January 17, 2012
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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January 11, 2012
 A man works at a steel factory in Que Vo District, outside Hanoi . Many companies in Vietnam are facing higher operation costs and lower profits. An annual report that ranks Vietnam’s 500 largest companies based on revenues, profit, growth rate, assets, and number of employees shows that returns are declining for private companies. [...]
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December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
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December 30, 2011
Hanoi has urged businesses in the city to pay more than US$190.4 million of tax they still owe this year. Thai Dung Tien, deputy head of Hanoi Tax Department, said VND3,461 billion, or 86.5 percent of the money, is collectable while VND122 billion or 3 percent will prove difficult. The status of rest is [...]
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December 30, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung speaks at a meeting in Hanoi Thursday Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Thursday the government would aim to reduce inflation to 9 percent and target a GDP growth of 6 percent for next year. Vietnam’s consumer price index rose 18.13 percent in 2011, according to data released by the [...]
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December 26, 2011
Hanoi has urged businesses in the city to pay more than US$190.4 million of tax they still owe this year. Thai Dung Tien, deputy head of Hanoi Tax Department, said VND3,461 billion, or 86.5 percent of the money, is collectable while VND122 billion or 3 percent will prove difficult. The status of rest is [...]
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December 26, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung speaks at a meeting in Hanoi Thursday Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Thursday the government would aim to reduce inflation to 9 percent and target a GDP growth of 6 percent for next year. Vietnam’s consumer price index rose 18.13 percent in 2011, according to data released by the [...]
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December 23, 2011
Grocer Raffaele Ferrara in his shop in Pignasecca square in Naples. In the gangster-ridden streets of Naples, any word against the Camorra mafia syndicate is dangerous. The rebellion by a group of shopkeepers against extortion is unprecedented. “The fear is huge because they threaten you, your shop, your family,” said Raffaele Ferrara, a grocer [...]
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November 15, 2011
 Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]
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November 14, 2011
Workers at a ship yard of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, or Vinashin. Many in Vietnam hope the government will pursue reforms that are broad enough and deep enough to fix debt-ridden state banks and rein in inefficient state enterprises (SOEs) such as Vinashin, which embarrassingly defaulted last year. After four years of economic instability, [...]
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Ha Long Bay boats do not have to be painted wholly white: authorities
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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