Posts Tagged ‘ In The First Eight ’

Labor exports hit by shrinking markets 

September 20, 2011
Labor exports hit by shrinking markets 

  Labor export plans for the year have been thwarted by the narrowing of some major markets after escalated violence in Libya and by the increasing number of laborers decamping in South Korea. Vietnam may lose South Korea, one of its biggest labor export markets, due to the high number of laborers decamping in the [...]

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Agricultural exports falter despite high prices 

September 4, 2011
Agricultural exports falter despite high prices 

Farmers transport rice after harvesting it outside Hanoi. Vietnam is expected to export a record 7.3 million tons of rice this year. The prices of many agricultural products are rising in the world market, but Vietnamese exporters may not be able to capitalize on this opportunity because their stocks are thin. Coffee prices have surged [...]

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The rap on Vietnamese souvenirs: too much ‘same-same’

September 28, 2009
The rap on Vietnamese souvenirs: too much ‘same-same’

VietNamNet Bridge – The same foreign traveler who spends $400-500 shopping in Thailand typically spends only $90-100 in Vietnam for souvenirs. Tourists don’t spend money on similar products Vietnam received 2.48 million foreign travelers in the first eight months of the year. If each one had spent $500 shopping in Vietnam like in Thailand, Vietnam would [...]

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Viet-kieu are sending less money ‘home’ this year

September 25, 2009
Viet-kieu are sending less money ‘home’ this year

LookAtVietnam – Remittances from the overseas Vietnamese community are down somewhat this year, but have not fallen as far as was feared. Overseas remittances (or kieu hoi) is understood as the money that is sent by overseas Vietnamese (Viet-kieu) to their relatives in Vietnam to support their life and business plans. Statistics about overseas remittances [...]

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Construction material producers looking for solution for oversupply

September 18, 2009
Construction material producers looking for solution for oversupply

LookAtVietnam – Export revenue from construction materials in the last few years has been so low that statistics have not even been kept. Economists have given warnings about the oversupply of many types of construction materials over the last year, from glass, ceramic bricks to cement and steel. Associations have also admitted that many construction material [...]

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Lawmakers to scrutinise export labour companies

September 14, 2009
Lawmakers to scrutinise export labour companies

LookAtVietnam – A programme to inspect and handle the movement of guest workers going abroad will be submitted for approval at the next session of the National Assembly. Nearly 46,000 labourers went overseas in the first eight month of this years, 50 per cent of the target for 2009.Head of the NA’s Committee for Social [...]

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Higher maximum loans proposed for workers sent overseas

September 11, 2009
Higher maximum loans proposed for workers sent overseas

Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed increasing the maximum loan cap for poor workers traveling abroad under labor export contracts. Under the proposal sent to Vietnam Social Policy Bank, the new loans would vary from market to market with Japan topping the list at VND75 million (US$4,206), while the current cap [...]

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Death of boy is nation’s fifth swine-flu fatality

September 10, 2009
Death of boy is nation’s fifth swine-flu fatality

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam had its fifth victim of A/H1N1 after a boy died of the flu in Dong Nai Children’s Hospital on September 9, The city had eight dengue-related fatalities in the first eight months of this year, double the number in the same period last year. (Photo: VNN)Nga confirmed the fatality at the weekly [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 7/9

September 7, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 7/9

Hainan-Hanoi direct flight route to open late this month; Foreign investors show confidence in Vietnam; Domestic garment sales soar The direct flight route that links China ’s Hainan province and the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi will be launched on September 27, a local daily reported.Two flights from Hainan to Hanoi and vice-versa will be [...]

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Exports could recover to last year’s levels: experts

September 5, 2009
Exports could recover to last year’s levels: experts

A female worker sews shirts at a Vietnamese garment company in Hanoi. Vietnam is likely to maintain its export earnings at the same level as last year on the strength of market expansion and partial recovery of the world economy, experts say. “In the context of the world economy recovering faster than expected, and firms [...]

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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...