Posts Tagged ‘ abroad ’

Married to mistreatment 

December 20, 2011
Married to mistreatment 

  Thanh Nien helps rescue a Vietnamese victim of domestic abuse in Taiwan   A wedding photo of 29-year-old Phan Thi Kim Thanh and her Taiwanese husband Chung Yung Hua. Thanh was rescued from her husband’s house in Taiwan’s Changhua County on December 13, where she was allegedly being battered and kept under home arrest [...]

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Vietnam’s Masan group says considering listing shares abroad 

October 29, 2011
Vietnam’s Masan group says considering listing shares abroad 

A staff worker at a Masan Mart shop, which is owned by Masan Group. Masan Group Corp., the food, banking and natural-resources company that’s the biggest stock in the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, said it’s considering listing shares abroad. Masan may sell shares by issuing new stock, depositary receipts, convertible bonds or securities [...]

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Labor exports hit by shrinking markets 

September 20, 2011
Labor exports hit by shrinking markets 

  Labor export plans for the year have been thwarted by the narrowing of some major markets after escalated violence in Libya and by the increasing number of laborers decamping in South Korea. Vietnam may lose South Korea, one of its biggest labor export markets, due to the high number of laborers decamping in the [...]

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School daze 

September 3, 2011
School daze 

A Vietnamese student talks with a staff member of a US college during an education fair in Hanoi. Vietnam’s university system is deeply flawed, but studying abroad does not necessarily mean a great education, former Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Xuan Nhi tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an interview. He now chairs the [...]

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No crackdown on anti-China patriots: police 

August 5, 2011
No crackdown on anti-China patriots: police 

  Vietnamese police have rejected an alleged clamp down on patriotic demonstrations, while suspending a police official for forcing an anti-China protester onto a bus during a rally on July 17. Lieutenant General Nguyen Duc Nhanh, deputy director of the Security Department under the Ministry of Public Security, and director of the Hanoi Police Department, [...]

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Funereal weddings 

July 2, 2011
Funereal weddings 

  Slick, illegal brokering machine ensures steady supply of poor young Vietnamese brides for South Korean men, a Thanh Nien investigation finds T., a 19-year-old woman from Kien Giang Province, at her wedding ceremony last month with a South Korean man One day in early June, Phuong gets a call informing her that two men [...]

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Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

June 21, 2011
Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

Staff members of a local export company (L) interview candidates for overseas jobs in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Nam has been on tenterhooks for the past week. He has completed most of the procedures for going to work in Taiwan next month, but has not managed to raise enough money to pay for the trip. “Earlier, [...]

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Focus on ‘easy’ markets first 

June 19, 2011
Focus on ‘easy’ markets first 

  No need to curb investments abroad by Vietnamese firms A tuk-tuk rides past a large advertising poster featuring investment fields by Vietnam’s group Hoang Anh Gia Lai in the Laos capital Vientiane. Laos and Cambodia are two markets that are easy for Vietnamese firms to invest in, an expert says. As of February, Vietnamese [...]

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Bride broker crackdown 

May 2, 2011
Bride broker crackdown 

  Experts say more must be done to ensure the safety and welfare of local women looking to marry abroad An illegal marriage broker bust conducted by Ho Chi Minh City police. Many Vietnamese women are entering risky marriages brokered by illegal services for financial reasons. Last week, Qi Shui Hua, 38, walked into an [...]

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Dollar interest cap push Vietnam back to dong 

April 25, 2011
Dollar interest cap push Vietnam back to dong 

  New central bank directives to reduce dollar hoarding, economist says A local commercial bank staff receives bricks of dong bank notes from a customer in Hanoi. A government advisor says people will soon start saving their money in dong. A new cap on dollar deposit rates – 3 percent for individuals and 1 percent [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...