Vietnam raises its profile in ASEAN

Date: 29/07/2009

Fourteen years ago, on July 28, 1995, Vietnam officially joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Now it has become a reliable partner of all member countries.

Tra Vinh urged to develop hi-tech industries

Date: 29/07/2009

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has asked the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to draw up long-term economic development strategies with priority given to hi-tech industries.

HCM City subsidizes lending rate for 26 projects

Date: 29/07/2009

The HCMC Government has approved to offer subsidized lending rate for 26 investment projects of enterprises based in the city with total investment capital of about VND1.5 trillion (USD 833.33 mil).

A busy summer for Decision 30

Date: 29/07/2009

Many businesses don’t want to borrow money from the government to pay workers because they don’t want to admit that they have been having problems. Meanwhile, business owners have been slipping away into the night.

Vietnamese businesses strengthen overseas investment

Date: 29/07/2009

The recent simultaneous presence of two big names in the banking and aviation sectors in Cambodia shows that Vietnamese businesses have flexibly taken advantage of overseas investment opportunities amid the global economic crisis.

Shipyard project delays anger authorities

Date: 29/07/2009

Authorities in the Mekong Delta have run out of patience with the government-owned ship building monopoly that is supposed to be building two new shipyards in Tien Giang and Ca Mau provinces.

Take the Americans to the WTO court? Businesses vote ‘yes’

Date: 29/07/2009

A lot of Vietnamese shrimp exporters believe it is high time to complain to the World Trade Organization against the US barriers to Vietnam’s shrimp. The Government hasn’t yet decided whether to do so.

Road to port blocked, import-export companies worried sick

Date: 28/07/2009

A long queue of trucks stretches from the Cat Lai crossroads on Highway 25B east of Ho Chi Minh City all the way to the gates to Cat Lai port. The trucks have not moved for hours; several truck drivers are asleep in their cabins while waiting for the traffic jam to ease.

Teco Park could lose license: report

Date: 28/07/2009

The government may revoke the license for a US$1.2 billion software park venture between Teco Electric & Machinery Co. and Saigon Telecommunication & Technology Corp., a local newspaper said, citing local officials.

Business in brief 27/7

Date: 28/07/2009

Extracted from various sources

City’s biggest software park project under tenterhooks

Date: 28/07/2009

The USD1.2 billion Thu Thiem Software Park project in Thu Thiem in HCMC’s District 2 is seeing its future mired in uncertainties as authorities of Thu Thiem New Urban Area have proposed the city government to abolish the project, local media report.

Vietnam-Russia bilateral ties develop well, says President

Date: 28/07/2009

Russia is an important strategic partner and a reliable friend of Vietnam and bolstering cooperative relations between the two nations are among the key polices of Vietnam, State President Nguyen Minh Triet told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday (25 July 2009) during his official two-day...

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