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Delta Airlines flight NW1/DL 4362 landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on June 1.
Ho Chi Minh City is one of the 10 cities in the world most vulnerable to climate change along with Dacca in Bangladesh, Shengzhen and Guangdong in China, Bangkok in Thailand, and Yangon in Myanmar.
Can Tho City is busy carrying out 5 projects to achieve higher standards to ensure its agricultural sector will develop in a more efficient and sustainable manner.
Businesses and donors have examined Vietnam’s business and investment environment and made recommendations to the government to iron out snags in areas such as administrative reform, finance, banking, credits and taxes.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on June 1 had separate meetings with the Brunei King, the Filipino President and the Myanmar Prime Minister on the sidelines of the ASEAN-RoK Commemorate Summit on Jeju island.
Around 1,000 waste recycling units are operational in HCM City and most are small- and medium-size firms, reported the HCM City Waste Recycling Fund.
Shipping firms say they have been facing great difficulties since the beginning of 2009, while the government’s demand stimulus packages have not helped much.
South Korea plans to provide US$300 million in financing for two industrial plants in Vietnam, whose contracts have been awarded to South Korean companies.
Investment opportunities in Vietnam are still tremendous despite the global economic slowdown, said US executives during talks on business opportunities in Vietnam in Washington on May 28.
The authorities of export processing and industrial zones in 10 provinces of the key southern economic zone have asked the ministries of natural resources-environment and construction to build a common complex for treating hazardous industrial waste.
Vedan Vietnam Joint Stock Company confirmed on Monday (25 May 2009) that it would keep the total compensation for farmers unchanged at VND25 billion (nearly USD 1.4 billion), a trivial fraction compared to some VND570 billion demanded by farmers who claimed to suffer huge damages due to pollution.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) on Tuesday (26 May 2009) clinched a loan agreement to provide 100 million euro to Vietnam with the main purpose of part-financing projects to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the country.
