Vietnam's Defence Attache Office in Australia opens

Fri, 04/13/2001 - 01:05



April 11 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's Defence Attache Office in Australia officially opened in Canberra on April 10 in the presence of military and diplomatic corps from Australia, China, Japan and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chief of the Australian Defence Force Admiral Chris Barrie described the event as a milestone in the development of Australia-Viet Nam relations, particularly cooperation in national defence.

Vietnam exports 100 million tonne of crude oil

Fri, 04/13/2001 - 01:03



Ha Noi, April 11 (VNA) -- Viet Nam exported the 100 millionth tonne of crude oil on April 1, 2001.

The country pumped the 1st tonne of crude from its continental shelf in 1986 and began exporting crude oil in April 1987.

Viet Nam's export crude oil was only 5.08 million tonnes in the 1986-1990 period. The figure rose six folds to 30 million tonnes in the 1990-1995, and reached the peak of 60.5 million tonnes in the 1995-2000 period.

VN supports effort to complete elimination of nuclear weapons

Fri, 04/13/2001 - 01:01




Apr. 11 (VNA) -- Viet Nam has always supported regional and international efforts to achieve the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, Counsellor of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, UN, Hoang Chi Trung said.

He was speaking at the 2001 Substantive Session of the UN Disarmament Commission in New York on Apr. 10.

IMF agrees to preferential credits of 460 million for Vietnam

Sun, 04/08/2001 - 23:00


April 7 (VNA) -- The International Monetary Fund, IMF, Executive approved a preferential credit of almost USD 460 million for Viet Nam's poverty-reduction and growth-facility programme for 2001-2003 on April 6.

The sum will be disbursed equally over seven half-years.
It is intended to help Viet Nam reform State-owned enteprises, the banking system and trade.

Tourists in first quarter rise

Sun, 04/08/2001 - 22:53



Ha Noi, April 7 (VNA) -- Viet Nam received more than 620,000 international tourists in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year rise of 18 percent.

Most were from France, Japan, China, the U.S., Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany and Britain.
The number of domestic tourists was equal to last year, about 2.8 million.

Tourism revenue was VND 2,500 billion, more than USD 172 million, in January-March, up 11 percent against last year's first quarter.

Vietnam EXPO 2001 to open in Ha Noi

Sun, 04/08/2001 - 22:51



Ha Noi, April 7 (VNA) -- More than 450 domestic and foreign enterprises will display their products in more than 500 pavilions covering 20,000 sq.m. at the 11th International Trade Fair, Viet Nam EXPO 2001, to be held at the Giang Vo Exhibition and Trade Fair Centre in Ha Noi from April 10-14.

Among the participants will be 218 firms from 16 countries, including China, Malaysia, Russia, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand, which will display industrial products, motorbikes, consumer goods, cosmetics....

Nuclear medicine development in Vietnam

Sun, 04/08/2001 - 22:39



Ha Noi, April 8 (VNA) -- The Health Ministry and the Ha Noi Medical University's first radio-therapy research unit made its debut in early 1971.

The unit, located in Ha Noi's Bach Mai Hospital, was a preparatory step for the introduction of nuclear medicine in Viet Nam.

At that time, few people in Viet Nam believed in the use of radio-active isotopes as a form of medical treatment. Therefore, radio-therapy was then quite alien to most patients .

More than 4,170 workers sent abroad in first quarter

Thu, 04/05/2001 - 20:57




Ha Noi, April 5 (VNA) -- Viet Nam sent 4,172 of its citizens to work abroad in the first quarter of this year, reports the Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Ministry's Department of Labour Management with Foreign Countries.

More than 1,270 of the workers went under labour contracts signed last year.

Rice export in 2001 and reserve-rice buying

Thu, 04/05/2001 - 20:54




April 4 (VNA) -- Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Cong Tan has instructed Mekong Delta provinces and businesses to efficiently organize the buying of 1 million tonnes of rice for temporary reserve in accordance with the Prime Minister's Decision.

Tan was chairing a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4 with leading officials from Mekong Delta provinces, the Finance, Trade and Agriculture and Rural Development Ministries and food corporations to plan this year's rice exports and the buying of rice for a temporary reserve.

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