Posts Tagged ‘ If Vietnam ’

Monsanto’s GM crop debate reopens Agent Orange wounds 

January 16, 2012
Monsanto’s GM crop debate reopens Agent Orange wounds 

  Activists are unhappy that a company that profited once by maiming Vietnamese civilians is allowed to profit again in the country 18-year-old Thang, believed to be an Agent Orange victim according to locals who know his mother, waits for customers at a market in Hanoi on January 9. It would be ironic if Vietnam [...]

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Take the Americans to the WTO court? Businesses vote ‘yes’

July 28, 2009
Take the Americans to the WTO court? Businesses vote ‘yes’

A lot of Vietnamese shrimp exporters believe it is high time to complain to the World Trade Organization against the US barriers to Vietnam’s shrimp.  The Government hasn’t yet decided whether to do so. Le Van Quang, General Director of Minh Phu Seafood Company in Ca Mau province, said that he’s all for complaining against [...]

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Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified

July 17, 2009
Belatedly, Google’s royalties proposal is clarified

LookAtVietnam – Some local newspapers last week, including this one, reported that Google would pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Vietnamese writers. It isn’t true. Google may digitize Vietnamese works for a fee An ‘urban legend’ of sorts has swept through the Vietnamese literary world. On July 10 and 11, a number of Vietnamese newspapers, including [...]

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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...