October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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July 31, 2011
Anti-corruption advocates and international experts hope a new president and National Assembly will get tough on graft and economic problems A boy walks with water buffaloes in Lao Cai Province’s Sapa District in northwest Vietnam. Anti-corruption advocates and international analysts hope that Vietnam’s new leadership will get tough on graft and economic problems. Le [...]
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July 23, 2011
The Agent Orange issue is about much more than scientific evidence An Agent Orange victim carries food for lunch at a hospice in Vietnam’s central Da Nang City. The US and Vietnam launched the first concrete step toward cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange last month, in what the top US diplomat in the [...]
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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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March 19, 2011
A toy lies in front of a destroyed house in the devastated city of Ofunato. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Workers were ordered to withdraw from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after [...]
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November 15, 2010
The Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai will be expanded four times The government has approved a plan to expand four-fold the Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai, aiming to turn it into a key economic center in the country. The Economic Zone will be expanded to [...]
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February 6, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s industrial and export values slightly declined in January, but economists said the momentum for its economic recovery has been anchored. January’s industrial value dropped 4.6 per cent against December, 2009. The export turnover was down 10.4 per cent month-on-month, the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s (MPI) reported last week. While the MPI [...]
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January 26, 2010
A woman walks at the shopping quarter in Ho Chi Minh City downtown. Surrounded by shelf upon shelf of brightly colored candy boxes, Tran Quynh Hoaâs shopping cart was already full. But that didnât stop her from selecting two more boxes of chocolates and placing them precariously atop her haul of fruits, rice, and confectionaries.âIâm [...]
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January 24, 2010
Workers at a Malaysian firm in Ho Chi Minh City wait after their boss left Vietnam while still owing them VND100million Pham Thi Trinh, a leather shoe worker in the southern province of Binh Duong, has been at home without work or pay for three months after her South Korean bosses suddenly disappeared towards the [...]
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January 10, 2010
Milk prices slide, farmers see losses; Overseas remittances down 12.8%, says State Bank; Hanoi to host int’l trade, investment fair; Businesses optimistic about economic development in 2010; Coffee exports hit record high Milk prices slide, farmers see losses Dairy farmers in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi District January 8 said they have been forced [...]
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