Archive for August, 2008
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – Thai Charoen Pokphand group’s CP Vietnam Livestock Company will invest between 6 to 9 million USD in building a white-leg shrimp breeding farm in Phong Dien district, central Thua Thien-Hue province. The 136ha farm is expected to create jobs for 120 locals CP Vietnam, a wholly Thai invested business, is headquartered [...]
Tokyo (VNA) – Vietnamese trade counselors in the Asia-Pacific region are gathering in Tokyo to discuss ways to boost Vietnam ’s exports in the remaining months of the year and in 2009.Chairing two-day meeting, opened on Aug. 27, the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Nguyen Thanh Bien asserted that the Asian-Pacific markets are important [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung assured Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Chung Jong Hwan of good conditions for Republic of Korea investors interested in transport infrastructure and property projects during their meeting in Hanoi on August 27. Dung emphasised that it was part of the Vietnamese Government’s policy to further develop [...]
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam holds huge potentials for microfinance development, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung on August 27.Hung told his guests who are in Hanoi to attend the Asia Microfinance Forum 2008 that Vietnam will adopt incentives regarding land and policy, as well as other favourable conditions for banks both at home and [...]
HCM CITY — The manufacturing of a new environmentally friendly packaging product designed by a HCM City man and enthusiastically received by foreign and local buyers has been suspended for lack of sponsorship.
The designer, Tran Quoc Toan of HCM City, created the bio-degradable product for use in flower pots and for packaging goods such as [...]
HA NOI — National football coach Henrique Calisto has named a squad of 27, which includes two new players, for forthcoming international friendly matches.
The new additions are Nguyen Hoang Vuong, who plays for V-League champions Becamex Binh Duong, and rising half-back star Phan Thanh Giang, who plays for V-League runners-up Dong Tam Long An.
Binh Duong [...]
HCM CITY — The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute got the go ahead from the Health Ministry to carry out petechial fever vaccine experiments for the first time in Viet Nam.
The test will involve 180 people between two and 45 years old. The vaccine has been tested by many countries with a protection rate [...]
HA NOI — A strain of the H5N1 virus that poses a high risk of infecting humans and caused an avian flu epidemic in China, has appeared in smuggled poultry in Viet Nam according to Bui Quang Anh, the head of the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development’s Animal Health Department yesterday.
The infection mechanism of [...]
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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam ’s life insurance market is promising in spite of recent ups and downs, said Lam Tuan Hai, General Director of ACE Life, while talking about ACE Life’s impressive growth of 131 percent in Vietnam in the first six months of this year. Realising the potential of Vietnam ’s life insurance market, [...]