Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A one-year management training course for some 200 female entrepreneurs has just been completed under a project run by Tình Thương One Member Limited Liability Microfinance Institution (TYM) and the New York-based Citi Foundation. Most of the entrepreneurs who attended the course were involved in agriculture and handicrafts in the provinces of Nam Định, Vĩnh Phúc, Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An and Hưng Yên. They were given the opportunity to learn about marketing, human resource management, group work, decision making, financial management and business planning. During classes with experts from the International Labour Organisation and the Việt Nam Women’s Academy, the female entrepreneurs also looked at case studies and shared their real-life business experiences. Speaking at a workshop on Wednesday, TYM General Director Dương Thị Ngọc Linh said … [Read more...] about Female entrepreneurs trained on management skills
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Three transformation plans for Bien Hoa 1 IP
Three transformation plans for Bien Hoa 1 IPDa Ban By Da Ban - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Dong Nai Industrial Park Development Corporation (Sonadezi) has sent the government of Dong Nai Province three plans for a project to convert Bien Hoa 1 Industrial Park into an urban-service-commercial area. The province’s vice chairman Tran Minh Phuc said Sonadezi had proposed the three plans based on the results of its survey of 107 enterprises operating at Bien Hoa 1. Of these enterprises, 26 want to continue staying in the urban-service –commercial area project, 23 others plan to relocate, and seven wish to participate in a level-one joint stock company which will invest in infrastructure for the area. With the first plan, the provincial government will set up a project management unit in charge of site clearance and compensation, and infrastructure development in the area. Enterprises that move to other places will get support from the province and enjoy policy … [Read more...] about Three transformation plans for Bien Hoa 1 IP
City pins hopes on food hygiene management board
City pins hopes on food hygiene management boardVan Nam HCMC - Director Nguyen Tan Binh of the HCMC Department of Health believed the management of food safety and hygiene in the city would be better with a specialized board to be up and operating next year. The Prime Minister has recently given his nod to a pilot plan to set up a management board for food safety and hygiene in HCMC, which groups members from the departments of health, trade-industry and agriculture in the city. The Department of Home Affairs is preparing for the establishment of this board, expected to start operation early next year, said Binh at a question and answer session of the third meeting of the HCMC People’s Council on December 8. Earlier, many voters had proposed the health department and relevant agencies regularly inspect and strictly handle the trade of contaminated and hazardous food with unclear origin at wholesale markets across the city. The city is a hub for trade of large volumes of food made … [Read more...] about City pins hopes on food hygiene management board
Mistakes awash in District 1 management of sidewalk use
Mistakes awash in District 1 management of sidewalk useHai La HCMC - An inspection into the management of temporary sidewalk use for two-wheeler parking in District 1 reveals many shortcomings, including unlicensed parking lots, illegal fee collections by operators of free parking lots or failure to collect taxes on parking lots. The total number of permits for temporary use of sidewalks for a fee that are still valid in the district is 25, according to information provided early this year by the District 1 Urban Management Office. However, after working with the District 1 tax office, the inspector found that only one of these 25 sidewalks has fulfilled its tax obligations. In addition, there are three other two-wheeler parking lots overseen by the urban order management team of District 1, with a permit for temporary use of pavements, but these sites are not named in the aforesaid list of 25 parking lots. Other inadequacies in the management of sidewalks in District 1 are also … [Read more...] about Mistakes awash in District 1 management of sidewalk use
Market opens week up 1.35%, trade falls
Market opens week up 1.35%, trade fallsBy Thuy Trieu - The Saigon Times DailyHCMC – The HCMC market on Monday managed a rally, with the index increasing 4.1 points, or 1.35%, from the previous session to close at 308.56 points mostly due to gains on blue-chips while the trading volume felt by a sharp 16.4%.The market opened up with increasing prices of blue-chips, leading to the VN-Index rising 1.99 points in the first orders matching phase. It then maintained high during the continuous matching phase and finally finished the day at those levels. However, trade was worse than in the previous session.Monday was the fourth consecutive session of low trading volume of less than 10 million shares. Absent of foreigners’ participation due to big festival was one of the reasons for dull trade on bourse.Among 174 stocks and fund units on the stock exchange, there were 86 stocks increasing and 50 others falling.Sacombank (STB) was the most actively traded stock on bourse, falling … [Read more...] about Market opens week up 1.35%, trade falls
EVN Finance helps HNPC to manage cash flow
EVN Finance helps HNPC to manage cash flowHANOI - The EVN Finance Joint Stock Co. under the Electricity of Vietnam on Monday signed an agreement with the Bank for Industry and Trade and Hanoi Power Company (HNPC) to help HNPC manage the cash flow, the Vietnam News Agency reports.“The contract will help HNPC control the annual turnover of around VND6,000 billion from over 1.25 million customers as well as the invested capital to effectively develop the power network throughout the capital city,” said HNPC’s director Tran Duc Hung at the signing ceremony.EVN Finance’s chairman Dinh Quang Tri said that the service would solve electricity enterprises’ problems arising from their large customer bases.Advanced technology allows users to transfer money from many accounts to a central one and thus facilitate financial management.EVN Finance has plans to provide the service for 11 power enterprises nationwide in the future. … [Read more...] about EVN Finance helps HNPC to manage cash flow
Accor slashes tariffs for one million hotel rooms
By Mong Binh - The Saigon Times DailyHCMC - The international hotel management group Accor is selling one million hotel rooms with discounts up to 75% throughout 13 markets in Asia Pacific, including Vietnam, to help spur tourism in the region.The promotional rooms at over 300 Accor-managed hotels in the region, bookings being closed last night, are for stays from April 1 till July 31 this year.The hotel brands of this group having existed in Vietnam and applicable to the promotion are Novotel and Grand Mercure, with the promotional rate starting from US$40 per night. This rate is exclusive of taxes, and higher than the level of US$35, US$37 and US$38 the group applies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand respectively.However, the rates are much lower than those on normal days. “With an unprecedented range of cheap airfares, and now bargain hotel rooms, short-breaks and longer holidays have never been more affordable,” said Ray Stone, Accor Asia senior vice president in … [Read more...] about Accor slashes tariffs for one million hotel rooms
Vinacas develops 1-million-ton cashew material region in Cambodia
Vinacas to help Cambodia cultivate 500,000 hectares of cashew. Photo: cafef.vn According to President of theVietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas) Nguyen Duc Thanh, the association willhelp Cambodiacultivate 500,000 hectares of cashew, with all the output set to be bought byVietnamese enterprises. Before 2014, Cambodia sold only 30 percent of its cashew nutsto Vietnam.But in the last two years, Vietnamhas become the largest consumer of Cambodia’s cashew by buying morethan 90 percent of exports, making Cambodia Vietnam’s fifth largest raw cashewsupplier. Cambodia ’s plan to expand cashew farms aimsto improve locals’ income. Hean Vann Horn, head of theagriculture general department and an envoy of the Cambodian Government, saidthat in the last few years, due to price volatility and poor management, cashewfarming area in Cambodiaplummeted from 300,000ha to 100,000ha. He asked for Vinacas’s help tosupply good seeds and technical training to ensure good … [Read more...] about Vinacas develops 1-million-ton cashew material region in Cambodia
Vinacas develops 1-million-tonne cashew material region in Cambodia
According to President of the Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas) Nguyen Duc Thanh, the association will help Cambodia cultivate 500,000 hectares of cashew, with all the output set to be bought by Vietnamese enterprises. Before 2014, Cambodia sold only 30% of its cashew nuts to Vietnam. But in the last two years, Vietnam has become the largest consumer of Cambodia’s cashew by buying more than 90% of exports, making Cambodia Vietnam’s fifth largest raw cashew supplier. Cambodia’s plan to expand cashew farms aims to improve locals’ income. Hean Vann Horn, head of the agriculture general department and an envoy of the Cambodian Government, said that in the last few years, due to price volatility and poor management, cashew farming area in Cambodia plummeted from 300,000ha to 100,000ha. He asked for Vinacas’s help to supply good seeds and technical training to ensure good quality and yields. Initially, Vinacas has provided VND1.5 billion (US$66,000) to … [Read more...] about Vinacas develops 1-million-tonne cashew material region in Cambodia
One mln ton cashew farming area established in Cambodia
Vinacas and Vietnamese cashew enterprises pledged to purchase all of cashew being harvested from the Cambodia producers. Before 2014, Cambodia only provided around 30 percent of cashew output to Vietnam; however, the number of cashew output increased more than 90 percent and the country has become the fifth big raw cashew provider of Vietnam during recent two years. Currently, Cambodia is one of few countries to produce high- quality raw cashew so the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the country has paid more attention to new cashew cultivation in order to improve farmer’s life. According to Head of the Ministry's Agriculture General Department and an Envoy of the Cambodian Government Hean vann Horn, the country’s cashew framing area covers 100,000 hectares. Cambodia desired to receive Vinacas’s support in the process of seed choice, cultivation, harvested and management technology to increase cashew productivity and … [Read more...] about One mln ton cashew farming area established in Cambodia