Viet Nam among fastest growing tourism industries (23-5-05)

Viet Nam among fastest growing tourism industries Viet Nam’s tourism sector is forecast to see an average growth rate of 7.7 percent in the 2006-15 period.

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 Famous Hanoi cook builds up global reputation (15-5-05)

Anh Tuyet, a famous chef in Ma May street, Hanoi, is known to many people for her delicious dish of "grilled honey chicken".
"In the 1930s my maternal grandma was a cook for some French men and I used to help her, so I learned my cooking skills from her," she recalled.

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 Three Vietnamese students to attend World Piano Champs (13-5-05)

Three Vietnamese students from the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatoires left for the US city of New York o­n Thursday to contest for the World Piano Championships

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 Tax incentives available for Hanoi securities transactions (9-5-05)

Institutions which have registered for securities transactions at Vietnam’s second stock exchange in Hanoi are entitled to corporate income tax incentives, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Specifically, companies and organizations, if joining transactions at the Hanoi Securities Trading Center, will be able to enjoy the same corporate income tax incentives as listed companies at all securities centers.

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 Select Vietnam SOEs absolved from opening books (9-5-05)

Vietnamese State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the financial, banking and insurance fields would not be forced into financial disclosure, said the finance ministry.
Meanwhile financial disclosure is compulsory in SOEs in all other fields, according to a new guidance of SOEs conduct o­n financial disclosure in line with a Prime Minister decision issued in late 2004.

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  Vietnam looses ground in e-readiness rankings (9-5-05)

Vietnam ranked 61st out of 65 countries in the 2004 e-readiness rankings compared with its 56th rank in the 2003 ladder, a global business survey showed.
A country’s “e-readiness” is essentially a measure of its e-business environment, a collection of factors that indicate how amenable a market is to Internet-based opportunities, according to the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist.

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