January 9, 2012
 Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]
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November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. US President Barack Obama held previously unannounced talks with China’s Premier Wen Jiabao [...]
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January 29, 2010
PM Nguyen Tan Dung on January 28 delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum’s Plenary Session on Reshaping the Global Governance in Davos, Switzerlands. Below is the speech in full. PM Nguyen Tan Dung speaks at the WEF on January 28 (photo: government’s website).I would like to share with you my thoughts on reshaping the global [...]
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January 15, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The national economy has overcome recent difficulties and will reach a growth rate higher than last year’s The conference entitled “ Vietnam economy in 2010: Acknowledging Investment and Business Opportunities” was attended by ministry officials, the leading economists and 300 enterprises who evaluated and forecast the global economy, as well as Vietnam ’s [...]
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January 3, 2010
Two workers at a bridge construction site in Ho Chi Minh City. Bouncing off an emerging global recovery, Vietnam expects positive economic changes in 2010, specifically export and foreign direct investment (FDI) growth. Policy makers, however, are still weary of the many challenges the developing country faces, not the least of which is the threat [...]
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January 2, 2010
What should Vietnamese businesses do to to boost exports in 2010? In 2009, Vietnam’s export turnover is likely to drop by 10 percent over 2008 and the country is facing a trade deficit due to the impact of the global economic downturn.Ass.Prof and Dr. Nguyen Tat Thang, a senior researcher from the Ministry of Industry [...]
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December 3, 2009
Thanks to effective advertising campaigns, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam has resumed its steady climb, said the chief of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Nguyen Van Tuan. Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan.LookAtVietnam – Thanks to effective advertising campaigns, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam has resumed its steady climb, said the chief [...]
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September 29, 2009
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said on Monday that the global economic crisis is contributing to shifts in power relations in the world that will impact currency markets, monetary policy, trade relations. File photo shows that Robert Zoellick, president of The World Bank, speaks at the International Economic Forum of the Americas conference in [...]
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September 27, 2009
The third round of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit, which was widely expected to seek a new direction for the global economy, ended here on Friday with encouraging outcomes, Chinese President Hu Jintao (R5 Front) poses for photos with other participants during the Group of 20 (G20) Financial Summit in Pittsburgh of the U.S., [...]
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September 25, 2009
The third summit of the Group of 20 (G20) kicked off in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday evening. U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at the Phipps Conservatory for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 24, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)A year after global finance crisis [...]
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