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Small livestock farmers cheated
December 13, 2014
– HA NOI — Small livestock farmers in Viet Nam are being robbed off due benefits to the tune of US$94 million a year, experts say.
“Middlemen and large corporations are manipulating the market and stealing benefits that should belong to small scale farmers, and the Government must play a more active role to protect them,” Luu Bich Ho from the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) said at a recent conference held in Ha Noi.
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Vietnam ready for ASEAN Economic Community
December 12, 2014
– Vietnam is now ready for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), due to be formed at the end of 2015, experts said at a seminar held by the Central Institute of Economics Management (CIEM) on December 12 in Hanoi.
Nguyen Anh Duong, deputy head of the CIEM’s macro-economic section, said the country has made essential preparations in terms of governance and institutional and administrative procedure reforms.
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PVN tops local enterprise revenue
December 10, 2014
– HA NOI — The National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) has been named as Viet Nam’s largest company in terms of revenue, the VNR500 report announced on December 9, 2014.
The report, compiled by consultancy firm Viet Nam Report (VNR), lists the 500 largest companies in Viet Nam in terms of revenue in 2014.
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Price management under review
December 10, 2014
– HA NOI — The national steering committee on price management had its first meeting on December 9, 2014 in Ha Noi to review the price management and operation activities this year, and their orientation next year.
The committee said that this year, the price management and operation activities were conducted well, and had considerable effect on the macroeconomic stability, reported Government news portal chinhphu.vn.
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The Myth of Net-Zero Emissions
December 8, 2014
– BERLIN – The emissions from burning coal, oil, and gas are heating up our planet at such a rapid rate that increasingly volatile and dangerous climate conditions seem almost inevitable. Clearly, we have to reduce emissions fast, while developing alternative energy sources that allow us to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
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ASEAN investment pours into local market
December 6, 2014
– HA NOI — Viet Nam continued to attract further investment from ASEAN countries this year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.
Figures from the agency showed that as of November 20, the ASEAN community had invested an overall total of 2,485 projects in Viet Nam worth US$44 billion. This is higher than the average foreign investment of $14.2 million per project in the country.
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For the sake of a better business environment in Vietnam
December 6, 2014
– Vietnam’s trade and investment climate has improved in the eyes of European investors, reported EuroCham White Book 2015. Yet much remains to be done to please entrepreneurs, said the fresh released document.
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Tourism to follow ASEAN standards
December 5, 2014
– HA NOI — Revisions to Viet Nam’s tourism sector may lead to a major facelift for what has become one of the country’s most important industries.
The changes needed to bring Viet Nam tourism standards in line with those adopted by ASEAN was the main topic at a conference held in the capital city on December 3, 2014 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the European Union.
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