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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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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’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 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.
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.
Real estate and construction material businesses are set to reward investors as business picks up in the second half of this year.
Middle-class families in Vietnam use up to 80 percent of their income to purchase homes, an overly high level that can easily cause debt crisis, according to research by Vietnam Report on Vietnam’s real estate sector in 2009-2010.
