January 11, 2012
 A man works at a steel factory in Que Vo District, outside Hanoi . Many companies in Vietnam are facing higher operation costs and lower profits. An annual report that ranks Vietnam’s 500 largest companies based on revenues, profit, growth rate, assets, and number of employees shows that returns are declining for private companies. [...]
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January 3, 2012
A street vendor walks past a Chanel SA store inside the Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Vietnam’s growth held near 6 percent this quarter, reducing the pressure for further monetary tightening after higher interest rates limited the boost to the economy from exports and domestic consumption. [...]
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June 4, 2011
Shoes and materials are laid on the ground of a factory in the handicraft shoe village of Gie Ha, south of Hanoi. Vietnam’s trade deficit has just kept ballooning over the years and economists don’t see it stopping any time soon, given the country’s heavy reliance on imported materials and machinery. The deficit widened to [...]
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May 16, 2011
Vietnam’s foreign exchange reserves last year dropped 12 percent, ADB said Vietnam, which has kept the precise level of its foreign reserves undisclosed, may publicize the data regularly next year via its national statistics office, VnExpress reported. The General Statistics Office in Hanoi has announced a new national statistical indicator system which has 76 additional [...]
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November 24, 2010
Vietnam imported 339.86 tons of gold from 1998 to September this year, an official said Vietnam imported 339.86 tons of gold from 1998 to September this year while exporting 268.86 tons during the period, central bank governor Nguyen Van Giau said in a statement Monday, citing customs statistics. The statement was made in response to [...]
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November 14, 2010
 Nong, a government employee pictured with the children of Kengkup village, Sepone District, Savhanakhet Province. Nong said four children were recently killed in the village while out playing with an unexploded sub-munitions dropped by American planes during the “secret” bombing campaign over Laos. The first use of cluster munitions reportedly occurred when a World [...]
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January 27, 2010
Vietnamâs trade deficit in January is estimated at US$1.3 billion with import growth outstripping exports by more than three to one compared with the same month last year, the government statistics office said Tuesday. Imports leapt 86.6 percent in January from a year earlier to $6.2 billion, while exports rose 28.1 percent to $4.9 billion, [...]
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January 9, 2010
Vietnamâs shipments of electronic products and garments are rebounding Vietnamâs fourth-quarter growth exceeded market expectations and the countryâs full-year expansion was âfar more resilientâ than the rest of Asia with the exception of China, Citigroup Inc. said. The economy expanded 6.9 percent on-year in the fourth quarter, up from a revised 6.04 percent in the [...]
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January 7, 2010
Vietnamâs fourth-quarter growth exceeded market expectations and the countryâs full-year expansion was âfar more resilientâ than the rest of Asia with the exception of China, Citigroup Inc. said. The economy expanded 6.9 percent on-year in the fourth quarter, up from a revised 6.04 percent in the third quarter, and grew 5.32 percent for the full [...]
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October 27, 2009
Vietnam, the worldâs second-biggest coffee grower, exported 48,000 tons last month, the General Statistics Office in Hanoi said Tuesday, 7 percent higher than previously estimated. The agency initially estimated that the Southeast Asian nation would ship 45,000 tons of coffee in September.Exports in October may rise to 60,000 tons, increasing year-to-date shipments to 948,000 tons, [...]
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