Archive for January 8th, 2009

Seoul (VNA) – The government of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will invest 50 trillion won (37.87 billion USD) in “eco-friendly” development projects over the next four years, local media reported. The investment plan, which was endorsed at an earlier cabinet meeting, aims to create nearly one million new jobs and bolster the slumping economy, [...]

Phnom Penh (VNA) – Tens of thousands of Cambodians celebrated the 30th anniversary of Cambodia’s Liberation Day on January 7, marking the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime.Some 50,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium for a meeting organised by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), which was [...]

HCM City (VNA) – The domestic paper industry needs to increase collection and recycling of waste paper generated in offices and homes to reduce costs and improve competitiveness, experts say. The quantity of waste paper generated in companies, offices, schools and households is very large, however there are no organisations responsible for collecting and classifying [...]

HCM CITY— An already bad situation is set to get worse during the Tet (Lunar New Year) season as more people come into the city and jostle for space on roads narrowed by hundreds of construction projects, traffic police say.
Traffic jams will increase significantly in the run up to the festival as rising numbers of [...]

Brokerage representatives at work at the Ha Noi Securities Trading Centre, which has received Government aprroval to become a stock exchange. — VNA/VNS Huy Hung
HA NOI — The Government has approved the Ha Noi Securities Trading Centre’s plans to become the Ha Noi Stock Exchange.
Decision 01-2009/QD-TTg, issued Tuesday, says the new exchange, with charter capital [...]