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With regard to the future prospects of the RECP, economists at a recent seminar titled ‘RCEP agreement – Negotiation Updates and Issues Concerned by Businesses’ said that the RCEP can be considered the world’s largest regional trade agreement with its market size being larger than that of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS OCTOBER 12

Attending the event were Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung; Lao Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment and Vice Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Cooperation Committee Khamphoi Keokinnaly; Chairman of the Lao National Assembly’s Committee on Planning, Finance and Auditing and Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Friendship Association Central Committee Vilayvong Bouddakham; and former Director of the Lao National Economic Research Institute Bouasone Bouphavanh, among others. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES OCTOBER 13

Politburo member, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on behalf of the Political Bureau, presented the Political Bureau’s acquirement and explanation report on ideas discussed by the Party Central Committee on the draft report summarising the implementation of the socio-economic strategy in the 2011-2020 period and the building of a socio-economic development strategy for the 2021-2030 period; the draft report on the socio-economic situation in the 2016-2020 period and the socio-economic development plan for the 2021-2025 period. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM POLITICAL NEWS HEADLINES OCTOBER 13

Speaking at a press briefing yesterday, Huỳnh Văn Hùng, chief of HCM City Statistics Office, said: “This indicator has gradually improved over the last 10 years, from 0.9 per 10,000 in 2009 to only 0.2 per 10,000 this year. The proportion of families having housing is 99.8 per cent. The average housing area per capita this year is 19.4 square metres per person.” … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES OCTOBER 13

"I evacuated because my roof was ripped off by the other typhoon and rain came in. I'm so worried about my house," a 93-year-old man told national broadcaster NHK as he sheltered at a centre in Tateyama in Chiba east of Tokyo. … [Read more...] about One dead as ‘unprecedented’ Typhoon Hagibis slams into Japan

In a survey by KB Securities, more than half of South Korean-won billionaires had expressed a desire to invest in real estate in Viet Nam, said Nguyen Hoai An, director of CBRE Viet Nam, at a press conference releasing the quarterly report on Ha Noi’s real estate market in the third quarter (Q3) of this year held in Ha Noi on October 9. … [Read more...] about Vietnam real estate still an attractive prospect