November 25, 2011
A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]
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September 20, 2011
Labor export plans for the year have been thwarted by the narrowing of some major markets after escalated violence in Libya and by the increasing number of laborers decamping in South Korea. Vietnam may lose South Korea, one of its biggest labor export markets, due to the high number of laborers decamping in the [...]
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September 4, 2011
Farmers transport rice after harvesting it outside Hanoi. Vietnam is expected to export a record 7.3 million tons of rice this year. The prices of many agricultural products are rising in the world market, but Vietnamese exporters may not be able to capitalize on this opportunity because their stocks are thin. Coffee prices have surged [...]
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September 28, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The same foreign traveler who spends $400-500 shopping in Thailand typically spends only $90-100 in Vietnam for souvenirs. Tourists don’t spend money on similar products Vietnam received 2.48 million foreign travelers in the first eight months of the year. If each one had spent $500 shopping in Vietnam like in Thailand, Vietnam would [...]
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September 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Remittances from the overseas Vietnamese community are down somewhat this year, but have not fallen as far as was feared. Overseas remittances (or kieu hoi) is understood as the money that is sent by overseas Vietnamese (Viet-kieu) to their relatives in Vietnam to support their life and business plans. Statistics about overseas remittances [...]
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September 18, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Export revenue from construction materials in the last few years has been so low that statistics have not even been kept. Economists have given warnings about the oversupply of many types of construction materials over the last year, from glass, ceramic bricks to cement and steel. Associations have also admitted that many construction material [...]
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September 11, 2009
Vietnamâs Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed increasing the maximum loan cap for poor workers traveling abroad under labor export contracts. Under the proposal sent to Vietnam Social Policy Bank, the new loans would vary from market to market with Japan topping the list at VND75 million (US$4,206), while the current cap [...]
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September 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam had its fifth victim of A/H1N1 after a boy died of the flu in Dong Nai Children’s Hospital on September 9, The city had eight dengue-related fatalities in the first eight months of this year, double the number in the same period last year. (Photo: VNN)Nga confirmed the fatality at the weekly [...]
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September 7, 2009
Hainan-Hanoi direct flight route to open late this month; Foreign investors show confidence in Vietnam; Domestic garment sales soar The direct flight route that links China ’s Hainan province and the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi will be launched on September 27, a local daily reported.Two flights from Hainan to Hanoi and vice-versa will be [...]
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September 6, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Rubber exports are fetching US$150 more per tonne in recent days, with the price of rubber climbing a total of about $350 per tonne since the beginning of the year. Workers collect rubber latex in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum. The rubber export price has climbed US$150 a tonne in recent [...]
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