November 8, 2010
A foreign tourist visits the northern resort town of Sa Pa The recent weakening of the dong against the dollar has not enabled travel agencies to attract more foreign visitors, instead, higher costs of outbound tours have actually reduced their profit margins. On the so-called black market, the dong weakened to as much as 20,940 [...]
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February 4, 2010
After five years of operation, the Vietnam-Belgium Dairy project has brought about a 42% increase in milk production and a 100% increase in the prices . . . “Rather than trying to increase the number of cows by providing loans to the farmers, we decided to help farmers get more milk out of each cow”.Raf [...]
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September 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Travelers will have many opportunities to fly more cheaply as airlines increase their numbers of flights and launch promotional campaigns. Most airlines have planned their winter season flights to begin on October 25, 2009 and end on March 27, 2010. More flights and lower costs mean many good deals for the next several months. More [...]
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May 2, 2009
Vietnam needs to promote its marine tourism more to attract foreign visitors since many of them simply do not know about its beautiful beaches and resorts. Foreign visitors play chess at the Sea Lion Beach Resort in Phan Thiet.The 2009 Vietnam Marine Tourism Festival, held by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and the Bank for [...]
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May 2, 2009
Foreign visitors play chess at the Sea Lion Beach Resort in Phan Thiet. Vietnam needs to promote its marine tourism more to attract foreign visitors since many of them simply do not know about its beautiful beaches and resorts, foreign travel agencies said at a recent festival in Paris. The 2009 Vietnam Marine Tourism Festival, [...]
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March 18, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Consumers have ignored bank enticements to take out personal loans of up to VND1 billion (US$57,188). Although the banks want to increase the number of consumer loans, they concede that consumer, lending still carries risks, especially unsecured credit.The number of borrowers has failed to increase in the last month despite the promise of [...]
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March 16, 2009
The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the World Bank have agreed to continue implementing the second phase of the second Rural Energy project (RE II) in southernmost Ca Mau province. LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the World Bank have agreed to continue implementing the second phase of the second Rural [...]
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