Seafood exporters have backs to wall

Tue, 03/04/2003 - 16:35

HCM CITY (March 4, 2003) — Viet Nam’s fisheries industry faces a serious challenge to meet its annual export target, according to Deputy Minister of Fisheries Nguyen Viet Thang.

The sector will have to deal with problems posed by changing markets and new technologies to achieve the target, which has been set at US$2.3 billion.

Ha Noi's economic zones attract nearly 10,000 workers

Tue, 03/04/2003 - 16:32



Ha Noi, Mar. 4 (VNA) - Industrial and Export Processing Zones in Ha Noi have to-date recruited nearly 10,000 workers, accounting for 7 percent of the municipal industrial production sector;s workforce.

Working regulations for 16 enterprises have been approved and those for eight others are to be passed.

Ha Noi will strive to reduce its unemployment rate to 5.5 percent by 2005 from the current rate of 7.39 percent, according to Ms. Do Xuan Phuong, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

Enterprises commit to buying clean shrimp for processing

Thu, 02/27/2003 - 16:32

Ha Noi, Feb. 27 (VNA) - Forty enterprises, being members of the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), have committed to buying clean aquatic produce including shrimp for processing. It is one of the moves to maintain a strong foothold of Vietnamese seafood in the market.

Viet Nam exported 2.4 million tonnes of seafood last year, earning more than 2 billion USD.

One hundred Vietnamese enterprises are qualified for exporting seafood into the European Union market.

MPI calls for looser foreign investment rules

Thu, 02/20/2003 - 10:00

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The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has called for sweeping changes that would allow 100% foreign investment in several sectors for the first time.

Viet Nam resolved to observe child convention

Wed, 02/19/2003 - 15:42


HA NOI— Viet Nam has renewed its firm commitment to implementing the United Nations’ International Convention on the Right of the Child, said the Committee for Population, Family Planning and Child Care at a press briefing here on Wednesday.

"The country has made strenuous endeavours to reconcile the convention and the national law, including amendments and supplements to children’s rights codes," the conference was told.

Viet Nam selects Hill & Knownlton for investment programme in U.S



Ha Noi, Feb. 18 (VNA) - The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has selected Hill & Knowlton, one of the world's premier global communications consultancies, to carry out its strategic investment public relations initiatives within the United States. The account will be serviced primarily from Hill & Knowlton's Washington, DC, New York and Singapore offices.

U.S. assists Viet Nam's child labour eradication programme



Ha Noi, Feb. 19 (VNA) - Around 1,300 street children and children working in urban areas will benefit from a U.S.-financed technical assistance project for a national pogramme on child labour eradication and prevention.

The project, costing approximately 500,000 USD, started on Tuesday by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA). It will last for 30 months.

Under the project, the beneficiaries will get access to education and information on labour safety and hygiene.

Central city lengthens priority list of foreign invested projects

Wed, 02/19/2003 - 15:31


Da Nang city, Feb. 19 (VNA) - The central coastal city of Da Nang is offering foreign investors incentives in 54 projects mostly in industries and tourism in an effort to woo an estimated 432 million USD for 2003-2010.

The list is to be announced at a conference scheduled for March 6-7 of which the agenda will focus the local preferencial taxes on land use rights and other favourable policies and administrative reforms.

U.S. funds survey of unexploded mines in Central Viet Nam


Ha Noi, Feb. 12 (VNA) -- The Viet Nam Veterans of America Foundation will help Viet Nam conduct landmine and unexploded ordnance data collection, field survey and data analysis in the central provinces of Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Ha Tinh.

This is the first phase of a comprehensive survey project to determine the density of unexploded mines and ordnance in Viet Nam.

U.S. State Department concerns Virginia House flag bill


Ha Noi, Feb. 11 (VNA) -- The U.S. State Department has affirmed that Virginia's House of Delegates bill HB-2829 allowing the display of the flag of the former South Viet Nam regime runs counter to the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. has formally recognised the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, and said a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Ha Noi, adding Viet Nam's gold-starred red flag is on public display in the U.S. along with other nations with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations.

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