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This year, URC Vietnam has received the Corporate Sustainability Index (CSI) award for the second consecutive year. What new initiatives and achievements in 2019-2020 allowed the company to maintain its position? Company CFO Alvin Geronimo URC Vietnam embarked on the sustainable development journey several years ago and this year has been particularly rewarding as we have achieved many significant milestones on our way to our sustainable development goals. Specifically, in 2019, URC Vietnam and 12 partners founded Packaging Recycling Organization Vietnam (PRO Vietnam) – an alliance for recycling packaging waste toward a circular economy model. … [Read more...] about URC Vietnam accelerates green turn

In 1805, Gia Long, Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945), started to build a citadel in France’s "Father of the Fortress" Vauban-style with its signature layers of defense and 24 fortresses. The citadel, with a perimeter of 10 kilometers, was originally made of earth but later reinforced with brick walls and its completion was announced by Gia Long’s successor, Minh Mang, in 1832. … [Read more...] about 200-year-old royal pavilion returns to resplendence in Hue

The VFF hoped that offering 20,000 tickets for the December 6 clash through four web outlets – vebongdaonline.vn, vebongonline.com.vn, ticketonline.vff.org.vn, and vebongda.vff.org.vn – would help ward off a repeat of the rush at brick and mortar booths which occurred for group stage tickets earlier this month.  … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s ticket fever for ASEAN semi moves from stadium counters to cyberspace

In 2017, to enhance the role and the responsibility of private enterprises, the Government issued Resolution 98/NQ-CP dated October 3, 2017 on the action program to implement the Party’s Central Committee’s Resolution 10-NQ/TW dated June 3, 2017 on the development of the private sector economy to an important driver of the socialist oriented market economy. Later, the Politburo issued Resolution 50-NQ/TW dated August 20, 2019 on foreign investment. These are two important documents, which need coordination for synchronous implementation to rectify the shortcomings in FDI attraction and to develop the private sector economy for alliance with FDI to bring about the best benefit for the country. … [Read more...] about Private sector development to enhance FDI efficiency

By the beginning of December, the Government gradually loosened the lockdown in order to "save" the Christmas, and people were happy to go to work. This is the time when the pandemic spreads at the most terrible speed. Around 30,000 new infections were reported per day and 300 to 400 among them died. In some days, the number of deaths even reached over 1,000 people. … [Read more...] about An overseas Vietnamese: Covid-19 infected, in lockdown and the desire to fly back home