Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam News

Paul Hollstein of Jackson during his trip to Vietnam in 2003. By Paul Hollstein For the Citizen Patriot Paul Hollstein of Jackson experienced East Asian culture firsthand during a two-week trip to Vietnam.

The Natural Resources and Environment Strategy to 2020 should be approached in accordance with the economy's operating mechanism, said Nguyen The Chinh, deputy head of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment.

A second bridge spanning the Dong Nai River on National Highway 1A was opened to traffic yesterday after 19 months of construction.

Despite the recovering global economy, provincial authorities remain concerned at the dark clouds gathering over next yeara s foreign direct investment horizon.

Vietnam this year has attracted US$21.48 billion in foreign direct investment , local newswire Vietnamnet quoted the investment ministrya TMs Foreign Investment Department as saying on Sunday.

Viet Nam needs to keep population growth at replacement level in order to improve the quality of its people and develop sustainability, said National Assembly vice chairman Uong Chu Luu yesterday.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines clocked in its 9 millionth passenger in 2009 on Dec.

The head of a drainage and urban development firm in the southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Monday became the first Vietnamese to win an award at the South Korea Innovation Fair this week.

International reinsurers CV Starr, AON, Chartis, Zurich and Allianz have jointly signed a US$1.5 billion contract in Ha Noi covering onshore projects and assets for the PetroVietnam Insurance Joint stock Co .

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This toll booth on the Hanoi Highway in Ho Chi Minh City opened in August to replace the old station four kilometers away Toll collection is so rife with inconsistencies that it resembles a money-making racket.

GENERAL Corp Bhd's 52 per cent unit, Low Keng Huat Ltd , has formed a joint venture company called OSC-Duxton Joint Venture Co Ltd to invest in a seafront development project in Vietnam.

Part of the waste treatment system at Taiwanese monosodium glutamate producer Vedan in southern Dong Nai Province.

Most people feel direct training would be the most effective way to help civil society and communities fight corruption, a recent survey has found.

The Thi Vai River is virtually a oedeada , suffocated by nearly 94 million liters of toxic wastewater every day from industrial parks in Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau, according to an environment ministrya s report.

Premier Darrell Dexter today, Dec. 3, wrapped up a four-day visit to Vietnam where he participated in a trade mission to strengthen business and educational links between Nova Scotia and the emerging marketplace.

Vietnam Telecom International , a subsidiary of state-owned telecoms company Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications , has launched the Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, local news source VOVNews reports.

Vietnam will put up 350,000 emission reduction credits for sale at the first-ever auction of its kind in Hanoi this month, organizer PetroVietnam Finance Corporation said on Monday.

Victoria Radochinskaya from Russia won the worlda s leading international beauty pageant for married women held in Vietnam on Sunday.

Malaysian firm Bumi Armada snd Vietnamese-Russian joint venture Vietsovpetro have been awarded contracts to operate a new oil field called White Rhinoceros in the Cuu Long Basin of coastal Vung Tau City.