SMU will be assisting the Vietnam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM) in developing case study methods for business and social management faculties. The two universities on July 28 signed an agreement to enhance their academic strengths and promote economic, legal and education co-operation between Singapore and Vietnam. In the agreement, SMU will help train case-writing teams on business and law topics in Vietnam. It will allow VNU-HCM access to its case-teaching database at its Centre for Management Practice (CMP) for a period of two years at no cost. VNU-HCM will assist SMU by providing advice, contacts and references and CMP will add the Vietnamese case studies to its database.