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A draft decree circulated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) would commit the Government to protect wet rice-growing land against arbitrary conversion into industrial parks and golf courses.
Viet Nam’s business confidence index (BCI) in the second quarter increased 31 points over the first quarter, reaching 130 points, according to a recent survey.
Le Thanh Tam, director of the HCM City Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, told that an enterprise in District 12 had asked him to help them recruit 500 labourers in the apparel sector. Tam could not help as the department’s job placement centre is also facing a labour crisis.
Bancassurance (the selling of insurance and banking products through the same channel, most commonly bank branches selling insurance) entered Vietnam from 1980s and actually to date just some enterprises have specialised in doing business with such a new kind of product, and this could be the new investment...
The domestic wood processing industry, the country’s fifth largest hard currency earner, needs more support from the government, industry associations and companies to reach its export value target for 2009-10, industry insiders have said.
Investment programmes and projects between Vietnam and Laos should be sped up to bring practical benefits to both countries, said participants at the plenary session of the National Assembly (NA) Committee for External Affairs in Ho Chi Minh City on July 9.
June is the third consecutive month this year that Vietnam has run a trade deficit, totalling US$2.1 billion. The Ministry of Trade (MoIT) is taking great pains to boost exports and reduce imports in order to minimise the deficit.
The country’s longest road will run 3,127km along the coast from Nui Do port in the northern province of Quang Ninh to the Xa Xia Border Gate in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kien Giang.
The Government has issued an action plan on service sector development for the 2009-2011 period covering legal tools, financial resources, labour training, the environment and natural resources.
Scientists and businessmen seem to agree that Vietnam needs to ‘think big’ when building Van Phong port on Vietnam’s central coast, and that it would be a waste if harbors can only handle container ships in the 6000 to 9000 TEU range.
The US has classified Vietnamese tra and basa as "catfish" to enact a new law on the Vietnamese fish imported into the country. This has raised public concern over the “laugh today and cry tomorrow” rules of conduct imposed by a superpower.
In the central Vietnam, around 200 hydro-power projects have been built, are being built or are on the drawing boards. With Vietnam facing chronic shortages of power in the summer months, electricity generation has become a hot product – so profitable that little attention has been given to environmental...
