Hanoi, HCM City predicted to develop fastest in the world

Date: 12/11/2009

The US-based premier service firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) predicts that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will rank first and second in the list of the world’s 30 cities with the highest growth rates from 2008 to 2025.

Russian companies say will expand business in Vietnam

Date: 12/11/2009

Five big Russian corporations that are maintaining business in Vietnam said at a meeting with State President Nguyen Minh Triet here on Monday (09 Nov)that they would expand their business in the country.

Seeking oil in the Mekong Delta

Date: 11/11/2009

The Petrovietnam Exploration and Production Corporation (PVEP), a subsidiary of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) and the Total E&P Vietnam Oil and Gas Company have started to survey oil in Dong Thap province.

Indochina Air looks for new investors

Date: 11/11/2009

Indochina Airlines is finding new investors to raise at least VND300 billion (more than USD16.7 million) to support the continuous operation of Vietnam’s first private airline, the commercial director said.

Japan, Vietnam sign ODA agreement in Tokyo

Date: 11/11/2009

Japan will provide 120 billion Yen (US$1.3 billion) in official development assistance (ODA) capital to Vietnam to help implement development projects.

Vietnams online job market shows signs of recovery

Date: 10/11/2009

The online job market in Vietnam continues to show signs of bouncing back as in the third quarter of 2009 it saw a growing demand for personnel.

Vietnam invests in San Francisco

Date: 10/11/2009

Vietnamese government leaders and business people are focusing on overseas investment, including tourism in the San Francisco region in the US state of California, according to a local newspaper.

Business in brief 09/11

Date: 10/11/2009

(Sourced from various news agencies)

Dammed and damned

Date: 10/11/2009

Vast areas of forests are being sacrificed in the central region and the Central Highlands to build hundreds of hydropower plants, and experts are warning of serious environmental and social consequences.

Women workers and their sad love affairs

Date: 10/11/2009

Alone, far from home, living a poor life, women workers easily fall into love affairs. Far too often end these end tragically, reported by a newspaper in the article in of its series on life in some of Vietnam’s industrial zones (IZ).

Hydro-power project to damage nature reserve

Date: 10/11/2009

Despite protests from environmentalists, the construction of the A Cho hydro-power plant will commence in early 2010 in the Dakrong nature reserve in the central province of Quang Tri.

Contracts of USD114 million inked at border trade fair

Date: 09/11/2009

Enterprises from China and Vietnam signed business contracts worth up to USD114 million at the 9th International Trade and Tourism Fair in the northern province of Lao Cai that ended on November 7.

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