November 12, 2011
 A man talks on the phone inside the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Almost two weeks after the bankruptcy of commodities firm MF Global, customers at rival firms are all asking the same question: How safe is [...]
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April 21, 2011
A traffic jam in Hanoi's downtown during rush hours Hanoi needs nearly VND260 trillion (US$12.9 billion) to deal with its traffic congestion within the next five years, according to the local transport department’s proposal submitted to authorities Tuesday. Â Under the proposal, the money will be spent on building beltways and urban thoroughfares, local news [...]
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March 17, 2011
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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January 8, 2011
A customer fills out a money transfer form at a Western Union outlet in Ho Chi Minh City. Overseas remittances to Vietnam reached a record high of more than US$8 billion last year, an unexpected increase of 25.6 percent over 2009. In December alone, the inflow was $770 million, according to the central bank’s foreign [...]
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December 8, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Finance is the key to developing the software industry, director of Vietsoftware Tran Luong Son has said. Photo: InternetSon made the comment during a panel discussion concerning the development of a fund to support the software industry. The panel was held by the Institute of Software Industry last week.The establishment of the fund [...]
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October 27, 2009
The Can Tho Bridge that links Vinh Long Province and Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta is being built with Japanese ODA funds. Japan officially resumed ODA lending to Vietnam Monday, signing a diplomatic note to lend more than US$700 million for five projects. Terms for phase one of the loans for 2009 fiscal [...]
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October 21, 2009
The Japanese government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed an agreement on Monday to provide Vietnamâs microfinance programs with US$1.5 million in grant aid, according to a press release. Under the two-year project, five programs providing financial services and products for low-income citizens will be supported and developed with the funds, said a statement [...]
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October 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – More than 150 restaurants in Ha Noi have pledged not to serve endanger animal meat, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature in Viet Nam. Storks for sale to restaurants at a market in central Nghe An province. More than 150 restaurants in Ha Noi have pledged not to serve endangered animal [...]
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August 8, 2009
In a continuing series on the status of education in the Mekong Delta, SGGP looks at the lack of investment in the sector. Long Duc Primary school in the southern province of Tra Vinh is in a terrible state but at least has a concrete building. Many schools in the Mekong Delta are built of [...]
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July 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is considering whether to propose to the Ha Noi People’s Committee that it encourage beef, pork and poultry traders to transport meat more hygienically by supplying them with vans. Numerous firms were failing to obey regulations regarding the hygienic transport of meat, because they lacked the [...]
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