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Viet
Nam-US recreation joint venture established
01/26/2005
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Ha
Noi, Jan. 26 (VNA) - The Au Lac Co. Ltd. signed with
the US's Dye Viet Nam Co. Ltd. in Ha Noi on Jan. 26 a contract to
establish a joint venture, called the Ha Long Joint Venture
Company Limited, operating in the tourism and recreation area.
The
Ha Long Bay JV, with its headquarters in Tuan Chau ward, Ha Long
city in northeastern Quang Ninh province, will have an investment
capital of 1.5 billion USD.
The
JV plans to build seven golf courses with a total 144 holes, a
chain of luxury hotels, detached houses and apartments, and
recreational and tourist centres in Tuan Chau ward and Uong Bi
town.
It
will look forward to developing
luxury recreational and resort centres in Ha Noi, the
central city of Nha Trang, and Ho Chi Minh City.
At
the contract signing ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Cao Ky and his wife, who
are overseas Vietnamese living in the US, presented to President
of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Presidium Pham The Duyet, who is
also President of the Fund in Support of the Poor, a cheque worth
100 million VND for the fund
to support poor
students in Chu Van An high school in Ha Noi.
Duyet
thanked the Ky family for their sentiments towards their homeland
and for their contributions to the establishment of the Ha Long
JV, expressing his hope that the Ky family will continue doing
good things for Viet Nam.-Enditem
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US
trade expert extolls US-Viet Nam trade relations
01/18/2005
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Ha
Noi, Jan. 18 (VNA)-
Shoppers in the US can now find an array of Vietnamese farm
produce in the US market and Vietnamese fruit now far outsells
Chinese fruit and is approaching Brazil, said Charlene Barshefsky,
Senior International Partner of a reputed Washington-based
consultation firm.
A
senior expert from the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dott LLP
company, Barshefsky told business excecutives, scientists and
correnspondents from both Viet Nam and the US at a meeting on Jan.
18 of this success to
demontrate the fine development and bright prospects for trade
relations between Viet Nam and the US.
Barshefsky,
who served as the US trade representative in Viet Nam from
1997-2001 and was an architect of the Viet Nam-US bilateral trade
agreement (BTA), said the two countries have enjoyed great
progress in their bilateral economic relations after four years of
implementing the BTA, with high growth in trade and investment,
while logistic services to link the two countries are now
emerging, as reflected in the opening of commercial flights to
Viet Nam by United Airlines and the upcoming inauguration of the
Viet Nam Airlines' commercial flights to the US, she said.
Barshefsky
also said that Viet Nam has recorded an increase of 4.2 billion
USD in export revenues in relations with the US over the past four
years, surpassing the levels achieved by traditional customers of
the US such as Turkey, South Africa and Poland, and is catching up
with major partners such as Australia and Spain.
Annually,
the US exports goods worth billions of USD to Viet Nam, mainly
machinery, equipment and production materials. The number of US
enterprises doing business in Viet Nam is also on the increase.
The US Chamber of Commerce in Viet Nam said that almost 300 of its
members are involved in many industries, in the exploitation of
natural resources and in providing services.
According
to Barshefsky, the relationship between the two peoples has been
further strengthened with the number of Americans visiting Viet
Nam rising from 200,000 in 1999 to around 300,000 in 2004. A
recent poll conducted by a well-known polling firm, Zogby
International, finds two-thirds of Americans
to be pleased by the growth in US-Viet Nam trade since the
conclusion of the BTA. A similar proportion support Viet Nam's
membership of the World Trade Organisation. No nation, other than
the UK, has received such a high level of support in the US,
stressed Barshefsky.
From
the late 1980s to the ratification of the BTA in 2001, the two
governments and peoples have worked through a series of issues
such as the MIA search and recovery programme, the normalisation
of political and diplomatic relations, national reconciliation and
the Vietnamese American community's participation in business,
humanitarian work and investment in Viet Nam. In general, these
were successful efforts, reflecting a set of perceptions shared by
both governments and by the public in terms of emotional
perceptions, pragmatic considerations and strategic issues.
From
the US's point of view, Barshefsky affirmed that Viet Nam is the
fourth largest Eastern Asian nation whose role is significant for
regional security and economic development. With a relatively
young population of over 80 million people, Viet Nam is becoming a
potential export market for the US as the country has a skilled
labour force and lies between China and the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).-Enditem
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US
Chamber of Commerce leader pledges to help Viet Nam
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Ha
Noi, Oct. 16 (VNA) - President of the US Chamber
of Commerce Thomas J. Donohue has committed to mobilising US
negotiators to support Viet Nam's admission to the World Trade
Organisation (WTO).
Donohue
made the commitment while talking with visiting Dang Ngoc Tung,
Vice President of the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour
(VGCL), on Thursday.
He
expressed his intention to send a US trade delegation to Viet
Nam as soon as possible as well as encourage US entrepreneurs to
invest in the country.
The
VGCL delegation informed their host of the Vietnamese trade
union's organisation and Government's policy to join the WTO,
develop a multi-sectoral economy and facilitate foreign
investment.-Enditem
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Ford
Viet Nam sells 5,600 cars this year
12/30/2004
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Hai
Duong (VNA) - Ford Viet
Nam
manufactured and sold 5,600 cars
of different models this year, a record so far and a 20-fold
increase over 1997, the first year when the company started
operation.
In
the fourth quarter alone, the company sold more than 2,500 cars,
accounting for 42 percent of the whole year’s total.
As
a result, the company contributed 400 billion VND to the State
budget, leading the enterprises of different economic sectors in
State remittance.-Enditem
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HCM
City mayor highlights direct air route with San Francisco
12/14/2004
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HCM
City (VNA) - Chairman of the People's Committee of
HCM City Le Thanh Hai described the opening of the San
Francisco-Ho Chi Minh City direct air route as an important step
forward in the cooperation between the two cities as well as
between Viet Nam and the US.
Hai
said so while receiving a visiting the San Francisco delegation,
led by Mark Chandler, Director of the Chamber of
International Trade of San Francisco, in HCM City on Monday.
Chandler
conveyed the San Francisco Mayor's invitation to Hai and other HCM
City leaders to visit San Francisco on the 10th anniversary of
the two cities' sisterhood. Hai also asked his guest to convey
his invitation to the San Francisco mayor to visit HCM
City.-Enditem
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United
Airlines to introduce first direct flight to Viet Nam this week
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HCM
City, Dec. 7 (VNA) –US carrier United Airlines
has announced that its first direct flight to Viet Nam will
depart from San Francisco on Dec. 9.
A
day later, the first direct flight to be run after a 30-year
interruption will land at the Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi
Minh City, travelling via Hong Kong and carrying approximately
250 passengers, including Vietnamese and US diplomats, San
Francisco’s officials, and entrepreneurs.
United
Airlines said it will put Boeing 747-400 aircraft into operation
on the US-Viet Nam route, offering 14 seats of first class, 73
seats of business class and 260 seats of economy class. -
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US-funded
rural business services development project launched
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HCM
City
(VNA) -
The implementation of a US-funded 1 million USD project on Rural
Business Services Development (RBSD) in the Mekong Delta
provinces of An Giang, Ben Tre and Kien Giang has started,
announced the US Consulate General in
HCM
City
on Tuesday.
The
project, designed to develop the market for local business
services in the Mekong Delta, is implemented by the
US
non-governmental organisation
ACDI/VOCA and the Viet Nam Association of Rural Industrial Small
and Medium Enterprises (VARISME).
Over
the last several years, Mekong Delta provinces have achieved
incredible economic growth in the aquaculture and rice sectors,
primarily through the investment and hard work of households,
and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the region.
While there is significant and growing private SME participation
in these sectors, investment in services for these SMEs has not
kept pace. As a result, products suffer from high production
costs, low quality, and limited access to international markets.
The
RBSD project will develop the
Mekong
delta market by focusing on
commercial services, promoting the growth and development of
market-driven, profitable service providers who meet the needs
of local SMEs and will remain in business long after the project
has closed.
For
examples of the type of practical, profitable services the
project will support included laboratory testing services for
disease diagnostics and water quality in aquaculture, and
post-harvest services like contract harvesting, dying and
storage in rice.-Enditem
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