Hepl for blind people to integrate with society

Mon, 03/12/2001 - 00:33



Ha Noi, March 11 (VNA) -- A rehabilitation and vocational training centre is needed to help the blind find jobs and improve living conditions, says Nguyen Khanh, the Ho Chi Minh City Association for the Blind.

Khanh says the centre will help the blind recover their working capability, and provide vocational training and jobs for them.

New 6 Aquatic breeding centres

Mon, 03/12/2001 - 00:31



Ha Noi, March 11 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's fisheries sector plans to open six national aquatic product breeding centres in the next five years, says Deputy Head of the Fisheries Ministry's Science and Technology Department Tran Van Quynh.

Vietnam's handicrafts gain foothold in world market

Mon, 03/12/2001 - 00:29




Ha Noi, Mar. 7 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's fine art handicraft products, regarded as an expression of the nation's traditional culture and art, have found a stable niche in the world market.

Unlike other items, fine art handicraft articles are made mostly from raw materials available in the country with imported additives accounting only 3-5 percent. Accordingly, the net income of hard currencies earned from these exports is as high as 95-97 percent.

Minority communities prosper from farm economy

Mon, 03/12/2001 - 00:27




Mar. 12 (VNA) -- The farm economy has helped the minority community in Central Highlands Dac Lac province prosper. The number of prosperous or well-off households rose from 3,362 in 1990 to more than 10,300 last year.

Official statistics show that the province now has 331 farms run by minority families, that account for 10.6 percent of the province's farms and plantations.

High level delegation from VN attends Laos Party Congress

Mon, 03/12/2001 - 00:24




Ha Noi, March 12 (VNA) -- A high-level Viet Nam Communist Party delegation led by General Secretary Le Kha Phieu arrived in Vientiane on March 11 for the seventh congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, LPRP, which was expected to open today, March 12.

64% of HIV/AIDS carriers are drug addicts

Sun, 03/11/2001 - 02:57




Ha Noi, March 9 (VNA) -- As many as 64 percent of nearly 30,000 detected HIV/AIDS carriers are drug addicts, reported a seminar on HIV/AIDS epidemiological surveillance held in Ha Noi on March 9.

Localities having high rates of HIV/AIDS patients among drug addicts include central and southern provinces with 89.36 percent; northern Hai Phong port city, 74 percent, and central coastal Nha Trang city, 49 percent.

Garment and textile industry to increase production

Sun, 03/11/2001 - 02:55


Ha Noi, March 10 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's garment and textile industry plans to earn USD 5 billion a year from exports in the next five years.

And the National Garment and Textile Corporation is implementing 150 projects capitalized at VND 5,000 billion, about USD 357 million, to renovate equipment in its affiliate companies to achieve this goal.

In addition, the corporation will invest in building two garment and textile industrial zones in northern Hung Yen province and southern Dong Nai province.

FM Spokespeson on FIR control over East Sea

Sun, 03/11/2001 - 02:53



Ha Noi, Mar. 10 (VNA) -- The International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO's, recent agreement for a test application of an air-route structure over the East Sea does not concern the issue of national sovereignty over the archipelagoes and the waters of the East Sea, said a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on March 10.

The spokesperson was responding to questions from some reporters to an article published by Hong Kong's Mingbao on Mar. 8 about flight information region (FIR) control over the East Sea.

Torward sustainable development in Gia Lai province

Thu, 03/08/2001 - 22:13




Ha Noi, Mar. 8 (VNA) -- Life for the minority people in Central Highlands Gia Lai province has constantly improved as a result of remarkable achievements the local people have made in their efforts to realise the Doi moi, Renovation, policy charted by the Communist Party in 1986.

Official statistics show that Gia Lai's yearly average gross domestic product, GDP, growth rate was 10.4 percent during the years of renovation. Gia Lai, one of the poorest provinces in Viet Nam, has strived for sustainable development from a very low starting point.

Promote FDI in Central and Central Highland

Thu, 03/08/2001 - 22:10




Ha Noi, March 7 (VNA) -- A seminar for promoting the implementation of foreign direct investment, FDI, projects in central and central highland provinces was held in Da Nang on March 6 and 7 by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP, and the Planning and Investment Ministry.

ESCAP's Japanese-funded Dong Duong, Indochina, investment project faced difficulties during 2000-2001, the seminar discussed the advantages and difficulties of the FDI projects and recommended ways to enhance foreign investment in Viet Nam.

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