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The Government should step up its allocation of Government bond-sourced capital to key public projects and stop wasting money on ineffective ones, the National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee said at the closing meeting of its 26th session in Hanoi on December 19. The Committee heard the Government’s performance report concerning the capital sourced from Government [...]
After a 15-day trip to the Antarctic, six Vietnamese people are returning home, with an environmental protection message. Hoang Thi Minh Hong, Nguyen Lan Anh, Nguyen Phuong Anh, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Nguyen Thi Phuong Ngan and Le Tua are among 47 members of the international exploration group from 18 countries in the world. They [...]
The American International Group Inc.(AIG) said Thursday it chose Hong Kong as the listing venue for its Asian life insurance unit American International Assurance (AIA), media reports said on Friday. The troubled but bailed-out U.S. insurer will go ahead with the up-to-10 billion U.S. dollar initial public offering. Preparations for the offering, aimed at raising [...]
Vietnam doesn’t just import cars from the US and beef from Argentina. Now it also imports apples and pears from South Korea and vegetables from Italy. That’s a part of the explanation why the trade deficit has grown sharply in the last months of the year. Our appetite for imports has become our headache. Experts [...]
Japan and the UK are the two first countries to pledge assistance to Vietnam in 2010 at the Consultative Group (CG) Meeting. PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the two co-chair people, the Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the WB’s Director in Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa. The CM Meeting opened in Hanoi on [...]