Posts Tagged ‘ One Third ’

Miracle beans 

December 19, 2011
Miracle beans 

  Soy, green, black, and red beans on display at a shop selling home-made bột ngÅ© cốc – a mixture powder of black sesame and four different types of beans – on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City My husband has always been thin. But a few months ago it [...]

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Things will get worse before they get better 

July 4, 2011
Things will get worse before they get better 

  There’s not much in the way of good news on the economic front. Clothes on sale at a ­­­shop in Hanoi last week. Vietnam is fighting to beat back raging inflation. Despite repeated revisions of growth and inflation targets, the former downwards and the latter upwards, they are not likely to be met, experts [...]

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One decade of tourism

February 1, 2010
One decade of tourism

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam has not made measurable progress over the last 10 years in conducting tourism promotion campaigns. According to Poll Stoll, General Director of Celadon International in HCM City, some 500 million tourists in the world are “allocentric” (i.e., ones who do not care much about the price). They are well educated, like traveling [...]

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Opportunities to develop the fishing industry

December 5, 2009
Opportunities to develop the fishing industry

VietNamNet Bridge – Under the European Council’s new regulation, as of January 2010, seafood products exported to the EU market must have certificates of origin and the fishing vessel’s registration. The regulation aims to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). The EU is currently Vietnam’s largest export market, accounting for one third of its exports. [...]

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Nearly 500 centenarians in Hanoi

October 6, 2009
Nearly 500 centenarians in Hanoi

LookAtVietnam – Of its population of 6.4 million people, Hanoi has 482 people over 100 years old, mainly women.    The city’s census and housing inspection, completed April 1 2009, revealed that Hanoi has 6.4 million people, accounting for 7.51 percent of the country’s population.  Hanoi ranks second after HCM City for the population. Compared to [...]

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Firms more upbeat on trade prospects

October 2, 2009
Firms more upbeat on trade prospects

LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese businesses have more confidence in improved business prospects in the coming months than their peers in many other countries, A majority of respondents in the country (65 per cent) – the highest proportion from the countries surveyed – expect their trade volumes to increase in the next three months, according to the [...]

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Mekong River Delta facing multiple threats

August 28, 2009
Mekong River Delta facing multiple threats

If the Mekong Delta build dikes to protect it from the sea rise level, it will face serious pollution caused by wastwater, scientists have warned. Only 30 percent of factories in the Mekong Delta have wastewater treatment systems.LookAtVietnam – Some irrigational scientists have said that if the sea level rises by one metre, an anti-salt [...]

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Cancer tops list of diseases contracted in Vietnam

July 9, 2009
Cancer tops list of diseases contracted in Vietnam

Rapid industrial development has been blamed as one reason for the recent surge of cancer cases in developing countries. Cancer now tops the list of diseases contracted each year in Vietnam, while the country is ill equipped to handle the increasing caseload, health officials have said. It is expected that around 200,000 people in Vietnam [...]

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Retail remains most attractive industry in Vietnam

May 13, 2009
Retail remains most attractive industry in Vietnam

LookAtVietnam – Retail continues to be the most attractive industry in Vietnam in terms of investment and outlook as indicated in a survey that Grant Thornton Vietnam released on Monday. Retail continues to be the most attractive industry in Vietnam in terms of investment. (Photo: VNS)Up to 70% of the 169 respondents ranked retail as [...]

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HCM City: 9/10 state employees cannot live on official incomes

April 20, 2009
HCM City: 9/10 state employees cannot live on official incomes

LookAtVietnam – A recent survey by a group of researchers from the HCM City Research and Development Institute revealed that nine of ten state employees in HCM City are unable to live on their official incomes. The group surveyed around 300 state employees between the ages of 20 and 35 in HCM City. Around three-fourths of [...]

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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...