Life insurer AIA Vietnam in the first quarter of the year saw the value of new business up 65% versus the same period of 2012 while its annualized new premiums increased 40%.

According to the Party and State’s instruction on building new-style cooperatives, members have full authority for their assets and production activities. Accordingly, the cooperative is established to support input and output sources of products and place jobs for local laborers. With this purpose, the new-style cooperative model has showed its efficiency in Binh Duong.

One of the vanguards of dairy breeding in Long Tan commune is Nguyen Van Khuong who left Thanh Hoa homeland to settle down in the commune in 1985. With VND10mil for start-up in 2001, he has so far possessed 30 dairy cows, 17 of which have offered milk with income of VND2mil per day.

Domestic and international bankers shared the view at the two-day Banking Vietnam 2013 conference which opened in Hanoi on May 15 to discuss increasing trends in the banking sector.

The credit limits of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) are not high. Particularly, the maximum lending level to poor households is VND30mln; pupils and students with difficulties, VND10mln. But, the efficiency from loans of the bank in realizing policies on social welfare, hunger eradication and poverty reduction is very great.

Late May 14, provincial People’s Committee Chairman Le Thanh Cung received Japan’s Loxil Corporation Chairman ToShimasa Iue, who came to Binh Duong for search of investment opportunities.

Provincial Agricultural Promotion Center has just ended a training course on rubber latex-tapping skills for rural laborers and demobees in Phu Giao district’s An Linh commune.

Part 3: Proper awareness

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the World Bank (WB) signed three credit agreements worth US$400 million and related documents in Hanoi on May 14.

Part 2: Breathrough of Binh New City

Tong Thi Ngoc Nhan, chairwoman of Chanh My communal Farmers Society said that in the recent 6 years the commune’s agricultural land area has been narrowed, owing to development of projects of HUD eco-tourism project and Chanh My urban project. Therefore, the communal People’s Committee has encouraged local farmers to implement transfer on structure of species and plantings in conformity with urbanization, to spur technology and science application into production, especially bio-technology to improve capacity, quality and competition.

The participants come from ASEAN members and a number of countries with strong mining industries such as China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, India, Switzerland and South Africa.

Part 1: Development of My Phuoc township