Viet Nam’s craft gift suppliers are gearing up for robust sales growth for the remainder of the year, after weathering a challenging export climate last year, according to Kearny Alliance, a US-based non-profit organisation that helps businesses in developing countries. “As major export markets show signs of recovery, Viet Nam craft gift suppliers are confident [...]
The Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCM City (HAWA) will continue work to help further develop the sector in the coming term. The association held its fifth congress last week to review the 2007-10 period and set plans for the next three years. Nguyen Chien Thang, HAWA’s chairman, said the association had been an [...]
Commercial banks that are part of the project to provide financing in rural areas boast of the significant amount of capital available for loans. Craft villages, however, cannot access these funds because they are not cooperating to produce enough goods and they pollute the environment. In 2010, Viet A Bank decided to reserve 100 billion [...]
A fair of agricultural and craft village products will take place in both south and north Vietnam, announced the Vietnamese Goods Trade and Service Joint Stock Company in Ho Chi Minh City on June 30. The event has been planned under a trade promotion programme in the domestic market launched by the Ministry of Industry [...]
Environmental pollution and the absence of buyers are both huge obstacles for craft villages struggling to eke out a living. For many years, a group of 30 Quang Nam women has been trying to restore the Co Tu brocade weaving craft village, which has existed for hundreds of years, but faces the risk of falling [...]
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the Vietnam Trade Promotion Department (Vietrade) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) together organized a Vietnam Handicrafts Exhibition on April 14 at the head office of VCCI, within the framework of the Vietnam Expo 2010 International Trade Fair. Vietnam Economic News’ reporter Dinh Lan spoke with [...]
When assessing Nam Dinh’s industrial and craft production development, Tran Quoc Hung, the deputy director of Nam Dinh Industry and Trade Department said: ” Since 2005, Nam Dinh industrial and craft production has gained a higher growth rate than the whole country’s.” From 2005 to 2009, the average growth rate of Nam Dinh industrial and [...]
Handicraft producers and exporters are showcasing products at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on April 14 with the aim of boosting exports to Japan. As many as 26 handicraft importers from Japan visited and made transactions at the exhibition which was held under an initiative by Vietnam-Japan Special Friendship Ambassador Ryotaro Sugi. The organisers [...]
Within the framework of the 2010 Vietnam Expo, an exhibition on Vietnamese handicraft products opened in Hanoi on April 14 to promote export to Japan. The exhibition, organized by the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry has attracted many domestic businesses and [...]
According to the Thua Thien Hue Industry and Trade Department, the province’s industrial and craft production in March 2010 earned VND508.5 billion, 4.7 percent up from February. In the first three months of 2010, this figure reached VND1.476 billion, 26.7 percent more than the same period in 2009. The State-run sector achieved a growth rate [...]
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