January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
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January 16, 2012
Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday. According to the [...]
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January 14, 2012
Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had their massive tumors removed in high-profile surgeries last week are doing well, the news website of Vietnam Media Corp. quoted local doctors as saying Monday. Dr. Tran Quyet Tien, vice [...]
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January 9, 2012
 Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]
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January 3, 2012
A street vendor walks past a Chanel SA store inside the Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Vietnam’s growth held near 6 percent this quarter, reducing the pressure for further monetary tightening after higher interest rates limited the boost to the economy from exports and domestic consumption. [...]
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January 2, 2012
A Vietnamese speech translation system and an iPhone navigation app based on voice recognition are among the applications recently introduced by a Ho Chi Minh City-based university.  The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AILab) at the University of Science, said based on its research on spoken language that earned the third prize in the 2009 Viet Talents contest, [...]
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December 12, 2011
A panoramic view of Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay. Experts have called for improved services and preservation work as the UNESCO World Heritage Site gains further recognition as a natural wonder. A hike in admission fees for the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s foremost tourism site, has drawn a lot of flak, particularly over [...]
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November 26, 2011
An employee at Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, counts dong bank notes in Hanoi. Vietnam’s central bank unveiled plans to create a three-tiered financial industry dominated by 15 lenders as part of efforts to allay concerns over the nation’s banking system. The country aims to have 15 “big” banks by [...]
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October 29, 2011
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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October 23, 2011
The owner of Vietnam’s first private company after doi moi says entrepreneurs need to know their society in and out – politically and historically – not just economically Nguyen Tran Bat, chairman and general director of Invest Consult Group. Nguyen Tran Bat says the best business decision he ever made had little to do [...]
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