Monosodium glutamate producer Vedan
Vietnam has agreed to pay only 2.4 billion VNA (127,000 USD) of the
requested compensation of 53 billion VND (278,000 USD) for farmers
living in the polluted communes of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung
Tau, which were affected by the company's untreated waste.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s week-long trip to the 2010 Shanghai
World Expo
and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, starting April 26, is expected to
create a
new impetus for Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative ties.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on
April 23 kicked off construction of the third bidding package of the Ho
Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay highway in the southern province of
Dong Nai.
Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has signed an agreement to grow
2,000
hectares of cashew trees in the Cambodian provinces of Kampong Cham and
Kampong
Thom.
National Assembly deputy chairwoman Tong Thi Phong has assessed a pilot
project
in HCM City and Ba Ria- Vung Tau Province to abolish People’s Councils
at
district and ward levels as successful.
VinaCapital Group, an asset management and real estate development firm,
announced on March 2 that it had set up a 50/50 joint-venture company with
inProjects Group, which provides real estate services.
Authorities of Dong Nai province said the southern province has received
approval from the Government to expand its capital, Bien Hoa City by more than
26,400 ha and 284,000 residents.
Millions of members of the Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union from the seven southeastern cities and provinces
will attend the annual Youth Month opening in HCM City on Feb. 28,
union officials told the media on Feb. 22.
Localities have provided enterprises with 2.1 trillion VND (113.5 million USD)
so they can reserve more goods for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays to avoid
rising prices and shortages of goods.
A ceremony was held in Hanoi on January
27 to honour the first 200 businesses in the first phase of a programme
that will honour 1,000 such enterprises entitled “Thang Long-Hanoi
Intelligence”.
Ngo Han Joint-Stock Company, whose main
product is electromagnetic wires of different types, has become the 232
nd listed company on the HCM City bourse under the code NHW.
A meeting between Vietnamese and
Cambodian businesses was held in Phnom Penh on Dec. 23 by the Vietnam
Ministry of Industry and Trade and the People’s Committee of Dong Nai
province.
The Dong Nai province Forest Ranger Department in coordination with national
parks in the southern region held a seminar on Nov. 26 to seek ways to raise
public awareness of elephant conservation and expand the living environment for
the animal.
The country’s 90 State-owned groups and
corporations contributed 40 percent of the national GDP from
2006-08, but inefficient management of capital and State assets has
reduced their productive potential.
