Sweden Grants $1.7M Vietnam to Train Press Skills

Sweden will grant an aid of $1.7 million for Vietnam to organize about 40 activities to improve professional skills for Vietnamese journalists. The Swedish government-funded project on will be implemented by the press training centre in follow-up of its phases 1 and 2 in the 1997-2009 period, which helped train press knowledge and skills of 5,000 journalists and managers. The project, which is scheduled to begin this month, will organize short-term and on-the-spot refresher courses, workshops and press management courses. The project will also help improve capacity for officials of the centre in order to raise their skills in arranging training courses. From 2011, the project will provide professional training activities for all kinds of press for learners at different levels. (vietnamplus.vn Nov 4)