Overseas Vietnamese to enjoy one price in Vietnam

Sun, 01/21/2001 - 17:58





Ha Noi, Jan. 19 (VNA) -- Overseas Vietnamese will pay the same for services and public transport as homeland Vietnamese, says the Foreign Ministry's Commission for Overseas Vietnamese.

The change is part of the effort to encourage more investment from overseas Vietnamese.

Commission Chairman Nguyen Dinh Bin says the one-price policy is likely to be applied in the first quarter of this year.

Overseas Vietnamese to enjoy one price in Vietnam

Sun, 01/21/2001 - 17:58





Ha Noi, Jan. 19 (VNA) -- Overseas Vietnamese will pay the same for services and public transport as homeland Vietnamese, says the Foreign Ministry's Commission for Overseas Vietnamese.

The change is part of the effort to encourage more investment from overseas Vietnamese.

Commission Chairman Nguyen Dinh Bin says the one-price policy is likely to be applied in the first quarter of this year.

Vietnam looks to benefits from BTA ratification




Ha Noi, Jan. 20 (VNA) -- Trade export turnover to the U.S. is expected to increase between 30 and 35 percent a year to USD 3 billion by 2005, says Deputy Head of the Trade Ministry's Import-Export Service, Tran Quoc Khanh.

He says a large number of Vietnamese products targetted for the U.S. market will benefit from tariff cuts once the bilateral trade agreement (BTA), which was signed by the two countries in 2000, is ratified.

Air route linking Thailand, Laos, Vietnam to be opened

Sun, 01/21/2001 - 17:52



Ha Noi, Jan. 21 (VNA) -- Commercial representatives of the nine northern provinces of Thailand have agreed to open a new international air route linking Thailand, Viet Nam and Laos from February, 2001.

The new international air route will be established in accordance with an agreement on economic and transport cooperation reached between China, Thailand, Laos and Viet Nam last year.

PetroVietnam production projection in 2001

Thu, 01/18/2001 - 00:06




Ha Noi, Jan. 18(VNA) -- The Viet Nam Oil and Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam) plans to pump 16 million tonnes of crude oil and bring ashore 1.8 billion cubic metres of gas in 2001.

PetroVietnam last year had pumped more than 16 million tonnes of crude oil, 5,000 tonnes more than 1999 and brought ashore 1.55 billion cubic metres of gas, including 1.2 billion cubic metres for the production of electricity.

As a result, the company earned almost USD 3.5 billion from the export of 15.4 million tonnes of crude oil.

Vietnam attends ASEAN tourism conference

Thu, 01/18/2001 - 00:04




Ha Noi, Jan. 17 (VNA) -- A Viet Nam Tourism Administration (VTA) delegation led by VTA Deputy Director General Pham Tu attended the fourth conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) tourism officials held in Brunei from Jan. 9-16.

Participants appraised the achievements by ASEAN countries in the past year when ASEAN welcomed 37,534 million international visitors, 9.5 percent more than 1999.

Viet Nam achieved the highest increase -20 percent- or 2.13 million international tourists.

NGO "American Help for Asian Children" presents hearing aids


* US Organization Presents Hearing-aids Worth USD 46,000 to Southern Provinces

"American Help for Asian Children" - a NGO from the US - has donated hearing-aids worth USD 46,000 to hearing-impaired children in southern provinces.

Ho Chi Minh City's Association in Support of Poor Patients on Jan. 16 handed over 482 hearing-aids to hearing-impaired children's centres in the city and in Tien Giang, Can Tho, Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Binh Duong provinces.--VNA

PetroVietnam production in 2000

Wed, 01/17/2001 - 23:58


PARTY AND STATE APPRECIATE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY'S ACHIEVEMENTS


Ha Noi, Jan. 17 (VNA) -- The State highly valued the achievements recorded by the oil and gas industry, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam.

Mr. Cam praised the results of the industry's operations at a conference held by the Viet Nam Oil and Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam) in Ha Noi on Jan. 16 to launch the industry's tasks in 2001.

He said that although the oil and gas industry is young, it has registered strong growth over the past 25 years.

FM seeks early ratification of Vietnam-US trade agreement




Ha Noi, Jan. 17 (VNA) -- Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien would like the U.S. Congress to make further contributions to improving relations between Viet Nam and the U.S. - especially by ratifying the Bilateral Trade Agreement, BTA, signed last July.

The Foreign Minister was speaking about the efforts by the Congress to boost relations between the two countries while receiving a visiting House of Representatives delegation in Ha Noi on Jan. 16. The delegation is led by Democratic Party leader Richard Gerphardt.

Renovating monetary policy is the most important factor

Tue, 01/16/2001 - 10:55




Ha Noi, Jan. 16 (VNA) -- Finance Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung described 2001 as a year for Viet Nam to focus on monetary policy reforms so as to help effect active changes in the financial sector.

"2001 must be a year in which Viet Nam will renew its monetary policy, regarding it as a breakthrough," Hung told Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper in a recent interview.

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