January 3, 2012
A street vendor walks past a Chanel SA store inside the Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Vietnam’s growth held near 6 percent this quarter, reducing the pressure for further monetary tightening after higher interest rates limited the boost to the economy from exports and domestic consumption. [...]
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January 2, 2012
Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily join the army. Experts say the sense of national pride [...]
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December 19, 2011
Cheong Yen Kit (L) and Leung Ka Kei (2nd, L) talk with Thanh Nien about their experience being robbed and selling their own photos for daily meals. Ho Chi Minh City police are investigating if two Hong Kong tourists were actually robbed as they claim, after the couple was sighted selling their photography on the street [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam’s inflation slowed for a third month in November, and the central bank signaled it may consider lowering interest rates. Consumer prices rose 19.83 percent from a year earlier, after climbing 21.59 percent in October, the General Statistics Office said in Hanoi Friday. The State Bank of Vietnam has room to cut policy rates [...]
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October 29, 2011
The famous brand of Phu Quoc fish sauce, which is owned by the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Association in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, was recently registered by a Hong Kong-based company in China. Vietnamese producers’ associations should register their members’ collective brands overseas as soon as possible to avoid foreign legal battles [...]
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October 29, 2011
A staff worker at a Masan Mart shop, which is owned by Masan Group. Masan Group Corp., the food, banking and natural-resources company that’s the biggest stock in the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, said it’s considering listing shares abroad. Masan may sell shares by issuing new stock, depositary receipts, convertible bonds or securities [...]
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October 26, 2011
Passengers board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways at Narita Airport, Japan prior to its flight to Hong Kong. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight on Wednesday, giving a handful of deep-pocketed passengers the chance to fly into history on what is touted as an aviation breakthrough. Carrying 252 [...]
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October 11, 2011
Danish designer sees clothes as a way to express the beauty within the wearer Elisabeth Rolskov (R) preparing the dress she designed for Nguyen Ngoc Kieu Khanh, a runner-up at Miss World 2010 Elisabeth Rolskov’s look was so compelling that she was offered an onÂtheÂspot modeling deal by Diva Models after an agency representative [...]
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October 10, 2011
Vietnam’s teenage star Nguyen Hoang Thien won the boys’ singles’ and doubles’ championships at the Under-18 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Grade 4 competition in Hong Kong on Saturday. In the boys’ singles event, the 16-year-old Thien, ranked 145th in the ITF junior rankings, beat 188th-ranked Thai rival Krittin Koaykul in straight sets. Hoang Thien [...]
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October 9, 2011
Vietnam’s number one young tennis star Nguyen Hoang Thien has advanced to the boys’ singles and doubles finals at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Grade 4 contest in Hong Kong. The 16-year-old Thien, ranked 145th in the world, beat the 292nd-ranked Chinese Li Yuangfeng 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the boys’ semifinals on Friday. Thien [...]
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Disaffected youth?
Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily join the army. Experts say the sense of national pride [...]
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