Posts Tagged ‘ Foreign partners ’

Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

June 21, 2011
Labor exports falter as banks tighten credit 

Staff members of a local export company (L) interview candidates for overseas jobs in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Nam has been on tenterhooks for the past week. He has completed most of the procedures for going to work in Taiwan next month, but has not managed to raise enough money to pay for the trip. “Earlier, [...]

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Saigon Postel to sell shares in S-Fone network 

November 23, 2010
Saigon Postel to sell shares in S-Fone network 

  Saigon Post and Telecommunications plans to sell shares in its wireless network S-Fone to foreign partners following the divesting of its stake in the venture by South Korean’s SK Telecom. Ho Hong Son, general director of Saigon Postel, said there were 10 foreign partners interested in the plan, including telecom firms in Japan, China [...]

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Vietnamese business community says VNR 500 connects us

January 15, 2010
Vietnamese business community says VNR 500 connects us

VietNamNet Bridge –  The major players in Vietnamese industry can be united through the networking powers of the VNR 500 Club. Vietnamese business community says VNR 500 connects usKiem welcomed the club’s ability to bring like minded business people together and suggested alliances would soon be benefitting Vietnam’s economy as a whole. He explained: “If it [...]

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Int’l conference promotes Vietnamese literature

December 28, 2009
Int’l conference promotes Vietnamese literature

The 5-day conference starts January 5, 2010 and will welcome 300 delegates from 32 countries and territories. The conference hopes to pave the way for Vietnamese books to enter the world market. Translator Ngo Tu Lap.Writers and literary translators hang high hopes on this event. At a December 15 press conference, the Vietnam Writers’ Association announced [...]

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Fishy goings on in the seafood export industry

December 11, 2009
Fishy goings on in the seafood export industry

VietNamNet Bridge – VASEP has repeatedly advised members to remain cautious when doing business with foreign importers. The warning has been released after many Vietnamese seafood exporters did not receive payment from foreign partners. Klion Company Ltd, which is headquartered in Ukraine and has two branches in Panama, did not make payment for a consignment of seafood [...]

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Dollar anxiety paralyzes business

November 26, 2009
Dollar anxiety paralyzes business

LookAtVietnam – Not just importers, but enterprises of all sorts are feeling a dollar pinch. On the curb market, a dollar now fetches nearly 20,000 dong. Nguyen Tam, the Vietnamese representative of an international freight forwarding and shipping firm said: “Our service fees are quoted in dollars, but we receive dong from our clients at [...]

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International partners aren’t always of international standard

November 19, 2009
International partners aren’t always of international standard

Vietnam is witnessing a boom in joint training programmes between Vietnamese and foreign universities. However, sometimes not enough is known about foreign partners. Joining forces with foreign universities in joint training programmes has been considered as one of the most important solutions to help improve higher education. The first joint training programmes kicked off 10 years [...]

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Businessmen ponder how to get profit from partnerships

October 17, 2009
Businessmen ponder how to get profit from partnerships

Ideas filled the air at a workshop on Vietnamese business culture last week. The theme was improving cooperation for mutual gain. Dang Ngoc Thang, CEO of a Nghe Vinh Packaging Company, asserted that Vietnamese entrepreneurs can hardly cooperate with each other in doing business.  Businessmen from the north, Thang said, are cautious, those from the center [...]

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Vietnamese businessmen criticized for lacking of ‘cooperation culture’

October 16, 2009
Vietnamese businessmen criticized for lacking of ‘cooperation culture’

LookAtVietnam – Individualistic is the most outstanding characteristic and the biggest problem of Vietnamese businessmen, experts say. Individualistic is the most outstanding characteristic and the biggest problem of Vietnamese businessmen, experts say.Not willing to cooperate According to Dang Ngoc Thang, Chairman of Nghe Vinh Packaging Company, Vietnamese entrepreneurs can hardly cooperate with each other in doing [...]

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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...