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Da Nang to host ASEAN environmental meetings
Updated: 09:07, 03/03/2020
The 21st Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME) is slated to take place from May 13-15 in the central city of Da Nang, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The city will also host the 31st ASEAN Senior Officials on Environment Meeting (ASOEN 31) and other meetings which are scheduled for August 16-22.
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A view of Da Nang city. |
Da Nang has been selected to host a series of environmental events in 2020 by the ASEAN Secretariat and the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment because the city has left a deep impression on foreigners from previous events, according to the ministry.
Da Nang is the second city in Vietnam to win the ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City Award in 2011. It is also one of the country’s three cities to join the ASEAN 'smart' city network in 2018.
Vietnam assumes the ASEAN chairmanship from January 1.
The ASEAN Para Games in the Philippines have been delayed indefinitely because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to the Vietnam Paralympic Association (VPA).
The third ASEAN Graphic Arts Competition and Exhibition is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in August as one among a series of important cultural and art events in 2020, the Vietnam’s ASEAN chairmanship year.
The ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat (ADMM Retreat) officially opened in Hanoi on February 19 morning, under the chair of Vietnam’s Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich.
Ton Duc Thang University, which announced 2,130 scientific research projects, is among the top 10 higher education institutions in Southeast Asia in terms of the number of works published on ISI journal, according to data of the Web of Science database (US) in 2019.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, as Chairman of ASEAN in 2020, issued a statement on ASEAN’s joint response to the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in the face of complicated development of the epidemic.
Source: VNA
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