January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 25, 2012
Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched, has weathered the downturn well. Linson Lim, President of Keppel Land Vietnam, is [...]
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January 15, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City as seen from the rooftop of a downtown building. Property prices are expected to fall in the next six months. Developers are still pessimistic about market conditions but some experts believe investors should not rule out real estate just yet. Economist Dinh The Hien said the government is expected to [...]
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December 19, 2011
Vietnam needs to implement the restructure of both small and large banks in a drastic manner, an economist says. The central bank has approved the merger of three small banks – Ficombank, Saigon Commercial Bank, and Vietnam Tin Nghia Bank – that are mired in liquidity problems. The restructure of banks will continue for the [...]
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December 17, 2011
If you were asked to describe, in 10 words or less, the single issue driving the two major political parties in the US today, I imagine you’d say something like this: Republicans never met a tax cut they didn’t like; Democrats won’t touch entitlement programs, even to make them solvent. Consider, then, the counterintuitive [...]
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December 12, 2011
The long slump has caused a shakeout in the Vietnamese property market. Developers with deep pockets have been coping, others have not been so lucky. It is an inevitable rule in any market, Guy Major, national director of residential sales at Savills Vietnam, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an exclusive interview, and forecasts a [...]
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November 15, 2011
 Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]
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November 13, 2011
Patrick Desir of Poussieres de Vie with Ba Na friends at a festival in Kon Tum The Ba Na people toiled all day in the fields yet had little to show for their efforts and often went hungry. The situation troubled and intrigued Patrick Desir, whose charity organization helps six orphanages in Gia Lai [...]
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October 14, 2011
Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing Tuesday. Vietnam and China Tuesday signed an agreement setting out a basic legal framework for negotiating and solving sea disputes between the two countries, Vietnam News Agency reported. The two countries also signed cooperation agreements in five other areas [...]
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September 12, 2011
A tower being built on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. Environmental activists say that Vietnam’s poisoned Dong Nai River could meet the same fate as a heavily toxic river in China if serious measures aren’t taken soon. According to a leaked cable from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, to the State Department in Washington [...]
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