HA NOI — The State Bank of Viet Nam and the World Bank signed finance agreements worth US$682 million for five projects yesterday. SEE MORE 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. SEE MORE 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. SEE MORE The second forum on merger and acquisition (M&A) was held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 25 in an effort to boost these kinds of transactions in the country.
SEE MORE HCM CITY — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved last Friday a 10-year national programme to increase productivity and quality of Vietnamese goods and services. SEE MORE