The Business Association of High-Quality Vietnamese Products conferred its recognition on 640 businesses at a ceremony held in HCM City on Wednesday. Most of the recipients of the Vietnamese High-Quality Goods certificate are manufacturers of sauces, spices, confectionary, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, jewellery, electrical and household equipment, dried foodstuffs, and instant foods. They could be named as confectionery maker Bibica Corporation, Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Corporation, Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk), Thai Tuan Group Corporation, Sai Gon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco). They were chosen from 834 companies voted for by consumers in a three-and-half-month survey by the association, which directly interviewed 13,000 consumers in 12 provinces and cities. This year the survey also got consumers’opinions online to compare with the direct survey results to increase objectivity and reliability. Then, relevant agencies checked the information for transparency before identifying the 640 for giving the Vietnamese High-Quality Goods certification. Vu Kim Hanh, the association’s chairwoman, said last year it created a new set of criteria for the food sector, “High quality Vietnamese goods – Integration Standards”, based on legal provisions for product quality. She said 66 food businesses have received the “High quality Vietnamese goods – Integration Standards” certification. The new standards are expected to make Vietnamese goods more competitive in both the domestic and export markets, she said. This year the association would create a similar set of criteria for the non-food sector, she added. The awards ceremony was attended by more than 600 delegates,… [Read full story]
Travel firms earn huge revenues from domestic segment Dao Loan By Dao Loan - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Domestic tourists, including those buying domestic and outbound tours, have generated much bigger revenues for travel firms than those earned from the inbound tourism segment, according to leading travel firms in HCMC. This is an interesting fact as international tourists have always been considered as the key revenue source accounting for a large proportion of revenues of travel firms offering tourism services in all the three segments. The Daily complied statistics about revenues and numbers of tourists of HCMC’s top…... [read more]
Gas firms earn big in Q3 Minh Tam By Minh Tam - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – A large number of gas companies continued reporting large profits in the third quarter, largely contributing to the positive nine-month performance of many members in the industry. As of now, seven out of the ten listed gas trading enterprises have already released their third-quarter financial reports plus nine-month business results, showing a lot of gas traders had pocketed hefty profits from business activities. PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) obtained VND14.99 trillion in sales in the third quarter, taking the nine-month sales to…... [read more]
Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG - Two college programmes at the Đà Nẵng University of Science and Technology were officially recognised as passing the quality level of the ASEAN University Network (AUN). A ceremony was held yesterday at the Đà Nẵng University - University of Science and Technology (UST) to receive the AUN-QA quality certificates for the Electronics-Telecommunications and Embedded System programmes which scored the second highest assessment rates throughout the Southeast Asian region. The AUN reviewed the general education quality of the Electronics-Telecommunications and the Embedded System programmes - the former was opened in 2006 and the latter two…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge – Two college programmes at the Da Nang University of Science and Technology were officially recognised as passing the quality level of the ASEAN University Network (AUN). Electronics-Telecommunications students of Da Nang University of Science and Technology in an experiment. — Photo: VNA/VNS A ceremony was held yesterday at the Da Nang University – University of Science and Technology (UST) to receive the AUN-QA quality certificates for the Electronics-Telecommunications and Embedded System programmes which scored the second highest assessment rates throughout the Southeast Asian region. The AUN reviewed the general education quality of the Electronics-Telecommunications and the Embedded…... [read more]
The CMC Internet Security package developed by CMC Information Security was rated to have similar quality to world-acclaimed antivirus and malware killing programmes like G-Data AV, Avira AV and Bit Defender, according a quality testing in antivirus and malware packages executed by the Vital Information Safety Laboratory (VISL). CMC Internet Security's several features like scanning speed and virus elimination are even much better than foreign products. "We are surprised that there is a Vietnamese software able to discover and remove up to 97.86 per cent of viruses while famous ones, like AVG or Bit Defender, are restricted to 80.15 per…... [read more]
