January 17, 2012
Food retail sales in Ho Chi Minh City witnessed “skyrocketing growth” in recent year, a report said Despite economic difficulties the retail market in Ho Chi Minh City expanded last year as top retailers and brands continued to come in, property consultant Knight Frank said in a new report. The retail sales value of goods [...]
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January 16, 2012
Activists are unhappy that a company that profited once by maiming Vietnamese civilians is allowed to profit again in the country 18-year-old Thang, believed to be an Agent Orange victim according to locals who know his mother, waits for customers at a market in Hanoi on January 9. It would be ironic if Vietnam [...]
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January 15, 2012
Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]
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January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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January 7, 2012
Dau Ngoc Hung (L) arrives at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport January 4. Hung is the sole survivor out of 23 sailors who were on board the Vietnamese cargo vessel Vinalines Queen which reportedly sank off the Philippines on December 25 without sending distress signals. The sole survivor from the Vinalines Queen, the Vietnamese [...]
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January 3, 2012
Nguyen Duc Kien, vice chairman of the Vietnam Professional Football JSC (VPF) The newly established national football company, VPF, says it rejects the validity of 20-year-contract between the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the An Vien Group (AVG). Early this year, VFF and AVG signed an agreement worth VND 6 billion (US$285,000) per year that [...]
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January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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January 2, 2012
Despite the tough economic climate, many foreign companies are continuing to expand operations in Vietnam in hope that their strategy will pay off when the recovery happens. BlueScope Buildings Vietnam, formerly known as BlueScope Lysaght Vietnam, inaugurated a US$4 million steel plant in Hanoi two weeks ago. The plant, located in the Quang Minh [...]
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December 30, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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December 28, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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