• Review of ten-year action against counterfeit goods production and smuggling
  Review of ten-year action against counterfeit goods production and smuggling
  

  

  A conference was held in Hanoi on September 6 to review tens years of implementation of the Government’s directive against the production and smuggling of fake goods in northern provinces.
  06/09
• Vietnam’s 4 top spa hotels and resorts 2010
  Vietnam’s 4 top spa hotels and resorts 2010
  

  

  Smart Travel Asia, a leading online travel magazine in Southeast Asia, ranked the Nam Hai, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Sofitel Palace Da Lat and Princess d’Annam  as Vietnam’s top spa hotels and resorts in 2010.
  06/09
• Vietnam, Finland to boost labour cooperation
  Vietnam, Finland to boost labour cooperation
  

  Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan received her Finnish counterpart Anni Sinnemaki on September 6 for a working session.
  06/09
• Mekong delta needs to boost inter-regional development
  Mekong delta needs to boost inter-regional development
  

  

  The Vietnamese Government has decided to intensify investment in technical facilities to help the Mekong Delta region speed up inter-regional development, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
  06/09
• PM Dung vows to facilitate US investment
  PM Dung vows to facilitate US investment
  

  

  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has promised to create favourable conditions for foreign investors, including those from the US, to do business in Vietnam.
  06/09

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• ADB helps Vietnam ensure financial stability
  ADB helps Vietnam ensure financial stability
  

  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) have organized a training course for Vietnamese government staff involved in stabilizing national finance.
  02/03
• Domestic investment by overseas Vietnamese businesses in UK encouraged
  Domestic investment by overseas Vietnamese businesses in UK encouraged
  

  A round-table discussion was held in London on February 28 between overseas Vietnamese entrepreneurs and a delegation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade led by Deputy Minister Le Danh Vinh.
  02/03
• Footwear accounts for 10 pct of national export revenue
  Footwear accounts for 10 pct of national export revenue
  

  

  Over the past ten years, the footwear industry has grown impressively and now ranks as the country’s third largest export earner after garments and crude oil.  
  02/03
• Export turnover reaches US$8.9 billion
  Export turnover reaches US$8.9 billion
  

  

  Exports nationwide gained US$3.9 billion in February, raising the total figure of turnover in the first two months of this year to over US$8.9 billion, matching the same period in 2009.
  02/03
• Vietnam wins contract for rice exports to Iraq
  Vietnam wins contract for rice exports to Iraq
  

  

  Vietnam has won a contract to ship 90,000 tonnes of five-percent broken rice to Iraq, announced by the Northern Food Corporation on March 1.
  01/03