Tìm kiếm: foreign

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, in Paris for the 24th Global Summit of Women (GSW), met with President of the French Senate Jean-Pierre Bel and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris on June 4.

The nation welcomed 3.75 million foreign arrivals in the first five months of this year, demonstrating a year-on-year increase of 26.07%.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on May 28 in Ha Noi hosted a reception for US Senator Benjamin Cardin, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs who is on a working visit to Viet Nam.

Foreign investors have committed to investing US$5.5 billion in Viet Nam in the first five months, equal to 65.7% of the same period last year.

Writing on the blog of the World Economic Forum on May 23, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stressed the role of foreign direct investment in Vietnam's economy, reaffirming that FDI enterprises' success is taken as Vietnam's own. Following is the full text of his article.

Measures to reverse the dwindling attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) into agriculture was the focus of a seminar in Hanoi on May 19 held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Local and foreign monks and researchers on Buddhism have gathered in northern Ninh Binh province for a workshop on the contributions made by Buddhism in helping Vietnam meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a list of 127 national projects calling for foreign investment until 2020.

The northern province of Ninh Binh welcomed over 106,000 domestic and foreign visitors from April 30 to May 4, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent.

According to the General Statistics Office, Vietnam has welcomed an estimated 3.07 million foreign visitors in the first four months of the year, an increase of 27.3% compared to the same period last year.

Four goals by foreign and naturalised Vietnamese players helped National Cup holders XM The Vissai Ninh Binh emerge as 4-1 victors over Myanmar's Yangon United in their last Group G qualifiers of the AFC Cup 2014 on April 23.

Vietnam attaches special importance to developing its comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, affirmed President Truong Tan Sang while receiving Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Hanoi on April 16.

The World Bank (WB) has announced Vietnam is among the top ten overseas remittance recipients in the world, receiving US$11 billion last year alone.

Though foreign direct investment (FDI) capital declined in the first quarter of the year, economists say Vietnam is benefitting from the shifting of FDI trends, especially from multinational corporations (MNCs).

The government of Belarus wants to further multifaceted co-operation with Vietnam, its Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has said.

Vietnamese and foreign experts shared experience in economic reform to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth at an international conference in Hanoi on March 24.

An increasing number of foreign tourists found their way to Vietnam in the first two months of the year, offering a boost to the economy.

Building and developing a brand name for the Vietnamese tourism market is a key solution to help the sector reach this year's target of welcoming 8 million foreign and 40 million domestic tourists, and earning 220 trillion VND (10.34 billion USD), domestic tourism managers have said.

Vietnam always places importance on its ties with Australia and desires to boost their comprehensive partnership in a result-orientated manner, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a reception for Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in Hanoi on February 18.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong are co-chairing a meeting to discuss measures to strengthen all-round co-operation between the two countries.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 44th World Economic Forum (WEF 2014), which officially opened on January 22 in Davos, Switzerland.

Vietnam attracted nearly US$22 billion in foreign investment in 2013, the highest figure since 2008, according to statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI)'s Foreign Investment Agency.

President Truong Tan Sang has suggested that Vietnamese and Lao leaders enhance the exchange of delegations to discuss issues in politics, foreign affairs, economics and national defence and security.

Despite 2013's economic difficulties, Vietnam attracted more than US$21 billion in registered foreign direct investment (FDI), a 54.5% improvement on 2012. But experts warn the country risks lagging behind without stronger efforts at reform.

The economy of Vietnam expanded by 5.42% in 2013, with one fifth of GDP contributed by foreign-invested companies. With pledges totalling US$21.6 billion, foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2013 far exceeded the estimate of US$13-14 billion.