January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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December 31, 2011
 The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra plays at a concert in Hanoi last February Graham Sutcliffe, who has been living in Vietnam for 20 years, is now conductor of the Vietnam National Opera Ballet. Previously, he was the conductor of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi and also worked in Ho Chi Minh City. [...]
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November 15, 2011
 Several economists are saying the government should not commit itself to any gross domestic product target, adding economic growth cannot be a forced process. Vietnam should just follow other countries and release regular economic forecasts instead, they suggest. Vu Quang Viet, who has worked with the United Nations Statistical Division, said GDP growth [...]
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October 17, 2011
Song Da No. 2 construction firm is now implementing the Ban Ve hydropower plant project in Nghe An Province, but the investor is finding it difficult to pay. Complicated capital disbursement procedures have prevented construction firms from reclaiming debts from investors, even years after their projects finish. Vu Tuan Duong, vice general director of construction [...]
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October 15, 2011
Unprecedented move against Chinese contractor not easy, but ‘wise’, local firm says Vietnam’s state-owned Construction Corporation No.1 has decided to end its contract with a Chinese supplier due to poor performance at a major hydropower project in the Central Highlands. Beijing IWHR Corporation was terminated from the contract to supply and install the main [...]
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September 25, 2011
About two weeks before the new school year started, at least 17 children drowned in rivers, lakes and construction pits across the country. The latest incident was reported in Hanoi, where six children, all 12, drowned when their boat capsized in the Red River on September 2. Although two big rivers, the Red and [...]
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September 24, 2011
Workers clean the Keangnam residence tower in Hanoi September 20, 2011. Like many hoping for easy cash in Vietnam’s property market, Nguyen Thu Huong borrowed VND500 million ($24,000) from a bank in April to buy a new flat she didn’t need and planned to flip. The only question, she thought, was how big the [...]
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September 10, 2011
A young woman (C) reads exam materials as she leaves with others after taking part in a college admission test in Hanoi on July 5, 2011. In Vietnam, it is the mother of all battles that is fought year after year: more than close to a million or more students sit for their university entrance [...]
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September 9, 2011
The dong’s chronic weakness has repelled foreign investors and hampered attempts by Vietnam’s policymakers to reverse the faltering fortunes of an economy that only five years ago was one of Asia’s most promising. Until Vietnam rebuilds trust by decisively taming the region’s worst inflation and narrowing sizable trade and budget deficits, the risks of [...]
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September 9, 2011
Vietnam has to get very tough or the flood of illegal Chinese workers will continue Chinese workers at a construction site in the south-central province of Phu Yen. Thousands of illegal workers will continue taking jobs from Vietnamese workers if the Vietnamese government does not take action now, analysts say. There will be no [...]
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