For the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Ham Rong Victory (1965 – 2010), the opening ceremony of the Industrial Craft Product Exhibition in the north central region was held on March 29th in Lam Son Square in Thanh Hoa province. The exhibition was organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Thanh Hoa [...]
Hanoi Craft Week 2010 will be held from August 4th to 9th, 2010 in the Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao Str. by Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade. This is an important event to honor Hanoi – a thousand years of culture and the National Tourism Year 2010. Vietnam Economic News’ reporter spoke [...]
By 2009, there were 6,901 rural industrial factories which employed 50,069 workers, accounting for 8.4 percent of the province’s labor resources. Industrial and craft production value in 2009 reached VND4.6 trillion, 27.46 percent of the province’s industrial production. Binh Thuan’s industrial craft production achieved an average growth rate of 17.37 percent from 2005 to 2009. [...]
Hanoi now has 1,270 handicraft villages, including 244 traditional villages with 47 industries. However, the villages are facing difficulties for sustainable development due to lack of attention for building trademarks and production promotion. Still dependent on development history Many traditional handicraft villages do not focus on promoting their trademarks with the subjective thought that they [...]
Unlike the beginning of the year, handicraft producers are now very busy. They must speed up production and recruit more workers to fill the many orders placed by partners, both happy tasks for businesses. Big orders coming Many contracts have been signed in the first months of 2010, which people think augers well for the [...]
The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (VietTrade) is coordinating with international organizations on a project to improve production and trade for poor handicraft families in the northern provinces of Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh and Phu Tho, according to VietTrade. Two young women are weaving handicraft products from sedge. The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency will [...]
Vietnamese handicraft sector had developed under its potentials and needs to take some initiatives to boost its production and trade, according to experts at a conference yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City. Dang Quoc Hung, deputy chairman of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCM City (Hawa) was quoted as saying that the sector [...]
Fine arts and handicrafts exports are projected to meet the Government target of US$1.5 billion in turnover next year as the sector has had an annual export growth rate of 20 per cent in recent years. Luu Duy Dan, deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Craft Villages Association, said fine arts and handicrafts were the [...]
Vietnam still hopes handicraft exports will pass the $1 billion mark in 2010 despite the downturn. Deputy chairman of the Vietnam Craft Village Association Luu Duy Dan says exports of handicrafts have recently increased by 20 percent per year. It’s meant products have found themselves among the top 10 items with the highest export growth [...]
With handicraft exports reviving after several months, more than 20 foreign businesses have contacted the HCM City Handicraft and Wood Industry Association in the last two months to source products. HAWA said orders for handicrafts from foreign customers had been rising this year while at the end of last year, many orders were cancelled, causing [...]
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