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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.
Vietnam always attaches great importance to regional and global cooperation in rural development and eradicating poverty, following ASEAN’s action plan on the issue and the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), said an official.
State-owned economic groups – the main production and business force of the national economy – are not yet living up to expectations: Many are still investing heavily in risky business fields; risks of monopolies are also present.
Work on a number of the city’s infrastructure projects will start between May 28 and July to be ready in time for the capitals millennium anniversary, reported the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee.
The second Manufacturing Expo 2009, organised by Reed Tradex from Thailand, opened in Hanoi on May 28.
