Posts Tagged ‘ The Businesses ’

Big gap remains from Tet, New Year bonus high of $52,300 

December 30, 2011
Big gap remains from Tet, New Year bonus high of $52,300 

Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year   Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]

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Virtual office providers face concrete obstacles

November 27, 2009
Virtual office providers face concrete obstacles

LookAtVietnam – More and more businesses have chosen to use virtual offices. However, they face obstacles because government agencies don’t know how to treat them. Vietnam now has about 20 virtual office service providers; there are ten in HCM City alone. The service providers say business is good; in fact, the economic downturn has driven [...]

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Businesses swindled by ‘bogus’ financial company

August 20, 2009
Businesses swindled by ‘bogus’ financial company

LookAtVietnam – Some 15 businesses have reported that they contacted the so-called Delaware Financial Company about borrowing money, but they never got loans.  SBV said that the decision on the approval of the establishment of Delaware Financial Company with the signature of SBV’s Governor Nguyen Van Giau, shown by Delaware’s owners to businesses when negotiating [...]

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A busy summer for Decision 30

July 28, 2009
A busy summer for Decision 30

Many businesses don’t want to borrow money from the government to pay workers because they don’t want to admit that they have been having problems. Meanwhile, business owners have been slipping away into the night. Decision 30 states that the businesses that have difficulties in 2009 due to the economic downturn and still cannot pay [...]

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Business need to be consulted on legal policies

May 12, 2009
Business need to be consulted on legal policies

Government agencies promulgate policies which affect many thousands of businesses, but they don’t think that they need to consult the businesses. The Director of the Legal Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Truong Quang Hoai Nam related that he sometimes is ‘confronted’ by his five brothers.  They are owners of small private businesses. [...]

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Rescuing weak businesses or letting them die?

April 22, 2009
Rescuing weak businesses or letting them die?

Experts have been arguing about whether to rescue weak businesses by providing preferential loans, or let them get dissolved. The Government of Vietnam has announced the second demand stimulus package, which allows businesses to borrow money for investment at subsidized interest ratesThe Government of Vietnam has announced the second demand stimulus package, which allows businesses [...]

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Local businesses show confidence

April 14, 2009
Local businesses show confidence

A local business confidence index survey has found that a majority of domestic businesses retain strong confidence in revenue increases over the next 12 months. The survey, jointly conducted by the WVB Financial Information Service company and PVFC Invest, reported that half of the 150 businesses asked believe that their revenues will rise in the [...]

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Dollar appreciation burdening both exporters and importers

April 7, 2009
Dollar appreciation burdening both exporters and importers

LookAtVietnam – The widening of the dollar trading band, which was thought would depreciate the VND and help export companies, has had quite a different effect. Import companies have been experiencing more and more difficulties. Automobile import companies had not yet recovered from the VND/US$ exchange rate increases when the luxury tax law became effective [...]

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The story about listed companies’ dividends

March 24, 2009
The story about listed companies’ dividends

VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of securities companies try to pay high dividends in cash in order to reassure shareholders. However, experts said that shareholders’ confidence originates from businesses’ real ability, not from the high dividends. In November 2008, Nam Viet Joint Stock Company (ANV) announced it advanced the dividend at 18% of the shares’ [...]

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42% of businesses complain about bank loan access difficulties: survey

March 23, 2009
42% of businesses complain about bank loan access difficulties: survey

Despite a lot of Government support measures, businesses still complain that they find it difficult to access bank loans. The difficulties in bank loans access has always been the long term worry of businesses. The recent survey conducted by the Vietnam Development Forum and the Hanoi National Economics University showed that in the current period, [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...