Socio economic development meaning

A proposal to gather “sensitive service” providers into one designated area in Ho Chi Minh City has just been put forward by a municipal office in charge of combating social ills, sparking mixed reactions. Le Minh Quy, deputy head of the Office for Social Ill Combat and Prevention under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, announced his agency’s proposal to designate an area dedicated to “sensitive services,” on a pilot basis at a meeting on Friday last week. The suggestion is intended to better manage social evils and curb illegal sex work, as what is considered a “sensitive service” is inclined to lead to prostitution, Quy stressed. Most districts throughout the city are home to “sensitive service” providers, including barbers, massage parlors, spas, and karaoke bars. “With proper control, made possible in a concentrated area, these ‘sensitive service’ providers would be … [Read more...] about Vietnamese at loggerheads over proposed ‘sensitive service’ quarter

Wooden furniture processing at a factory in Vietnam. Economists say the global economic situation has had an impact on the Vietnamese economy  The National Assembly (NA) Office and the NA Economic Commission co-held the “Vietnam SocioEconomic Forum 2018: Current Situation and Prospects” in Ho Chi Minh City on September 18 and 19. The forum was aimed at providing vital inputs for NA deputies to prepare for the sixth sitting of the law-making body next month to examine the execution of the NA resolution on socioeconomic development for 2018, according to Le Bo Linh, vice general secretary and deputy head of the NA Office. He noted that short- and long-term factors at home and abroad have impacted the adoption of the resolution’s measures. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the challenges and prospects of executing the socioeconomic objectives to present key solutions for the remainder of the year. Global economic uncertainty has had an impact on the … [Read more...] about Vietnam could lose growth momentum: economists

Individuals, organizations and businesses are spending money, effort and time to clean up the Mekong River. Photographer Nguyen Viet Hung has just returned from a trip along 7,000 kilometers of coastline to take pictures of garbage. After nearly 2 months of traveling alone through 28 provinces from North to South, what he saw was garbage everywhere. He saw the beaches, nearly one kilometer long, with full of garbage and no sand. In many areas, people throw garbage into the river and the sea. According to UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), Vietnam ranks fourth in the world in volume of garbage discharged, with the volume of plastic waste into the sea hitting 0.28-0.73 million tons per annum, or 6 percent of the world’s total plastic waste. Christian Schmidt from Helmholtz Environment Research Center found that Mekong is one of the 10 most polluting rivers in the world which make up 88-95 percent of total waste into the sea. Mekong is no longer mysterious and attractive … [Read more...] about Vietnamese people join hands to save Mekong River

Experts warn that businesses need to take preventive measures to avoid losing export markets in the coming time. According to the Department of Trade Defence under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam has faced a total of more than 130 trade defence lawsuits including 77 anti-dumping lawsuits, 10 anti-subsidy investigations, 22 self-defence investigations and 17 tax avoidance and evasion investigations. Most of these cases have been lodged by the US, Turkey, India, the EU and Australia. Steel products like cold-rolled steel have been selected for regular investigation, with30 lawsuits having been launched. Five trends of trade defence Many nations in the world have erected barriers such as trade defence instruments to restrict free trade. Ms Tran LanHuong from the Department of Trade Defence points out that five trends of trade defence lawsuits will be applied. Firstly, class action lawsuits have become popular practise, which means that a lawsuit is filed by many nations at … [Read more...] about Preventive measures taken to deal with trade defence

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc left Hanoi for Singapore on Tuesday morning to attend the 33rd ASEAN Summit that is scheduled to commence on the afternoon of the same day. PM Phuc and his spouse will participate in the summit and related high-level meetings from November 13 to 15 at the invitation of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, according to the Vietnam News Agency. They are also accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung, and Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh, along with other senior officials. The 33rd ASEAN Summit is the second summit in 2018 under the ASEAN Chairmanship of Singapore. Leaders of member nations will discuss ways to promote cooperation in economic matters, trade, and infrastructure at the summit themed “Building a resilient and innovative ASEAN." Focus will also be directed on strengthening connectivity to cope with the … [Read more...] about Vietnam premier heads to Singapore for ASEAN Summit