January 25, 2012
Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers at a street stall in Hanoi’s Old Quarter to snap up [...]
Tags: 000 Dong, 10 Percent From, 10 Percent From Last, 10-percent, According, Al Fresco, And Stabilize Prices, And Transportation Will, And Transportation Will Grow, based, biggest, Cakes, Candy, capital, Capital Securities, Central, Central bank, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Chi Minh City Based, City Based, companies, company, consumer, Consumer Demand, Consumer Demand For, Consumer Demand For Holiday, Country, demand, Demand For Holiday, Demand For Holiday Goods, director, dragon, For Holiday Goods, For Holiday Goods And, For The Country, forecast, Forecast That Urged, Forecast That Urged Authorities, From Last Year, From Last Year According, Goods And Transportation, Goods And Transportation Will, Government, Government Forecast, Government Forecast That, Government Forecast That Urged, Grow 10, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, holiday, Holiday Goods, Holiday Goods And, Holiday Goods And Transportation, inflation, Interest rates, Last year, Last Year According, Ldquo, Ldquo Tet, Minh city, Minh City Based, Monitor And Stabilize, Monitor And Stabilize Prices, More expensive, New Clothes, New year, Nguyen, Nguyen van, people, percent, Percent From Last, Percent From Last Year, price, Price Gains, prices, Rdquo, sales, spend, spending, Stabilize Prices, Taxi Driver, That Urged Authorities, The country, The Currency, The government, The Holiday, The Nation, This year, To Monitor And, To Monitor And Stabilize, Transportation Will Grow, urged, Urged Authorities, Viet Capital, Viet Capital Securities, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Which Sells, Year According
Posted in News | Comments Off
November 19, 2011
A worker walking a bicycle loaded with construction steel on his way to a construction site in Hanoi The frozen property market and high interest rates have pushed steel producers into the red and some even face the risk of shutting down their business. Pham Chi Cuong, chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association, said [...]
Tags: 000 Tons, 70 Percent, Association, Bank loans, companies, construction, Construction Steel, Cuong, Deal With The, expected, firms, Foreign, Foreign Currencies, General, General director, High interest, High Interest Rates, His Firm, industry, Industry And Trade, Industry Insiders, interest, Interest rates, Last year, Last Year According, Ldquo, loans, losses, makers, market, million, Million tons, Of Industry And, Of Industry And Trade, Of The Vietnam, Of The Vietnam Steel, Per Ton, percent, production, products, property, Property Market, rates, Rdquo, Said His Firm, sales, steel, Steel Association, Steel Billet, Steel Billet And, Steel Firms, Steel Makers, Steel Makers Are, Steel Products, Thanh nien, The association, The Association The, The Difficulties, The Property, The Property Market, The vietnam, The Vietnam Steel, The Vietnam Steel Association, This year, To The Association, To The Association The, Vietnam, Vietnam Steel, Vietnam Steel Association, Year According
Posted in Business | Comments Off
November 14, 2011
A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]
Tags: 10 Meters, 20 Meters, 20 Meters Backward, 20 Meters Backward And, 500 Ton, 500 Ton Van, 500 Ton Van Linh, 90 Degrees, accident, Accidents, According, After Working, An Giang Province, Backward, Backward And Simultaneously, Building, Business, Cam Mountain, Cho Moi, Cho Moi District, company, construction, Died Working, District, field, Genie, Genies, Genies Rdquo, Giang, Giang province, Hanoi, Has Worked, He Was Working, house, houses, In Long Dien, In The Area, In The Field, In The South, inexperienced, Inexperienced Structural, Inexperienced Structural Movers, Jacks, Khanh, Ldquo, Ldquo Genies, Ldquo Genies Rdquo, Linh Pagoda, Local, Long Dien, meters, Meters Backward, Meters Backward And, Meters Backward And Simultaneously, Moi District, Moved, Mover, Movers, Moving, Nguyen, Nguyen van, northern, Northern Genie, Not More Than, Of Structural Movers, Of Them Are, On Cam Mountain, Own Business, Pagoda, people, Phu Cat, project, province, Rdquo, River, Rudimentary, Rudimentary Tools, Said ldquo, Several, Structural, Structural Movers, Structural Moves, Structures, successfully, Successfully Moved, Successfully Moved The, Than 10, Thanh, Thanh Luy, Thanh nien, The accident, The area, The building, The city, The Field, The Gate, The Movers, The Northern, The project, The province, The river, The site, The south, The Steel, The vietnam, The Work, The Work Done, Their own, Their Own Business, Their Work, thousands, Ton House, Ton Van, Ton Van Linh, Ton Van Linh Pagoda, Van Linh, Van Linh Pagoda, Vietnam, Worked, workers, Working, Year According, Year old, years
Posted in Reports | Comments Off
October 19, 2011
Workers sort through green robusta coffee beans for defects at a processing plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam. Coffee exporters in Vietnam, set to ship a record harvest, are being urged not to sign so-called forward contracts unless they have [...]
Tags: 15 Percent, According, At Thai Hoa, At Thai Hoa Production, avoid, Beans, coffee, Coffee Companies, companies, contracts?, Dak lak, exporters, forward, Forward Contracts, From This Harvest, harvest, Hoa Production, In Vietnam The, Last Crop, Last year, Ldquo, Million tons, Nyse Liffe, percent, prices, Rdquo, robusta, Robusta Coffee, Signed Forward, Signed Forward Contracts, Thai Hoa, Thai Hoa Production, The last, The Last Crop, This Harvest, trading, Vietnam, Vietnam Coffee, Year According
Posted in Business | Comments Off
March 25, 2011
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a Nigerian man to death and his Vietnamese wife to life imprisonment, on Tuesday (March 22), for transporting heroin from Cambodia to Vietnam. According to the indictment, Michael Ikenna Nduanya, 34, and his 27-year-old wife Nguyen Thi Hai Anh (of the Central Highlands province of Dak [...]
Tags: According, Cambodia, Death, drugs, Drugs From Cambodia, Hai Anh, heroin, Nduanya, Nigerian, That She Had, The Drugs, The Drugs From, The Drugs From Cambodia, This year, Vietnam, Year According
Posted in Social | Comments Off
January 28, 2011
Vietnam and the UK plan to sign a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation this year, according to a press release issued Wednesday in Hanoi. The Vietnam – UK 2011 Action Plan was signed by Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nguyen Quoc Cuong, and British Ambassador Antony Stokes. Under the plan, direct flights [...]
Tags: According, Defense Cooperation, The Plan, The Uk, This year, This Year According, Vietnam, Year According
Posted in Politics | Comments Off
December 11, 2010
 Two tourists prepares for kite surfing on a beach of the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet. The tourism industry is projected to generate US$4.6 billion this year, according to local tourist authorities. Travel firms reported an increasing demand for domestic and outbound tours on Christmas and New Year holidays this year. Many cited [...]
Tags: According, And New Year, And New Year Holidays, Ben Thanh, Ben Thanh Tourist, billion, Chi minh, Chi minh city, Christmas, Christmas And New, Christmas And New Year, Con Dao, domestic, From Last Year, He Said Ldquo, Ho Chi, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City, holidays, Holidays This Year, increase, industry, Last year, Ldquo, Local, Meanwhile, million, Minh city, National administration, New year, New Year Holidays, November, Of This Year, Outbound, Outbound Tours, percent, Phan thiet, prices, Rdquo, Said ldquo, Thanh, Thanh Tourist, The government, The highest, The Holidays, The tour, The tourism, The Tourism Industry, This year, Tour operators, Tour Operators Said, tourism, Tourism industry, Tourist, tourists, tours, Travel, Travel Department, Vietnam, Year According, Year Holidays
Posted in Business | Comments Off
November 25, 2009
Vietnam Oil & Gas Group, the state- owned oil company known as PetroVietnam, expects production to increase to 16 million metric tons this year after the discovery of new fields. Output has already exceeded its 10-month target, PetroVietnam said in a statement Tuesday. Production in the first 10 months rose 19 percent from a year [...]
Tags: 10 Months, 16 Million, 16 Million Tons, According, company, Crude, Crude-oil, Dung Quat, Dung Quat Refinery, First 10, In The First, In The Statement, Into Operation, May Rise, million, Million tons, Next Year, Of Crude Oil, Oil Output, output, percent, PetroVietnam, Quat Refinery, statement, The company, The Company Said, The first, The statement, The Statement The, This year, To Dung Quat, To Dung Quat Refinery, To The Statement, Tons This Year, Vietnam, Year According, Year Earlier
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off
November 1, 2009
Dengue fever continues to infect and kill an alarming number of people throughout the Mekong Delta, with some provinces reporting twice as many cases than they did over the same period last year. Dong Thap Province reported Thursday a dramatic increase in the number of dengue fever patients this year â“ 2,452 so far, 111.6 [...]
Tags: 000 people, According, An Nhan Dan, Delta:, dengue, Dengue Fever, disease, Dong thap, fever, Have Died, health, In Soc Trang, Last year, Mekong delta, ministry, Nhan Dan, Of Those Patients, patients, people, percent, Period last, Period last year, province, Same period, Same period last, Same period last year, Soc trang, The disease, The same period, The same period last, This year, Those Patients, Trang, Year According
Posted in Health, News | Comments Off
October 20, 2009
Chinese products showcased in Vietnam; HCM City’s CPI rises by 0.15 percent in October; Demand for cement and steel to increase Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.15 percent in October over the previous month and 5.87 percent compared with the beginning of the year, according to the city’s Statistics Office. [...]
Tags: 03 Percent, According, And Vegetable Exports, Association, Brazil, Brazilian, Building, Business, cement, Cement Producers, China, Compared With The, corporation, cotton, countries, demand, Demand For Cement, expected, export, Export Markets, exports, Exports Include, First Nine, First Nine Months, fruit, Fruit And Vegetable, Fruit And Vegetable Exports, Fruit And Vegetables, garment, Giang, Giang Said Adding, group, In The First, In The First Nine, Include, Including, increase, industry, Last year, market, markets, materials, million, Million Sq, Million tonnes, Million Units, Million Usd, ministry, months, Nine Months, October, Of The Vietnam, Of The Year, Other countries, Over Last, Over Last Year, Per tonne, percent, Percent Over, Percent Respectively, Percent The Group, price, prices, producers, products, quality, Raw materials, Remained, Said Adding, Said That The, Slight Increase, Spinning, Spinning Association, stable, steel, textile, That Cement Producers, The Brazilian, The Cost, The first, The First Nine, The First Nine Months, The group, The industry, The market, The ministry, The price, The vietnam, The Vietnam Spinning, The Vietnam Spinning Association, The world, The year, This year, To Penetrate The, tonnes, trade, Trade promotion, vegetable, Vegetable Exports, vegetables, Vietnam, Vietnam Cement, Vietnam Exports, Vietnam Spinning, Vietnam Spinning Association, Vietnam Steel, Vietnamese, Were Worth, world, worth, Year According
Posted in Business, News | Comments Off