Posts Tagged ‘ scheme ’

Grading scheme to benefit Vietnamese coffee exports 

October 7, 2011
Grading scheme to benefit Vietnamese coffee exports 

Workers sort through green robusta coffee beans for defects at a processing plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam. Major commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam, a move that experts believe will [...]

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Madoff: ‘I made a lot of money’ for victims 

March 1, 2011
Madoff: ‘I made a lot of money’ for victims 

Bernard Madoff arrives at Manhattan Federal court in 2009. Bernard Madoff, in prison for the biggest pyramid scheme fraud in Wall Street history, says that in reality he made a lot of people rich and that he suffered alone. In a lengthy telephone interview from prison to New York Magazine, the man widely described in [...]

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Forest protection scheme benefits 10,000 highland families 

January 28, 2011
Forest protection scheme benefits 10,000 highland families 

  The experiences and successes of Vietnam’s Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) scheme, which has generated significant resources to support forest protection and local livelihoods, were shared at a workshop in Da Lat last Friday. The Asia Regional Biodiversity Conservation Program (ARBCP), a project of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), helped Vietnamese [...]

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Commercial banks request interest rate ceiling removal

January 27, 2010
Commercial banks request interest rate ceiling removal

LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks are proposing the ceiling interest rate scheme is removed, saying it has caused major difficulties in capital mobilization and lending. According to the governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Van Giau, five out of 16 banks in HCM City have been found to have outstanding loans double the mobilized [...]

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Establishment of Economic Development Ministry proposed

January 22, 2010
Establishment of Economic Development Ministry proposed

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has submitted to the government an economic restructuring scheme, including a proposal to set up an Economic Development Ministry.  Nguyen Dinh Cung, vice director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), which compiled the scheme, talked about the scheme. According to Cung, after analyzing problems in the current economic [...]

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Vietnam aims to have 150 international lawyers

January 21, 2010
Vietnam aims to have 150 international lawyers

LookAtVietnam – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified a scheme to develop a team of lawyers to serve the country’s international integration between 2010 and 2020. Following recent discussions with lawyers, PM Nguyen Tan Dung said that since 2001, the number of lawyers has risen by 250 percent. VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen [...]

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Vietnam condemns China’s island tourism plans

January 8, 2010
Vietnam condemns China’s island tourism plans

Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga Vietnam has condemned China’s plan to develop tourism on the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, demanding preparations be halted and scrapped forever. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga said Vietnam demanded that China immediately toss out the plan that includes Hoang Sa in a scheme to develop Hainan [...]

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Subsidised loans total $21.8 billion

December 10, 2009
Subsidised loans total $21.8 billion

The nation’s banks have so far disbursed VND414.08 trillion worth of Government-subsidised preferential loans at a 4% interest rate since the programme started. Private commercial banks disbursed VND108.47 trillion worth of loans under the programme, up 0.58%, while foreign-invested banks and joint-venture banks loaned another VND20.4 trillion, up 1.83%.By the end of last week, total [...]

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Problems plague labour export plan for disadvantaged workers

December 7, 2009
Problems plague labour export plan for disadvantaged workers

Poor promotion and communication, lack of co-operation by local authorities, and excessive red tape have been blamed for problems in expanding the national labour export scheme . . . Young people seek labour export opportunities at a career fair in the central province of Nghe An.The problem is seen as so serious that Prime Minister [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...