March 7th, 2012

March 7th, 2012

I’d like to begin this week’s Letter Box with opinions from some of our regular listeners about old-fashioned shortwave listening versus new media technology
Social media help raise public awareness of ASEAN

Social media help raise public awareness of ASEAN

(VOVworld) - The 11th Conference of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information, AMRI-11, opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday, under the theme "Media: Connecting Peoples and Bridging Cultures towards One ASEAN...
Vietnam attends rural development summit.

Vietnam attends rural development summit.

(VOVworld)- The 35th session of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Executive Council opened in Rome yesterday. Deputy Finance Minister Truong Chi Trung is representing Vietnam at the event
Breakthrough in IZ, EZ and EPZ development

Breakthrough in IZ, EZ and EPZ development

(VOVworld)-Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged ministries and localities to raise the share industrial zones, export processing zones and economic zones contribute to industrial production revenues to 50...
NGOs pledge continued support for Vietnam

NGOs pledge continued support for Vietnam

The foreign non-governmental organisation (NGO) community in Vietnam pledges to continue working together with Vietnam in its national development. Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director of the NGO Resource Centre, made this...
Cross-border cooperation increases in Africa

Cross-border cooperation increases in Africa

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an increase in cross-border cooperation among Central African States in a message to a meeting of the Economic Community of Central African States ...
Conference reviewing 10 years of SOE restructuring

Restructuring state-run enterprises

Vietnam has given top priority to economic restructuring, focusing on public investment, state-owned enterprises, and financial market. Restructuring state-owned enterprises is considered an urgent task to ensure sustainable...