February 25, 2011
Rescue workers are seen digging at the site of the collapsed CTV building in quake-hit Christchurch on February 24, 2011. New Zealand warned frantic relatives to brace for the worst Friday as toiling rescuers failed to find any more survivors after a devastating earthquake left at least 113 dead. As rain hampered the painstaking search [...]
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February 20, 2011
Experts still divided on ways to treat turtle too old and special for conservation efforts The badly injured giant soft-shell turtle living in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, pictured here on February 8, is said to be one of four remaining Rafetus swinhoei specimens in the world. The photograph has initiated a new round of [...]
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December 27, 2009
Trung Hoa – Nhan Chinh apartment complex in Ha Noi. Ha Noi’s real estate market stagnated in the last few months of this year. LookAtVietnam – Ha Noi’s real estate market stagnated in the last few months of this year, according to industry experts.Vu Thanh Hung, director of a real estate company, said he had [...]
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November 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Planning and Investment is targeting an average income of US$2,100 per person a year by 2015, nearly double that of the 2010 target. This was revealed last week at an international conference on the nation’s socio-economic development plans for the 2011-15 period.Viet Nam’s per capita income has recently risen to [...]
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November 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Thi Phuong Mai, an insurance executive, was excited and delighted to see her friend as she spoke to him on her 3G cell phone. LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Thi Phuong Mai, an insurance executive, was excited and delighted to see her friend as she spoke to him on her 3G cell phone. “I [...]
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November 3, 2009
3G services set to replace predecessors in Vietnam Nguyen Thi Phuong Mai, an insurance executive, was excited and delighted to see her friend as she spoke to him on her 3G cell phone. âI saw people talking like that when I was abroad. Now, it is happening in Vietnam,â said Mai as she filled in [...]
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October 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The business confidence index (BCI) in the third quarter of 2009 increased by 6 points over the previous quarter. This is one of the results from a survey jointly conducted by the Vietnam WVB Financial Intelligence Services (WVB VietNam) and the PetroVietnam Finance Investment and Consultancy Company (PVFC Invest) and will be officially [...]
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September 17, 2009
A worker at the Piaggio Vietnam factory Vietnam tops the list of priority markets outside the BRIC nations for global investors over the next five years, says investment consultancy firm UK Trade & Investment. The firmâs âSurvive and Prosper: emerging markets in the global recessionâ report ranked Vietnam first for the second year in a [...]
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August 31, 2009
The U.S. economy does not need a second fiscal stimulus package, instead the government should cut spending over the next two years, according to a survey of business economists released on Monday. Most economists in the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) semi-annual poll were concerned about the outlook for the U.S. government budget. Also, [...]
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August 16, 2009
Farmers nestle in rice fields as they work in Can Tho. Rice growing in the Mekong Delta will need to be reduced as the region is likely to face a water shortage in the next decade, leading agriculturalists have warned. Professor Vo Tong Xuan, one of Vietnamâs leading agricultural experts, said local rice farmers do [...]
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