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Current Events
· Editorial: promoting the spirit of the August Revolution to develop the country fast and sustainably (Nhan dan, p1).
· The Vietnam National Assembly delegation attends the 29 th ASEAN inter-Parliamentary Assembly (Nhan dan, p8).
· Vietnamese Counselor in Brazil escaped from the abductors (Nhan dan, p8).
· President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Huynh Dam receives US Ambassador Michael Michalak (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung: 500 communes will elect chairmen of the local people’s committee under a pilot programme (Lao dong, p1).
· Head of the Counter-Corruption Department of the Government Inspectorate Tran Duc Luong: in the future the source of income must be explained (Lao dong, p7).
Socio-economic Events
· First day of new trading band: VN-Index goes beyond the 500 point mark (Nhan dan, p2).
· Jetstar Pacific airlines terminates the Ho Chi Minh City-Nha Trang route (Nhan dan, p7).
· The Mekong delta attracts almost 2.8 billion USD in foreign investment (Quan doi Nhan dan, p4).
· Japan finances close to 172,000 USD to build schools in northern Phu Tho province (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Loans for the poor’s housing upgrade (Hanoi Moi, p1).
· Mead Johnson establishes its wholly owned milk company in Vietnam (Hanoi Moi, p4).
· The national boxing championship 2008 opens (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Foreigners may work as real estate brokerage in Vietnam (Lao dong, p3).
· Realty market in the expanded Hanoi will be more attractive (Lao dong, page on Hanoi ).
· The Vietnam Week 2008 to be held in Japan (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· Vietnam cooperates with WHO to implement strategic health goals (Saigon Giai phong, p1).
· First Gong Space Festival to take place in Central Highlands Gia Lai province (Saigon Giai phong, p7).
· Phuong Hoang international commercial airport to be built in Kon Tum’s Tan Canh commune (Saigon Giai phong, p7).
· Smuggled goods flood the market (Saigon Giai phong, p10).
· More investment goes overseas (Cong Thuong [Industry & Trade], No. 41, p4). Vietnam has to date invested in 317 projects overseas with a total registered capital of 2.5 billion USD.
· Ho Chi Minh City : supermarkets reduce prices of commodities (Cong thuong, No. 41, p9). Ho Chi Minh City ’s supermarkets have from the beginning of August launched promotion programmes for food and cosmetics in a bid to draw customers back after the price hike.
· Burden put on businesses’ shoulders (Dau tu [Investment], No. 99, p1). Apart from service and freighting fees, Vietnamese businesses have to pay additional fees for the delay of their imported and exported cargoes that are stuck at Ho Chi Minh City ’s ports.
· The Republic of Korea provides Vietnam with soft loans worth 1 billion USD (Dau tu, No. 99, p2).
· Vung Ang industrial zone: third steel making project (Dau tu, No. 99, p2).
· It’s time for private hospitals (Dau tu, No. 99, p2). The Government issues a series of policies supporting businesses to build hospitals.
· The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies is to have its capital raised (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam [Vietnam Economic Time], No. 198, p3). Director General of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies Ha Thi Hanh about the issue.
· Cashew plantation in difficult time (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 198, p5). Although processing plants are facing great shortage of raw cashew nuts in service of export, cashew growers have cut down their plantation due to low profits.
· The post-WTO action plan is adjusted to adapt to new circumstances and increase its feasibility (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 198, p6).
· Shortage of raw aquatic materials (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 198, p7). Seafood processors in the port city of Hai Phong imported more than 5,000 tonnes of raw aquatic materials in the past six months. This is a paradox as Hai Phong is the north’s key aquatic breeding area.
· Sixty-one districts have more than half of their population to live in poverty (Thoi bao Kinh te Vietnam , No. 198, p22). Though poor households account around 18 percent of the nation’s population, there remain 61 districts of 20 provinces benefiting from programme 135 that have over 50 percent of their population to live in poverty.
International Events
· The President of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia dismissed its “Government” and declared the state of emergency (Nhan dan, p8).
· Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigns (Nhan dan and Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Georgia wants to negotiate with Russia (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· IAEA’s Vice President arrives in Iran (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Severe violence in the Philippines ’ southern region (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· The US asks the DPRK for its nuclear verification plan (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· The US signs an agreement to establish a radar station in Israel (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Thailand and Cambodia talk on the disputed Preah Vihear temple (Saigon Giai phong, p8).
· The UN Security Council did not pass the Russia-Georgia resolution yet (Saigon Giai phong, p8).-Enditem
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