• Mid-year CG meeting due to open in June
  Mid-year CG meeting due to open in June
  

  Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed with the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s proposal to organise a mid-year consultative group for Vietnam in Rach Gia city, Kien Giang province, on June 10-11.
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• WB helps Lam Dong raise competitiveness of small-sized production
  WB helps Lam Dong raise competitiveness of small-sized production
  

  The Central Highland province of Lam Dong will launch a project to develop 15-20 joint establishments in agricultural production between farmers and enterprises and will provide 5,000 farmers with training on new cultivation methods in the 2010-2015 period.
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• German companies pleased with business in Vietnam
  German companies pleased with business in Vietnam
  

  Most of the German companies in Vietnam are satisfied with their business as well as the favourable investment environment and opportunities in the country.
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• Vietnam to import another 50,000 tonnes of sugar
  Vietnam to import another 50,000 tonnes of sugar
  

  The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has allowed businesses to import a further 50,000 tonnes of sugar in the quota of 2010.
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• City Chamber to host Irish executives
  City Chamber to host Irish executives
  

  Executives from 10 Irish technology and software companies will visit Vietnam next month to look for business opportunities, according to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s HCM City office.
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• Consumers blind to rights
  Consumers blind to rights
  

  

  Consumer rights, food hygiene and fake goods dominated a seminar held in Hanoi on March 16 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade to mark the World Consumer Rights Day.
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• Handicraft villages to show their zeal
  Handicraft villages to show their zeal
  

  

  Fine handicraft products will be on display at the biennial Vietnam Handicraft Villages Festival in Da Nang from March 24 to 29.
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• HCM City attracts US$25.6 billion in FDI
  HCM City attracts US$25.6 billion in FDI
  

  Ho Chi Minh City has so far attracted 3,128 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, worth US$25.6 billion in total, according to the municipal Planning and Investment Department.
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• Vietnam, Cambodia promote trade cooperation
  Vietnam, Cambodia promote trade cooperation
  

  

  Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and Cambodian Minister of Trade Cham Prasidh have agreed to raise trade turnover to a level of US$2 billion by 2010.
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• Government pledges stronger support for software park
  Government pledges stronger support for software park
  

  

  The government will give stronger support to the Quang Trung Software City to turn it into the nation’s software hub, which will develop and supply information technology (IT) human resources for not only Vietnam but also other countries and international groups.
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