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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October 23, 2011
A traffic jam in Hanoi. The capital city now has nearly 400,000 cars and some four million motorbikes. Cars with five to seven seats are the main instigators of traffic jams and accidents in Vietnam, according to Khuat Viet Hung, head of the Department of Transport Planning and Management at the University of Transport, who [...]
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September 22, 2011
Vietnam is advising power-consuming manufacturers in the south to stagger production while the Nam Con Son gas pipelines that feed power plants undergo maintenance, an official at state utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) said. Gas supply to two power plants with a combined capacity of about a quarter of the country’s total was to halt [...]
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September 1, 2011
Dung Quat produced more than 3.3 million tons of oil products in the first seven months Vietnam’s Dung Quat Refinery restarted Friday, following a shutdown for maintenance that ended earlier than expected. State-owned oil and gas group PetroVietnam stopped the 130,000-barrel-a-day refinery on July 15 for scheduled maintenance, which was scheduled to last through mid-September. [...]
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August 13, 2011
Vietnam People's Navy Commander Nguyen Van Hien. The Vietnamese navy is upgrading its capacity with more advanced equipment and devices with peaceful intentions in protecting the country’s sovereignty, Commander Nguyen Van Hien, also deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense, told Thanh Nien. Â Â How do you assess the Vietnam People’s Navy’s current determination and [...]
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June 4, 2011
Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]
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May 8, 2011
Vietnam’s top shipping firm Vinalines says it wants to expand a key international container port even though its construction has been indefinitely delayed since last year. Construction of the Van Phong Port in the central province of Khanh Hoa started in October 2009. According to the original plan, the US$3.6-billion port would have 42 [...]
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February 21, 2011
A member of the media browses through the Acer M900 smartphone. Smartphones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, but they risk becoming a victim of their own success, so clogging networks they are unable to do many of the smart applications that fuelled their sales. Analysts warn that the mobile industry soon faces growing pains, with congestion [...]
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November 8, 2010
Containers sit at a port in Ho Chi Minh City. The heavily trafficked ports in the city face constant congestion problems while many seaports around the country have to operate below capacity. Despite fierce competition between Vietnamâs existing seaports, the country is gearing up to build more. Chan May Port in the central province of [...]
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February 4, 2010
Mobile carriers have completed their network upgrades to reduce jamming incidents caused by overload during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday . . . Viettel now has around 48 million subscribers.Tran Minh Huy, deputy director of Viettel Telecom in HCMC, on Monday told the Daily that network jamming in the Lunar New Year, or Tet, [...]
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