Rajat Nag Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
has described the “middle income trap” as one of challenges for
Vietnam as it gains the middle income country status and at the same
time said he believes in its ability to avoid the trap.
“I think
all middle income countries are susceptible to the middle income trap.
Vietnam of course will not be an exception. But we believe that
Vietnam wil get out of the middle income trap. It should take urgent
measures right now,” he told VNA reporter on the sidelines of the
ongoing 44 th ADB annual meeting in Hanoi.
Vietnamese representative offices in the Middle East and North Africa
have by late Feb. 28 helped bring close to 1,000 Vietnamese workers in
unrest-ravaged Libya home safely and more than 4,000 others out of
the unstable country.
An inter-ministerial mission headed by Minister of Planning and
Investment Vo Hong Phuc paid a visit to Luxembourg from Feb. 13-15
to attend the Vietnam-Luxembourg Partnership Committee.
Journalist Marta Roza, deputy chairwoman of the Cuba-Vietnam Friendship
Association has spoken highly of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s
guidelines on national industrialisation.
A large number of social activists and
US war veterans joined others in an April 18 demonstration demanding
the Dow Chemical Co to take responsibility for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin
victims in Vietnam.
A Vietnam Airlines aircraft safely made
an emergency landing at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat international
airport, on Aug. 7 after experiencing technical problems.
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