Vietnam: Work on the construction of a 100-million-litre-per-year brewery to produce VILAKEN beer started on December 18 at the Nam Cam industrial zone in central Nghe An province. Built at a cost of 1,000 billion VND, the brewery, an investment of the Viet Nam-Laos Economic Cooperation Corporation, is expected to become operational in late 2004. Equipped with German and Czech technology, the brewery is likely to generate jobs for hundreds of locals once it comes into operation.

Vietnamese connoisseurs in beer will be going to have opportunity to enjoy a special product of bottled fresh beer produced by Tan Hiep Phat Company in Ho Chi Minh City with technology from Germany, Vietnam Economy reported on December 19. According to German expert of beer production, Adolf Greiner, the bottled fresh beer has high nutrition content, but consumers in Vietnam up to date do not have opportunity to enjoy the bottled fresh beer, produced with high quality of malt imported from Germany and France. Process of beer brewing is fully automated under Brewmax operation system with the most advanced technology, giving the real taste of fresh beer.

19 December, 2003