Posts Tagged ‘ challenges ’

Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

January 9, 2012
Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

    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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Invest in the 7 billion as Human Capital 

October 31, 2011
Invest in the 7 billion as Human Capital 

   Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects during Diwali at the Sikh Shrine the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 26, 2011. As the global population hits seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratios could fuel the emergence of volatile "bachelor nations" driven by an aggressive competition for brides. Many demographers believe the [...]

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What’s new for Vietnam’s Next Top Model? 

August 20, 2011
What’s new for Vietnam’s Next Top Model? 

  The new season of the hit show is warming, or that is, heating up with a new set of judges and a thousand would-be supermodels competing fiercely The judges for this year competition: (L-R) Make-up artist Nam Trung, model Xuan Lan, designer Do Manh Cuong and photographer Pham Hoai Nam Hundreds of young women [...]

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World Bank grants $620 mln to Vietnam’s development efforts 

June 4, 2011
World Bank grants $620 mln to Vietnam’s development efforts 

  The World Bank will give Vietnam loans totaling US$620 million to aid the country’s efforts to improve infrastructure and address development challenges, according to the bank’s press release issued Tuesday.   Of the five projects which will benefit from the loans, the plan to scale up and reinforce Vietnam’s electricity transmission system will receive [...]

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Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

June 4, 2011
Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

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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Vietnam crowns its first ‘Top Model’ with a fizzle 

January 28, 2011
Vietnam crowns its first ‘Top Model’ with a fizzle 

   (L-R) Top 3 of the first season ‘Vietnam’s Next Top Model’ Thu Thuy, Tuyet Lan and Huyen Trang compete in swimsuit. Tallest contestant Huyen Trang is the winner. Last November, Vietnam joined a handful of countries looking to jump aboard the Next Top Model train. Five hundred women from all over the country turned [...]

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Big advantages, big challenges face Vietnam in 2011 

January 1, 2011
Big advantages, big challenges face Vietnam in 2011 

   A customer leaves a clothes store in Hanoi. Inflation has been a big problem for Vietnam in 2010, and the country needs to take more drastic measures to deal with it, an official said. Vietnam’s economy has seen promising development through 2010, but still faces challenges in 2011. In an exclusive interview with Thanh [...]

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ASEAN identity key to challenges of the future

January 16, 2010
ASEAN identity key to challenges of the future

ASEAN General Secretary Surin Pitsuwan (R) in conversation with the media General Secretary Surin Pitsuwan has said ASEAN should tackle transnational challenges as a single community. Residents of ASEAN nations should forge a new regional identity in addition to their nationality in order to strengthen political and economic integration, ASEAN general secretary Surin Pitsuwan said [...]

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Prosperity and challenges on the horizon in 2010

January 3, 2010
Prosperity and challenges on the horizon in 2010

Two workers at a bridge construction site in Ho Chi Minh City. Bouncing off an emerging global recovery, Vietnam expects positive economic changes in 2010, specifically export and foreign direct investment (FDI) growth. Policy makers, however, are still weary of the many challenges the developing country faces, not the least of which is the threat [...]

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Poverty reduction in Vietnam remains ‘a work in progress’

December 19, 2009
Poverty reduction in Vietnam remains ‘a work in progress’

Nick Freeman, Senior Advisor to the Vietnam Challenge Fund, tells Thanh Nien Weekly about the role a new US$3 million co-financing grant instrument will play in poverty alleviation. Challenge funds originated in the UK. Even though the model has been applied to other countries, how can we be sure it will work in Vietnam’s particular [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...