Deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu speaks to Vietnam News Agency's English-language newspaper Viet Nam News about these issues on the sideline of the recent ADB 51st Annual Meeting in Manila, the Philippines
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Cong is joining 500 delegates from ministries, sectors, research institutes and enterprises of ASEAN countries and China at the 10th Pan-Tonkin Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum that opened in Nanning province of China’s Zhuang Autonomous Region on May 24.
The mining sector's contribution to the Lao economy will continue to drop over the coming years, according to an update on domestic economic prospects in 2018 and beyond of the Lao National Economic Research Institute.
Encouraging investment in infrastructure in the form of public-private-partnership (PPP) is necessary to tap into domestic and foreign capital sources and technology, said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Vu Dai Thang.
Finance ministers and central bank governors of member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asian countries on May 4 discussed the threat of trade frictions and rising protectionism and pledged to stay vigilant and work harder to avert threats to the global economy.
A training course on hospital quality management opened for more than 100 medical staff in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on May 2 as part of the second phase of a health care project being carried out in the region.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh chaired a meeting in Hanoi on May 2 to accelerate the launch of 26 projects using loans from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
Seven startups from Vietnam have been selected to qualify for the 2018 Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism Startup Accelerator programme, along with 12 others from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
Private businesses can borrow capital from official development assistance (ODA) and preferential loans from foreign donors.
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has made remarkable contributions to rural electrification after 10 years of implementing the Resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areas issued at the seventh plenum of the 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The Indonesian government has expressed determination to clean the Citarum River in West Java through the Citarum Harum (fragrant Citarum) project which was approved in February this year.
The 22nd ASEAN Finance Ministers’ Meeting took place in Singapore on April 4. On the occasion, Jayant Menon from the Asian Development Bank, wrote an article assessing ASEAN’s economic performance.
Three early stage startups from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, and three more mature teams originating from outside the Greater Mekong Subregion have won prizes in the Mekong Agritech Challenge
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) projected that Indonesia's economy will grow by 5.3 percent annually in 2018 and 2019 thanks to improving investment and household consumption.
Vietnam has got better connected with other countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) thanks to a wide range of projects on transport infrastructure development conducted within this cooperation framework.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted the Republic of Korea’s economy will grow 3 percent this year, following last year's 3.1 percent growth.
The Vietnamese economy will rise to 7.1 percent this year, before easing back to 6.8 percent in 2019, said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a new report launched on April 11.
Vietnam has proactively participated in trade and investment cooperation activities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, China’s Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, over the past 25 years.
