The ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang on August 23 under the chairmanship of deputy head of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department Le Quang Lan.
HCMC - Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina), which operates a plant in Dung Quat Economic Zone in central Vietnam, on Monday shipped two rail mounted quayside cranes (RMQC) and five rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGC) to Indonesia.
Construction will begin next month on a 220-km long coastal road in the Mekong Delta as part of an international highway linking the country with Cambodia and Thailand, according to the project’s management board.
HA NOI — Despite lingering global economic problems, two-way trade between Viet Nam and the UK was expected to become brisker this year, said Vietnamese Trade Counsellor in the UK An The Dung.
HA NOI — Viet Nam wants to foster co-operation with Slovakia in energy and infrastructure, said President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday. He was speaking at a meeting with the visiting Speaker of the National Council of Slovak Republic, Pavol Paska.
DAVOS — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a plenary session of the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) here yesterday. It was titled "Reshaping Global Governance".
Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people.
President Barack Obama on Saturday slammed Wall Street's "audacity" for fighting a bailout fee he wants to slap on financial firms and said his Republican opponents had sided with big banks.
