HCM City, Nov. 28 (VNA) — Nearly 400 domestic and foreign enterprises will showcase a wide range of products and services at the 9th Vietnam International Trade Fair in HCM City, held from 30 November to 3 December at the Sai Gon Exhibition&Convention Centre in District 7.
(VEN) - The first meeting between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Ivanovic Shuvalov as the co-chairs of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee was held on November 21 in Hanoi. At the meeting, the two parties addressed possible measures to strengthen and further boost bilateral economic, trade and science-technology ties, particularly in the area of energy.
(VEN) - A seminar on providing suggestions for improving a draft plan for the development of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 2011-2015 recently took place in Hanoi. At the seminar, the Business Development Department of the Ministry of Planning and Investment introduced the targets laid out in the draft plan. They include the establishment of an additional 450,000 SMEs, 10 percent of all SMEs to be involved in direct export activities, SME investment to account for 40 percent of the total investment capital, and SMEs to make a 30 percent contribution to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and a 35 percent contribution to the state budget revenue and to create four million more jobs.
(VEN) - According to Professor Michael E. Porter from the Harvard Business School, an industrial cluster is a geographical meeting point of companies that have linkages, specialized producers, service providers, companies from sectors relating with each other and institutions that have linkages (such as universities, standard and quality control organizations and business associations), which all compete but work with each other.
(VEN) - Ten French businesses flew to Vietnam to meet donors and take part in the French pavilion from November 22-26, which was organized by the UBIFRANCE French Trade Commission within the framework of the 2011 Vietwater water exhibition held at the Sai Gon Exhibition Center.
Cocao products grown in the southern province of Tien Giang have been certified by UTZ Kapeh Vietnam for meeting international-quality standards.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Hanoi in November has increased by 0.29% as against the previous month, a year-on-year 18.49% increase and a 16.36% increase over December last year, according to the Hanoi Statistics Department.
The National Assembly in its Thursday, November 10, 2011 session has passed the resolutions on the economic and social development, the Governmental bond capital and the National Goal Programmes with the 2012 GDP growth rate of 6% to 6.5% and the CPI increase to below 10%.
Hanoi , Nov. 4 (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked ministries, agencies and localities to continue making efforts to implement tasks and measures set in Government Resolution No. 11, striving to cap inflation at 18 percent and ensuring a GDP growth rate of 6 percent this year.
Hanoi , Nov. 4 (VNA) – Vietnam is seeking to inspire more investors from Saudi Arabia to participate in new transport infrastructure projects, especially in seaports, airports, highways and railways, said Finance Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.
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