The exhibition ‘On the line: new perspectives on craft in Southeast Asia’

The research residencies of New for Old took place in December 2016, when twelve participants – six students from the Royal College of Art, who were paired with six local researchers and practitioners – explored the artistic practices and social conditions of craftswomen in Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, over the course of two weeks. The…

EU-MUTRAP 6th steering committee meeting

On the afternoon of May 23th, 2017, at the Ministry of Industry and Trade office, VIRI participated in the “EU-MUTRAP 6th steering committee meeting”. The chair of the meeting was Vice Minister Ho Thi Kim Thoa with the participation of representatives of Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam, representatives of Departments under Ministry of…

Meeting with JICA project at Ha Nam

On 16 May, the representative of the project “Survey of the feasibility study of the project to improve the productivity and quality of crops under the technical cultivation of Tokushima Province, Japan” had a meeting at the office VIRI. Products of the project: tomatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes and vegetables. The project representatives are very happy…

Final Project Assessment Trip

During the period from May 10-12, 2017, the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam visited and evaluated the implementation of the Project “Promoting Fair Trade in Vietnam” at three cooperatives in Dak Lak province. Assessment team has visited and worked with three cooperatives which are receiving support from the Project During the period from…

Volunteer activities of UPS staffs at Hold the future Center

The volunteer group supported 02 groups within the center: paper craft group and stuffed toy group. Morning April 9th 2017, VIRI organized a volunteer session for UPS Hanoi office at Hold the future center. Morning April 9th 2017, VIRI organized a volunteer session for UPS Hanoi office at Hold the future center. Hold the future…

Project “Study on local specialties development in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province”

After 05 months, the Project has built 3 production groups: Sam Nam soy cooperative (Nam Dan Town), Hung Hai peanut oil facilities (Group 2, Xuan Hoa Commune), Nam Anh kudzu and turmeric powder cooperative group. These local specialities were supported by JICA Project to display and present in big events in and out of the…

Congratulation to Eakar Cooperative for Fair trade cocoa bean

Through the effort of of the project staff and the cooperative to strive together with implementation, Eakar cooperative became the first certified cooperatives TMCB for cocoa products in Vietnam at the end of last 2016. In parallel, Eakar Cooperative was honored for quality products and good harvest enterprise development accompanies the movement of building new…

Trade promotion activities in foreign of Project

In the framework of Project: Promoting fair trade in Vietnam, one of the important activities of the project is to promote for fair trade product in 5 sectors of coffee, tea, spices, cocoa, handicrafts. The project staffs have brought the products of companies which were supported by projects to fairs, events that were held in…