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Boom in medium, low-cost apartments

January 17, 2010  . Filed under Business, News

Boom in medium, low-cost apartments

Construction of apartment blocks are nearly finished at An Phu Ward, District 2, HCM City. Property investors are pouring money into low-and medium-priced apartments. LookAtVietnam - More property investors are pouring money into low and medium-priced apartments as city residents are increasingly reluctant to take out loans to buy houses.“The buyers are... Read more

New VNR 500 applauds private businesses

December 21, 2009  . Filed under In depth, Reports

New VNR 500 applauds private businesses

LookAtVietnam – The 2009 VNR 500 affirms the leading role of SOEs as well as the strong development of private businesses and FIEs. On November 25, 2009, VietNamNet newspaper, in cooperation with Vietnam Report Company, released the 2009 VNR 500 report, ranking the top Vietnamese 500 enterprises. SOEs still have low efficiency level Vietnam had... Read more

Vietnam to halve loan subsidies on inflation concerns

December 14, 2009  . Filed under Business, News

Vietnam to halve loan subsidies on inflation concerns

Vietnam will halve the subsidy provided on medium- and long-term corporate loans next year amid concern the program is stoking credit growth and inflation. The subsidy paid on these local-currency loans will be cut to 2 percent of borrowing costs from 4 percent for companies in the agriculture, forestry, seafood... Read more

Buyers seek apartments under a billion

December 14, 2009  . Filed under Business, News

Buyers seek apartments under a billion

LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese people seeking to purchase homes during the Tet sale season, prefer those worth less than one billion dong due to economic woes suffered in 2009. Hung Tri, a banking officer, disclosed said that he is trying to purchase a house before Tet in February 2010. The requirements Tri has set up for his future home are simple: it must... Read more

Questions asked over hydro-power reservoir water discharge in typhoon

November 11, 2009  . Filed under In depth, Reports

Questions asked over hydro-power reservoir water discharge in typhoon

Questions are mounting following water discharged from the reservoir of Ba Ha hydro-power plant after typhoon Mirinae. The serious floods that followed covered a vast area, causing serious damages to Phu Yen province. The Ba Ha hydropower plant (photo: VNExpress). On November 2, when storm No. 11 or Mirinae hit the central province of Phu Yen, the reservoir... Read more

Dammed and damned

November 3, 2009  . Filed under News

Dammed and damned

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Thuong Kon Tum Hydropower Plant project in Kon Tum Province Vast areas of forests are being sacrificed in the central region and the Central Highlands to build hundreds of hydropower plants, and experts are warning of serious environmental and social consequences. A total of 60... Read more

Credit growth fears to limit loans

October 31, 2009  . Filed under Business, News

Credit growth fears to limit loans

LookAtVietnam - The rollover of 2009 loan subsidy programme funds could be limited due to safety restrictions. Government bonds are being pointed to as a safe way for banks to lock up their excess fundsNguyen Thi Kim Thanh, head of the State Bank’s Banking Development Institute, said around VND10 trillion ($560 million) in short-term loans of less than... Read more

Deputies want more State attention on environment

October 29, 2009  . Filed under News, Politics

Deputies want more State attention on environment

LookAtVietnam – National Assembly deputies yesterday, October 28, focused on protecting the environment and how Viet Nam should adapt to climate change. A soil stabilisation forest in Song Cau District’s Xuan Thanh Commune in central Phu Yen Province. Efficiency of a national programme to plant 5 million hectares of forests was one of the matters... Read more

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 13/10

October 13, 2009  . Filed under Business, News

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 13/10

WB lends 1.9 mln USD to Ca Mau power project; Construction firm expected to stir up IPO market; Cassava exports double this year  Securities investors on trading floorConstruction firm expected to stir up IPO market The Song Hong Corporation under the Ministry of Construction will make an initial public offering (IPO) of 30 million shares via the Hanoi Stock... Read more

Vietnam’s largest city faces massive recruitment requisite

September 30, 2009  . Filed under Business, News

Vietnam’s largest city faces massive recruitment requisite

Two people read job ads at an employment center in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City will need to hire 110,000 new employees in the final quarter of this year, no easy task as the global economy has only just begun to recovery, experts say. “More than 10,000 enterprises in the city are now looking for 110,000... Read more

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