Thai Nguyen (VNA) – ThaiAmbassador to Vietnam Tanee Sangrat led a delegation of the Thai embassy on aworking trip to the northern province of Thai Nguyen on January 8 to enquireabout cooperation opportunities between the two sides.  

Tanee was accompanied byrepresentatives from the Thai Foreign Ministry’s International CooperationAgency (TICA), the Thai Ministry of Interior’s Community DevelopmentDepartment, the Chaipattana Foundation, and Maejo University.

At a working session with theprovincial authorities, a TICA representative introduced a sustainablecommunity development project based on “sufficient economy philosophy” (SEP) bylate King Rama IX.

Initiated in 1927, SEP aims toimprove the lives of the poor across Thailand, which has been successfullyapplied in over 20 countries worldwide, including Laos, Cambodia, East Timor,Sri Lanka, among others.

SEP is due to be launched in YenLac commune in Thai Nguyen province’s Phu Luong district, as it is home to manycraft villages.

Earlier, the delegation paidcourtesy calls on provincial leaders and was briefed about the province’ssocio-economic development as well as its development potential in the comingtime.

The ambassador pledged to do hisbest to tighten both Vietnam-Thailand relations and Thailand–Thai Nguyen tiesin particular.

On January 9, the delegation willtake a fact-finding trip to Yen Lac commune before launching the project.–VNA