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 [...]
Tags: Accounting System, Accounting System Ndash, An Issue For, And Corporate Governance, And Finance Sector, Any Unrest, Asian, Asian Development, Asian Development Bank, banking, Banking And Finance, Banking And Finance Sector, Banking Sector, banks, based, biggest, Biggest Challenges, capacity, capital, Capital Adequacy, challenge, Challenge For The, challenges, corporate, Corporate Governance, Creating Any Unrest, credit, Credit Growth, development, Development Bank, Difficult Year, Digit Inflation, economic, Economic growth, Economic Growth Forecast, economy, enterprises, Finance Sector, financial, Financial Sector, For The Banking, forecast, Forecast Last, Forecast Last September, Global economic, Governance, Government, growth, Growth Forecast, Has Lowered, Has Lowered Vietnam, High Credit, High Credit Growth, In 2012 The, In Restructuring The, Including, inflation, investment, issue, Last September, Lowered Vietnam, management, Management And Corporate, Management And Corporate Governance, monetary, Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy And, More Specifically, Of High Credit, Of High Credit Growth, Owned enterprises, percent, policy, Prolonged Period, public, Public Investment, reducing, Reducing Inflation, reform, reforms, remains, restructuring, Restructuring The Banking, Restructuring The Banking And, Restructuring The Banking Sector, Restructuring The Economy, Risk Management, Risk Management And, Risk Management And Corporate, sector, Sector For The, Sector For The Banking, single, Single Digit, Single Digit Inflation, Small Banks, state, State bank, State owned enterprises, State-owned, Structural, system, System Ndash, The asian, The Asian Development, The Asian Development Bank, The Banking, The Banking And, The Banking And Finance, The Banking Sector, The Biggest, The Biggest Challenges, The Cost, The economy, The financial, The Financial Sector, The government, The Government Should, The Larger, The Prolonged, The Prolonged Period, The Reform, The state, The state bank, The Structural, The vietnamese, The world, The World Economy, These Reforms, Tightened Monetary, Tightened Monetary Policy, To Restructuring The, To Restructuring The Economy, Tomoyuki Kimura, Vietnam, Vietweek, What Are The, Without Creating, Without Creating Any, Without Creating Any Unrest, World Economy
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
September 16, 2011
General view of the European parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. The European Union moved closer on Thursday to toughening budget rules to punish overspenders after the EU Parliament and governments reached a compromise to prevent future debt crises. Governments that run excessive public deficits could face financial sanctions under the deal, although the measures would [...]
Tags: agreement, Budget Rules, Compromise, Could Face, countries, deficit, Deficits, economic, Economic Governance, Economic Governance Rdquo, European, European commission, European Parliament, European union, finance, Finance Ministers, Governance, Governance Rdquo, Governments, Last year, Ldquo, Ldquo Six, Ldquo Six Pack, Ldquo Six Pack Rdquo, Pack Rdquo, package, Parliament, public, Public Deficits, punish, Rdquo, Rdquo Ldquo, reached, rules, Six Pack, Six Pack Rdquo, The Agreement, The Eu, The european, The European Commission, The European Parliament, The Ldquo, The Ldquo Six, The Ldquo Six Pack, The Parliament, The Rules
Posted in International | Comments Off
February 2, 2010
At the World Economic Forum in Davos from January 26-31, the talk entitled “Reshaping Global Governance” gathered leaders of many countries, including the Vietnamese Prime Minister. LookAtVietnam – At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland from January 26-31, the talk entitled “Reshaping Global Governance” gathered leaders of many countries, including the Vietnamese Prime Minister. Via webcast at [...]
Tags: China, countries, Country, Developed Countries, Developed Countries And, Dr Zakaria, Eradication And Poverty, global, Global Governance, Governance, hunger, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Eradication, Hunger Eradication And, Hunger Eradication And Poverty, International, International Aid, issue, Korean, Korean President, Ldquo, Pm Dung, Poor Countries, Poverty, President, process, question, Rdquo, Said ldquo, South, South Korean, South Korean President, The Audience, The south, The South Korean, The South Korean President, The vietnamese, The world, think, This Issue, This Issue But, Very Interested, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Pm, world, Zakaria
Posted in In depth, Reports | Comments Off
January 29, 2010
One of the urgent demands in the world today was to generate bigger democratisation in global governance, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Davos yesterday. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Swiss President Doris Leuthard on his working visit to Switzerland.Dung, addressing the 40th Davos plenary session on reshaping global governance, said this was [...]
Tags: ASEAN, billion, Billion Last, Billion Last Year, Council, Country, credit, Credit Crunch, Credit Suisse, crisis, development, Doris Leuthard, Dung Said The, economic, Economic development, economy, effective, encourage, enterprises, European Country, financial, For Economic Development, For Viet Nam, global, Global Governance, Governance, group, human, Human resources, important, In viet nam, In Viet Nam The, institutions, International, investment, Its Oda, Last year, leader, market, Meeting Dung, million, Nam national, partner, President, President Doris, President Doris Leuthard, Prime minister, priority, reached, Said Dung, Said She Would, Said Viet, Said Viet Nam, Security, Security Council, Southeast, Southeast Asian, suggested, Suisse, support, Support Viet, Support Viet Nam, Swiss, Swiss Enterprises, Swiss President, Switzerland, The country, The G20, The global, The group, The Host, The Leader, The meeting, The Meeting Dung, The Security, The Security Council, The Swiss, The Un, The vietnamese, The world, The World Credit, The World Credit Crunch, To Viet Nam, trade, Trade And Investment, Viet Nam, Viet Nam And, Viet Nam National, Viet Nam The, Vietnamese, world, World Credit, World Credit Crunch
Posted in News, Politics | Comments Off
January 29, 2010
PM Nguyen Tan Dung on January 28 delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum’s Plenary Session on Reshaping the Global Governance in Davos, Switzerlands. Below is the speech in full. PM Nguyen Tan Dung speaks at the WEF on January 28 (photo: government’s website).I would like to share with you my thoughts on reshaping the global [...]
Tags: An Effective Global, An Effective Global Governance, And Financial Crisis, Apec Asem, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific, Community, contributions, Council, countries, crisis, developing, economic, Economic And Financial, Economic And Financial Crisis, economies, economy, effective, Effective Global, Effective Global Governance, efforts, Emerging Economies, financial, Financial crisis, global, Global economic, Global Economic And, Global Economic And Financial, Global Governance, Governance, Governance System, Has Played, important, In Asia Pacific, In Global Governance, In The Global, In The Global Governance, In The World, Including, institutions, International, International Community, Like Asean, nations, organisation, Participation, policy, reform, regional, Security, Security Council, system, The Developing, The global, The Global Governance, The Governance, The international, The International Community, The Reform, The Security, The Security Council, The Un, The united, The United Nations, The world, The World Economy, Un Security, Un Security Council, United Nations, Viet Nam, Viet Nam Has, world, World Economy
Posted in News, Politics | Comments Off
November 22, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many foreigners investing in Vietnamese securities are being deprived of shareholder rights. Too many foreign investors have been left out in the cold during shareholder meetings LookAtVietnam – Many foreigners investing in Vietnamese securities are being deprived of shareholder rights. Language and legal barriers and being left on the sidelines at annual shareholder [...]
Tags: annual, Annual Shareholder, Annual Shareholder Meetings, centre, changes, charter, corporate, Corporate Governance, documents, firms, Foreign, Foreign investors, Governance, Including, information, investors, listed, Listed Firms, Listed Firms And, market, meetings, Sample, Sample Charter, securities, shareholder, Shareholder Meetings, Shareholder Meetings Were, stock, Stock Market, The centre, The Sample, The Sample Charter, To The Sample, To The Sample Charter, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Securities
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
November 3, 2009
President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States is looking forward to a closer cooperation with Afghan government led by President Hamid Karzai. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul November 2, 2009. Ban made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday as pressure grew to abandon [...]
Tags: Abdullah, Additional Troops, Afghan, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda And, corruption, Country, election, Governance, His government, Karzai, Monday, Obama, Off Election, Run Off Election, Secure The Country, states, Taliban, That The United, That The United States, The Afghan, The country, The Election, The Presidential, The united, The united states, The United States Would, The war, troops, United, United states, United States Would
Posted in International, News | Comments Off
October 13, 2009
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, both from the United States, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics for their analysis of economic governance, The photo taken on Oct. 12, 2009 shows the images of the 2009 Nobel Economics Prize winners Oliver Williamson (R) and Elinor Ostrom displayed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [...]
Tags: 2009 Nobel, Alfred Nobel, And Elinor Ostrom, economic, Economic Governance, Economic Governance Especially, Economic Governance Especially The, Economics, Elinor, Elinor Ostrom, Governance, Governance Especially, Governance Especially The, Nobel, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize For, Nobel Prize For Economics, Of Economic Governance, Of Economic Governance Especially, Oliver, Oliver Williamson, Ostrom, Prize, Prize For Economics, The 2009, The 2009 Nobel, The Prize, Williamson
Posted in International, News | Comments Off
June 19, 2009
PetroVietnam’s revenue down with world prices; Energy exhibition opens in Hanoi; US company provides supplies for Vung Ang I power plant; Accountants urge firm governance The Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) reported a revenue of just VND95.5 trillion (US$5.3 billion) in the first five months of this year, 21 per cent lower [...]
Tags: 21 Per, 21 Per Cent, 45 Per, 45 Per Cent, Agreements, And Gas Group, And Gas Group Petrovietnam, And Sustainable Development, antidumping, Australia, Babcock Wilcox, Babcock Wilcox Beijing, billion, Billion Kwh, Business, Business Efficiency, Business Efficiency And, Business Efficiency And Sustainable, co-operation, commission, company, corporate, Corporate Governance, Cpa Australia, Crude, Crude-oil, development, Dung Quat, During The Period, Duty Order, efficiency, Efficiency And Sustainable, Efficiency And Sustainable Development, energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Saving, Environment, Exhibition, first, First Five, First Five Months, Fish Fillets, Five Months, Five years, From Vietnam For, Gas Group, Gas Group Petrovietnam, Global Oil, Global Oil Prices, Good Corporate, Good Corporate Governance, Governance, group, Group Petrovietnam, Ha Noi, Hanoi, In The First, In The First Five, In viet nam, Including, International, June 18, Last year, million, National, National Oil, National Oil And, National Oil And Gas, Of Crude Oil, Of Good Corporate, Of Good Corporate Governance, Oil And Gas, Oil And Gas Group, Oil Prices, Oil Refinery, Per cent, period, plant, power, Power Plant, Power plants, refinery, revenue, Saving, Seminar, services, steam, Steam Furnaces, sustainable, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Growth, The Commission, The Environment, The exhibition, The first, The First Five, The First Five Months, The group, The Group Also, The Importance, The national, The Period, The Seminar, The Seminar Will, The viet, The Viet Nam, The vietnam, tonnes, Tra And Basa, trillion, Viet Nam, Vietnam, Vung Ang, Wilcox Beijing, years
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
May 13, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Retail continues to be the most attractive industry in Vietnam in terms of investment and outlook as indicated in a survey that Grant Thornton Vietnam released on Monday. Retail continues to be the most attractive industry in Vietnam in terms of investment. (Photo: VNS)Up to 70% of the 169 respondents ranked retail as [...]
Tags: attractive, Attractive Industry, corporate, Corporate Governance, global, Governance, Grant Thornton, Hospitality And Tourism, industry, investment, Ldquo, Most Attractive, Most Attractive Industry, Of The Respondents, One Third, Private Equity, Rdquo, Respondents, retail, survey, The company, The global, The Respondents, The Survey, tourism, Vietnam
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
