December 31, 2011
 The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra plays at a concert in Hanoi last February Graham Sutcliffe, who has been living in Vietnam for 20 years, is now conductor of the Vietnam National Opera Ballet. Previously, he was the conductor of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi and also worked in Ho Chi Minh City. [...]
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November 25, 2011
A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]
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October 20, 2011
 Vietnam expects its trade deficit to widen to as much as $12.8 billion next year, government estimates showed today. The dong fell. The shortfall may reach $12.4 billion to $12.8 billion, or about 11.5 percent to 12 percent of total exports, the government said in a report released to reporters in Hanoi Thursday. The [...]
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October 18, 2011
Vietnam’s dong on Tuesday fell to the weakest level in almost six months as the central bank set the currency’s reference rate lower. Government bonds were steady. The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily rate 0.1 percent weaker at 20,723 per dollar, the eighth time this month it fixed a lower level, according [...]
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October 16, 2011
Villagers built a wooden bridge in a flooded temple complex in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok October 16, 2011. Floods swamped another industrial estate in central Thailand on Sunday and threatened a bigger one just outside the capital, Bangkok, which has so far escaped the worst despite heavy monsoon rain and water streaming [...]
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May 22, 2011
State workers repairs electrical grids in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Many employees of state-owned firms are not interested in the minimum wage increase, saying it fail to match recent price hikes. The Vietnamese government’s recent decision to increase the minimum wage by 14 percent has failed to spark any enthusiasm among workers. Not only [...]
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May 4, 2011
A fishing boat cruises in the Ilulissat fjord on Greenland's western coast, 2004. Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland’s ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday. Such a rise — above most past scientific estimates — would add [...]
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April 10, 2011
Vietnam lacks solid seismic standards for high-rise construction and few guarantees for apartment buyers Residents stand outside an apartment building in Hanoi’s Linh Dam residential area after an earthquake on March 24. The quake has raised questions about the quality of apartment towers in the country. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake erupted along the border [...]
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March 27, 2011
Vendors sell fruit and vegetables outside the Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi. Lawmakers have criticized the central government for high inflation, corruption, and a widening gap betwwen rich and poor. The government’s focus on maintaining a high rate of growth has come at some cost. During a recent gathering of the National Assembly, Vietnam’s [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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