October 20, 2011
A corporate logo is displayed at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki in this picture taken September 29, 2010. The world’s largest cellphone maker Nokia reported a smaller than expected fall in third quarter profits as price cuts and new models lifted sales of its basic cellphones in key markets like India. Shares in Nokia [...]
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October 14, 2011
Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing Tuesday. Vietnam and China Tuesday signed an agreement setting out a basic legal framework for negotiating and solving sea disputes between the two countries, Vietnam News Agency reported. The two countries also signed cooperation agreements in five other areas [...]
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December 12, 2010
 A woman and her son mending tires on Bui Thi Xuan Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Migrants have added to the poor population in Vietnam’s urban areas but, so far, their numbers have not been accurately been measured in poverty surveys, according to a recent study by Oxfam and ActionAid. A huge [...]
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January 28, 2010
The decision by SBV to maintain the basic interest rate means that the difficulties in capital mobilization will not be improved in the near future. The basic interest rate for February 2010 will still be eight percent. A joint stock bank director told Dau Tu reporters that the decision was really a surprise to commercial banks. [...]
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January 19, 2010
LookAtVietnam – It has been rumoured that the State Bank of Vietnam may raise the basic interest rate in January 2010. While the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has not confirmed or denied the rumour, securities companies have already begun arguing that SBV has no reason to raise the basic interest rate. According to Tran Hai [...]
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December 24, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Though the State Bank of Vietnam has applied stable interest and exchange rate policies in 2009, the market still see-sawed at times. Monetary policies stable For 2009, monetary policies became more stable than in 2008, when policies were adjusted regularly. In 2008, the basic interest rate was adjusted eight times, the compulsory reserve ratio [...]
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December 19, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Body painting made its first appearance in Vietnam several years ago but it is struggling to find acceptance in what is still a conservative society. Body painting is one of humanity’s oldest forms of visual expression. From the beginning of time, it has been a part of the rituals marking birth, initiation [...]
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December 19, 2009
Body painting made its first appearance in Vietnam several years ago but it is struggling to find acceptance in what is still a conservative society. Body painting is one of humanityâs oldest forms of visual expression. From the beginning of time, it has been a part of the rituals marking birth, initiation into adulthood, marriages, [...]
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December 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnam’s street children. Nguyen Khac Long, 12, now feels safe and secure at the Children’s House in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8, where he can study and interact with his peers. It is a far cry from two [...]
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December 6, 2009
Two shoeshine boys in downtown HCMC. Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnamâs street children. Nguyen Khac Long, 12, now feels safe and secure at the Childrenâs House in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 8, where he can study and interact with his peers.It is a [...]
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