Politics

GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 11/6
10/06/2011 05:00
Vietnam, Thailand boost bilateral cooperation Vietnam and Thailand will bolster multifaceted cooperation between the two countries’ legislative bodies to help boost bilateral relations and common development of the Southeast Asian region....
PM Dung urges US firms to invest more in Viet Nam
10/06/2011 05:00
The Vietnamese Government was willing to create favourable conditions for US businesses to invest and co-operate in projects throughout the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the visiting Governor of the US State of Maryland, Martin O’Malley,...
Dollar interest rate decreases bring positive changes to market
09/06/2011 05:00
The fact that the State Bank of Vietnam has set up the interest rate ceiling on dollar deposits at 2 percent, to be applied to individual deposits and 0.5 percent to institutional deposits; plus the measures to strictly control the foreign exchange market, have brought...
South Korea to more than double ODA
09/06/2011 05:00
Official development assistance (ODA) from South Korea would be more than doubled to reach US$3 billion by 2015, said South Korea’s new Ambassador to Viet Nam Ha Chan Ho yesterday. “Thanks to this increase, ODA to Viet Nam will surely increase in the period of...
GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 10/6
09/06/2011 05:00
VN, Russia to foster closer security ties Viet Nam has called on Russia to assist it in educating its science and technology staff while continuing its supply of security equipment to the country. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the above...
Vietnam’s vessel Viking 2 ‘harassed’ many times
09/06/2011 05:00
Norwegian-flagged Viking 2, a 3D seismic conducting vessel, which had its exploration cables damaged by a Chinese ship in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone on Thursday, kept a detailed journal of the events that unfolded....
Vietnam attends 8th ASEAN security conference
09/06/2011 05:00
Deputy Defense Minister Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh joined senior defense officials from 22 other ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) member countries at the eighth ARF Security Policy Conference in Indonesia Thursday....