July 20, 2011
"Balls" of heroin found hidden in a box of mangosteen which was to be shipped from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in April. Narcotics squad officers from the Ministry of Public Security have arrested the leader of a cross-border drug trafficking ring in Ho Chi Minh City, police said Monday. Â Nguyen Ba Thuy, [...]
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February 5, 2010
Business confidence among Viet Nam’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) climbed 10 points in the fourth quarter last year, . . . Sandy Flockhart, HSBC’s chairman of personal and commercial banking, said: “Our small business confidence index is telling us that confidence levels are back to pre-financial crisis levels. Not only are SMEs confident that [...]
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November 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s border provinces need to pay more attention to developing their tourism sector and bring in more tourists to the country, industry insiders say. LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s border provinces need to pay more attention to developing their tourism sector and bring in more tourists to the country, industry insiders say. Ly Mon, general [...]
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November 18, 2009
Foreign tourists visit Sa Pa Town in the northwestern Lao Cai Province Vietnamâs border provinces need to pay more attention to developing their tourism sector and bring in more tourists to the country, industry insiders say. Ly Mon, general director of Ha Long Tourism Joint Stock Company, told Thanh Nien many people often think that [...]
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November 11, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is looking to its neighbours to provide more tourism as well as opening up options for those from further afield. Travelers flocking across border Vietnam has nearly 4,550 kilometres of borders with China, Laos and Cambodia and has 42 border gates. By the end of September this year Vietnam had received 447,000 cross [...]
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October 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many manufacturers have thought it is nearly impossible to export industrial products to China. However, they are changing their minds. The shops of Nanning Amid the many thousands of Chinese-made goods displayed at the shops in Nanning City, 150 kilometers NE of the Vietnamese border in China’s Guangxi province, one can see also Vietnamese-made [...]
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August 7, 2009
Overall, Vietnam’s rubber industry is in good health, but recent unilateral steps by its major customer, China, have given producers the willies, according to Saigon Tiep Thi. Vietnam has long supplied high grade natural rubber to the world market. In 2008, it was the #4 producer, following Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, and supplying some seven [...]
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July 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Business confidence in Viet Nam’s SME sector has climbed since the fourth quarter of 2008, a recent survey found. The survey, which included the Middle East and Latin America for the first time, found that as in Asia, the more domestic-oriented economies showed more optimism than those more dependent on exports.According to the [...]
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July 13, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A huge volume of used goods from the ‘rich countries’ seeps into Vietnam across its border with Cambodia. The trade of the goods has flourished since the early days of ‘doi moi.’ The ’cemetery goods’ at Chau Long marketIn Chau Doc, a city in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang province, [...]
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July 9, 2009
Lao leader hails growing relationship with Vietnam; Vietnam backs int’l assistance to socio-economic development in West Africa; Vietnam hails positive developments in Lebanon Photo: VNARevolutionary generations of Laos and Vietnam have been upholding and nurturing special relations between the two countries, in accordance with the shared wishes of their predecessors, said a top Lao leader [...]
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