December 23, 2011
The World Bank announced Tuesday it will allocate US$4.2 billion for a five-year strategy to support reforms and investments key to Vietnam’s transition to a middle-income country. Under the Vietnam Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for the 2012-2016 period, the funding will be given by the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm. [...]
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December 3, 2011
Real estate has regained the top spot as the most attractive sector for private equity investment, Grant Thornton says. Private equity investors’ optimism in the Vietnamese economy has dropped sharply as they continue to worry about inflation, high interest rates and a slowdown in domestic growth, according to Grant Thornton. Negative sentiment toward the economy [...]
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November 14, 2011
Up to 1,000 women die every day as a result of pregnancy-related complications globally, and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life because of a lack of adequate medical care A midwife examines a pregnant woman in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. The United Nations has called on Vietnam to invest [...]
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July 31, 2011
American instructor found his calling after learning and failing as a producer and director Hollywood film instructor Dov Simens (in black suit), who admits that he is a mean, rude, and direct teacher, gave a lecture on filmmaking in HCMC from July 26-28 Hands on his hips, the grey-haired foreigner in a black suit [...]
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February 27, 2011
Nguyen Thanh Minh, a member of the Gia Dinh Money Collectors’ club. You need money to make money, they say. Some people in Ho Chi Minh City want money, but don’t seek to make it. Brought together by their “love of money,” the Gia Dinh Money Collectors’ club has been, since 2007, sharing and researching [...]
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February 5, 2010
Eighty percent of the four million overseas Vietnamese would like to buy a house in Vietnam, says the head of the HCM Committee for Liaison with Vietnamese Abroad. So why don’t they? A meeting between HCM City’s officials and overseas Vietnamese. A few days ago, the media reported that since 2005, only 140 Viet Kieu (VK, or overseas [...]
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November 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The seizure of two frozen tigers last week only scratches the surface of widespread wildlife trafficking in Vietnam, an international expert has said. “The number of seizures of tigers in Vietnam has increased and this is highlighting just what a problem it is,” said Thomas Osborn, Vietnam Forest Trade Officer of the wildlife [...]
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August 27, 2009
Representatives of the top 43 travel firms in Japan, all members of the Japanese Travel Agent Association (JATA), will have a tour of Vietnam from September 8-12. An ancient pagoda in Hanoi.LookAtVietnam – Representatives of the top 43 travel firms in Japan, all members of the Japanese Travel Agent Association (JATA), will have a tour [...]
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July 23, 2009
The nine fishermen who were rescued after their fishing vessel was rammed and sunk by an unidentified foreign boat are received at the Nghia An Pier in Quang Ngai Province on July 16 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked regional countries to help locate a foreign vessel that rammed and sunk a Vietnamese fishing [...]
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March 20, 2009
Bikes of Burden by Hans Kemp.VietNamNet Bridge – Photo books are a vehicle for introducing Vietnam to the world. But according to book sellers in HCM City, if there are photo books by both Vietnamese and foreign authors on the shelf, foreign visitors will choose the foreign books. On the shelves for photo books about Vietnam, [...]
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