February 5, 2010
Business confidence among Viet Nam’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) climbed 10 points in the fourth quarter last year, . . . Sandy Flockhart, HSBC’s chairman of personal and commercial banking, said: “Our small business confidence index is telling us that confidence levels are back to pre-financial crisis levels. Not only are SMEs confident that [...]
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January 28, 2010
LookAtVietnam – MOIT has submitted to the Prime Minister suggested plans to raise the electricity price by 4.9 percent. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Bui Xuan KhuHere MOIT’s deputy minister Bui Xuan Khu explains the reasoning. VietNamNet: Could you please tell us more about suggested plans by MOIT regarding the electricity price in 2010? Bui Xuan [...]
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January 17, 2010
A showroom sells imported computers and laptops on Ly Nam De Street.LookAtVietnam – The country last year imported an estimated 1.6 million computers of all kinds, up 35 per cent over the previous year, according to marketing director of Intel Viet Nam Pham An Duong.Duong said that computer prices last year were about 10 per [...]
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December 18, 2009
The consumer price index (CPI) for 2010 is hard to predict as both the global and local economies have only recently seen signs of recovery from the recession. December CPI alone would increase by 2-3%, much higher than the 0.55% in November, because prices of some commodities, including rice, gas, and oil, started to surge.Tran [...]
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December 5, 2009
In less than two weeks, drug prices have increased by 10-30 percent throughout the country, in spite of warnings to pharmacies from the Vietnam Drug Administration. A customer purchases pharmaceuticals in Ho Chi Minh City. In the last two weeks, the price of several drugs has soared, putting a strain on the poor in particular [...]
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September 17, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Ha Noi Water Supply Company yesterday, September 16, announced a proposal to increase the safe water fee in the city, in order to offset high production costs. Ha Noi Water Supply Company employees wash down pipes at a water production plant. The company proposes to increase safe water fees to offset production [...]
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September 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The HCM City Commercial Department will provide interest-free loans worth more than VND410 billion to traders of key goods for the Lunar New Year. After receiving the loan, traders will have to sell their goods at prices 10 per cent below normal market prices in the 15 days before Tet and 30 days [...]
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June 3, 2009
Clothing, shoe exports hit skids; SAVICO lists on HCM City bourse; Company lists ‘golden stocks’ for investment Binh Dinh Footwear Co workers make shoes for export. Apparel and footwear exports fell in the first five months of the year. Apparel and footwear export turnover for the first five months of the year decreased from the [...]
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April 24, 2009
A pork stall at a HCMC supermarket. The prices of many food items have recently shot up and the reasons are not clear. Bus operators have raised fares while food suppliers blame higher prices on shortages, a claim denied by officials. Trang, a resident of Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 1, was standing in front [...]
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April 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Black pepper exporters shipped, more than 27,000 tonnes in the first quarter of the year, worth nearly US$66 million, an increase of 79.7 per cent in volume and 16 per cent in value over the same period last year, according to the Viet Nam Pepper Association. The association has estimated that 2009 yields [...]
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