December 16, 2011
Vietnam has sent more than 81,000 laborers overseas as of November, Vietnam News Agency quoted an official from the labor ministry as saying on Tuesday. Despite difficulties, Vietnam is likely to achieve the target of sending 87,000 laborers overseas this year, said Le Van Thanh, deputy chief of the ministry’s Overseas Labor Management. According [...]
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December 12, 2011
Vietnam is in the top 10 list of developing countries with the largest overseas remittances Vietnam is set to receive a record US$9 billion in overseas remittances this year, up from more than $8 billion in 2010, a World Bank report says. The estimated figure places Vietnam at number eight in the top 10 list [...]
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October 29, 2011
The famous brand of Phu Quoc fish sauce, which is owned by the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Association in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, was recently registered by a Hong Kong-based company in China. Vietnamese producers’ associations should register their members’ collective brands overseas as soon as possible to avoid foreign legal battles [...]
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September 20, 2011
Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers take stereotypical symbols at face value in presenting Vietnam to the world A scene in Ao lua Ha Dong (the white silk dress), a Viet kieu’s box office hit in 2007 Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers tend to make two kinds of movies to show here. The first are commercial movies that target [...]
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July 14, 2011
Young overseas Vietnamese at Vietnam Summer Camp, which began Friday, in Hanoi. One hundred and fifty young Vietnamese expatriates from 30 countries and territories began an annual summer camp in Hanoi on Friday.  This year’s Vietnam Summer Camp will take the participants on a tour throughout Vietnam and stop at national historical and cultural monuments like Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum in Hanoi, [...]
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July 3, 2011
Participants of the Vietnam Summer Camp 2009 Many young Vietnamese expats will join this year’s Vietnam Summer Camp 2011, to be held in July in six localities across the nation, according to the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs. At least 150 young delegates from nearly 30 countries and territories worldwide have been invited to [...]
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April 25, 2011
New central bank directives to reduce dollar hoarding, economist says A local commercial bank staff receives bricks of dong bank notes from a customer in Hanoi. A government advisor says people will soon start saving their money in dong. A new cap on dollar deposit rates – 3 percent for individuals and 1 percent [...]
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April 4, 2011
Vietnamese workers in Libya prepare to fly home from an airport in Egypt. Around 10,000 Vietnamese workers have been evacuated due to the violence in Libya. A big challenge for a labor exporting country like Vietnam is protecting its workers’ rights, so that they are not cheated by recruitment agencies and/or overseas employers, Max Tunon, [...]
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February 25, 2011
A man places stacks of dong and US dollar notes inside a bag at a bank in Ho Chi Minh City. The State Bank of Vietnam devalued the dong by 9.3 percent on February 11 in an effort to minimize the gap between the official and black market exchange rates. Following the move, the dong [...]
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January 28, 2011
A client fills out a dollar deposit form at an Asia Commercial Bank branch in Ho Chi Minh City. Local banks are boosting interest rates on dollar deposits as they vie with each other to tap stronger remittances from overseas Vietnamese just before the Tet holiday. Bankers said the days before the biggest holiday of [...]
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