January 2, 2012
Vietnam will find it difficult to sustain into the new year the trade deficit reduction that it managed in 2011, given that it plans to reduce import tariffs on many products and that the ongoing global recession could hurt its exports, experts say. Vietnam’s trade deficit narrowed to US$9.5 billion from $12.4 billion in [...]
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November 19, 2011
Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia. The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing. Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed the day with a [...]
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November 19, 2011
Workers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with unstable jobs, abuse at work, and bosses who flee to avoid paying employees Workers from Miso Vina Company stay at the company yard around the clock awaiting payment after the South Korean director fled to avoid paying their salaries Binh burns leaves and sticks at night [...]
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November 17, 2011
A part of Dung Quat oil refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai. The refinery is the mainstay of the Dung Quat Economic Zone. Coastal economic zones have developed strength in numbers, but failed to pull their weight. They are characterized by sluggish development, low occupancy rates, modest investments and very small contribution [...]
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November 15, 2011
21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa. With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold [...]
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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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August 5, 2011
Vietnam will have a total 115 golf courses by 2020, according to a plan that the Ministry of Planning and Investment recently submitted to the Prime Minister, Tien Phong reported Wednesday. Â The ministry was quoted as saying that compared to a decision approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2009, the new [...]
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July 15, 2011
As inflation slows and liquidity improves, the high dong deposit rates offered by commercial banks could fall slightly in the coming months, Nguyen Thi Mui, a member of the National Advisory Council for Financial and Monetary Policies, tells Thanh Nien Weekly. Thanh Nien Weekly: Firms say that interest rates are too high now at [...]
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June 27, 2011
Michael Cluzel, General Director of GTEL-Mobile GTEL-Mobile has announced a plan to expand its business in Vietnam, including the goal to make its mobile network Beeline the fourth largest in the country. The company said it will build 5,000 new base transceiver stations next year. It also plans to add 1,000 staff members and increase its [...]
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April 1, 2011
Wind turbines in the south-central province of Binh Thuan Now is the right time for Vietnam to seriously think about changing the status of wind power from an alternative to a more mainstream source of energy, experts say. Authorities in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan last week approved the construction of a US$250 million [...]
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