Association rejects DOC's determination on Viet Nam's catfish

(06/18/2003 -- 22:34GMT+7)

Ha Noi, June 18 (VNA) - The Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has discontented with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)'s final determination on the anti-dumping rate levied on Viet Nam's frozen "tra" and "basa" fillets.

Party leader receives US Ambassador


(06/17/2003 -- 21:24GMT+7)

Ha Noi, June 17 (VNA) - General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee (CPVCC) on Tuesday afternoon received US Ambassador Raymond Burghardt, who paid him a courtesy visit at the CPVCC headquarters in Ha Noi.

VN never on ‘least developed’ list: UN

Fri, 06/13/2003 - 12:29


HA NOI — Viet Nam has never been on the United Nations list of least developed countries, says the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development

Nor does Viet Nam meet the criteria for the category, it says in a statement issued late last week.

Further, the organisation says it has never published a report – as suggested by a newswire story – that Viet Nam had been removed from the United Nations list of least development countries.

Viet Nam to tightly control aquatic product production and tradin

Wed, 06/11/2003 - 17:04


(06/11/2003 -- 22:29GMT+7)

HCM City, June 11 (VNA)-The Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporter and Processor (VASEP) will make efforts to tightly control antibiotic residue in aquatic products, settle trade disputes and boost trade promotion activities in the near future.

The announcement was made by VASEP's member units at its national conference held in HCM City today.

Napalm, UXO continue to take toll

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

QUANG TRI — Nearly three decades after the end of the American War, bombs, mines and other stray ordnance still injure more than 2,000 people a year in Viet Nam, especially in former DMZ Quang Tri Province, one of the country’s worst-affected areas.

Nguyen Than Son, a 30-year-old resident of Hai Lang District in Quang Tri Province was a victim of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Last year, a bomb exploded when he was cutting wires for scrap, killing him and seriously injuring his 27-year-old wife and two-year-old daughter.

Foreign broker breaks open local market

Fri, 06/06/2003 - 14:00


June 2 - 8, 2003 - VIR

FRANCE’S Gras Savoye has become the first foreign insurance broker to be granted an operating licence in Vietnam.

The licence was officially granted by the Ministry of Finance last week.

There are at least two other foreign brokers waiting to join the market: US firm Marsh and Britain’s Jardines. Foreign brokers had said the authorities seemed to be cautious about allowing them into the market.

The ministry is also considering granting licences to three joint-stock brokerages run by Vietnamese nationals.

U.S., Vietnamese doctors to care for blast victims


(06/06/2003 -- 21:08GMT+7)

Ha Noi, June 6 (VNA) - A group of 16 US Navy physicians and corpsman will come to Viet Nam for the first time to join Vietnamese colleagues provide surgery and medical care to patients suffering from trauma and blast injuries caused by landmine and unexploded ordinance, the U.S embassy said.

The U.S physicians from the US Naval Hospital in Okinawa and Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii will be in Viet Nam from June 10-30 to perform three-four major operations a day at the Hospital 103 and the National Burns Center.

PM reinforces Viet Nam’s plans to join WTO by 2005

Fri, 06/06/2003 - 11:32



HA NOi — Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has reiterated Viet Nam’s determination to join the World Trade Organisation as soon as possible.

Membership of the WTO would act as a new driving force for Viet Nam, he told delegates attending the forum Viet Nam: Readiness for WTO Accession in Ha Noi on Wednesday.

He also thanked the World Bank for its help to Viet Nam and said that he hoped it would continue supporting the country’s bid for WTO membership.

US students’ visit promotes mutual understanding

Radio Voice of Vietnam, June 1, 2003

A group of lecturers and students from Wheeling Jesuit University and some high schools in the American States of West Virginia and North Carolina are currently on a visit to Vietnam. The visit aims to broaden their knowledge of Vietnam’s history, land, people and the renewal process.

Amnesty report on rights abuses full of lies: Govt

Fri, 05/30/2003 - 09:23



HA NOI (May 29, 2003) — Amnesty International’s allegations about human rights abuses in Viet Nam were based on inaccurate information, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said on Thursday.

Therefore they were totally rejected, she said in reply to a question from an Agence France Press reporter.

Thanh accused Amnesty International of inventing the allegations published in its annual report and said the organisation dared not print information about the real situation in Viet Nam.

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