Posts Tagged ‘ Many Enterprises ’

Long An digs itself into a huge hole

December 25, 2009
Long An digs itself into a huge hole

The southern province of Long An is fast becoming a barren land because its most precious resource has been over exploited for building industrial parks. Ben Luc Industrial Park in southern Long An Province. The province now has 20 industrial parks with a combined area of more than 7,600 ha in addition to dozens of [...]

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Processors now face shortage of shrimps

November 23, 2009
Processors now face shortage of shrimps

Seafood processors are facing a shrimp shortage at present, leading to an increase in input costs and a reduction of production capacity at seafood processing factories. The prices have increased 10-20 per cent for large shrimp and 5-10 per cent for small- shrimp compared to last month.Nguyen Ngoc Tai, deputy director of Kim Anh Ltd [...]

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State-owned firms not pulling their weight: lawmakers

November 15, 2009
State-owned firms not pulling their weight: lawmakers

A worker of Electricity of Vietnam collects fees in HCMC’s District 1. Legislators have slammed the poor performance of several state-run companies despite benefiting from many preferential policies. At the ongoing sixth session of the 12th National Assembly in Hanoi, deputies called for the government to tighten control over these firms, saying they were not [...]

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Turning negatives into positives

October 31, 2009
Turning negatives into positives

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam has fortified its economy in 2009 through effective economic stimulus measures and is looking at some ambitious socio-economic targets for 2010. Many enterprises have prospered during the global economic downturn, while many regional competitors have struggledMany enterprises have prospered during the global economic downturn, while many regional competitors have struggled This year [...]

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Businesses to be taught benefits of clean and green production

September 20, 2009
Businesses to be taught benefits of clean and green production

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam has approved a strategy to raise awareness with firms of cost-savings and productivity gains that can be made from minimising environmental pollution. Binh Hung waste water treatment plant, which is being built with the aid of Japanese development assistance. The government has approved a strategy to help businesses better understand the benefits [...]

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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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Eleven out of 21 IZ lack proper sewage

September 15, 2009
Eleven out of 21 IZ lack proper sewage

LookAtVietnam – Only 10 out of 21 industrial zones in the southern province of Dong Nai have proper waste water treatment systems, Ba made an example of the province’s Thi Vai river, which had been polluted with untreated waste water by thousands of factories and companies along its banks.The director of the department, Nguyen Ngoc [...]

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Vietnam tightens screws on sand exploitation

September 13, 2009
Vietnam tightens screws on sand exploitation

Barges wait to load sand dredged from the Hau River in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho. The government has launched investigations into sand exploitation to clamp down on the illegal export of the important building material that Vietnam is quickly running out of. “We will have to import sand in the future if [...]

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Officials say many foreign manufacturers found to be declaring ‘virtual’ losses

September 3, 2009
Officials say many foreign manufacturers found to be declaring ‘virtual’ losses

LookAtVietnam – Many of the foreign invested enterprises reporting losses in 2008 seem to be profitable businesses which have doctored their returns to evade Vietnamese taxes. The appearance of losses Fifty-two percent of some 2,000 tax returns submitted to the HCM City Tax Department in 2008 by foreign-owned or foreign invested enterprises claimed a business loss. [...]

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Poor English language skills, teaching hinder Vietnamese

July 11, 2009
Poor English language skills, teaching hinder Vietnamese

Students in class at the Apollo language centre in Ha Noi.LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Thi Le, 30, wants her husband and 8-month-old child to accompany her to the US, where she wants to get her doctorate degree, but her husband’s English is still weak.“If my husband’s English was better he could find a job or take [...]

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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...