HANOI (AFP) — Vietnam has postponed a major business conference scheduled for next week citing "pressing macro and micro-economic concerns," the organisers of the Euromoney conferences said Friday.
The group had invited about 1,500 delegates for the March 11-12 Euromoney Vietnam Investment Forum, its third annual Hanoi conference, advertised under the title "Sustaining Growth and Reform in Asia's Next Tiger."
But in a message on its website www.euromoneyconferences.com and in emails to invited guests the company said Vietnam's communist government had asked for a postponement of the event until September this year.
"Owing to a combination of pressing macro and micro-economic concerns, the Government of Vietnam has requested that Euromoney postpones this year's Vietnam Investment Forum on March 11-12, 2008," the message said.
"We have complied with that request and the conference will now go ahead in September," said the message from Alexander Pang, delegate acquisition manager of Euromoney Conferences.
"We apologise for the inconvenience... but we hope that you will understand our need to comply with the Vietnamese government's wishes."
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