September 20, 2011
Honda motorcycles are prepared for delivery to customers in downtown Hanoi. Honda is among the foreign investors who are continuing to increase investment in Vietnam. Job generation should not be focus of foreign direct investment (FDI), Nguyen Mai, former vice chairman of the State Commission for Cooperation and Investment, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in [...]
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July 9, 2011
Factory workers change shifts at the Thang Long Industrial Park outside of Hanoi. The government is seeking approval from the National Assembly to suspend tax collection from those with a monthly income of less than VND9 million (US$440). The Ministry of Finance has submitted a proposal on tax breaks that will last through the [...]
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June 1, 2011
Economist argues that Vietnam should pursue a slow, holistic approach to solving its economic woes A branch of SeABank in Ho Chi Minh City now offers 14 percent per year on dong deposits. A university professor said a “war” between banks directly led to high interest rates. Interest rates on dong deposits at some [...]
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March 17, 2011
A worker at a plastic product factory in Ho Chi Minh City Local firms struggling to manage soaring input costs and high interest rates will find government support critical for getting through tough times, experts say. However, some of them are worried about the lack of resilience shown by some enterprises which they say does [...]
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December 21, 2009
Vinamilk employees work on a production line. Green enterprises and co-operatives will enjoy tax incentives as the Government seeks to encourage them to use environmentally-friendly technologies. LookAtVietnam – Green enterprises and co-operatives will enjoy tax incentives as the Government seeks to encourage them to use environmentally-friendly technologies, according to the city’s enterprises.They will enjoy a [...]
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November 3, 2009
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Thuong Kon Tum Hydropower Plant project in Kon Tum Province Vast areas of forests are being sacrificed in the central region and the Central Highlands to build hundreds of hydropower plants, and experts are warning of serious environmental and social consequences. A total of 60 large-scale hydropower plants of between [...]
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October 31, 2009
Tay Ninh Province to get first industrial ‘ecology’ zone; Citigroup to help PetroVietnam seek $550 mln loan for plant; Foreign arrivals to Vietnam drop by 25 percent in October Investors look at an artist’s impression of the Bourbon An Hoa Industrial Garden project in the ground breaking ceremony Bourbon Tay Ninh Joint Stock Company broke ground [...]
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October 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – National Assembly deputies yesterday, October 28, focused on protecting the environment and how Viet Nam should adapt to climate change. A soil stabilisation forest in Song Cau District’s Xuan Thanh Commune in central Phu Yen Province. Efficiency of a national programme to plant 5 million hectares of forests was one of the matters [...]
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September 30, 2009
Two people read job ads at an employment center in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City will need to hire 110,000 new employees in the final quarter of this year, no easy task as the global economy has only just begun to recovery, experts say. âMore than 10,000 enterprises in the city are [...]
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August 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s export sector is facing a number of difficulties and is in danger of seeing growth decline in the near future. Cao Sy Kiem, president of the Vietnam Association for Small-and-Medium- Sized Enterprises says that in the current situation it will be difficult to obtain an export growth of 3 percent. Many experts [...]
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