit to Singapore, the delegates met with officials from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Civil Service, the Attorney-General's Chambers and the Supreme Court.
Photo: H.E. Minister Doan Manh Giao (C), the Chairman of the Government Office,
and H.E. Mr. Donald L. Korb, the Chief Counsel of the U.S. Internal Revenue Services,
in a group discussion on transparency in tax administration.
Photo: H.E. Minister Doan Manh Giao, Chairman of the Government Office (C)
and the U.S. Archivist, Professor Allen Weinstein (C)
with the Vietnamese delegation and U.S. Federal Register officials
in a group picture at the U.S. Archives.
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