VGP – Hà Nội’s gross domestic product expanded at 10.73% on average in the first five months of 2011, said Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee Nguyễn Thế Thảo.

  VGP - Improving the quality of one-stop divisions and expanding joint one-stop units were the focal points of Hà Nội’s efforts to speed up administrative reform in the first half of this year.

  VGP – The consumer price index (CPI) in May reduced to 0.69% and 1.21% in Hồ Chí Minh City and Hà Nội respectively, according to the General Statistics Office.

VGP - Hà Nội is focusing on dealing with obstacles relating to land transfer and rent and grant of land-use right certificates to enterprises, in a move to sharpen its competitive edge, the municipal People’s Committee said.

VGP - Hà  Nội People’s Committee has approved a program to develop key industrial products in the 2011-2015 period with a target of increasing the proportion of export value of these products in the city’s total turnover to 10-15% by 2015. 

VGP - Hà Nội has welcomed nearly 5.7 million visitors in the first five months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 23%, of whom 552,000 were foreigners, up 20%, according to  the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

VGP – The Stone Stele Records of Royal Examinations of the Lê and Mạc Dynasties (1442-1779) on May 26 was inscribed on the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

VGP - The third “International Exhibition on Energy Efficiency-Environment Hà Nội 2011” opened at the Vietnam Exhibition Fair Centre in Hà Nội on May 25.