January 18, 2012
Many lenders in Vietnam are trying to attract individual clients Many banks in Vietnam are targeting retail savings as large but short-term deposits from corporate clients prove to be a volatile funding source. Bankers said while term deposits from individual customers are usually small, they make up a stable source of capital for banks. On [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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December 6, 2011
Gymnast Pham Phuoc Hung is expected to win 2012 Olympic berths for Vietnam Vietnam has halved its target for Olympic berths in London next year to 10 after reconsidering its athletes’ qualifying chances. According to Hoang Vinh Giang, vice chairman and general secretary of the Vietnamese Olympic Committee, Vietnam has won five berths through badminton [...]
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September 24, 2011
Many power plant projects are years behind schedule, hurting Vietnam’s chances of fulfilling its goal of achieving a stable power supply, industry insiders said. Experts have said that up to 90 percent of thermal power projects, including coal-fired and gas-powered plants, under Vietnam’s 2006-2010 master plan, have not been completed yet. According to the [...]
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September 24, 2011
Workers clean the Keangnam residence tower in Hanoi September 20, 2011. Like many hoping for easy cash in Vietnam’s property market, Nguyen Thu Huong borrowed VND500 million ($24,000) from a bank in April to buy a new flat she didn’t need and planned to flip. The only question, she thought, was how big the [...]
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August 26, 2011
Traditional music performed in Huong sac Viet Nam The fourth Huong sac Viet Nam (Vietnam’s scent and beauty) will take place in Hanoi on Sept 10 to promote the country’s traditional, folk music and other “specialties” in art and culture. Â The one-night show will feature traditional music of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as [...]
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August 8, 2011
The temptation of million-dollar agarwood lures dreamers into a shadowy world of theft and murder deep in the jungle Tran Lieu, an agarwood hunter from Ai Nghia Town, Quang Nam Province, is among many locals recently romored to cultivate millions of dollars of ky nam, but the man insists that it is not true. Nguyen Van [...]
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August 5, 2011
 A man removes parts of a motorbike tire for recycling, a lucrative job at Te Lo village in Vinh Phuc Province Salvaging vehicle parts has brought good money to Te Lo village in the northern province of Vinh Phuc. But the business has taken a serious toll on public health. In 1995, people in [...]
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July 30, 2011
Banks in VIetnam have stepped up sales of the dollar as they anticipate a move to reduce their dollar holdings, even as they compete to mobilize more of the greenback to meet increasing demand for dollar loans. “Buying foreign currencies now is easier than ever,” said Dao Duy Kha, deputy general director of Vietnam [...]
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July 15, 2011
Scientists and local residents observe an old five-leaved pine in Lam Dong Province's Bidoup – Ba Mountain National Park. Lam Dong Province is using environmental protection fees collected from investors of Central Highlands hydropower plants to pay an ethnic minority group to protect a major national park from poachers, criminal loggers and illegal development.  Managers of Bidoup – Ba [...]
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