HCM City boosts economic ties with Cambodia’s localities

HCM City, June 6, 2012 (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City will organise a series of activities from now until the end of the year to boost economic and trade cooperation as well as cultural and friendship exchange with Cambodian localities to mark the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Year and the 45 th  anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnam-Cambodia diplomatic ties (June 24). 
       
The city will open the Vietnam Goods Fair in Cambodia’s Battambang province while the city chapter of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations and the Vietnam-Cambodia Association will join the Business Association to host a seminar on trade promotion and cooperation development. 

      
In June, HCM City will send delegations to conduct market surveys and exchange experiences in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and Siem Riep province.  
      
The city will also coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to install the stele of former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk who once studied at the College Chasse Loup-Laubat (now known as the Le Quy Don senior secondary school). 
      
In addition, the city chapter of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations will work with Dong Thap and Tay Ninh provinces to organise tours for Cambodian students to visit and exchange with the two provinces’ students. (VNA)