December 14, 2011
Vietnam’s Party Secretary made national interests a top priority at a diplomatic conference that began in Hanoi on Monday. Nguyen Phu Trong said at Vietnam’s 27th diplomatic conference that national interests will always have the top position in the country’s diplomatic policies. Trong said diplomatic agencies need to follow independent, cooperative and peaceful policies, [...]
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December 14, 2011
Vietnam's inflation is expected to slow to about 9 percent in 2012 and is under control, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the Consultative Group. Vietnam may undermine progress toward economic stability if it loosens monetary policy now, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank said as the nation struggles with the fastest inflation in [...]
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November 15, 2011
 Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]
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October 15, 2011
Vietnam’s new cabinet makes a strong start with several “smart technocrats”, but economic woes and lack of transparency pose hurdles, according to analysts Residents fishing next to Han River bridge in central coastal city of Da Nang. New Transport Minister Dinh La Thang last week took the unusual step of firing the manager of [...]
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July 31, 2011
Vietnam's growth has moderated as monetary and fiscal policies were tightened, ADB said Vietnam’s growth is expected to slow to 6.1 percent this year as authorities tighten monetary policies and cut government expenditures to bring inflation under control, the Asian Development Bank said Thursday. The economy expanded 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2011, [...]
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July 30, 2011
A drastic decline in breastfeeding prompts concerns over the future of child development in Vietnam A doctor examines a child patient at a charity health program in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. Experts say Vietnam should champion breastfeeding to ensure future generations are taller and healthier. On July 8, Tran Thanh Tuyen, [...]
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June 14, 2011
Viking II, a ship contracted by the state-owned Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, was harassed by Chinese ships Thursday as it carried out seismic surveys in Vietnam's continental shelf. Le The Mau, former chief of the scientific information division under the Ministry of National Defense’s Institute of Military Strategies, says China is acting against [...]
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May 21, 2011
Manulife Financial Corp. plans to increase sales of insurance policies to lower-income earners in Vietnam by expanding into more regions of the Asian country. Canada’s largest insurer introduced so-called microinsurance — policies that cost clients about $15 a year — in 2009 through nine Vietnamese provinces, and has sold about 80,000 policies, Manulife Vietnam [...]
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May 4, 2011
Vietnam's Central Bank Governor Nguyen Van Giau speaks at a news conference of the 44th annual meeting of the Asia Development Bank in Hanoi May 2, 2011. Vietnamese central bank governor Nguyen Van Giau expressed confidence on Monday in government steps to curb soaring inflation, days after raising key policy rates for the second time [...]
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May 4, 2011
Vietnam is “overdue” for again raising its interest rates because of the country’s high pace of inflation, an International Monetary Fund official said on Monday. Benedict Bingham, IMF resident representative for Vietnam, said the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the central bank, should move “to ensure that inflation expectations don’t become entrenched and put [...]
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