Increasingly foul air from rapidly growing cities and industry could force South-east Asian nations to speed up the switch to cleaner sources of energy and to meet UN climate goals, says a leading energy specialist.
The good news is in for Vietnam. Last week the Ministry of Planning and Investment announced that foreign direct investment in the country increased by nearly 70 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 2019, the highest such increase since 2015.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will take the initiative in changing trade policies and collaborate with other ministries and localities to effectively support domestic enterprises to increase exports, it said.
Most people seem to think of trade as happening between only two countries. If tariffs reduce U.S. imports from China, many -- including President Donald Trump -- seem to assume that the affected industries will move production to the U.S. But that’s not how things work, which is why other countries might actually benefit from the U.S.-China trade war.
The National Assembly is debating Vietnam planned participation in the International Labor Organization Convention 98 on the right to organize and do collective bargaining.
With e-commerce and automation changing the landscape of the logistics sector dramatically, there will be a focus on re-skilling the existing workforce in technology, which will improve the competitiveness of the logistics industry.
General Department of Vietnam Customs is developing a scheme to re-design the whole IT system of the Customs sector with the goal of building a system based on the application of new technological achievements, appropriate with international standards, towards digital customs and meeting the requirements of intelligent management.
A monitoring mechanism implemented synchronously and regularly is a motivation for ministries and sectors to accelerate administrative reform. To implement one of the tasks assigned by the Government regarding this issue, on May 20, Deputy Director General of Vietnam Customs Hoang Viet Cuong chaired a meeting with representatives of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and USAID to agree on the plan and the deployment method.
Việt Nam should take advantage of the next wave of digital technologies such as blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and cloud-based services to become Asia’s next high-performing economy and improve the living standards of its residents, experts urged at a meeting held on Wednesday (May 22) in the city.
Bilateral relations between Việt Nam and the US had developed into a comprehensive partnership ahead of the two countries celebrating 25 years since the normalisation of diplomatic relations (1995-2020), said President of the Việt Nam-US Association Nguyễn Tâm Chiến.
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