The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City hosted a ceremony on January 17 to celebrate Cuba’s 60th Liberation Day with the participation of municipal leaders, representatives of the Cuban Consulate General and the Cuban community in the city.
The Vietnamese Government has always encouraged and given support to foreign enterprises, including Microsoft, to expand their investment in the Southeast Asian country, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has said.
A workshop was held in Hanoi on January 16 to discuss international experiences in capital management and mobilisation, and infrastructure development, as well as to seek policy recommendations for Vietnam in such fields.
The UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit) will not affect the special partnership between Vietnam and the UK, said Baroness Fairhead, Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT) of the UK.
National Assembly Permanent Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong hosted a reception for a visiting delegation from the Laos news agency Khaosan Pathet Lao (KPL) led by its General Director Sounthone Khanthavong in Hanoi on January 15.
Ho Chi Minh City made socio-economic development improvements while still dealing with problems inherited from previous years after one year implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion 21-KL/TW and the National Assembly’s Resolution 54/2017/QH14 on piloting special mechanisms and policies for the city.
The southern province of Dong Nai has so far attracted 1,378 foreign-invested projects with total registered capital of 28.5 billion USD, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has requested the northern province of Son La’s People’s Committee submit a pre-feasibility study for the Hoa Binh-Moc Chau Expressway project to the Prime Minister for approval.
2018 was considered a successful year for Cao Bang’s tourism sector, as the northern mountainous province welcomed a record 1.2 million tourists, a year-on-year rise of 30 percent.
The Government will cooperate with the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission to host the Vietnam Economic Forum 2019 (VEF 2019) on January 16-17 in Hanoi.
The state-owned Vietnam Electricity (EVN) obtained a number of achievements despite many difficulties in 2018, said EVN Deputy Director General Nguyen Tai Anh.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue announced a draft resolution of the Government on key tasks and solutions to achieve socio-economic development goals and State budget estimate for 2019 during a conference on December 28.
Over 40 percent of the charter capital of the Infrastructure Development and Construction Corporation (LICOGI) was transferred from the Ministry of Construction to the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) on December 26.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung called for more Japanese investment in automobile industry, energy and tourism which are fields with huge demand and development potential in Vietnam.
The Dien Bien Song Hong Energy JSC (DSEJ) held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Muong Muon hydropower plant in Na Sang commune, Muong Cha district, the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien, on December 25.
The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam coordinated with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to hold a meeting in the central city of Da Nang on December 18 on realising challenges posed for Vietnam in the implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Master planning has been a weakness for HCM City for a long time and it could persist, a HCM City official has said.
The Vietnam-US cooperation in gas power and infrastructure development in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector was the focus of a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on December 6.
