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 31, 2011
 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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August 20, 2011
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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June 4, 2011
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. Â 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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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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January 28, 2011
 (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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January 1, 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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January 16, 2010
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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January 3, 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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December 19, 2009
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 Vietnamâs particular [...]
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