Vietnam Current Events

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Current Events

· Vietnam puts forth three initiatives at the 30 th General
Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (Nhan dan and Quan doi Nhan
dan, p1; Saigon Giai phong and Hanoi Moi, p8).

· Government convenes regular meeting: Speeding up the
implementation of economic stimulus solutions (All dailies, p1).

· Vietnam supports conciliation and reconstruction efforts in
Iraq (Nhan dan, p8).

· Chairman of the Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General
Tariq Majid visits Vietnam (Quan doi Nhan dan, p7).

Socio-economic Affairs

· Vietnam strives to rank in Top 3 at Paragames 2009 (Nhan
dan, p8).

· Conference promotes the flow of investment in Nam Dinh and Thai
Binh: Investors pledged to pour nearly 4 billion USD into the two provinces (Nhan
dan and Hanoi Moi, p1).

· Petroleum Geo-Services commits to long-term investment in
Vietnam (Nhan dan, p7).

· More than 1.38 trillion VND for the construction of a road section
of the North-South expressway (Saigon Giai phong, p1).

· Norwegian companies interested in Vietnam (Saigon Giai phong,
p1).

· Creating favourable conditions and increasing opportunities for
women (Saigon Giai phong, p1).

· Number of foreign tourists to Vietnam on the decrease (Lao
dong, p3).

· Coffee prices continue to rise slightly (Lao dong, p3).

· Giong Festival nominated for UNESCO’s recognition as the
world’s intangible cultural heritage (Hanoi Moi, p1).

· Total retail sales surge by 18.3 percent (Hanoi Moi, p1).

· Hanoi to have the well-known hotel brand name J.W Marriot
(Hanoi Moi, p4). Bitexco Group signed a contract with the world’s leading hotel
management group Marriot International Inc. to open a hotel in Hanoi in 2012.


· Promoting Vietnam ’s tourism potentials in foreign newspapers
(Hanoi Moi, p5). On August 5, close to 20 foreign reporters and photographers
from 13 world leading tourism magazines arrived in Vietnam to write about the
country’s tourism potentials.

· Sa Pa ’s terraced fields rated as one of the seven most
beautiful and magnificent in the world by the US’s Travel and Leisure Magazine
(Tuoi tre [Youth], No. 209, p11).

· Craft villages overcome difficult period (Tuoi tre, No. 209, p14).
Months ago, craft villages faced various hardships due to contract decrease, but
many of them now have to expand workshops to raise outputs.

· Supply-demand balance needed for real estate market (Thoi bao Kinh
te Viet Nam [Vietnam Economic Times], No. 186, p3). According to Nguyen Manh
Ha, Director of the Construction Ministry’s Housing and Real Estate Market
Management Department, an unbalance in supply-demand is the main cause behind
property price hikes.

· Vietnam-Hong Kong taxation avoidance agreement – a factor to
promote bilateral investment and trade (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 186,
p6).

· Demand for worker recruitment likely to increase sharply (Thoi bao
Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 186, p13).

· Demand for building land on the rise (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam
, No. 186, p15).

· Plans for 2010 and expectations (Dau tu [Investment], No. 93, p1).
Most of the 2010 socio-economic development targets set by localities are higher
than those of this year.

· Another property investment fund in the pipeline (Dau tu, No. 93,
p10). The VinaCapital Group is mobilising capital to establish another real
estate investment fund in Vietnam .

· GE Energy interested in wind power projects in Vietnam (Dau
tu, No. 93, p13). An interview with Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of GE Energy in
Vietnam .

· Economic situation in July: all major industries enjoy growth
(Thoi bao Ngan hang [Banking Review], No. 124, p5).

· Restructuring of Vietnam ’s industry: opportunity to join the
global value chain (Thoi bao Ngan hang, No. 124, p9).

International Affairs

· Russia backs EU’s role in Georgia (Nhan dan, p8).

· Russia , the US agree to increase control over nuclear
weapons (Nhan dan, p8).

· Japan commemorates 64 th anniversary of the atomic bomb
attacks on its two cities ( Saigon giai phong, p8).

· WHO: Pneumonic plague cannot kill people en mass (Hanoi Moi,
p8).

· Nuclear crisis in Iran : Unforeseeable developments (Hanoi Moi,
p8).

· Democratic People’s Republic of Korea grants amnesty to two
US female journalists (Hanoi Moi, p8).-Enditem