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Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung (Photo: VNA)   Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung talks to the Vietnam News Agency on the Government’s resolve to help private enterprises become a mainstay in the national economy. A: What has the Ministry of Planning and Investment advised the Government regarding the private sector? Q: The 5th Resolution of the 12th Party Central Committee considers the private sector an important driving force in the national economy. More recently, the Government has listed the task as an important motivation for the nation to advance in 2019. To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Planning and Investment has advised the Government to issue Resolution 02 on the improvement of the investment environment and slash many more business conditions. We hope Resolution 02 will be strictly implemented by all ministries, sectors and localities. We should also raise our awareness on the role of the private … [Read more...] about Minister: Private economy a driving force in Vietnam

VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh (7th from left) in a meeting with Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith in Phnom Penh (Photo: VNA) Phnom Penh (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) pledges to support Cambodia’s news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) and other agencies of the Cambodian Ministry of Information in personnel training, said VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh on December 12. In a meeting with Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith in Phnom Penh during his working visit to Cambodia from December 11-14, Minh said training programmes will focus on designing, producing news on mobile devices, electronic newspapers and data press. He expressed his hope that the Cambodian government and ministry will continue to support the two news agencies to expand their cooperation, and facilitate the operation of the VNA’s office in Cambodia. VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh (L) presents a souvenir to Cambodian Information … [Read more...] about Vietnamese, Cambodian news agencies look to boost ties

In'l partnership drives VN resort developer toward luxury segmentHanoi French Hospital improves service quality with the launch of new facilityStrong partnership to prevent non-communicable diseases threats at an early stageGoBear Vietnam Closes a Record Year of Strong GrowthBIM LAND and HYATT make Agreement at Vietnam Travel and Tourism Summit 2019 StoxPlus provides Datafeed Service to Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd. for its Securities Service System According to the Agreement signed in March 2017, StoxPlus Joint Stock Company (“StoxPlus”) agreed to provide Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd. (“Shinhan Bank Vietnam”),  datafeed covering market data and corporate actions for all listed companies on Vietnam Stock Market. The data is used for the Securities Services System of Shinhan Bank Vietnam with an Application Programming Interface (“API”) – a standard DataFeed Service system developed by StoxPlus and commonly used as best practice in the World. … [Read more...] about StoxPlus provides Datafeed Service to Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd. for its Securities Service System

Computer students will be able to test their skills at the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship-Vietnam 2020 competition. The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship-Vietnam 2020 competition was launched at a ceremony held on Tuesday in Hanoi. — Photo petrotimes.vn The contest is for university and high school students and was launched on Tuesday at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University. At the launching ceremony, co-head of the MOS World Championship-Vietnam's organising committee, Doan Hong Nam said the contestants will test their skills in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint using the 2016 versions. Each exam will have one first prize, three second prizes, six third prizes, 15 consolation prizes, and one promising prize, other individual and collective prizes. The total prize value of the contest is expected to be billions of dong, according to Nam. The three national champions will represent Vietnam at the MOS World … [Read more...] about MOS World Championship-Vietnam 2020 launched

The 2019 Human Development Report, published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), used data from 189 countries and territories to rank them based on the three HDI components of longevity, education and per capita income. Vietnam's 2018 HDI was 0.693, placing it 118th in the ranking and in the upper end of the Medium Human Development group, the report says. It notes that from 1990 to 2018, Vietnam had an average annual HDI growth of 1.36 percent, the 20th best rate of all countries and territories. Vietnam's growth was also the fourth fastest in Southeast Asia, behind Laos (1.49 percent), Cambodia (1.49 percent) and Myanmar (1.85 percent). In the covered period, life expectancy in Vietnam increased by 4.8 years, its mean years of schooling by 4.3 years, its expected years of schooling by 4.9 years and its Gross National Income per capita by 354.5 percent. Meanwhile, Vietnam's loss of HDI value and income due to inequality in 2018 was 16.3 and 18.1 percent, respectively, … [Read more...] about Vietnam strides forward in human development index growth