Business Forum a highlight of GMS-6The first-ever GMS Business Forum will be a highlight of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region Summit (GMS-6) to be held in Vietnam later this month, heard an international press conference in Hanoi on March 15. The GMS cooperation was launched in 1992 as an initiative of the ADB. The GMS Economic Cooperation Programme is the most complete cooperation programme that involves Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and China’s Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. The GMS is expected to receive 66 billion USD in investment to strengthen regional economic cooperation in the next five years. Since its inception, the GMS Programme has mobilised 21 billion USD for the region.-VNA

Source: VietNamNet News March 16, 2018 03:22 UTC