June 19, 2011
Many consumers said they would be trading down to less expensive products The first half of 2011 brought a decline in Vietnam’s consumer confidence levels, according to the latest Nielsen survey. Vietnam’s economy was virtually untouched by the global economic downturn and consumer confidence generally remained among the highest of the 55 countries monitored by [...]
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December 20, 2010
Tourists wait for a taxi at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Last month, Tran Thuy An got off a plane at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport and hailed a cab. A Happy Taxi (a subsidiary of the Tram Thanh Company) pulled up to the curb and An stepped in. [...]
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February 5, 2010
Business confidence among Viet Nam’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) climbed 10 points in the fourth quarter last year, . . . Sandy Flockhart, HSBC’s chairman of personal and commercial banking, said: “Our small business confidence index is telling us that confidence levels are back to pre-financial crisis levels. Not only are SMEs confident that [...]
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January 31, 2010
A woman talks on the phone at Asia Commercial Bankâs gold trading floor in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam gold exchanges said they would close far ahead of the governmentâs deadline due to a halting decline in trading volumes. Earlier this month, the State Bank of Vietnam told banks to halt lending for gold investments [...]
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January 23, 2010
Nguyen Hoang An Khoa (L) and his mother An Thi Phuong at Childrenâs Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City Parents have accused a Ho Chi Minh City hospital of carelessness after their child was left mostly-paralyzed by an intestinal surgery last month. Nguyen Hoang An Khoa, 11 months old, walked and ate normally before [...]
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January 23, 2010
Parents have accused a Ho Chi Minh City hospital of carelessness after their child was left mostly-paralyzed by an intestinal surgery last month. Nguyen Hoang An Khoa, 11 months old, walked and ate normally before he was sent to the Children’s Hospital No.1 in December for treatment of an intestinal occlusion. But when his heart [...]
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October 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese businesses have more confidence in improved business prospects in the coming months than their peers in many other countries, A majority of respondents in the country (65 per cent) – the highest proportion from the countries surveyed – expect their trade volumes to increase in the next three months, according to the [...]
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June 5, 2009
Vietnamâs smaller traders are the most confident in the Asia Pacific region, according to a recent HSBC report. Vietnam was the only country surveyed where more than half of companies expected trade volumes to rise in the next three months, said the banking group.The report said 54 percent of the 300 Vietnamese small- and medium-sized [...]
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May 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Although Ha Noi’s consumer price index (CPI) saw an increase in May over last month, it was still lower than the country’s economic hub of HCM City, according to the Government statistics agencies. The capital’s May CPI rose 0.24 per cent over April and the index surged 12.91 per cent over the same [...]
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May 1, 2009
A man reads a Yahoo! 360o blog. With Yahoo! 360o closing down soon, many Vietnamese bloggers are undecided about where they should relocate. Vietnamese bloggers are at a loss to decide which social network they should switch to now that Yahoo! 360o is on the way out. While online social networks elsewhere in the world [...]
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