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To make the city’s greenery system grow steadily, it was necessary for all in society to protect them, while a legal system to ensure effective management is also a must, the official added. … [Read more...] about Authority plans to make Hà Nội greener

Participants will also give opinions on a draft report on the implementation of socio-economic development plans and State budgets for 2015-2020, orientations and tasks for 2021-2025, the five-year implementation of seven breakthrough programmes for the realisation of a Resolution adopted by the 10th HCM City Party Congress, and the socio-economic-cultural performance in the first half and key tasks for the remaining months of the year. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM’S BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES JULY 12

Delegates of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council vote during a meeting on July 11, 2020. Photo: Tu Trung / Tuoi Tre The municipal Department of Transport previously proposed various measures to boost public transport, namely creating an efficient public bus network by 2030, organizing bus-only lanes, expediting metro and BRT projects, and running public motorbike and electric bicycle rental services. … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to charge car drivers entering downtown areas in 2021-25

However, the above goal will require tremendous efforts to achieve. By the end of 2019, only 38% of the Vietnamese population had done online shopping at least once a year, and slightly more than one third of them had bought goods/services worth over VND5 million, according to the Vietnam E-Commerce White Paper 2019 published by Vietnam E-Commerce and Digital Economy Agency (the Ministry of Industry and Trade). … [Read more...] about Risks scare away online consumers

 The Brenthurst Foundation’s 2020 publication, The Asian Aspiration, identifies the lessons in economic best-practice that characterised the Asian Miracle. Even the lessons have been written in a fairly short and accessible way, the point is how to put them into practice within African contexts. Against this backdrop, the Foundation proposes a short study tour to Japan and Vietnam in late 2020 or early 2021 – a date conditional on Covid-19. The tour group will be made up of African policy specialists and influencers (leading politicians, businessmen, international journalists) who will be able to implement and/or contribute to shaping public discourse on Asian-African relations and especially the policy options facing the African continent. The study-tour will be led by the Chairman of the Brenthurst Foundation and former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, along with former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and will be hosted by the patron and founder … [Read more...] about Vietnam on focus of African friends and partners