• Rubber plant construction begins in Laos
  Rubber plant construction begins in Laos
  

  The Vietnam-Laos Rubber Joint Stock Company broke ground for a rubber latex processing plant in Champasak province on March 10.
  10/03
• Businesses need cooperation to corner domestic market
  Businesses need cooperation to corner domestic market
  

  

  Apart from efforts to encourage Vietnamese to use locally-made products, Vietnamese businesses should unite to effectively penetrate the domestic market, according to a workshop held by the VCCI on March 9.
  10/03
• VCCI plans to counter safeguard measures
  VCCI plans to counter safeguard measures
  

  

  The Trade Remedies Council (TRC) under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has joined the US law firm Squire Sanders to organize a seminar on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legal actions against Vietnamese exports, their impacts and countermeasures.
  10/03
• Jetstar Pacific offers discounted fares on 129 routes
  Jetstar Pacific offers discounted fares on 129 routes
  

  

  The cheap flight airline Jetstar Pacific announced all of its global branches are applying the same promotion programme for 129 domestic and international routes starting from March 10-15.
  10/03
• World Bank seminar on global awareness after economic crisis
  World Bank seminar on global awareness after economic crisis
  

  A regional seminar on export competition was held in Hanoi on March 10 by the World Bank (WB) and the Development Institute of the Republic of Korea to share knowledge of global awareness of changes in the post-crisis era.
  10/03

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• Vietnam retailers win Asia-Pacific awards
  Vietnam retailers win Asia-Pacific awards
  

  Ten Vietnamese businesses have been selected to receive a Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500 Award to be presented in Seoul on October 15.
  16/10
• Businesses help alleviate poverty
  Businesses help alleviate poverty
  

  

  The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has held a meeting to review efforts by economic groups and corporations to carry out the government’s strategy on poverty reduction and to work out new strategies for the year 2010.
  15/10
• Conference boosts Yunnan - Vietnam cooperation
  Conference boosts Yunnan - Vietnam cooperation
  

  An economic and commercial conference to promote cooperation between Yunnan and Hanoi was jointly held in Hanoi on October 15 by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Yunnan Provincial Department of Commerce.
  15/10
• EU readies new import rules
  EU readies new import rules
  

  Exports of textiles and garments, footwear and seafood could fall as new technical barriers built by importing countries will come into effect next year.
  15/10
• Vietnam’s economic potential introduced in Germany
  Vietnam’s economic potential introduced in Germany
  

  Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Do Hoa Binh has called on German businesses to boost investment, economic cooperation and commercial exchanges in Vietnam.
  15/10