Posts Tagged ‘ The Coming ’

Vietnam to be among top 50 economies by 2015: HSBC 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam to be among top 50 economies by 2015: HSBC 

Vietnam will see strong economic expansion during the coming 40 years, HSBC says Vietnam will be among the top 50 economies within the next few decades as many other emerging markets are set to take the lead of the global economy, HSBC has predicted. “Vietnam, like many of its rapid growing neighbors, will see strong [...]

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Companies still can’t borrow, despite lower interest rates 

September 20, 2011
Companies still can’t borrow, despite lower interest rates 

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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No letup in tough times for property market 

August 14, 2011
No letup in tough times for property market 

  Government’s inflation fight will decide short-term future, analysts say Motorcyclists ride past a construction site in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City on August 8. For the first time in two years, land prices have gone down in Hanoi. Perhaps for the first time ever, developers are offering apartments in lieu of cash [...]

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Vietnam mobile internet usage now low, but set to surge: report 

July 17, 2011
Vietnam mobile internet usage now low, but set to surge: report 

Many Vietnamese plan to buy a smart phone in the coming year, Nielsen says A whopping 75 percent of Vietnamese consumers intend to use mobile Internet in the next 12 months as the popularity of digital media is set to surge in the country, global measurement company Nielsen said in a report this week. Nielsen [...]

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Vietnam’s rice exports to surge to record levels this year 

July 9, 2011
Vietnam’s rice exports to surge to record levels this year 

  Rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s second-largest shipper after Thailand, will rise to a record seven million tons this year as higher prices set by Thailand’s new government are pushing buyers toward Vietnam, officials say. Thailand’s Puea Thai (For Thais) Party, which won a landslide election victory on July 3, campaigned on a promise [...]

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Western warplanes, missiles hit Libyan targets 

March 20, 2011
Western warplanes, missiles hit Libyan targets 

Rebel fighters sit on a tank captured from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Benghazi March 19 European and US forces unleashed warplanes and cruise missiles against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s troops in the biggest Western military intervention in the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Libyan state television said 48 people [...]

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Local firms feel the heat of rising input costs 

March 17, 2011
Local firms feel the heat of rising input costs 

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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POLITICS IN BRIEF 20/12

December 20, 2009
POLITICS IN BRIEF 20/12

Party leader Manh concludes Cambodia visit; Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association President visits Vietnam; Information access good for VN: UN official; President’s visit further ties with European countries  Party leader Manh concludes Cambodia visit Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh left Phnom Penh for Hanoi on December 19, concluding his official visit to Cambodia at the invitation of [...]

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Experts say 2010 will be challenging for enterprises

November 20, 2009
Experts say 2010 will be challenging for enterprises

High-profile experts emphasized in a conference in HCM City that local enterprises will enter the year 2010 with uncertainties and huge challenges. “…Local enterprises will enter the year 2010 with uncertainties and huge challenges.”Truong Dinh Tuyen, former trade minister and a key architect behind Vietnam’s entry into the World Trade Organization, told the conference that [...]

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Shrimp-rice farms bring hope to Delta

November 9, 2009
Shrimp-rice farms bring hope to Delta

 LookAtVietnam – Eco-friendly and economically beneficial farming methods in the Mekong Delta is leading the way to more sustainable rural development.The sun is blazing down but Vo Thi Nhieu and her husband are absorbed in consolidating the levees to prepare their newly harvested rice field for the upcoming shrimp crop.The work is harder than usual [...]

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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...