• Two-way trade with US, ‘the biggest investor', hits $15.4b

      27/05/2010
    HA NOI — The Viet Nam-US economic relationship will continue to develop in the future, said US Ambassador to Viet Nam Michael W Michalak at the "Viet Nam Businesses with 15 Years of Viet Nam-US Relations" seminar, held in Ha Noi yesterday.  
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  • Forum seeks to improve economy’s competitiveness

      27/05/2010
    Enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of Vietnam’s economy topped the agenda of the Vietnam Business Forum which was held in Hanoi on May 26.
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  • World Bank finances projects worth $682m

      27/05/2010
    HA NOI — The State Bank of Viet Nam and the World Bank signed finance agreements worth US$682 million for five projects yesterday.  
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  • Aid to help fight poverty

      27/05/2010
    HA NOI — Two non-governmental organisations – Bread for the World and Agricultural Development Denmark Asia (ADDA) – have pledged over US$14 million for poverty reduction in Viet Nam through 2014, under agreements signed in Ha Noi yesterday by Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) president Vu Xuan Hong and representatives of the two NGOs.  
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  • Policy overlaps slow poverty reduction effort

      27/05/2010
    HA NOI — Policy overlapping and institutional barriers need to be removed to keep Viet Nam's good pace of poverty reduction in the next ten years, said UN expert Peter Chaudhry.  
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