Vietnam australia development cooperation strategy

During the dialogue, both sides took note of the effective implementation of the ASEAN – Canada Plan of Action for 2016-2020 with all lines of action done. Two-way trade hit 17.1 billion USD and Canada’s investment in the bloc reached 3.15 billion USD last year. The number of ASEAN students in Canada has soared 35 percent since 2017. … [Read more...] about Vietnam lauds Canada’s support to ASEAN in COVID-19 fight

The Cambodian leaders said comrade Le Kha Phieu’s passing was a great loss of the Vietnamese Party, State and people, adding that Cambodia has also lost a good and long-time friend who contributed to enhancing solidarity, close cooperation and friendship between Cambodia and Vietnam. … [Read more...] about Condolences to Vietnam over former Party leader’s passing

Vietnam posted a rise of 10.4 percent in the volume of exported cashew nuts in the first seven months but a reduction of 4 percent in value. It earned 1.72 billion USD from exporting 265,000 tonnes. The average export price in the first six months reached 6,641 USD per tonne, down 13.1 percent year-on-year. … [Read more...] about Export turnover of Vietnam’s main agricultural products down significantly

Under a collective economic development strategy released recently by the city People’s Committee, the sector is expected to contribute 0.6% to the city’s total GDP. With policies to encourage the expansion of cooperatives, the sector expects to attract an additional 30,000 workhands. The city will maintain and enhance the quality of effective agricultural cooperatives and gradually improve those that are ineffective, while encouraging all cooperatives to apply high technology. At the same time, the city will continue to build the model of advanced and modern agricultural cooperatives in five districts, and will also work to ensure all new-style rural communes have cooperatives and production-sales links. In the industry and handicraft sectors, the city will develop operating cooperatives while associating the expansion of cooperatives with industry encouragement programmes to support cooperatives and businesses alike. In the area of trade-services, HCM City … [Read more...] about HCM City aims to develop 300 cooperatives to 2030

Vietnam Airlines, ACV suffer heavy losses due to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has severely dragged down revenues of the Vietnam Airlines Corporation (Vietnam Airlines) and the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) in the second quarter of this year.   … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines projects loss of over US$650 million this year