Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) has been named in the top 500 banking brands globally with a trademark value of US$271 million.
Five more Vietnamese Tra fish producers and processors have won the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)’s aquaculture production certificate since the beginning of this year.
The Vietnam Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System and the Vietnam Customs Information System (VNACCS/VCIS) will speed up an e-customs project to be put into operation by the end of this year.
A US congressional delegation headed by Senator Mary Landrieu is on a visit to Vietnam from February 19-21 to discuss issues relating to children welfare and the resumption of a child adoption programme between the two countries.
Dong Van Stone Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang will be developed into a national tourism complex by 2020.
Hanoi will spend VND34.1 billion (US$1.6 million) on new technology to carry out organ transplants.
The Government has taken measures to ease difficulties facing businesses during the prolonged economic downturn.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has established procedures for licensing of liquor production and trade.
Vietnam’s seafood exports are predicted to experience a year-on-year decrease of 13 percent to US$1.15 billion in the first quarter of this year.
The Thang Nam (May) Forestry Joint-Stock Company on February 19 began construction of a wood and fibre-board processing plant in central Nghe wooAn province.