Halong city to become a tourism hub

Sun, 02/04/2001 - 16:40




Ha Noi, Feb. 3 (VNA) -- A Government decision will make Ha Long city in the northern border province of Quang Ninh a tourism, transport and commercial hub for the northern region with the maintaining its status as the major supplier of coal to the entire country.

Average yearly economic growth of between 16 and 17 percent and a yearly USD 2,000 per capita share of Gross Domestic Product from now to 2010 are part of the plans for the city.

Paper industry in Vietnam

Sun, 02/04/2001 - 16:38


Ha Noi, Feb. 3 (VNA) -- Economists forecast that Viet Nam's yearly paper consumption will surge by an average of 10.4 percent to meet the growing demand of about 80-million people between now and 2010.

They say the country will need 870,000 tonnes of paper by 2005 and 1,250,000 tonnes by 2010 making it an ideal market for investors.

The economists quote a Government report saying that it will boost the paper industry in an effort to make it a key economic sector in the next ten years.

The Coalition for US-VN Trade called to send BTA to Congess


Feb. 3 (VNA) -- The Coalition for US-Viet Nam Trade has called on President George W.Bush to send the US-Viet Nam Trade Agreement to the US Congress for consideration this month, so that it can be ratified as soon as possible.

Vietnam puts regional land cable to use

Fri, 02/02/2001 - 10:25




Ha Noi, Feb. 2 (VNA) -- Viet Nam has put an optical-fibre cable system linking Viet Nam with China and four ASEAN countries into use, the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT) said.

The 7,000 km cable - which also runs through Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - would help VNPT handle hundreds of international telecom channels. In Viet Nam, the cable runs from nothern Lang Son province to central Ha Tinh province, 500 km south of Ha Noi, before connecting to neighbouring China and Laos.

PM said to increase socio-economic development

Fri, 02/02/2001 - 10:23


Ha Noi, Feb.2 (VNA) -- Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has described the year 2001 as the start of a stage in which Viet Nam will boost socio-economic development to match its progress to international economic integration.

"2001 must be the beginning of a stage in which Viet Nam accelerates socio-economic growth in order to make its 2001-2005 five-year plan and 2001-2010 ten-year strategy successful and match its progress to international integration, including its fully-fledged entry into the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by 2006", Khai said.

Call for lifting of sanctions against Libya

Fri, 02/02/2001 - 10:07




Ha Noi, Feb. 2 (VNA)-- It's time to lift sactions against Libya and help the ordinary people of the country return to a normal life, says the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman.

Ms. Phan Thuy Thanh told the Viet Nam News Agency on Jan. 31 that Libya had proved its good-will and cooperation by helping to solve the destruction of a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Anniversary of Paris Accord celebrated

Fri, 02/02/2001 - 10:06




Ha Noi, Feb. 2(VNA) -- Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh has described the signing of the Paris Accords in 1973 as an event that set a fully active stage for Viet Nam's diplomacy, thus leading the Vietnamese revolution from one victory to another.

The Vice President was talking with about 50 officials who took part in the peace talks that led to the signing of the historic Paris Accords in 1973. The get-together was held in Ha Noi on Feb. 2 to mark the 28th anniversary of the accords (Jan. 27).

Vietnam and UNICEF cooperation plan

Thu, 02/01/2001 - 10:31

VIET NAM-UNICEF COOPERATION PROGRAMME APPROVED


Ha Noi, Feb. 1 (VNA) -- The Vietnamese Government and the Executive Council of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have approved the Viet Nam-UNICEF overall cooperation programme for the 2001-2005 period, according to the Viet Nam National Committee for Child Care and Protection.

UNICEF's budget for the programme amounts to USD 70 million including USD 20 million from the budget for outgoings and USD 50 million from raised funds.

Vietnamese overseas paticipate in export

Thu, 02/01/2001 - 10:27




Ha Noi, Feb. 1 (VNA) -- The overseas Vietnamese community was praised by a senior trade official as an "effective network of distributing made-in-Viet Nam goods the world over."

More than 2.5 million overseas Vietnamese people, most of them engaged in businesses, have created an effective marketing network for domestic goods the world over, thus making a considerable contribution to the nation's export surge last year, said Deputy Trade Minister Mai Van Dau at a meeting in Ha Noi on Feb. 1 with more than 100 overseas business executives.

Vietnam express sympathy to earthquake victims in India

Wed, 01/31/2001 - 00:42



Ha Noi, Jan. 30 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh today, Jan. 30, answered an AFP correspondent's question about the country's forms of assistance - relief, means of transtransport or expertise to India after the severe earthquake in the state of Gujarat.

Md Thanh said: "As close friends of the Indian people, we take extreme sympathy over the loss of human life and property caused by the recent earthquake. We sincerely hope that the Indian people would soon overcome the aftermath and normalize their lives."

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