September 20, 2011
Employees at Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank, attend to customers in Hanoi. Several commercial banks announced lending interest rate cuts, but companies complain they are being denied access to the lower rates. Major lenders like VietinBank and Vietcombank have lowered dong lending rates for loans to businesses and manufacturers to [...]
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September 16, 2011
General view of the European parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. The European Union moved closer on Thursday to toughening budget rules to punish overspenders after the EU Parliament and governments reached a compromise to prevent future debt crises. Governments that run excessive public deficits could face financial sanctions under the deal, although the measures would [...]
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July 20, 2011
A displaced Somali mother attends her malnourished child at southern Mogadishu's Banadir hospital on July 19, 2011 where medics have said most of the displaced children are ill and have been treated for severe malnutrition The death rate among drought-stricken Somalis arriving at refugee camps has reached several times above levels seen in emergency situations, [...]
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January 29, 2010
One of the urgent demands in the world today was to generate bigger democratisation in global governance, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Davos yesterday. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Swiss President Doris Leuthard on his working visit to Switzerland.Dung, addressing the 40th Davos plenary session on reshaping global governance, said this was [...]
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December 29, 2009
Rice export hits record high of 6 million tonnes; Retail turnover surges 18.6 percent in 2009; Bank to let loose 60 million share issue Vietnam’s rice export reached twenty-year record high till the end of December this year, said the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). The nation exported six million tonnes of rice in 2009, earning over 2.4 [...]
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December 12, 2009
Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said Thursday that the U.S. and the DPRK reached a common understanding on the need for resuming the six-party talks. Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), addresses a press conference in Seoul, capital of South [...]
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December 11, 2009
Tien Phong Daily has roused the public by its revelation of the towering salaries of officials at some money-losing state-owned companies. LookAtVietnam summarizes the series. The SCIC’s headquarters in Hanoi. At a ceremony marking the SCIC’s funding by three state-owned firms subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development last year, Ta observed that though he [...]
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November 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The country’s export turnover in the first 11 months this year reached around US$51.4 billion, an 11.4 per cent year-on-year decrease. The country’s export turnover in the first 11 months this year reached around US$51.4 billion, an 11.4% year-on-year decrease.With such turnover, the country’s exports reached an average of $4.6 billion per month [...]
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October 4, 2009
HCM City hosts made-in Vietnam products fair; Foreign remittances to fall in 2009; RoK to invest in building Hanoi urban railway; Viettel pours US$250 million into Bangladesh HCM City hosts made-in Vietnam products fair A fair featuring made-in Vietnam products opened in HCM City on October 2 at the HCM City Centre for Trade and [...]
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September 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Agricultural export value is likely to meet Government targets for the year but will remain lower than last year, In the first nine months of this year, the total national export value for agricultural, forestry and seafood products reached $11 billion, 12 per cent lower than the same period last year.The ministry projected [...]
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