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18,000 trees to be felled for new tourist road through Vietnam mangrove forest
Ho Chi Minh City has approved a plan to build a new road through Can Gio Mangrove Forest, a biosphere reserve recognized by UNESCO, in a bid to attract more tourists. The road will be 17 meters wide and run 3.5 kilometers, which means 18,600 trees ...
Vietnam, Laos to bolster special ties
Laos and Vietnam should continue to step up public awareness campaigns to strengthen the special solidarity and traditional friendship between the Parties and peoples of both nations, a senior Lao Party official said in a meeting with Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in ...
Hun Sen asks Western leaders to help resolve Cambodia’s border disputes
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen sent letters to the leaders of the three western countries on 15 July asking to borrow a decades-old map to try to settle disputes over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam. The Cambodian leader sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama, French President ...
Minister urges move toward sustainable seafood sector
Vietnam’s Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat said yesterday that localities nationwide need to step up efforts to ensure sustainable aquaculture, especially of key products like shrimp and tra fish. Addressing a conference held in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bac Lieu to review two ...
Two hurt in “land grab” incident at Vietnam-S’pore industrial park
Vietnamese news have reported that two persons, including a 54-year old woman, have been injured in what is described as an anti-land grab protest on 10 July at a Vietnam-Singapore industrial park. The 150-hectare park is a collaboration between Singapore’s Government-linked Sembcorp Development and Vietnam’s Becamex IDC. A video ...
Vietnam leads emerging market greenfield FDI performance index
Vietnam has topped a performance index for greenfield foreign direct investment, leading all other emerging markets by a wide margin. The southeast Asian country ranked number one in a study by fDi Intelligence, an FT data division, which looked at inbound greenfield investment since 2003 relative ...
China growth slowdown may widen Vietnam trade gap, official says
China’s economic slowdown may widen Vietnam’s trade deficit as the Southeast Asian nation counts on its largest trading partner to buy commodities, according to a government official. “It would hurt our exports to China, especially with agricultural products,” Nguyen Duc Kien, deputy head of the National ...
Smuggling cases on the increase at border posts
The number of smuggling cases in Vietnam handled in the first six months of the year rose by 35 per cent compared to the same period last year, reported the National 389 Steering Committee. The statistics were released on 10 July at an online meeting of the ...
Cambodia, Vietnam to visit border
Cambodian and Vietnamese officials will visit Svay Rieng province next week as part of efforts to resolve ongoing border disputes, but the exclusion of journalists has sparked criticism over the negotiations’ lack of transparency. Border Post 203 in Kampong Ro district has been a flashpoint in ...
World Bank loans Vietnam $507 mln for agriculture, poverty reduction, transport
Vietnam’s central bank and the World Bank on Thursday signed four credit agreements totaling US$507 million to support Vietnam’s priorities in sustainable agriculture, poverty reduction, and a bus rapid transit system. The financing covers four projects: the Sustainable Agriculture Transformation Project (US$238 million), additional financing for ...
