Moon cake producers have begun early sales for the mid-autumn festival
season, increasing both price by an average of 10 percent, and output
by 10 to 20 percent.
Kinh Do, the largest producer, said it
would provide the market with 1,900 tonnes of product 100 tonnes more
than last season, with prices 10 percent higher than last year, although
raw material prices have gone up...
The Hanoi Beer-Alcohol & Beverage Corporation (Habeco) inaugurated
the Hanoi - Me Linh brewery on August 15 in the presence of Deputy
Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung.
The 2.2 trillion VND (114.4
million USD) brewery, with a designed annual capacity of 200 million
litres, is equipped with modern equipment from Germany’s Krones AG and
is expected to be one of the la...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade is drafting a proposal to ban the
sale of sky lanterns, antiques that have significant heritage value and
several other goods and services.
The proposal would
increase the list of banned goods and services from 92 to 101. New
additions to the list include services which have already been banned
recently, such as gold trading floors at banks....
Vietnam lacks long-term human resource development strategies to
maintain a high-quality workforce, according to a new report from the
Vietnam Marketing and Management Institute.
Phan An,
a consultant to the institute who wrote the report, said many
businesses focused on conforming to national law on salaries, insurance
and other personnel policies, and neglected the import...
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on August 16 officially
launched a web check-in service for its outbound flights.
Accordingly, passengers who take departure from Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City as well as from Vientiane of Laos, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap
of Cambodia, Seoul and Pusan of the Republic of Korea, Kuala
Lumpur of Malaysia to Vietnam can chec...
The HCM City-based Trung Nam Construction Investment JSC (Trung Nam
Group) on August 14 signed a design-consultancy contract for the Quan
Nam – Thuy Tu Ecological Urban Area with the US-headquartered design
firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM).
Trung
Nam Group will invest a total of over 1.6 billion USD in the Quan Nam
Thuy Tu Eco-Area project, which is located on 3,4...
Officials from Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to increase
bilateral meetings to remove arising obstacles and create favourable
conditions for Vietnamese companies to invest in the neighbouring
country.
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment
Dang Huy Dong and Secretary General of the Council for Development of
Cambodia Sok Chan Da reached consensus on the issue d...
Officials from Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to increase bilateral meetings to remove arising obstacles and create favourable conditions for Vietnamese companies to invest in the neighbouring country.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has reiterated the
Government’s policy to restructure Vinashin on the verge of bankrupcy
and make shipbuilding core of the national sea strategy for 2020 and
more.
Hung made the statement at a working
session between the steering board of the Vinashin Group Restructuring
and several members of the group on August 14, emphasisi...
The Japanese Government has decided to provide 120 million USD for a
project in Vinh Phuc province to help the northern midland province
improve the investment climate.
The ODA funding,
channelled through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC),
will help build a key road in the heart of a new metropolis in Me Linh
district and expand the systems of water supply, s...
The Japanese Government has decided to provide 120 million USD for a
project in Vinh Phuc province to help the northern midland province
improve the investment climate.
The ODA funding,
channelled through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC),
will help build a key road in the heart of a new metropolis in Me Linh
district and expand the systems of water supply, s...
The Vietnam Cooperatives’ Alliance needs to improve its capacity and effectiveness of operation in the 2010-2015 term.
Truong
Tan Sang, Party politburo member and standing member of the Party
Central Committee’s Secretariat, made the remarks while attending the
4th National Congress of the Vietnam Cooperatives’ Alliance (VCA) in
Hanoi on Aug. 13.
He stressed that d...
The Vietnam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) has signed a contract
to export 100,000 tonnes of 15 percent broken rice to Bangladesh at the
price of 389 USD per tonne.
At present, Bangladesh is seen as a potential growing market for Vietnam
with a recent import of 178,000 tonnes of rice. As a competitive
supplier, in the near future Vietnam will negotiate with Bangladesh
abo...
The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigation Agency has requested the
Supreme People’s Procuracy prosecute Huynh Ngoc Si, former director of
the ODA-funded East-West Avenue project in Ho Chi Minh City , on
charges of “taking bribes”.
The request was made after the Agency concluded investigations into
evidence and documents relating to Si’s involvement in a case...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 13 signed Decision 1470/QD-TTg
to establish a steering committee for restructuring the country’s
largest ship builder, Vinashin, to help it rapidly stabilise and develop
after financial problems.
He appointed Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung as head of
the committee and Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai as the deputy....
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