Deputy Premier urges businesses to create jobs for former addicts

September 27, 2009 in Vietnam Society
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Businesses, particularly State-owned ones, should be pioneers in creating jobs for former drug-addicts to help them re-integrate into society and avoid a relapse into addiction, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong said September 26.

Former drug addicts trained in making bricks at the Nhi Xuan Vocational Training and Job Creating Center in Ho Chi [...]

Low rates boost lending to small businesses

November 11, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Low rates boost lending to small businesses
by Thien Ly
In the wake of the State Bank of Viet Nam’s decision to cut the prime interest rate by 1 percentage point on November 3, a host of banks have cut lending interest rates from 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent.
The ceiling rate is now 18 per [...]

VIIF 2008 offers cooperation opportunities to businesses

October 18, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam International Industrial Fair 2008 (VIIF 2008) offers a chance for Vietnamese and foreign businesses to seek partners and boost cooperation. A representative from the Indian Embassy in Vietnam told a Vietnam News Agency reporter at the VIIF 2008 opening ceremony on October 17 that India always considers the participation in [...]

Trade union, businesses join hands to perform social responsibilities

October 18, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Hanoi (VNA) – Director of the German Trade Union Confederation’s Training Institute Dieter Eich suggested Vietnamese trade unions stand side by side with enterprises in performing social responsibilities. At a workshop on strengthening the role of trade union in enhancing corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance held in Hanoi on Oct. 17, Eich also stressed the [...]

100 foreign businesses to attend industrial products fair

October 14, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Hanoi (VNA) – Almost 100 businesses from 10 countries and territories around the world will participate in the 17th Vietnam International Industrial Fair in Hanoi from Oct. 17 to 21. Joining businesses from Russia , India , the Czech Republic , Taiwan , the Republic of Korea , Japan , Iran , China , Malaysia [...]

Foreign businesses explore Nha Trang’s tourism potential

October 3, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Khanh Hoa (VNA) – As many as 100 representatives of tourism associations, travelling businesses and media from Japan and the Republic of Korea arrived in southern coastal Nha Trang on October 1 to study the city’s tourism potential and products. During the five-day stay, the foreign guests will work with representatives of the Vietnam Airlines, [...]

Businesses discuss Vietnam-Japan cooperation

September 26, 2008 in Uncategorized
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More than 100 businesses from Vietnam and Japan attended a seminar to discuss the opportunities and challenges for their cooperation in Hanoi on Sept. 26. According to Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, Japan is currently Vietnam’s 3rd largest investor, especially the top foreign investor in terms of disbursed capital. The [...]

Businesses believe in Vietnamese economy’s stability: VCCI

September 10, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Hanoi (VNA) – Many domestic and foreign enterprises said they believed that Vietnam , with its current policies, will maintain the economy’s growth.According to a recent survey on businesses’ operation in Vietnam in the first half of the year conducted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), 42.1 percent of interviewed enterprises said [...]

Telecom, IT businesses reap rewards from overseas investment

September 9, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Only two Vietnamese telecom and information technology businesses have invested abroad so far but their ventures have proved to be fruitful.The Vietnam Military Telecom Company (Viettel) was the first Vietnamese telecom services provider to reach out to the overseas market in 2006.The company is now a leading provider of channel leasing services in Cambodia [...]

Awards spotlight businesses in VN, Laos and Cambodia

September 5, 2008 in Uncategorized
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HA NOI — An awards programme for outstanding enterprises and businesses in Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam will be held in Ha Noi early next year.
The event is jointly organised by the Viet Nam Association for Small and Medium-sized Enterprise, the Ministry of Defence’s Economic Department and the Association for Economic Development of Viet Nam-Laos-Cambodia.
Prizes [...]