January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
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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 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 23, 2012
Vietnam’s benchmark stock index on January 19 rose the most in seven months and the currency rallied to a one-month high on speculation the central bank will cut interest rates and limit declines in the dong. The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s VN Index climbed 3 percent to 373.43 at the 11 a.m. [...]
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January 21, 2012
The Raffles International Training Center Hanoi has been fined and ordered to suspend its illegal diploma and bachelor courses, more than two weeks after similar action was taken against its sister organization in for the same violations. According to its registration license, the center can open short vocational courses in English, Marketing, Business Administration, [...]
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January 21, 2012
Nguyen Thi Thanh Ngoc is being treatd for severe burns at a Ho Chi Minh City after a man, believed to be a neighbor, threw acid on all members of her family. All four people in a family in Ho Chi Minh City were severely burned Wednesday by acid thrown on them, allegedly by a neighbor. [...]
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January 19, 2012
"Unit Asia", a young Japan-based Jazz band, will perform in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City early next month. The band will perform at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi (February 3) and Ben Thanh Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City (February 5), the Hanoi Moi newspaper reports. During their first visit to Vietnam, the [...]
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January 18, 2012
Vietnam now has two stock exchanges, both of which are small Vietnam will only have one stock exchange instead of two as at present under the Finance Ministry’s plans to restructure the securities market in 2012. Under a new plan approved by the ministry last week, market reforms will focus on reorganizing the country’s stock exchanges and [...]
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January 17, 2012
Food retail sales in Ho Chi Minh City witnessed “skyrocketing growth” in recent year, a report said Despite economic difficulties the retail market in Ho Chi Minh City expanded last year as top retailers and brands continued to come in, property consultant Knight Frank said in a new report. The retail sales value of goods [...]
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January 17, 2012
A patient at the Vietnam Central Tropical Diseases Hospital with a contagious brain inflammation condition. A patient in northern Vietnam was Friday confirmed to have a contagious brain inflammation that could be fatal. At least five such cases have been reported in Ho Chi Minh City since December last year. The 21-year-old woman, identified as T.T.T., tested [...]
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