December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
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December 22, 2011
Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint- Stock Bank may sell as much as a 15 percent stake to Credit Suisse Group AG, the Vietnamese lender’s Chief Executive Officer said. The bank’s stock rose to the highest level in almost a month in Ho Chi Minh City. Sacombank, as the lender is known, will start negotiations [...]
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October 21, 2011
Visitors look at models of residential towers of a real estate development project during an exhibition on construction and property held in Hanoi. Vietnam’s property market has “slowed down” as higher interest rates made it difficult for potential buyers to finance purchases, said CapitaLand Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest property developer. The nation’s inflation rate in [...]
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September 9, 2011
The sun rises over highrise buildings in downtown Beijing in 2010. A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. China’s suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000, the Centre for Disease [...]
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August 13, 2011
A vendor sells fruits and vegetables at a local market in Hanoi. As the government starts a new term in office, people are looking for more determined efforts from the government to curb inflation that has hit them hard for several months now. The highest positions in the nation’s governing hierarchy have been filled. The [...]
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July 17, 2011
A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.  Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes [...]
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June 12, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister called for stricter oversight of Vietnam’s gender selection practices Children at a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City. Health authorities in Vietnam have warned against serious gender imbalance over the past several years. When doctors at a private medical service in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 told Tran Thi Thanh [...]
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June 2, 2011
Vietnam’s central bank ordered lenders to set aside more dollars as reserves for the second time in less than two months, escalating the nation’s fight to steady the dong and quell the highest inflation in Asia. The reserve-requirement ratio on US dollar deposits will rise by 1 percentage point to a range from 4 [...]
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April 10, 2011
Vietnam lacks solid seismic standards for high-rise construction and few guarantees for apartment buyers Residents stand outside an apartment building in Hanoi’s Linh Dam residential area after an earthquake on March 24. The quake has raised questions about the quality of apartment towers in the country. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake erupted along the border [...]
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April 9, 2011
An investor watches market movements at a securities firm in Ho Chi Minh City. Investors have called for tougher measures to deal with share price manipulators. Investors and experts have applauded the State Securities Commission’s recent decision to impose the highest possible fine on three market manipulators. However, even the maximum fine is no deterrent [...]
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