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Vietnam’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased from about 6.7% in 1995-2000 to 10.6% in 2000-2005, the highest in the world, a conference on energy consumption in Ho Chi Minh City heard last Thursday (16 July 2009).
Five leading international buyers on Wednesday (15 July 2009) met with some 30 local suppliers in HCMC to sound out how Vietnamese companies can supply products for their sale systems worldwide.
Business confidence among Vietnam’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has climbed since the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest HSBC Emerging Markets Small Business Confidence Monitor.
Thai businesses suffering from the increase of global economic recession are seeking investment opportunities in the Vietnamese market whose labourers are employed at low prices.
The US said it was ready to give Viet Nam the Generalised System of Preferences Treatment, a US trade official has affirmed.
Vietnam needs to quickly set up indirect investment funds instead of calling for direct investment in order to mobilise capital for national economic development, say leading economic experts.
Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.68 percent in July over the previous month and 3.83 percent compared with the beginning of the year.
Viet Nam should adopt a long-term strategy based on labour intensive manufacturing as it deals with the global economic crisis and prepares for a recovery, experts said at a conference held in HCM City in 18 July 2009.
Australian Minister for Trade Simon Crean will chair the 8 th meeting of the Joint Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee (JTECC) of Vietnam and Australia in Hanoi on July 24.
Japan’s MOL has announced that its recently streamlined current PSX service, now offers the industry’s fastest direct service – 15 days – from Ho Chi Minh (HCM) to Los Angeles. The revised deployment also provides a later cut-off time for cargo delivery.
Can Tho offers a warm business climate for companies to grow profits In 2005, Ho Chi Minh City-based Southern Seafood Industry Company Ltd. decided to invest in an aquatic product processing factory in southern Can Tho City.
Ship-building and auto manufacturing, the two key industries of the transport sector are currently facing various difficulties in capital and finding outlets for their products due to the impact of the global economic slowdown, according to a report from the Ministry of Transport.
