December 21, 2011
A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington, December 15, 2011. Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review [...]
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November 26, 2011
A worker assembles a new Piaggio at a factory inside the Binh Xuyen Industrial Park in Vinh Phuc Province. Italian group Piaggio inaugurated the vespa factory in 2009. Italy, besides improving cultural cooperation with Vietnam, is seeking ways to boost economic ties with the country. Italian companies are interested in sectors like leather, footwear, [...]
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October 31, 2011
 Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects during Diwali at the Sikh Shrine the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 26, 2011. As the global population hits seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratios could fuel the emergence of volatile "bachelor nations" driven by an aggressive competition for brides. Many demographers believe the [...]
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October 21, 2011
Visitors look at models of residential towers of a real estate development project during an exhibition on construction and property held in Hanoi. Vietnam’s property market has “slowed down” as higher interest rates made it difficult for potential buyers to finance purchases, said CapitaLand Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest property developer. The nation’s inflation rate in [...]
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August 31, 2011
The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]
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July 30, 2011
Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]
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June 27, 2011
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]
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May 24, 2011
 (L-R) Four Filipinos, Estreuta M. Debelem, Aserdin Cadion Eduardo, Pineda Sevilla Regina, and Elizag Jovito Corpuz, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on May 3, 2010 in a gambling con investigation. They were released and not charged with the crime. Last May, Ho Chi Minh City police arrested four Filipino nationals as they [...]
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April 27, 2011
Vietnam at times has struggled to keep up with its own expansion Despite Vietnam’s persistent economic woes, a record deal this month has shown foreign investors are still lured to the frontier market by its young, growing population and rising disposable incomes. The sealing of the country’s largest-ever private equity deal, at a time of [...]
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March 31, 2011
Visitors at an international tourism exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City last year Cambodians who can afford to travel are finding more and more reasons to visit Vietnam, especially for medical purposes. However, despite the figures showing significant jumps in the number of visitors from the neighboring nation, most local travel agencies are showing a [...]
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Amazon weighed buying RIM, interest cooled
A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington, December 15, 2011. Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review [...]
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