Vietnam demands TRP stop granting accreditation for Ksor Kok

Tue, 05/18/2004 - 17:44


Vietnam requests the so-called Transnational Radical Party (TRP), which is enjoying the consultative status with ECOSOC, to stop immediately granting accreditation for Ksor Kok and his Montagnard Foundation Inc. (MFI) to attend UN meetings and conferences to advance their terrorist campaign and their separatist agenda.

So said Le Luong Minh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN at the annual session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)'s NGO Committee on the Special Report by the TRP in New York on May 14.

VN, US discuss how to resolve differences



HA NOI — Viet Nam and the US should strive for greater bilateral co-operation, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan told James Kelly, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs at a meeting in Ha Noi yesterday.

Kelly is visiting Viet Nam for the fourth political dialogue between the foreign ministries of the two countries.

Foreign tourists to Viet Nam increase

Tue, 05/04/2004 - 18:57


05/04/2004 -- 19:05(GMT+7)

Ha Noi, May 4 (VNA) - The number of foreign tourists to Viet Nam in the first four months of this year reached 933,800, an annual increase of 7.6 percent, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Tourism (VAT).

In April, 219,000 foreign tourists visited the country, a year-on-year increase of 38.7 percent. The number of tourists from the Republic of Korea tripled, while those from the US increased 2.2 times, from France, 1.7 times, from Japan and Taiwan 1.5 times.

VN, US legislatures push for closer ties



WASHINGTON — The relationship between the Vietnamese National Assembly and the US Congress has turned a new page, National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Phuc Thanh said during his visit to Washington DC from April 22 to 30.

The Viet Nam-US relationship has seen notable progress recently in various fields such as the economy, trade and education, he said. It had also improved work on health care as well as fighting terrorism and transnational crime.

City hammock maker files patent suit in US

Wed, 04/28/2004 - 12:17



HCM CITY — A HCM City hammock maker has filed a patent rights lawsuit against a Taiwanese man in the US.

The director of the privately-owned Duy Loi Company, Lam Tan Loi, said his Taiwan-based distribution agent had received a letter a few weeks ago ordering him to stop importing his hammocks as a similar brand had already been registered.

Loi had the Pham and Associates law firm investigate the case and discovered a man named Chung Sen Wu had received a US patent for a portable hammock exactly like Duy Loi’s.

New York trade centre hopes to showcase Vietnamese business



HA NOI — The Viet Nam Trade Centre in New York opened on Tuesday in a bid to provide Vietnamese businesses with a venue to showcase their products in the US market.

The centre, which includes a showroom and offices, takes up more than 300sq.m of a building in lower Manhattan, according to the Ministry of Trade’s Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade).

Vietrade said businesses can apply to have the centre’s staff showcase their samples, catalogues and notices.

Vietnam looks to WTO help for accession

Wed, 04/07/2004 - 17:52



HA NOI — Viet Nam expects the World Trade Organisation to assist in training human resources and tender advice during its negotiations with partners for accession to the trade body, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan has said.

He was speaking at a reception in Ha Noi on Tuesday to welcome visiting WTO deputy director general, Rufus Yerxa.

Viet Nam to develop urban highway and railway

Mon, 04/05/2004 - 18:34


(04/05/2004 -- 18:24GMT+7)

Ha Noi, Apr. 5 (VNA) - Apart from minimising private means of transport and developing public transport system, the government will focus on the development of urban highways and railway networks in an effort to reduce traffic accidents and congestion, a senior official said.

Viet Nam strives to maintain CPI of 5 percent this year

Mon, 04/05/2004 - 18:33



Ha Noi, Apr. 5 (VNA) - The Government has worked out five major measures to stabilise prices in the market for the remaining months of this year, striving to obtain a consumption price index (CPI) of 5 percent in 2004.

Work for overseas Vietnamese receives a boost

Thu, 04/01/2004 - 10:29

Radio Voice of Vietnam

The recent resolution of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee dealing with overseas Vietnamese is aimed at fully mobilizing the strength of national unity so as to create a robust and solid driving force for national industrialization and modernization.

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