January 3, 2012
Nguyen Duc Kien, vice chairman of the Vietnam Professional Football JSC (VPF) The newly established national football company, VPF, says it rejects the validity of 20-year-contract between the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the An Vien Group (AVG). Early this year, VFF and AVG signed an agreement worth VND 6 billion (US$285,000) per year that [...]
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January 2, 2012
A Vietnamese speech translation system and an iPhone navigation app based on voice recognition are among the applications recently introduced by a Ho Chi Minh City-based university.  The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AILab) at the University of Science, said based on its research on spoken language that earned the third prize in the 2009 Viet Talents contest, [...]
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December 30, 2011
Strong small banks should be allowed greater lending growth A local commercial bank’s employee counts money next to piles of dong notes in Hanoi on Monday The application of different credit caps on different banks based on their operational capacity is expected to correct a situation where banks with customers cannot offer loans while [...]
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December 16, 2011
Investors at SME Securities Corp. Many stock investors are facing the risk of losing all their money as securities companies â after illegally using funds deposited by clients â are stuck in liquidity problems. Economist Dinh The Hien said a lot of stock brokerages have acted like small banks. Although they are not allowed to, [...]
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November 21, 2011
New world title will make no difference until existing infrastructure, services are improved, experts say A tourist boat sails past the stone islands of Ha Long Bay Ha Long Bay, by virtue of being the jewel in Vietnam’s tourism crown, has always been in the spotlight, but the lights have just gotten a lot [...]
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October 14, 2011
Vietnam welcomes Indian oil exploration in East Sea; expert says weapons exchange could be in the future Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Manmmohan Singh after they gave joint press statements in New Delhi on October 12. Sang is in India for a three-day state visit. Vietnamese President [...]
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October 7, 2011
Vietnam plans to slash 10 percent, or VND97 trillion (US$4.65 billion), of development investment this year as one of the measures taken by the government to restore economic stability. Vietnam’s public debt is rising too fast and poses a severe risk to the economy, an economist says, suggesting that the total debt might be even [...]
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September 5, 2011
Vietnamese authorities have rejected as "wrong" the accusation by a Britain-based organization that the country has been using illegal timber for furniture exports. The denial was made at a press briefing by officials from the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association and Vietnam Administration of Forestry from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. [...]
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September 3, 2011
The government will continue tightening monetary policies and take other measures to achieve a growth rate of six percent and keep inflation rate at around 18 percent for the year, a senior official told the press Thursday. According to Vu Duc Dam, head of the Government Office, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth [...]
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August 27, 2011
People work at a furniture factory outside Hanoi. Many exporters in Vietnam are struggling to survive the difficult times. The global recession and resultant lower purchasing power has caused difficulties for many Vietnamese exporters. It has not helped that their heavy reliance on imported materials, coupled with rising input costs, have made their products less [...]
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