Sentences with phrase «vice minister»

The country's vice minister of industry said it had started «relevant research» but that it had not yet decided when the ban would come into force.

Hidemichi Sato, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan, mentioned government commitment to increasing the land under organic production.

Co-chaired by MARD Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh and IRRI Deputy Director General V. Bruce J. Tolentino, topics included high - quality rice varieties and commercial production of specialty rice for domestic and export markets; branding of Vietnamese rice; reduced pre - and postharvest losses; climate change adaptation and low carbon emission measures in rice production; support for small farmers; and policy advice to further enhance the country's formidable rice sector.

Following the talk by Rice in Beijing this fall, GE hosted a panel whose speakers included Joachim von Amsberg, a World Bank veteran who is now a vice president at the new AIIB, and China's former vice minister of foreign affairs, He Yafei.

A border - adjusted tax would «mean a trade war not only between China and the U.S. but across the whole world,» said Wei Jianguo, a former Chinese vice minister of commerce.

From left to right: Tim de Zeeuw, ESO Director General, the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, the director of the USA's National Science Foundation (NSF) Subra Suresh, the director of ALMA Thijs de Graauw, and the Senior Vice Minister of Japan's MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Teru Fukui.

made by Hong Nam - ki, the minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, after discussion with vice ministers from other governmental bodies regarding

, Vice Minister He first referred back to the Bali Action Plan, which was agreed to by all Parties of the UNFCCC and does not require MRV for developing countries.

Chinese Finance Vice Minister Zhu Guangyao speaks during a press conference on Sino - US trade issues at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Wednesday, April 4, 2018.

Co-chaired by MARD Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh and IRRI Deputy Director General V. Bruce J. Tolentino, topics included high - quality rice varieties and commercial production of specialty rice for domestic and export markets; branding of Vietnamese rice; reduced pre - and postharvest losses; climate change adaptation and low carbon emission measures in rice production; support for small farmers; and policy advice to further enhance the country's formidable rice sector.

We've heard many top Chinese leaders on the negotiating team, including Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs He Yafei and Ambassador Yu, stress that China has robust systems of measurement and will work to make their reports «transparent» and «publicly available.»

According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the announcements were made by Hong Nam - ki, the minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, after discussion with vice ministers from other governmental bodies regarding the recent rise in cryptocurrency interest and ownership domestically.

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

BEIJING (Reuters)- A vice minister of public security, a close confidant of President Xi Jinping, is tipped to take over as China's spy master, five sources said, as the country looks to clean up its security apparatus and plug intelligence gaps.

Given such credible reports, «there are no reasonable grounds to interpret this behavior as a sign that this group wants to remain unconnected to the rest of society,» said Patricia Palacios Balbuena, vice minister in Lima's Ministry of Culture that oversees tribal affairs, in a 21 July statement.

Zeigler, citing marginal farmers as an added focus of IRRI's research, is echoed by Apichart Pongsrihadulchai, Thai vice minister for agriculture and cooperatives, who said that he now feels hopeful again for Thai farmers.

07, co-founder at Envoys and former vice minister at the Colombian Ministry of National Education, «The big changes that have transformed education happened with a small team.»

4) But, there are dissenting voices, whether wishful ones like this one from a Japanese Vice Minister, or this article from Fortune which is more nuanced.

On Wednesday, Colombian Environmental Vice Minister Pablo Abba Vieira Samper outlined a program called «Amazon Vision» that's clearly designed to funnel REDD finance to the right agents, while Indonesian Deputy Minister Heru Prasetyo outlined Yudhoyono's impressive steps to restructure the economy along green lines, and Jagdeo made an impassioned plea to prevent the gains made to date from evaporating.

Speaking in Lima on the sidelines of the annual World Bank / IMF meeting, Costa Rica's finance vice minister Jose Francisco Pacheco described the initiative as «historic».

Montano served as El Salvador's vice minister for public security in the 1980s during the central American country's civil war.

At the ceremony, which was broadcast live on the Internet, representatives of ALMA's international partners were also present: ESO's Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, the Director of the USA's National Science Foundation, Subra Suresh, and the Senior Vice Minister of Japan's MEXT, Teru Fukui, along with the Director of ALMA, Thijs de Graauw.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Particularly in light of the sharp ping - pong between US climate change envoy Todd Stern and Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs He Yafei, we wondered if this was yet another financing deal in which China was going to be the last kid picked during a kickball game.

Claudia Cornejo, vice minister of tourism, PromPeru, speaks to Breaking Travel News at the World Travel Awards South & Central America Gala Ceremony at Huaca Pucllana Temple Lima, Peru.

«Given that the budget situation is very tight with the government trying to reconstruct its finances, [science] is getting a lot of support,» says Hiroyuki Osawa, a former vice minister of the Science and Technology Agency (STA) and a member of the Council for Science and Technology, an advisory body to the prime minister.

The sanctioned officials are Willian Antonio Contreras, the vice minister of internal commerce; Nelson Reinaldo Lepaje Salazar, who is acting as head of the office of the national treasury, according to the U.S.; Americo Alex Mata Garcia, an alternate director on the board of the National Bank of Housing and Habitat; and Carlos Alberto Rotondaro Cova, the former president of the board of directors of the Venezuela Institute of Social Security.

A vice minister for forestry was one of the officials executed for complaining about a state policy, a member of parliament's intelligence committee, Shin Kyung - min, quoted an unnamed National Intelligence Service official as saying.

Ma, once a vice minister of state security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since the former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015.

Wang Xiaohong, 60, a vice minister of public security, will replace Chen Wenqing as minister of state security during the session of parliament which begins on March 5, three sources with ties to the leadership and two foreign diplomats said.

Spare capacity, Saudi Arabia's vice minister for petroleum Abdulaziz noted, «is key to maintaining oil price and global economic stability,» and the oil industry «is one of the few industries in the world that is operating at such a thin cushion.»

On the surface, it seems that Zuckerberg had all the right reasons to get to know Lu Wei, a vice minister of propaganda who doubles as the director of the State Internet Information Office.

Bloomberg quoted the country's vice minister of industry and information technology, Xin Guobin, as saying the ministry is working with regulators on the timetable of the phasing - out.

Wang Shouwen, China's vice minister of commerce, and Pascal Lamy, a former director general of the World Trade Organization, squared off at the Beijing forum over precisely that issue.

But it had been closely tied to Zhou, and several of its former ministers and vice ministers were among the first to be reaped.

Zhu Guangyao, China's vice minister of finance, surprised the country's Communist Party members in November when he announced the government would allow more foreign investment in its domestic economy.

FILE PHOTO: China's Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen speaks at a news conference during the APEC Ministers Responsible For Trade (APEC MRT 23) meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam May 21, 2017.

So, Italy's vice minister of economic development, Carlo Calenda, says his government will invest $ 45 million in the first year of its «Made in Italy» campaign beginning in October.

Dr. Bui Ba Bong, vice minister of agriculture and rural development, stated, «IRRI has played an important role as Vietnam's partner in rice research and development.

The ceremony was attended by Cao Jianlin, vice minister of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, who welcomed the new center as it «brings in world's leading technology as well as focusing on fostering local talents.»

In response to the global financial crisis, China is upping its R&D spending in 2009 to $ 25.7 billion, a hefty 25.6 % increase over 2008, says Du Zhanyuan, vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology here.

Earlier this year, Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, said in a press conference that «central and western China are rich in coal and have a bigger environmental capacity; we encourage adopting coal - to - gas technology there, and use the produced gas to replace coal needed in the eastern part of the nation.»

In meetings last week with science minister Wan Gang and Vice Minister of Science and Technology Cao Jianlin, Geoghegan - Quinn sought to deepen the European Union's ties with China in areas such as energy research and look for ways to involve more European scientists in Chinese R&D programs.

As a result, Vice Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong is personally heading up the team that will assess dams in the four provinces affected by the quake.

CGN said the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company - a joint venture between CGN (70 %) and EDF (30 %) that owns the plant - was issued with the permit yesterday afternoon in Beijing by Liu Hua, vice minister of ecology and environmental affairs and director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).

Among the distinguished guests at the celebration were Teru Fukui, the Senior Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Ministers from European partner countries, and ambassadors to Chile from Japan, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

At a conference with the Vice Minister of Tourism and Creative Industries for Indonesia, Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of the International Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP) presented the results of a six - month study on the long - term development of the iconic island of Bali, where tourism represents 40 % of the economy.