30/05/2009
Two border gates in the southern province of Kien Giang in Vietnam and Kampot province in Cambodia will be upgraded to become national border gates.
They are Giang Thanh border gate of Kien Giang and Ton Hon border gate of Kampot.
The People’s Committee of Kien Giang province and the Administrative Committee of Kampot province on May 29 held a ceremony to launch the work and also inaugurated border landmark No. 302.
Representatives of the Cambodian consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese consulate in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville port city and senior officials from the two border provinces attended the event.
The upgrading of the two border gates aims to satisfy the daily needs of people from both countries and add an impetus to trade and import-export activities.
Apart from the Giang Thanh border gate, Kien Giang province also has another border gate at Ha Tien, which has become one of the busiest international border gates in the Mekong Delta region over the past three years.
In the first five months of this year, exports passing through Ha Tien’s border gate reached nearly 30 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 30 percent.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet granted the Independence Order, First Class, to the National Academy of Public Administration at a meeting to mark the 50th anniversary of its opening, in Hanoi on May 29.
The State President praised the contributions made by the academy’s professors, lecturers and staff over the last 50 years for training officials and providing professional administrative human resources for public offices.
The academy also plays a key role in conducting research on administrative science, to speed up the country’s administrative reforms, he added.
The public administration academy and other agencies play an important role in administrative reforms and improving the quality of the State’s apparatus, which is now an urgent and basic demand for the success of the country’s international integration process, he stressed.
The State leader also urged the academy to upgrade the syllabus used in administrative science to ensure better quality training and work with other countries to train public administrative officials.
During its half-century of operations, the academy has given refresher courses to more than 90,000 staff and officials from ministries and the relevant agencies as well as 10,000 officials who are chairmen and deputy chairmen of the People’s Council and People’s Committee at communal levels.
The academy has run over 10 official tertiary courses training thousands of public administrators, 14 postgraduate courses and several doctorate courses.
The academy boasts a strong pool of lecturers with 40 professors and associate professors and more than 200 others holding doctorate and master degrees.
VietNamNet/VNA
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