Israel

Vietnam, Israel Boost Cooperation

November 24, 2011 (Vietnamica) – During his visit to Vietnam, the Israeli President Shimon Peres has met the Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Secretary General of Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong, and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. The leaders have expressed the two countries’ willingness to strengthen bilateral cooperation in science, technology, investment, trade, labor, and tourism (VOV, Nov 24).

Read more »

Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle

Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle

November 22, 2011 (Vietnamica) — U.S. troops are in the process of completing their withdrawal from Iraq by the end-of-2011 deadline. We are now moving toward a reckoning with the consequences. The reckoning concerns the potential for a massive shift in the balance of power in the region, with Iran moving from a fairly marginal power to potentially a dominant power. As the process unfolds, the United States and Israel are making countermoves. We have discussed all of this extensively. Questions remain whether these countermoves will stabilize the region and whether or how far Iran will go in its...

Read more »

German President Receives Award from Leading Jewish Organization

November 17, 2011 (Vietnamica) — German President Christian Wulff received an award from the Central Council of Jews in Germany (DeutscheWelle) for his relationship with Germany’s Jewish community and Israel. Wulff criticized the recent murders of foreigners by an alleged neo-Nazi group and highlighted ongoing prejudices in German society.

Read more »

Iran’s Nuclear Program and its Nuclear Option

November 11, 2011 (Vietnamica) — Details and specifics of the forthcoming International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the Iranian nuclear program continued to leak out over the weekend, with the formal report expected later this week. The growing rhetoric about Iran — including talk from certain Israeli and American corners about an air campaign against Iran — had already begun to intensify in anticipation of the report, which will say more explicitly than previous IAEA assessments that Iran is indeed actively pursuing a nuclear weaponization program.

Read more »

National Coffee Cluster: A Role Model for Sustainable Development of Vietnam

November 7, 2011 (Vietnamica) — Trung Nguyen Group, in collaboration with international strategic advisory groups, has proposed a role model for Coffee Cluster in Vietnam. The model combines industry cluster theory with green economics. The Poterian cluster is a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field. Clusters are considered to increase the productivity with which companies can compete, nationally and globally. Green economics is the economics of the real world — the world of work, human needs, the Earth’s materials, and how they mesh together most harmoniously.  It is primarily about “use-value”, not...

Read more »

Israel Supports Hi-tech Dairy Farm in HCMC

September 26, 2011 (Vietnamica) – An experimental hi-tech dairy farm – partly covered by Israel’s financial and technical assistance – will start operation in December 2011 in Ho Chi Minh city. Development cost of the 9.8-ha farm cost is US$6.3 million. Israel provides the project with an ODA loan of US$1 million.

Read more »