December 21, 2011
Textbooks and TV commercials in Vietnam reinforce gender stereotypes An image from an advertisement clip for a seasoning powder featuring a woman giving tips to another on cooking. Experts say TV commercials and textbooks are hindrances to achieving gender equality in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government has explicitly stated its intention to reduce gender disparity, [...]
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March 12, 2011
A necklace studded with “artificial diamonds” claimed to be wrought from something called “nano gold” – a special metal that had been discovered following three years of research A Thanh Nien investigation finds unscrupulous entrepreneurs peddling fake junk over the airwaves while government regulators twiddle their thumbs Minh, a Ho Chi Minh City housewife, purchased [...]
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January 25, 2010
Businesses that stencil illegal advertisements on walls around the city will have their phone numbers disconnected as of March. Ban said local authorities would collect telephone numbers on bill-poster advertisements and forward them to mobile phone companies for disconnection.He said an inspection team had already been established to collect mobile numbers across the city. To [...]
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January 11, 2010
LookAtVietnam – If advertising expenses are capped at 10 percent, dairy products’ prices would decrease sharply – up to 30 percent. Tuan, in an interview given to Tien Phong newspaper, observed that some dairy producers reported losses of tens of billions of dong, but still paid nearly one hundred billion dong on advertisements and sales [...]
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December 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The costs dairy producers and distributors pay for advertising and marketing are too high. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) in late November completed an inspection on dairy products’ prices and came to the conclusion that the overly high advertising expenses have pushed the prices up. It believes that it is time for producers [...]
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September 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Health Ministry has issued strict regulations on drug advertisements, including procedures for advertising and penalties for violations. LookAtVietnam – The Health Ministry has issued strict regulations on drug advertisements, including procedures for advertising and penalties for violations. Accordingly, only businesses that have registered drugs are allowed to register advertisements for those [...]
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August 6, 2009
A bus in Ho Chi Minh City with a hoarding that promotes helmet wearing on its side Vietnamâs advertising regulator said a ban on advertisements on public buses in Ho Chi Minh City, which came into effect in mid June, does not comply with state regulations. Ninh Thi Thu Huong, head of the advertising management [...]
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June 17, 2009
An HCM City decision has reconfirmed the city’s ban on advertisements on buses, effective June 15, and ought to put an end to the controversy. Buses in HCM City will have no advertisements on their sides. HCM City: bus service burdening local budgetBus advertisements seduce localsHCM City bus drivers get $7.6 million petrol subsidy According to many [...]
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June 13, 2009
Vietnamese TV series have been replacing imported series during primetime hours on TV. Contrary to worries that these local products wouldn’t attract audiences, broadcasters are earning high profit from these domestic movies. “Want to Cry for No Reason” series made a record of VND1.8 billion of advertising revenue for one episode. Profit from commercials run during [...]
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June 6, 2009
With 15,000 dong, anybody can download sexy pictures of celebrities onto their hand phones. The selling of sexy pictures for mobile phones has become a business, and business is good. Advertisements for picture download services in local newspapers. When they post their own sexy photos on their blogs, perhaps many girls don’t think that their [...]
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