July 10, 2011
Industry stakeholders grapple with falling production, higher costs and low prices Farmers harvest tra fish in the Mekong Delta. A shortage of the fish is expected to recur next month. As many as 147 firms have stopped seafood processing and export to pursue other kinds of business since the beginning of this year, pushed [...]
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January 16, 2010
In order to reach the country’s target GDP growth rate of 6.5 percent in 2010, the industry and trade sector needs to meet other important targets To control inflation under these Government targets, the industry and trade sector should ensure the supply of essential goods to avoid price fevers. Keeping import growth lower than export According to [...]
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November 14, 2009
Groundwater levels have sunk 17 meters over a decade while much of the supply has been contaminated with arsenic. Farmers fix an underground water pump they use to water their shrimp farm in the Mekong Delta.The over-exploitation of groundwater will push the Mekong Delta and southeastern provinces into a critical water shortage over the next [...]
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November 13, 2009
Farmers fix an underground water pump they use to water their shrimp farm in the Mekong Delta. Groundwater levels have sunk 17 meters over a decade while much of the supply has been contaminated with arsenic. The over-exploitation of groundwater will push the Mekong Delta and southeastern provinces into a critical water shortage over the [...]
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October 21, 2009
HCM City has approved a plan to provide interest-free loans worth VND422 billion to 13 food suppliers to secure adequate supply and stabilize prices of certain goods during Lunar New Year. LookAtVietnam – The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has approved a plan to provide interest-free loans worth VND422 billion (US$23.4 million) to 13 [...]
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September 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The new school year opened with the failure of the education sector to supply sufficient teachers for HCM City’s elementary schools. To cope with the situation, many districts have had no choice but assign the task of teaching elementary pupils to freshly graduated nursery or junior high school teachers.Binh Chanh District had to [...]
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September 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The demand for commercial real estate is still very high even in the economic downturn, because consumers have gotten used to going shopping at trade centres. Supply grows, but rents don’t fall Tran Van Hung, head of leasing at Eden Mall in the Saigon area of HCM City, said that the great majority of [...]
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July 22, 2009
While businesses criticize commercial banks for the banks’ refusal to sell foreign currencies to them, banks explain that they themselves cannot purchase dollars from export companies. However, there are ‘work-arounds.’ On July 21, the dollar buying and selling prices quoted by commercial banks were still at the official ceiling of 17,812 dong per dollar. Under [...]
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June 13, 2009
The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution condemning “in the strongest terms” a recent nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and imposing new sanctions. The UN Security Council holds a conference at the UN headquarters to vote on the draft resolution on the nuclear test conducted by the [...]
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June 8, 2009
In the first three months of 2009, SBV cited the trade surplus to persuade people not to worry about the foreign currency shortage. But what will happen with the trade deficit returning? In May 2009, the State Bank worked very hard to stabilise the foreign currency market. It tried to persuade businesses and people that [...]
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