January 8, 2012
A clothes shop offers discount of 50 percent in Hanoi. Vietnamese consumers like to purchase products on sale, a survey has found. All major retailers have been offering attractive discounts to encourage recession-wary shoppers to loosen their purse strings for the festive season, and the initial response has been positive. The discount sales began prior [...]
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October 31, 2011
The poverty of the male modeling industry forces many into prostitution Male models say they usually have 30-50 percent of their payment taken by the modeling company that recommended them to the show. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre newspaper. Hoang Phi quit his job working at a Mekong Delta television station to enroll in [...]
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October 28, 2011
Workers at a Carlsberg logistics section in Vietnam Danish brewer Carlsberg said on Friday it agreed to take full control of Hue Brewery in Vietnam by buying the 50 percent that it did not already own. The brewer and Hue People’s Committee in 2009 signed a memorandum of understanding confirming its support for the Carlsberg [...]
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September 24, 2011
A poultry trader carries chickens on his way to a local market in Ho Chi Minh City. Foreign firms are dominating the local animal feed and livestock breeding market. Foreign businesses hold most of the animal feed and livestock breeding market share and are working together to increase prices, according to local industry advocates. “While [...]
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June 12, 2011
A GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc. employee bottles Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, on the packaging line at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 13, 2010. By Francoise Barré-Sinoussi (*) Thirty years ago, US scientists identified the first case of an immune system failure that we (Luc Montagnier, myself and colleagues) found [...]
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June 1, 2011
Breweries savor the market fizz A promo model at a booth set up by local beer maker Sabeco at a beverage fair in Hanoi. With its 86 million population, tropical climate and beer-lovers, Vietnam is a booming beer market. If one was asked to single out one industry with a great growth potential in [...]
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May 20, 2011
Vietnam’s small-cap bourse, the Hanoi Stock Exchange, slid to an all-time low on Friday as liquidity and confidence dwindle, marking another milestone in the country’s fall from favor for foreign and domestic investors alike. The six-year-old Hanoi market ended the week off about 5 percent at 76.98 points after dipping as low as 76.81 [...]
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May 3, 2011
Customers enjoy a drink while others browse the Internet at an Internet café in Hanoi. Come nightfall, Do Tri Dung can be found playing online games at his home in Hanoi. “Sometimes it’s the only interesting entertainment after a day’s work,” said the 24-year-old, who has been playing online games for the past four years. [...]
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February 4, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese footwear producers have set up an ambitious plan of gaining 50 percent of the domestic market share in 2010, far exceeding the current level of 30 percent. According to the Leather and Shoes Research Institute, Vietnamese people use 130 million pairs of shoes per annum, or 1.5 pairs per person per annum. [...]
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January 31, 2010
Dang Thi Bach Tuyet (Front), a former official at the Dong Nai Province Tax Agency, is examined on Tuesday The trial of six former senior tax officials charged with allowing a Taiwanese-invested fisheries company to evade years of taxes began Tuesday. The defendants include Phan Van Hien and Vu Xuan Hieu, two former deputy heads [...]
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