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Vietnam exports to face more trade barriers 

August 8, 2011
Vietnam exports to face more trade barriers 

  Local exporters will have to cope with more non-tax trade barriers while other countries try to limit imports and protect production as the global economic recession continues. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Danh Vinh said trade remedies would be diverse and nuanced as importers impose more barriers relating to quality standards, export [...]

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Vietnamese PM suggests increase of power for FAO

January 30, 2010
Vietnamese PM suggests increase of power for FAO

“We should think of reform and increase of mandates and power for the FAO,” said PM Nguyen Tan Dung at the WEF’s session on rethinking how to feed the world on January 29. Hereafter is the PM’s full speech at the session: Food security is not merely an economic or humanitarian issue, but also plays [...]

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Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions

January 4, 2010
Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions

Bus drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are quitting in droves as street barriers lengthen their trips and decrease their pay.  A bus bogged down by a street barrier in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1.LookAtVietnam – Bus drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are quitting in droves as street barriers lengthen their trips and [...]

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Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions

January 2, 2010
Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions

A bus bogged down by a street barrier in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Bus drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are quitting in droves as street barriers lengthen their trips and decrease their pay. Drivers said their income depended on the number of trips a day and they complained that they now drove [...]

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Vietnam’s seafood meet barriers in Spain

December 18, 2009
Vietnam’s seafood meet barriers in Spain

LookAtVietnam – .Spanish authorities have refused to clear a Vietnamese consignment of seafood for import stating mistakes in quarantine certification. Deputy Director of the National Agro-forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NFIQAD) Nguyen Nhu Tiep said that 20 consignments of seafood exports, mostly tra fish, have been refused entry to Spain since the beginning of [...]

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Street barriers to be cleared next year at the earliest

December 12, 2009
Street barriers to be cleared next year at the earliest

Ho Chi Minh City authorities had asked for 90 percent of street barriers removed by this year end, but project management boards have averred. The HCMC People’s Committee’s latest order asks management boards of three major ODA-funded projects to speed up the laying of sewage pipes and removal of barriers at six hotspots – sections [...]

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Street barriers to be cleared next year at the earliest

December 11, 2009
Street barriers to be cleared next year at the earliest

Ho Chi Minh City authorities had asked for 90 percent of street barriers removed by this year end, but project management boards have averred, saying the end of next year would be the earliest this can happen. The HCMC People’s Committee’s latest order asks management boards of three major ODA-funded projects to speed up the [...]

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Deputies harangue Hanoi official on traffic barriers at intersections

December 11, 2009
Deputies harangue Hanoi official on traffic barriers at intersections

Deputies of the Hanoi People’s Council fiercely questioned city Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Khoi about the city’s ‘solution’ to traffic jams at a Council meeting on December 10.  Hanoi’s Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Khoi  Traffic issues dominated a stormy Q&A session on the third day of the City Council’s four day winter meeting. Deputy Pham Thi [...]

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Dumping claims threaten wood exports

October 27, 2009
Dumping claims threaten wood exports

LookAtVietnam – The nation’s US$3 billion timber product exporters face barriers. There will be increasing trading barriers for wood products.Viet Nam has seen high growth in export turnover of wood products including an annual turnover of over US$1billion to the US and nearly $1billion to Europe. Exported wood products to the US and the EU [...]

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New art exhibition puts women first

September 21, 2009
New art exhibition puts women first

LookAtVietnam – The gallery yesterday was full of art lovers, both locals and foreigners, at the exhibition, Dialogue from One Half of the World, Maternity ward: Fly with Sadness by Chau Giang is one of the paintings attracting audiences at the gallery.Common themes among the pieces included the love of living, maternal passions, concerns about [...]

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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...