The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has submitted a food security plan lasting until 2020 to the Prime Minister. This is among significant plans to develop agriculture and the rural area, as well as to improve the living standards of farmers. A great challenge for food security in Vietnam is the area for rice [...]
Lookatvietnam – Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper asked senior Planning and Investment Ministry economist Vu Xuan Thuyen when stimulus for small-to medium-sized enterprises was likely to begin. “I can guarantee that the SMEs will not have to buy US dollars at the high rates of last year”.Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered a report about the [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama worked hard to push his massive stimulus plan forward on Tuesday as the Senate continued the debate on the over 800 billion U.S. dollar spending bill. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)One day after [...]
President Barack Obama signs the Middle Class Working Families Task Force executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 30, 2009. President Barack Obama promised on Saturday to help lower Americans’ mortgage costs with a new plan, coming soon, that would revive the financial system and “get credit flowing again.” [...]
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved an 819-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill, which melds new spending and tax cuts to jump-start the economy. U.S. President Barack Obama (C) delivers remarks on the economy after an economic meeting with company CEOs in the East Room of the White House in Washington, the United States, [...]
Lookatvietnam – HCM City administration on Tuesday announced measures to help owners of banned three and four-wheeled vehicles to find other means of earning a livelihood.It will give motorbikes worth VND15 million each to 100 families on annual incomes below VND5 million who do not own any vehicles.It has asked local authorities to select them.Other [...]
Lookatvietnam – The HCM City Department of Transport has sought approval for a master plan it has drafted for developing a city waterway transport system by 2020. Waterway transport police check ships and boats on the Co Chien River in the southern province of Vinh Long. The HCM City Department of Transport is seeking approval [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The sustainable development of the nation’s water resources was the major topic at a meeting of the International Support Group for Natural Resources and the Environment (ISGE), which took place in Hanoi on Jan 15 to announce its work schedule for 2009. A degradation in the quality of water, increased impacts of [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Interior has asked the government to reconsider a decision asking administrative offices to work on Saturdays saying the move has not proven efficient or cost effective. Officers receive documents at HCM City Police’s Admininistration-Social Order Management Department.VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Interior has asked [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The tourism sector hopes to increase the number of international visitors to 6 million and domestic tourists to 23.5 million this year, according to Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Tran Chien Thang. ASEAN tourism ministers discussed a strategy to overcome difficulties due to the global financial downturn at the seven-day [...]
