The southern province of Tay Ninh will strive to earn more than US$2.2 billion from exports in 2014.

The North Central and Central Coastal Region will be further developed to become a convenient gateway for Vietnamese goods destined for Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

The southern province of Dong Nai has set a target of generating jobs for over 90,000 labourers and providing vocational training courses for about 10,000 others in its rural areas in 2014. 

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan has praised the great contributions made by former female drivers along the historic Truong Son trail during the resistance war against the US invaders.

Construction of the Long Binh – Chrey Thom Bridge linking the southern province of An Giang and the Cambodian province of Kandal will start next January on the occasion of the 35th  anniversary of Cambodia’s Victory Day.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong has suggested Vietnamese and Lao security forces should enhance their mutual assistance and work more closely with each other to ensure social order and security in each country.

Due attention should be given to working out support policies to encourage women in rural areas to voluntarily take vocational training courses to improve their lives and their participation in national industrialisation and modernisation. 

The military-run telecom Viettel Corporation retains its top position in the Vietnamese telecommunications market in 2013, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. 

Poor infrastructure and human resources, worsened by cumbersome immigration procedures, have limited tourism development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which includes Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 

The middle and affluent class (MAC) in Vietnam will double in size between now and 2020, from 12 million to 33 million consumers, a survey of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found.