• Vietnam Int’l Furniture and Home Accessories Fair opens
  Vietnam Int’l Furniture and Home Accessories Fair opens
  

  

  Vietnam’s International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair (VIFA) 2010 opened at Sai Gon Exhibition and Fair Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on March 11.
  11/03
• Vietnam, Poland boost trade ties
  Vietnam, Poland boost trade ties
  

  A meeting between Vietnamese and Polish entrepreneurs was held on March 11 by the Embassy of Poland in Hanoi to promote mutual understanding and trade links between the two countries.
  11/03
• Southern hub goes ahead with price-stabilizing measures
  Southern hub goes ahead with price-stabilizing measures
  

  

  The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, Le Hoang Quan, has asked relevant agencies to ensure a sufficient supply of goods and take other necessary measures to maintain the stability of prices after the Lunar New Year festival (Tet).
  11/03
• Deep water ports magnet for Japanese investment
  Deep water ports magnet for Japanese investment
  

  

  Japanese investors are interested in building and operating deep water ports in Vietnam, said Japanese Deputy Minister of Land-Infrastructure-Transport and Tourism Fujita Takehino in Hanoi on March 10.
  11/03
• Kansai businesses seek opportunities in HCM City
  Kansai businesses seek opportunities in HCM City
  

  

  Representatives of twenty businesses from Kansai, Japan have paid a three-day visit to Ho Chi Minh City in an effort to seek business opportunities in the country’s largest city.
  11/03

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• Mekong Delta’s industrial proportion to rise 40 percent
  Mekong Delta’s industrial proportion to rise 40 percent
  

  

  Provinces in the Mekong Delta will rise the industrial proportions by 40 percent to reach VND130,000 billion in total by 2010.
  26/05
• VNPT to join Asia’s optical cable system
  VNPT to join Asia’s optical cable system
  

  The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) will join eight other Asian telecommunications corporations to build an optical cable system linking several important economies in the region.
  26/05
• Price of steel rises by VND350,000 per tonne
  Price of steel rises by VND350,000 per tonne
  

  The Vietnam Steel Corporation on May 25 increased the price of steel in the South by VND350,000 per tonne for rolled steel and VND150,000 per tonne for bar steel.
  26/05
• Donors to review Vietnam's development in June
  Donors to review Vietnam's development in June
  

  

  The Consultative Group (CG) for Vietnam will hold its informal mid-year review meeting on June 8-9, 2009 in Buon Ma Thuot City in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak.
  26/05
• Five-month FDI drops by 76.3 percent due to recession
  Five-month FDI drops by 76.3 percent due to recession
  

  Vietnam attracted just US$6.68 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first five months of 2009, a year-on-year fall of 76.3 percent, due to the impact of the global financial crisis.
  26/05