2009 under review

Tourism: Overcoming difficulties, restoring growth rate
Nhan Dan- Last year saw many difficulties for the tourism sector, including the global financial crisis, the world economic recession and epidemic diseases. These have caused adverse impacs on the development of Vietnam’s tourism, leading to the decreasing number of tourists to the country.

2009: A year of drastic measures on disease prevention and control

Nhan Dan – The year 2009 is considered a challenging year for the global health protection system due to the widespread influenza of A/H1N1 throughout the world. Through the A/H1N1 flu pandemic, the national health sector has drawn a valuable lesson in actively deploying measures to cope with the pandemic. Also, in such a global integration trend, the pandemic prevention and control works need appropriate investment so as to get ready to cope with the disease.


Top ten international events in 2009

1. Vietnam fulfilled its mission as a non-permanent member of the United Nation Security Council (UNSC).


Top ten Vietnam’s sport events in 2009

Nhan Dan Newspaper ’s Culture, Literature and Arts Department has selected Top ten Vietnam's sport events in 2009.


Top 10 science and technology events in 2009

The Science and Technology Journalists’ Club on December 30 announced Vietnam’s top 10 science and technology events in 2009.


Weathering storm of global economic crisis

Nhan Dan – Although the newly-registered FDI capital in 2009 has sharply reduced as against the previous year, the implemented FDI capital has remained pretty high and the foreign investment sector has continued to play an important role in boosting the domestic economic growth.


2009: A year of drastic measures on disease prevention and control

Nhan Dan – The year 2009 is considered a challenging year for the global health protection system due to the widespread influenza of A/H1N1 throughout the world. Through the A/H1N1 flu pandemic, the national health sector has drawn a valuable lesson in actively deploying measures to cope with the pandemic. Also, in such a global integration trend, the pandemic prevention and control works need appropriate investment so as to get ready to cope with the disease.


Top ten cultural, sports, tourism activities in 2009

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) officially announced 10 outstanding cultural, sports and tourism activities in 2009 in the central city of Da Nang on December 27.


Overcoming natural disasters, agricultural sector records comprehensive achivement

Nhan Dan – The agricultural sector has experienced a lot of difficulties in 2009 such as storms and floods in the provinces of the central region and the Central Highlands, cold and drought in the northern region, flood-tide and salty water infiltration in the southern provinces, and pestilent insects which have caused a lot of damage to areas under rice nationwide.


State management of operation of stock market further strengthened

Nhan Dan – The stock market is a place where the medium and long – term capital is mobilised to create the source of development investment capital for the Government and enterprises. However, in recent time, the market development has seen abnormal manifestations because of the fact that the speculative and illegal activities have destabilised the market, adversely affecting the management of the monetary and financial policy.


Great contribution made by industrial production

Nhan Dan – In 2009, despite facing a lot of difficulties and challenges, especially the global economic crisis, the industrial sector has still maintained its growth, making a contribution to maintaining the whole country’s economic growth.


Great contribution made by national key construction works

Nhan Dan – 2009 is an extremly difficult year due to the impact of the global economic crisis, in which investment projects in construction, especially the national key construction projects, have been directly affected.

 

 


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