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 23, 2012
Vietnam’s benchmark stock index on January 19 rose the most in seven months and the currency rallied to a one-month high on speculation the central bank will cut interest rates and limit declines in the dong. The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s VN Index climbed 3 percent to 373.43 at the 11 a.m. [...]
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January 11, 2012
An upswing in mergers and acquisitions in the banking system will occur this year, bringing the number of banks in Vietnam to below 30, the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper has reported, citing experts. Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu said there will be a strong M&A wave in the sector as many lenders are looking for [...]
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January 11, 2012
Tran Ba Tuan and Nguyen Dinh Quyet, both former investigators of Nha Trang’s police division, at a trial in the central province of Khanh Hoa on January 9. The duo received suspended sentences for torturing a theft suspect in 2010. Two former police officers in the central province of Khanh Hoa each has received a nine-month suspended [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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January 3, 2012
Artifacts from Sa Huynh Culture (1000 BC – 200 AD). AÂ ground-breaking ceremony to establish the Sa Huynh Culture Preservation Center was held last week in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Duc Pho District. The center will be built on an area of two hectares with a total capital investment of nearly VND32 billion (US$1.5 [...]
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January 2, 2012
Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam Further scientific study has confirmed that the operations of a hydropower plant have caused underground explosions and minor earthquakes in the central province of Quang Nam, Saigon Tiep Thi reported Friday. The report quoted conclusions made by the Vietnam Academy of Science Technology as saying that the tremors in [...]
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December 30, 2011
Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]
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December 30, 2011
US veteran Chuck Palazzo with Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange in Da Nang in central Vietnam. US veteran Chuck Palazzo has spent the past 40 years compensating victims of the Agent Orange he helped spray during his 13 months serving in the Vietnam War. Palazzo arrived in Da Nang in central Vietnam in 1970 as [...]
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December 26, 2011
Two women were killed and five soldiers are missing when a boat carrying 34 people sank in the central province of Quang Nam Sunday. According to Hoi An Town’s People’s Committee, the boat from Tan Hiep Commune island was sunk by waves when it was less than one kilometer from the town’s coast. People on [...]
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