December 31, 2011
(R) Nguyen Van Trung, 32, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Le Thi Hong Linh receive jail terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City for robbing a Japanese tourist. A couple was sentenced to a total of four years in jail on Wednesday for robbing a Japanese tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as travel [...]
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December 5, 2011
Slowing inflation and talk of financial reforms have not boosted market sentiment as expected, and analysts are predicting the worst will not be over any time soon. Phan Dung Khanh, research manager at Kim Eng Vietnam Securities Co., said the stock market may move sideways or only recover slightly next year. Macroeconomic measures taken [...]
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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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August 23, 2011
Vietnam only allows a maximum advertising cost of 10 percent of total expenditures The European Chamber of Commerce has requested the government to eliminate a cap on advertising and promotional expenditures, saying the restriction is not good for competition. EuroCham said the cap should be removed or at least applied only to certain industries if [...]
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January 15, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Trading volumes on gold trading floors have been decreasing dramatically, although gold trading floors will only officially stop operating after March 30. On January 13 and 14, a number of gold exchanges announced they had stopped providing loans to fund gold investments and released plans to shut down their floors. Many gold trading [...]
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January 15, 2010
The trading volumes on gold trading floors have been decreasing dramatically, though gold trading floors will only officially stop operating after March 30, 2010. On January 13 and 14, a lot of gold exchanges unanimously announced that they stopped providing loans to fund gold investments and released the plan to shut down the floors. Many [...]
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December 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Deputy director of the Market and Price Research Institute Tran Dinh Anh sees the appreciating dollar as positive news for Vietnam. Deputy director of the Market and Price Research Institute under the Ministry of Finance Tran Dinh Anh In an interview given to Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon, Anh said: Thoi bao Kinh te [...]
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December 11, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The amount of outstanding loans to real estate investors is much lower in Hanoi than HCM City, where “banks are more liberal” The National Finance Supervision Committee, established in March 2008, oversees Vietnam’s stock and insurance markets and its banking and real estate sectors. The committee is now compiling its first supervision report. [...]
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November 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Some urban planners believe that the fast-growing system of higher education needs to be freed of too much central planning. This is the second part of a series on Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon (Saigon Economic Times). Education by the numbers In 1987, according to Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) statistics, Vietnam had 107 [...]
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September 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Although some economists expressed concern about the CPI increase in September, GSO says its just a cyclical thing. Tran Thi Hang, director of the Trade Service and Price Department, a unit of the General Statistics OfficeTran Thi Hang is director of the Trade Service and Price Department, a unit of the General Statistics [...]
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