Archive for December 4th, 2008

Hanoi (VNA) – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has decided to allow just 880 of Republic of Korea (RoK)’s officials and managers to remain at the joint industrial complex Kaesong from December 1. The figure represents only one-fifth of the total 4,200 RoK citizens who stayed in the complex before Pyongyang’s decision, the [...]

Berlin (VNA) – Vietnam has become potential and attractive market for German investors thanks to the country’s dynamic development, young, learning and diligent and skilled labour force, local media said.The “German Wave” newspaper issued last weekend said 30 years after end of the war, Vietnam has become one of Asian economies gaining the highest economic [...]

Hanoi (VNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide an 83 million-USD loan to help three Chinese provinces to improve farming technology and practices, ADB said on December 2. Around 600,000 farm households from Gansu, Henan and Shandong will benefit from the loan, the bank said in its statement. The bank added that these [...]

Beijing (VNA) – The board of executive directors of the World Bank (WB) has approved a loan of 120 million dollars to fund an eco-farming project in China, the World Bank’s (WB) China Office announced on December 3.Farmers in central China ’s Anhui and Hubei provinces, Chongqing Municipality , Hunan province and the Guangxi Zhuang [...]

Seoul (VNA) – Police chiefs of Seoul and Tokyo agreed on December 4 to set up a hotline and strengthen cooperation to combat cyber crime, local media reported.Kim Seok-ki, commissioner of Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, reached the agreement with Toshiro Yonemura, superintendent general of Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department, during the latter’s visit to Seoul, Yonhap [...]

Hanoi (VNA) – Cambodia’s production of un-milled rice increased 12 percent this year with a surplus of 2.8 million tonnes, up 300,000 tonnes over last year’s figures. “This surplus has come from the use of better seeds and improved farming practices,” said Cambodian Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Chan Sarun at a conference on [...]

Vientiane (VNA) – Kharnchang Public Company, Thailand’s second largest contractor, has signed a deal with the Lao government to develop a 1,260 megawatt hydroelectric power station in a project worth about 90 billion baht (2.6 billion USD). The project in Xayaburi province involves 10 turbine units that would supply total output of about 7,400 GWh [...]

Hanoi (VNA) – Cambodia’s tourism sector is set to form a task force next week to address the Thai political crisis that has caused foreign arrivals in the Kingdom to plummet, the country’s newspaper reported on December 3. The task force will consist of 10 institutions, including airlines, travel agencies, hotels, restaurants and government departments, [...]

Hanoi (VNA) – Malaysia will invest 5 to 6 billion USD via buy-back contracts in two Iranian gas fields of Ferdous and Golshan, Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari has said. The MoUs on oil and gas development projects were signed among National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) and Malaysian [...]

Hanoi (VNA) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Secretariat announced on December 3 the postponement of the 14th ASEAN Summit. The announcement was made after Thailand has said it will postpone the 14th ASEAN Summit to a date to be fixed later after consultations with ASEAN member states. “This was not an easy decision [...]