Investment

A solid waste treatment plant has been put into operation in Dong Son commune of Ninh Binh province's Tam Diep town.

Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, accelerated to 4.98% in June from the 4.72% rate in May, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.

Những ngày này về với thành phố Ninh Bình, lòng không khỏi ngập tràn cảm xúc. Thành phố như một bức tranh thủy mặc, lung linh sắc màu vừa hiện đại, vừa mang đậm vẻ kiến trúc dân tộc chạy xuyên suốt từ Cam Giá, Đá Nhân (Ninh Khánh) về đến chợ Bợi (Ninh Phúc). Đứng trên đỉnh Dục Thúy Sơn, bên lầu Nghinh Phong lộng gió, nhìn ra bốn phía đất trời mới thấy hết vẻ hùng vĩ, sức vươn của một thành phố trên con đường phát triển và hội nhập.

Leading Russian energy group Gazprom and leading Vietnamese oil and gas group PetroVietnam have reached an agreement on operating and developing Vietnam's Dung Quat oil refinery.

Eighty Vietnamese businesses will take part in the 2014 Vietnam-Myanmar Trade, Service, Tourism Fair (Ho Chi Minh City Expo), which is slated for June 26-30 in Yangon city of Myanmar.

Vietnam's aquatic exports have been recovering in the first five months of 2014 with a revenue of 2.86 billion USD, up 21 percent from a year earlier, said the Vietnam Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on June 12.

Vietnam will prioritise the development of its processing, electronics-telecommunication and renewable energy industries, according to a strategy on industrial development to 2025 with a vision to 2035 approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Ninh Binh province is located in the southern part of the Northern delta, about 90km from Hanoi capital.

Vietnam is estimated to record a trade surplus of USD1.6 billion in the first five months this year, or 2.8 percent of the total export turnover during the period, according to the General Statistics Office.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on May 29 to introduce the 2014 Vietnam Annual Economic Report, which highlights the constraints across all fields impacting the country's economic growth.

Foreign investors have committed to investing US$5.5 billion in Viet Nam in the first five months, equal to 65.7% of the same period last year.

Vietnam's annualised inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose to 4.72% compared with the 4.45% rate recorded in the previous month, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.

Reputable Forbes magazine of the US has released a list of the world's 2,000 biggest public companies in 2014, including two Vietnamese businesses.

Measures to reverse the dwindling attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) into agriculture was the focus of a seminar in Hanoi on May 19 held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Footwear exports reached US$730 million in April alone, bringing the total export turnover of the products in the first four months of this year to nearly US$2.9 billion, up 21.9% on a year-on-year basis.

Nhân kỷ niệm 60 năm chiến thắng Điện Biên Phủ, trong những ngày cuối tháng 4, đầu tháng 5/2014, tại Bảo tàng Lịch sử quân sự Việt Nam diễn ra Triển lãm "Điện Biên Phủ - Đại tướng - Tổng tư lệnh Võ Nguyên Giáp qua các tác phẩm nghệ thuật". Triển lãm do Hội Khoa học lịch sử Việt Nam, Bảo tàng Lịch sử quân sự Việt Nam, Liên hiệp UNESCO Hà Nội và Hội Quán Di sản phối hợp tổ chức.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a list of 127 national projects calling for foreign investment until 2020.

Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of 683 million USD in the first four months of the year, according to head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Planning Department Nguyen Tien Vy at a meeting in Hanoi on May 5.

Truyền hình An Viên phát sóng bộ phim tài liệu "Phật giáo Việt Nam đồng hành cùng dân tộc" nhân Đại lễ Phật Đản Vesak Liên hợp quốc 2014 tổ chức tại Việt Nam từ ngày 7 - 10/5/2014.