January 20, 2012
Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of the HCMC Center for Preventive Health, as saying that the cases were detected among workers of the Japanese-owned [...]
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December 19, 2011
Residential apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City's District 2 The housing markets in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will continue to see price falls in 2012 as cities across Asia-Pacific are expected to have weaker sales volumes, according to global property consultant Knight Frank. Residential prices in the two Vietnamese cities will [...]
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July 17, 2011
Many Vietnamese plan to buy a smart phone in the coming year, Nielsen says A whopping 75 percent of Vietnamese consumers intend to use mobile Internet in the next 12 months as the popularity of digital media is set to surge in the country, global measurement company Nielsen said in a report this week. Nielsen [...]
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July 16, 2011
Huynh Minh Duc, a traffic police officer in Binh Thanh District, HCMC, is accused of illegally releasing a motorbike from police custody. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have ordered an investigation into allegations that a traffic officer illegally released a motorbike seized after its owner committed traffic violations, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. [...]
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June 22, 2011
A five-year study found that Vietnam spends up to 3 percent of its gross domestic product on mitigating the effects of environmental pollution A woman skims rubbish out of a polluted river in Hanoi. A national environmental report has warned that increasing environmental pollution will hinder Vietnam’s economic growth. Dang Thi Thanh Loan’s sore [...]
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April 17, 2011
Agribank Financial Leasing Company No. 2, a unit of state-owned Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, lost VND3 trillion (US$143 million) in 2009 because of “serious” mismanagement, Vietnam’s state auditor said in a report obtained by Bloomberg News. The auditor recommended in the report that the government investigate any violations and consider restructuring [...]
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January 4, 2011
Vietnam’s central bank is proposing that the country set interest rates annually and allow companies to negotiate the currency’s exchange rate with banks, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported on Friday. The central bank has submitted a plan on the changes to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the newspaper cited Governor Nguyen Van Giau as saying. [...]
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December 7, 2010
Salt farmers working in a field in the central coastal region. Scientists say that today’s severe and unpredictable storms have significantly impeded traditional salt harvests. A close-up look at losses and damages to shrimp and salt farmers in Ha Tinh and Ca Mau provinces aims to persuade international donors for a national program in [...]
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December 7, 2010
Vietnam needs to figure out where it wants to go and how it’s going to get there before it loses its economic edge A worker at a textile factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam needs to move beyond the current economic growth model which is based on low labor cost, a Harvard guru [...]
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January 30, 2010
Domestic private enterprises need to find their teeth if they are to bite into bigger chunks of the market. LookAtVietnam – Domestic private enterprises have failed to step up to the plate in the decade since the Enterprise Law came into force. The latest Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) report on the implementation of [...]
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