December 19, 2011
Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen holds a photo of her husband, Nguyen Cong Nhut, who died at the Ben Cat District Police Station in Binh Duong Province on April 25 during an interrogation related to crimes at a local tire factory where he worked. Police in Binh Duong Province have said they are responsible for managing their officials [...]
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September 25, 2011
Vietnam's footwear exports to the EU fell sharply this year Vietnam’s footwear exports to Europe have fallen sharply in recent months even though EU’s antidumping duties on shoe imports from the country expired April 1. Shipments of leather shoes from Vietnam dropped 22.81 percent in terms of value in the first quarter of 2011. But after the antidumping [...]
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September 20, 2011
Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps has gone ahead despite commitments by the government of Laos in April to temporarily suspend [...]
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September 10, 2011
Vinacafe Bien Hoa Joint-Stock Co., a unit of Vietnam’s second-biggest coffee exporter, said it received a VND1.07 trillion (US$51 million) takeover bid from Masan Group Corp. as it targets increased consumer spending. Masan Consumer Corp., a subsidiary of Masan Group and partly owned by KKR & Co., plans to buy 13.32 million Vinacafe shares [...]
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August 20, 2011
Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen holds a photo of her husband, Nguyen Cong Nhut, who died at the Ben Cat District Police Station in Binh Duong Province on April 25 during an interrogation related to crimes at a local tire factory where he worked. After nearly four months of investigation, Binh Duong Province detectives have yet [...]
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July 17, 2011
Expectations that lower global prices would benefit consumers have been belied A worker pumps petrol to a motorcycle at a gas station in Hanoi. Vietnam raised retail fuel prices in late March and has left them unchanged since. When the government decided in March that local petroleum prices will be adjusted in line with [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vietnamese and foreign scientists continue to disagree about the deity’s species and sex A giant soft-shell turtle considered a sacred symbol of Vietnamese independence being guided into a cage for a health check by handlers at Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, on April 3. The giant animal was released back to [...]
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June 19, 2011
Experts say the company needs to further explain its actions or risk tarnishing its image further Le Van Tach, an engineer at Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) who accused the carmaker of deliberately ignoring technical flaws in April, was suspended on June 11 following accusations that he slandered his co-workers and managers. Photo courtesy of [...]
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May 27, 2011
Vietnam’s trade deficit widened in May from the previous month, adding pressure to curb the gap as the nation tries to rebuild its foreign-exchange reserves. The shortfall was $1.7 billion, compared with a revised $1.49 billion in April, based on preliminary figures released by the General Statistics Office in Hanoi Wednesday. The deficit was [...]
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