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Confidence booms as domestic economy blooms
The government and the national Assembly have expressed their confidence in the country’s economic prospects.
Cisco supports Ho Chi Minh City in improving railway systems
Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT, and the Management Authority for Urban Railways of Ho Chi Minh City entered into an agreement to conduct a feasibility study relating to the Integrated Telecommunications Control Centre for the Ho Chi Minh City urban railways at the MAUR headquarters recently.
Nestle MILO launches third annual summer camp
Nestle’s chocolate malted beverage brand MILO on June 13 launched its third annual summer camp for children in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang.
Inward remittances show rosy prospects
Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City branch of the State Bank of Vietnam, shares with VIR’s Thuy Vinh the city’s inward remittance picture during January-May and its growth perspective in 2015.
Mysterious Mo So caves
Adventurers and those interested in discovering wild landscapes should head for Mo So Mountain in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.
Liquidity shortage pressurises rates
Improving credit growth, an active secondary bond market, and volatility in the foreign exchange market has combined to reduce trading volume in the primary bond market.
Local banks court foreign investors
Lauded as the land of the rising middle class, with surging spending power and plenty of room for retail banking growth, Vietnamese local banks will likely continue to be merge and acquisition targets of foreign investors in the time to come.
UOB seeks to establish a Vietnam subsidiary
The Ministry of Planning and Investment recently urged the prime minister and the State Bank to allow Singapore-based United Overseas Bank to become the seventh wholly foreign-owned bank in Vietnam.
Honeywell plants seeds for improved education
The US’ Honeywell recently completed a project in co-operation with non-governmental organisation ActionAid to improve the learning environment for 1,800 students in the Central Highlands’ province of Dak Lak and Ho Chi Minh City.
One Vietnamese teacher to join 2015 Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy
More than 200 teachers from around the world, including one from southern Vietnam, are gearing up to take the trip of a lifetime to Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy (HESA), the game-changing experience that inspires teachers to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and careers.