Vietnam and Laos pledged on October 20
to step up investment, trade and tourism promotion activities, create
favourable conditions for the two sides’ businesses, and build a
borderline of peace, friendship, stability, cooperation and development.
The enforcement of labour laws in
Vietnam topped the agenda of a dialogue between Ho Chi Minh City
authorities and Malaysian businesses operating in the city.
A movement launched by the Vietnam
Women’s Union (VWU) has over the past year raised almost 54 billion VND
to build 4,590 charity houses for poor women across the country.
Ambassador Susan Schwab, a US policy
maker, will work with the Vietnamese government, Hanoi National
University and major economic groups, as well as chair international
seminars to be held in the Southeast Asian country from Nov. 30-Dec. 3.
Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia will
surge in 2010 to surpass Thailand – Cambodia ’s major trading partner
for many years, said economic researchers in Phnom Penh.
The second foreign ministers meeting of
five Mekong sub-region countries and Japan ended on Oct. 3 in Siem
Reap, Cambodia, with pledges for more cooperation between the two sides.
Vietnam ranks 116th out of 182
countries and territories in terms of its Human Development Index
(HDI), according to the UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report.
The Health Ministry said it will
examine local health clinics’ laboratory capacity to see if they are
qualified to test for the A/H1N1 virus as the workload has become a
burden on existing facilities.
The International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is seeking 4.7 million USD in
international assistance to support Vietnamese victims of typhoon
Ketsana.
The average gross salary increased
16.47 percent during the period from April 2008 to March 2009,
according to the latest announcement from the Navigos Group, the
leading recruitment solutions provider in Vietnam.
This is one of the final results of the Vietnam Salary Survey 2009 which was released on September 23 in Ho Chi Minh city.
September 8 alone witnessed 173 more people testing positive to
the A/H1N1 virus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 3,950
so far, of whom three have died, reported the Ministry of Health.
