December 12, 2011
Many cement firms are deeply in the red after demand has plummeted due to the housing market slump while supply has soared because of the indiscriminate construction of several plants. Le Van Toi, head of the Ministry of Construction’s Construction Material Department, said: “Sales of many kinds of construction materials, including cement, have fallen [...]
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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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October 31, 2011
The poverty of the male modeling industry forces many into prostitution Male models say they usually have 30-50 percent of their payment taken by the modeling company that recommended them to the show. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre newspaper. Hoang Phi quit his job working at a Mekong Delta television station to enroll in [...]
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October 16, 2011
Tobacco industry poised to deploy ‘dirty tricks’ to increase business in third-world nations despite evidence aplenty of the substance’s harmful effects Natalka Proszak uses a cigarette box to block the wind as she lights a cigarette in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now that smoking has declined in high-income nations, experts warn that the tobacco industry [...]
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September 11, 2011
First-time director Siu Pham is betting that everyday moviegoers will relate to the authenticity and realism of her new art-house film Siu Pham said she just pursues her own path, no matter how hard it will be or how great the risk of failure is and she is also not like local young filmmakers [...]
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August 27, 2011
People work at a furniture factory outside Hanoi. Many exporters in Vietnam are struggling to survive the difficult times. The global recession and resultant lower purchasing power has caused difficulties for many Vietnamese exporters. It has not helped that their heavy reliance on imported materials, coupled with rising input costs, have made their products less [...]
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July 2, 2011
A scene in the play Sam hoi (Penance), a box office top hit at Phu Nhuan Theater in 2009. The play’s scriptwriter, Dieu Nhu Trang (below) is accused of plagiarism by a university student who claimed to have written 60 percent of the play but was not paid for it. A director has a [...]
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June 27, 2011
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. Vietnam, a major coal exporter, imported its first load of the fuel this month. Vietnam imported its first load of coal this month even as it continues exporting large quantities of the fuel. This is irrational and the country should have stopped exporting it years ago, [...]
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March 18, 2011
Boats in Ha Long Bay, a famous tourist spot in Vietnam Travellers could soon be able surf in Bali, shop in Singapore and eat spicy street food in Thailand before crossing into Cambodia and cruising the Mekong in Vietnam – all on a single tourist visa. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is working [...]
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December 12, 2010
Vietnamese catfish producers and European importers are demanding the World Wildlife Fund re-evaluate its red-listing of the hugely popular export item A worker catches tra fish at a fish farm in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam Local catfish producers and government officials are calling a recent analysis of Vietnam’s most popular farmed fish “incorrect” [...]
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