The PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas), a subsidiary of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), was among the top 50 Vietnamese firms receiving the 2019 sustainable energy award.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and presented gifts to workers of the Ha Lam Coal Joint Stock Company, a subsidiary of the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin), during his working trip to the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on May 24.
The Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy is set to review applications soon for rights to four coal mining concession areas it opened late in March in the northern region of the country, the Phnom Penh Post reported.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has requested state-owned coal and oil-gas producers to develop plans and measures to response to impact of the acute respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Vietnam had a trade deficit of more than 1 billion USD with Australia last year, one year after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) came into effect.
Experts from the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) have forecast that economic growth will reach 7.26 percent for the fourth quarter and 7.05 percent for 2019, compared to 6.6 – 6.8 percent as assigned by the National Assembly.
Geological and mining experts recently debated the feasibility and economic and social impacts of the exploitation of the Red River Delta coal basin, which has estimated reserves a hundred billion tonnes of coal.
The comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia is expected to develop pragmatically in the time ahead thanks to the regular exchange of visits, especially those at the high level, thus meeting aspirations of the two countries’ leaders and people, said a Russian official.
President Tran Dai Quang hosted an official welcome ceremony in Hanoi on September 11 for his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo, who is making a State-level visit to Vietnam on September 11 and 12.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his spouse will pay a state-level visit to Vietnam from September 11-12 on the occasion of his attending the World Economic Forum on ASEAN. This is his first official visit to Vietnam since his assumption of the presidency in 2014.
The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) has produced over 20 million tonnes of raw coal and 19.3 million of clean coal from the beginning of 2018.
Manufacturing and processing sector grew by 13.02 percent in the first half of 2018, the highest in seven years, contributing 2.63 percentage points to the country’s economic growth, said Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Bich Lam.
Director of the Vietnam Institute of Economics Tran Dinh Thien has called for taking new approach to energy strategy, with saving energy in production and consumption as compulsory.
The ownership of 21 large State-owned groups and corporations is likely to be transferred from ministries and sectors to the Committee on State capital management at enterprises.
The World Wide Fund for Nature released a report on December 21, saying that 115 new species were discovered by scientists in the Greater Mekong region in 2016.
Business
