Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group expects to supply an additional 780 MW of electricity to the national power grid by the end of April.

Despite facing adverse weather conditions, Vietnam expects to export 7.1-7.4 million tonnes of rice this year.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Government of China’s Hunan province organized a forum on bilateral cooperation in trade and investment between Vietnam and China in Hanoi on April 13.

The provincial People’s vice chairman Tran Thanh Liem and local leaders yesterday made a survey to some industrial parks (IPs) located at Binh Duong Industry-Service-Urban Complex.

Co.op Mart chain has set up its price stabilization program for 2011, according Vo Huu Thach, Director of Binh Duong Co.op Mart.

Two-way trade between Vietnam and the US in February 2011 was down by 6.8 percent from January to 1,598.1 million USD due to decreased Vietnam 's exports.

 

In the first quarter of 2011, Phuoc Hoa Rubber Joint Stock Company (JSC) secured VND254bln in profit. This was also the highest result done by the company over the past ten years.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh joined the sixth round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership  (TPP Agreement) in Singapore from March 27 to April 1.

Despite a number of difficulties due to a lack of labour force and rising interest rates Vietnam’s garment exports achieved higher growth in the first quarter of this year than the same period last year.

Domestic exporters should capitalise on the rising import growth rates of Asian countries and boost exports to those markets, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien said April 7.

Vietnam expects France, a major European partner in trade, investment and development cooperation, to make new investment waves in the country on the back of its gradual recovery after the global economic crisis, said Ambassador to France Le Kinh Tai.

 Over the past three years, provincial Business Bloc’s Party Committee and its affiliates strengthened the education work of the Party and State’s policies and laws in association with the “Studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh’s exemplary morals” campaign among the bloc’s officials, Party members and workers, aiming to raise their awareness of politics and discipline as well as improving their industrial working style.

Visiting Tuong Binh Hiep lacquer village in Thu Dau Mot town, visitors witness busy ambience of lacquer production workshops in preparation for export orders.

Enterprises and industrial zones complain that they cannot seek the loans at reasonable interest rates to build water treatment plants. As a result they have to… discharge untreated wastewater into the environment.