01/11/2012

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received visiting member of US House of Representatives Robert Filner in Hanoi on Jan. 11.

Dung hailed Robert Filner’s efforts in supporting Agent Orange victims as well as his close cooperation with Vietnamese associates in dealing with AO/dioxin consequences.

01/11/2012

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked for real changes in Party-building work as the current context is posing new requirements and tasks for the country’s revolutionary cause./p>

Delivering a speech at a national conference on Party-building work in 2012, held in Hanoi on Jan. 11, the Party leader stressed the need to further improve the leadership and combative capacity of the Party as well as put forth higher tasks for the Party-building work.

Jan 09, 2012

Robert Earl Filner, a member of the US House of Representatives, met with the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) in Hanoi on Jan. 9, after his fact-finding tour of AO victims in Vietnam from Jan. 4.

VAVA President Nguyen Van Rinh thanked the US Congressman for his help to Vietnamese AO victims in recent years. In particular, in July 2011, the Congressman submitted a draft bill to the House of Representatives on relief for Agent Orange victims, including Vietnamese victims.

Vietnam Plus 12/07/2011

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on July 11 issued the report of the panel that examined Vietnam’s claim against “US-anti-dumping measures” on its frozen shrimp shipments.

The Panel upheld Vietnam's claim that the United States' “zeroing methodology”, as it relates to the use of simple zeroing in administrative reviews, is inconsistent with the Anti-Dumping Agreement and the GATT 1994.

Vietnam Plus 18/07/2011

US-based General Electric (GE) has gained a contract with a local partner to provide equipment for a wind power plant in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu .

Under the contract, GE will provide the Cong Ly Trade and Tourism Co., Ltd, the developer of the project, with 10 wind turbines and assist in the maintenance services for the first phase of the Bac Lieu Wind Power Plant with a total capacity of 16 MW.

17/07/2011

The US's Asia Foundation and the Vietnam Study Encouragement Association on July 17 handed over scholarships to 53 poor high-school students in the Red river delta province of Nam Dinh.

Vietnam Plus Jul 16, 2011

Mellor, speaker of the Vietnam Business Seminar which was held in Baltimore of Maryland state on July 14, assured Vietnam News Agency's US-based reporter of US companies' appreciation of Vietnam, which, she said, is a fast growing country having hard-working, smart working people and the government committed to facilitating trade development with the US.