Archive for August 9th, 2008
– In the context of increasing international integration, local businesses are working to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a new competitive edge alongside improving product pricing and quality.Recalling a story 20 years ago when Binh Tien Consumer Goods Company (Biti’s) first received requests from major European and American partners to inspect its CSR [...]
– The Prime Minister has requested the State Bank of Vietnam to suspend licensing joint stock commercial banks to enable adjusting the criteria for establishing this kind of bank.The State Bank of Vietnam on August 8 gave the Prime Minister’s guidance to the Committee for Preparatory Establishment of Joint Stock Commercial Banks.The state bank [...]
– Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian tourism experts met in Central Highlands Gia Lai province on August 8, to find ways to promote tourism between the three countries.Delegates called for governments to increase infrastructure investment for the tourism sector and encourage both local and foreign companies to invest in the three countries’ economic development triangle.The triangle [...]
HCM City (VNA) – A 95-billion-VND water treatment plant was inaugurated in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Can Gio district on August 8. The plant will treat 5,300 cu.m. of brackish water from the Soai Rap river everyday to provide safe water to more than 15,000 local households. It is estimated the households demand 6,000 [...]
More than 150 religious dignitaries in the northern localities gathered at a conference in Hanoi on August 7 to share their experiences in fighting crime, social evils and HIV/AIDS.The religious followers’ activities in their localities were a response to the campaign “all people are united to build a cultural life in their residential quarters” [...]
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Fund for Support of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims has presented gifts to AO/Dioxin victims in 35 provinces and cities for the Day for Agent Orange Victims (August 10). Former VNA General Director Nguyen Quoc Uy on August 6 presented a house to an AO victim’s family in southern Dong Thap [...]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked relevant agencies to take urgent measures to help farmers sell all commercial rice in the summer-fall crop and ensure a profit of 40 percent or more for them.The PM also requested rice exporters accelerate their rice delivery to finish the shipment of 3.6 million tonnes under signed [...]
The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) has doled out nearly 1 billion VND (roughly 60,000 USD) to support AO victims.To mark the Day for Agent Orange Victims (August 10), VAVA also presented gifts to AO victims in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Ha Nam and Nam Dinh provinces. The association [...]
The first congress of the Vietnam Archaeology Association (VAA) on August 8 elected former State President Tran Duc Luong as its Honorary President and Associate Professor Hoang Xuan Chinh, President. The congress also elected a 19-member Executive Board. With almost 300 members nationwide, the association will make annual announcement on new archaeological discoveries and [...]
– The Baptist Church in Vietnam (Southern) opened its first general conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 8 as part of its roadmap towards the government’s recognition of its legal status as a religious organisation.The Baptist Church in Vietnam received a certificate for religious practice on October 2 last year.During the three-day [...]