The publication is a special Vietnamese edition of Focus Denmark, a quarterly magazine published by the Trade Council of Denmark since 2001. It is being published in the lead up to the Danish Queen’s state visit to Vietnam in early November this year.

This supplemental edition will give Vietnamese businesses better access to useful information on areas where Denmark has strengths, as well as introducing companies in various areas, including trade and industry, information and technology, clean technologies for cement production, aviation, food processing, treatment of waste water and solid waste and building materials.

5,000 copies of Focus Denmark in Vietnamese will be distributed to Vietnamese importers, partners, companies, and research institutes as well as investors, said Ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen at a press briefing the same day.

According to the Ambassador, the publication comes at a time when leaders of the two countries have reached the “highest political will” to accelerate bilateral relations, especially in trade.

Denmark now ranks 25^th out of 87 countries and territories investing in Vietnam with a total investment of over US$493 million. However, two-way trade stayed at US$318 million in 2008, up 2.6 percent from 2007.