The East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) forum will be held in Dong Ha city in the central province of Quang Tri on June 26, the provincial People’s Committee said on May 10.

Attending the event will be a host of officials, businessmen, investors, researchers from countries lying along the EWEC and international organisations in Vietnam.

The forum focuses on potentials and advantages of EWEC; the development of infrastructural facilities and proposals of policy mechanism for exploitation of EWEC; and the linkages and building of an EWEC community.
EWEC is an economic development programme initiated in 1998 by the Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion in order to promote the development and integration of four countries, namely Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. This corridor became operational in December 2006./.