Manufacturers shun supermarkets in favor of shops, markets

Date: 01/10/2009

Some manufacturers are finding it cheaper and less hassle to sell their goods through markets and street-front shops rather than supermarkets and shopping-center stores.

Business in brief 30/09

Date: 01/10/2009

(Sourced from various news agencies)

Vietnam’s largest city faces massive recruitment requisite

Date: 01/10/2009

Ho Chi Minh City will need to hire 110,000 new employees in the final quarter of this year, no easy task as the global economy has only just begun to recovery, experts say.

Nine-month ODA disbursement hits 1.7 billion USD

Date: 01/10/2009

Vietnam disbursed 1.7 billion USD of ODA in the first nine months of 2009, meeting 90 percent of the year’s target, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Work begins on Kon Tum’s largest hydropower plant

Date: 30/09/2009

Work o­n construction of a hydropower plant with an investment of over 5.7 trillion VND (roughly 322 million USD) began o­n Sept. 27 in Kon Plong district, the central highland province of Kon Tum.

Japan lifts tariffs on slew of Vietnamese products

Date: 30/09/2009

Japan will scrap tariffs on 7,220 Vietnamese products and Vietnam on 2,586 Japanese goods when the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (VJEPA) comes into effect on October 1.

Big bucks for brokers in Vietnam

Date: 30/09/2009

The “warming” stock market means more jobs for securities brokers. Securities brokerage is now seen as way to earn one of the highest wages in Vietnam.

HCMC officials review economy

Date: 30/09/2009

Ho Chi Minh City officials held a meeting September 28 to review socioeconomic performance in the first nine months and discuss the tasks that remain to be done in the last quarter.

RoK firm starts expansion of central industrial zone

Date: 30/09/2009

The Ace Vina Group from the Republic of Korea (RoK) on September 25 broke the ground on an infrastructure project to expand the Phu Bai industrial zone in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Viet Nam pushes for nuclear power

Date: 29/09/2009

Viet Nam’s growing energy needs and the looming global energy crisis make the country’s interest in nuclear power generation, experts said yesterday, September 23.

Binh Chanh badly polluted due to poor management, planning

Date: 29/09/2009

Binh Chanh district in HCM City is badly polluted because of poor management of solid and liquid waste and the lack of a master plan, city officials have said.

Red River coal basin development project moves forward

Date: 29/09/2009

An interministerial council agreed on September 23 to recommend Government approval of a plan to exploit 210 billion tons of coal believed to lie beneath the Red River Delta.

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