Afc asian cup 2019

Hau, 20, goes up against Japan’s Hiroki Abe, who plays for Barcelona B, and South Korean Lee Kang-in of Valencia. Hau has been an excellent performer through 2019. At Hanoi FC, he was a key player in the V-League campaign for which he received the V-League Youth Player of the Year award. At the national level, he helped take Vietnam to the Asian Cup quarter-final. Hau and midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai were two Vietnamese picked among five best U21 players at the Asian Cup. Hau joined Dutch club SC Heerenveen in September 2019, becoming the second Vietnamese player to play in Europe after Nguyen Cong Phuong went to Belgium a few months earlier. In 2018 the award was won by Saudi Arabia’s Turki Al-Ammar. The award ceremony will be held in Hong Kong on December 12. … [Read more...] about Defender Van Hau nominated for AFC youth player award

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s export of squid and octopus to the US market saw a strong rise of 63.7 percent in the first nine months of 2019 to reach 11.4 million USD, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). Main export items were dried squid, marinated squid, frozen squid, frozen whole octopus and frozen processed octopus. The US is now the sixth largest importer of Vietnam’s squid and octopus, accounting for 2.7 percent of the Southeast Asian country’s total export of those products. As the US-China trade tension escalates, the US raises tariffs on some Chinese squid and octopus products by 30 percent, which has brought opportunities for similar products of Vietnam./. VNA … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s export of squid, octopus to US surges in 2019

Illustrative image (Photo: Internet)    Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia’s joint venture automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer, PT Isuzu Astra Motor Indonesia, is ready to export its products to the Southeast Asian market from early 2020 following its successful sale in the domestic market. PT Isuzu Astra Motor Indonesia will export the latest product – the Traga medium pickup model – to the Southeast Asian market, especially the Philippines and Vietnam, Rahmat Samulo, the company’s marketing director, told reporters in Jakarta. The Traga medium pickup model was only launched in April 2018 and very successful because it is accepted by Indonesian consumers so that sales increase significantly, he said. Samulo did not specify the total export quota prepared by the company, but he believed the amount was above three digits with the main destination being the Philippines and Vietnam. He noted the sales of Isuzu Traga reached 4,288 units in the … [Read more...] about Isuzu Indonesia to export products to Southeast Asia next year

Customers buy beer at a supermarket in HCM City. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - With over one month to go for the 2019 Lunar New Year (Tet), the beer market is becoming active with supermarkets and retailers starting to make preparations for breweries sales campaigns. A spokesperson for MM Mega Market told Vietnam News that preparations are completed for Tet buying. The wholesaler is striving to keep prices at the same levels as a year ago, he said. Volumes could increase by 5 percent this year with domestic products dominating the market though MM Mega Market would be the sole distributor of some foreign beers in the country, he said. A Lotte spokesperson said the Korean supermarket expects to sell 250,000 cases of beer in the first two months of next year. Prices would remain unchanged except Heineken and Tiger, whose prices have increased since the third quarter, the supermarket said. Some 97-98 percent would be local products, it said. E-commerce … [Read more...] about As Tet approaches, beer market already fizzing

Vietnam’s average disbursement rate is much lower than that of other recipients of the Asian Development Bank’s ODA loans, largely due to cumbersome and time-consuming procedures, said Eric Sidgwick, ADB country director for Vietnam. Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung speaks at a teleconference in Hanoi on June 26. Red tape is one of the main reasons for slow loan disbursement – PHOTO: THOI BAO TAI CHINH Speaking at a teleconference in Hanoi on Wednesday, Sidgwick said Vietnam had a good rate of disbursement in the past. However, the rate has been on the decline since 2014, and it is currently very slow, reported the local media. Vietnam’s average disbursement rate in 2018 reached 11.2%, or half of the rate in the 2011-2014 period, at 21.7%, and half the rates of other countries, according to the director. He pointed out that even minor changes in projects such as increases in scale, six-month loan extensions, cost structure changes or the use of … [Read more...] about Red tape results in low ODA disbursement in Vietnam: ADB