January 12, 2012
UXOs found in Quang Tri Province in north-central Vietnam More than one fifth of Vietnam’s total area is contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) and it woud take 300 years to complete decontamination at the current pace, an official said.  However, concerned authorities are looking to reduce the period to 100 years, said major general Pham Quang [...]
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November 15, 2011
Captain Thanh Luong celebrates after scoring Vietnam's 4th goal in an 8-0 win over Brunei at the 26th South East Asian Games on Saturday. Vietnam’s U23 national male football team booked a semifinal berth at the 26th South East Asian Games after thrashing Brunei 8-0 on Saturday. The thumping margin would gave the team a [...]
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September 11, 2011
Foreign debt accounted for 42.2 percent of Vietnam’s GDP in 2010, up from 39 percent in 2009. Vietnam should focus on decreasing the current account deficit and approaching foreign exchange rate fluctuation with caution, economist Tran Du Lich told Thanh Nien Weekly in an interview. Thanh Nien Weekly: Foreign debt accounted for 42.2 percent of [...]
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April 9, 2011
A vendor carries pineapples on a bicycle in downtown Hanoi. Consumer prices rose 13.89 percent in March from a year earlier and are expected to continue increasing in the next few months. Vietnam will increase the minimum wage by 14 percent next month, raising concern that higher labor costs may fan inflation that is already [...]
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March 1, 2011
Nguyen Phuc Long has booked a berth in the knock-out stage of the World 8-Ball Championship 2011 in Fujairah, U.A.E, after winning his first two matches. Long’s victories came against Mario He (7-4) from Austria in the first game of Group A and Takhti Zarekani (7-3) of Iran in the next. In Group H, [...]
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February 7, 2011
Anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans to show their support for the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Madrid February 6, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak’s new cabinet on Monday held its first full meeting since an uprising started nearly two weeks ago, with no concrete progress in talks with Islamists and an [...]
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January 16, 2011
Average office rent in Ho Chi Minh City decreased by 2 percent in 2010's last quarter Average office rents in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City continued to fall in the last quarter of 2010 as supply kept growing, according to UK-based real estate service provider Savills. In Hanoi, the market saw a decline [...]
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February 5, 2010
Business confidence among Viet Nam’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) climbed 10 points in the fourth quarter last year, . . . Sandy Flockhart, HSBC’s chairman of personal and commercial banking, said: “Our small business confidence index is telling us that confidence levels are back to pre-financial crisis levels. Not only are SMEs confident that [...]
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January 10, 2010
Milk prices slide, farmers see losses; Overseas remittances down 12.8%, says State Bank; Hanoi to host int’l trade, investment fair; Businesses optimistic about economic development in 2010; Coffee exports hit record high Milk prices slide, farmers see losses Dairy farmers in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi District January 8 said they have been forced [...]
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January 2, 2010
TNS Vietnam, Kantar Worldpanel and Kantar Media have identified several key trends that will influence consumerism in 2010. One year ago, Vietnam was marred in its first recession in modern history and the prospects of the average consumer were looking bleak. Twelve months later, it appears that Vietnamese consumers seem to have weathered “the perfect [...]
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