August 31, 2011
Vietnam’s central bank said it will raise compulsory reserve ratios for foreign currency deposits from next month, the third increase this year as it strives to shore up the local currency and discourage the use of dollars. The move will effectively make it more expensive for banks to deal in dollars, which make up [...]
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August 5, 2011
I am a very lucky person. My mother breastfed me when I was baby – which was not very common in the 1950s in Sweden. I’ve breastfed both of my daughters – the youngest was reared on breast milk for 18 months. Now I have a 10-month old grandson, who was exclusively breastfed for [...]
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July 25, 2011
A mother breastfeeds her child in a waiting room at a hospital in Hanoi Poor breastfeeding has left seven million children under 5 years old undersized in Vietnam, the Health Ministry said in a report issued at a conference Friday. Â The number accounts for 30 percent of children in the age group here. Â [...]
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January 2, 2010
TNS Vietnam, Kantar Worldpanel and Kantar Media have identified several key trends that will influence consumerism in 2010. One year ago, Vietnam was marred in its first recession in modern history and the prospects of the average consumer were looking bleak. Twelve months later, it appears that Vietnamese consumers seem to have weathered “the perfect [...]
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November 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – HSBC still says Vietnam’s stock market is less attractive than other regional markets. HSBC highlighted that after reaching a peak of 600 points in late October 2009, the VN Index had decreased by eight percent by November 9. The VN Index has lost more points than other Asian markets from the beginning of the [...]
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October 30, 2009
Samsung opens $700 mln cellphone plant in Bac Ninh; Vietnam fourth most confident country; WB helps develop agriculture in Central Highlands South Korea’s Samsung Electronics opened a US$700-million plant in Vietnam on Wednesday to make mobile handsets for both the local market and for export. The plant, located at Yen Phong Industrial Park in the [...]
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October 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The business confidence index (BCI) in the third quarter of 2009 increased by 6 points over the previous quarter. This is one of the results from a survey jointly conducted by the Vietnam WVB Financial Intelligence Services (WVB VietNam) and the PetroVietnam Finance Investment and Consultancy Company (PVFC Invest) and will be officially [...]
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September 17, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Counterfeit goods account for 45 percent of total retail revenue in Hanoi and 35 percent in HCM City. This is the result of a survey conducted by Nielsen on the attitudes of Vietnamese consumers towards counterfeit goods in the last 12 months. The survey was carried out in Hanoi and HCM City [...]
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July 22, 2009
A businessman walks through the gate of Kajima Corp.âs head office in Tokyo. Vietnam barred Taisei Corp. and Kajima Corp. from working on construction projects in the country following their involvement in a collapsed bridge, a transport ministry official said. The two Tokyo-based companies will be banned for 12 months, Tran Quoc Viet, head of [...]
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July 16, 2009
Small companies in Vietnam were the most confident of those in 12 emerging market economies recently surveyed by HSBC Holding Plc. Smaller businesses in Vietnam, whose economy grew 3.9 percent in the first half, topped the survey as the most confident with a score of 150 out of 200, followed by India’s 128, according to [...]
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