US firm to develop hotel-casino in Vietnam

Fri, 05/27/2011 - 09:45

(VNA) Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has announced it would invest 95 million USD to acquire a 26 percent stake in a resort development project in Vietnam where it would build a hotel-casino.

Pinnacle's May 26 statement wrote, the Ho Tram Strip project, being developed by a Canadian company, Asian Coast Development, is beachfront complex of destination resorts and residential developments in southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, approximately 80 miles southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.

UN recognises Vietnam’s productive expansion

Fri, 05/27/2011 - 09:44

(VNA) The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has recognised Vietnam ’s successful expansion of productive capacity as going beyond global average levels.

ESCAP said at an annual meeting in Bangkok , Thailand , from May 19-25, that Vietnam was one of the four regional countries most successful in diversifying export-oriented products and expanding market share for a number of products during the past two decades.

Appointed Ambassador of VN pledges to boost relations with US

Ds_27.5.jpg(VNA) Appointed Ambassador of Vietnam to the US Nguyen Quoc Cuong expressed his strong belief in the bright future of the friendship and partnership between the US and Vietnam, committing his whole tenure to that future.

Vietnam explains MIA work to foreign attaches

Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:49

(VNA) Vietnam’s experiences and the results of searching for the remains of missing foreign servicemen during the war in Vietnam were introduced to foreign military attaches in the country at a meeting in Hanoi on May 25.

At the meeting, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) Colonel Dao Xuan Kinh briefed the participants on a number of measures taken by Vietnam and the US in the search for servicemen missing in action (MIA).

Vietnam, US to bolster trade cooperation

(VNA) Industry and Trade Minster Vu Huy Hoang paid a working visit to Washington from May 23-25, where he met with US officials, MPs and businessmen.

As Co-President of the Vietnam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council, the Minister held a working session with US trade representative Ron Kirk, reviewing cooperation between the two countries and agreeing on future cooperative measures.

General elections wind up in success

Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:16

(VNA) The elections of deputies to the 13th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2011-2016 term had finished in all cities and provinces nationwide by the midnight of May 22.

Preliminary statistics showed that the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Hoa Binh and Lang Son have led the country in terms of the rates of voters going to the polls, with 99.99 percent, said the Election Council.

General elections open nationwide

Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:13

(VNA) Official ceremonies were held at 7 am on May 22 at 91,438 polling stations throughout the country to start the voting to elect deputies to the 13 th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2011-2016 term.

This is the first time the elections for deputies to the National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels have taken place at the same time, during which over 63 million voters will elect 500 NA deputies and 301,954 People’s Council members.

Third TIFA meeting: progress in VN-US trade relation

(VNA) A ministerial meeting of the Vietnam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council closed in Washington on May 23 with an agreement on access to each other’s market for several mutually-supplementary agricultural products.

Answering a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in the US, Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Vu Huy Hoang, Vietnamese President of the TIFA Council, said this is an important initiative as the two sides’ agricultural products are not in competition with each other.

Appointed ambassador vows more support to OVs in US

Mon, 05/16/2011 - 10:13

(VNA) The newly-appointed Vietnamese ambassador to the US, Nguyen Quoc Cuong, pledged to provide more support for the Vietnamese community in the US and create favourable conditions for businesses of Vietnamese Americans to invest in Vietnam.

Senator John McCain praises US-Vietnam relations

(VOV) The fine relationship between the US and Vietnam plays an important role in maintaining peace and stability in the region, said US Republican senator, John McCain at a meeting with Vietnamese ambassador to the US, Le Cong Phung in Phoenix, Arizona.

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