Australia’s RMIT university has been ranked number one in the world for its efforts to reduce inequality within and among countries in the 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings released recently.
Viet Nam’s exports were becoming more sophisticated with an impressive diversification of its export basket and increases in the shares of higher-value manufacturing exports, according to a recent World Bank’s report.
Companies should offer higher-quality products and authorities should provide better business networking opportunities to increase purchase of locally made goods and parts, experts said during a conference on competitiveness held yesterday in HCM City.
The Intel Products Viet Nam and the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) on December 16 awarded 109 scholarships to female students funded by university and college partners of HEEAP programmes.
Higher anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese frozen warm-water shrimp
exports levied by the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) will
affect the psychology of businesses and shrimp farmers in Viet Nam.
The blue chip stocks of Vingroup (VIC), Vietcombank (VCB), Hoa Phat
Group (HPG) and PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (GAS)
contributed to the recovery of the market this morning.
Viet Nam''s industrial production is seeing improvement, with estimated
growth of 5.8 per cent seen in the first half of this year, higher than
last year''s 5.3 per cent rise.
The application of high technologies was vital for the development of
agriculture, as it was entering a new stage, stated Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.
Authorities in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta are planning to switch
from low-yield rice to higher-value crops like maize, sesame, peanut,
soybean, and others on 112,000ha by 2015, the Crop Production Department
has said.
The large-scale rice production model that has helped farmers earn
higher revenues than the traditional model, has been adopted in most
provinces in the Mekong Delta.