Moit

Industry and trade sector urged to restructure

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) should focus resources on restructuring industries, trade and businesses which are operating in this field

Electricity price to increase in March

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Feb. 23 signed a decision to increase the average electricity price to 1,242 VND/kWh (not including value added tax) from March 1, up 165 VND/kWh compared with the average price applied in 2010.

Electricity rates to increase next month

The Government has agreed to raise the cost of electricity from next month, the third March in a row the price has been adjusted in Vietnam .

Electricity rates to increase next month

The Government has agreed to raise the cost of electricity from next month, the third March in a row the price has been adjusted in Viet Nam.

Ministry focuses on coping with climate change

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will invest 143.5 billion VND in an action plan to cope with climate change from 2010 to 2015 and for the years to come.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of