In the morning, Sep 15th, 2016, the meeting between NEU Board of Management and new international students was held at Level 2, Building No. 10, the National Economics University.
Attending the meeting, there were Mr. Amphavanh KUANGMANIVANH - First Secretary, Director of Cultural & Education Office, Laos Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, Mrs. Phen Savny - Minister Counsellor, Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Hanoi. On NEU side, there were Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat - President, Assoc Prof. Dr. Le Trung Thanh - Dean of NEU Graduate School, Dr. Dao Thanh Tung - Director of International Cooperation Department, MA. Ho Quynh Anh - Deputy Director of Administrative Office together with heads of other faculties and schools.
Speaking at the meeting, Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat was with great pleasure to meet new international students. Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat affirmed that the National Economics University was a key university in the field of training economics and business management in Vietnam. Over the past years, one of its important development priorities had been integrating into global network with the slogan “Solidarity, Autonomy, Integration and Development”. The university also made important contributions to training high quality human resources for Laos and Cambodia. Until now, a lot of leaders in Laos and Cambodia holding important positions in the governments such as 6 Government Ministers of Laos, H.E. Mr. Thong Khon – Minister of Tourism in Cambodia are NEU alumni, and 3 Deputy Ministers of Cambodia are studying at NEU in Ph.D level.
Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat also shared his experience when studying abroad and encouraged new international students that they should take advantage of their full time in Vietnam for their study and participate in a lot of activities with Vietnamese students to develop their friendships. He hoped that those international students would be ambassadors to strengthen friendships among the three countries.
On this occasion, Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat also thanked for the two Embassies’ support and cooperation with NEU over the past years. He expected that the leaders at the two Embassies would tranfer more information about NEU to high school students in Laos and Cambodia. NEU would be always willing to welcome international students to visit and study at NEU.