The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Nixon wanted to "decimate" North Vietnam and viewed university professors as "enemies" according to newly published tapes of his private conversations in the Oval Office.
Nubricks.com - Overseas Property (Free subscription) | yesterday
Much has been made of Vietnam’s housing boom, which set the new property market on fire last year; but, like all emerging markets that are growing rapidly, there is a danger of a ‘last in, first out’ bust…
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
IT is one of the fastest growing industries in Vietnam. Further, the government of Vietnam has articulated its commitment to boost the development of the IT industry in the country, particularly in software development, Internet infrastructure, IT education and other forms of human capital development. The government aims to reach $3 billion in annual revenues from IT by 2020 and is making significant...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The company opened its first shrimp farm in Viet Nam in April. It employs 60 workers and produces 1 billion shrimp a year, according to Uni-Group. An additional two or three farms are planned for Viet Nam in 2009, company spokeswoman Wu Hsu-hui said."After the new shrimp farms begin operating, our target is to supply 4 billion young shrimps to Vietnamese shrimp farms each year," she said.Wu said that...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
With this acquisition, Total’s share of the LPG market in Viet Nam is now 15%, and the company also gained an extra oil import station in Go Dau.The takeover of Saigon Gas gives Total an extra 20 distributors for its LPG network, and more importantly the ability to optimize its distribution activities.Thierry Pflimlin, President of Total Asia Pacific said that Viet Nam was one of his company’s priority...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Isuzu Vietnam Company held a ceremony on December 2nd to introduce its new car lineup which will be exported to the South Pacific Region, including compact cars, the Isuzu D-Max pick-up (2008 model), and the Hi-Lander station wagon (2009 model).
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Vietnamese authorities to stop manipulating the legal proceedings against blogger and human rights activist Nguyen Hoaong Hai, better known by the blogging name of Dieu Cay, who is serving a 30-month jail sentence on a charge of tax fraud.
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Demand was also thin in Thailand, where the benchmark price fell to $550 a tonne on Wednesday from $560 last week.Vietnamese 5% broken grade white rice stood at $400-$410 a tonne on Wednesday, slightly down from last week's $410-$420. The price of lower quality 25% broken rice also fell to $300-$320 a tonne, from $315-$320 last week."There is not much of the 5% broken rice in stock so exporters are...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Head of the UK’s Department for International Development in Viet Nam Fiona Louise Lappin said on December 2 that the sum is part of a ten-year development partnership between Viet Nam and the UK.The UK is one of countries soon announce their aid pledge to Viet Nam ahead of the Annual Consultative Group Meeting 2008 scheduled for December 4 and 5.The poor will still be one of top priorities in the...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ninth Conference and Exhibition on Application and Development of Information and Telecommunication Technology in Banking Sector, Banking Vietnam 2008, opened on December 2 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The revision, the second in as many weeks, is due to lower world oil prices and aggressive measures in containing consumer price rises, the government report said a day after Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with his cabinet. (Reuters)
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Exports in November-December should be around 700,000 tonnes, doubling the volume in the same period last year and bringing annual exports to 4.8 million tonnes, up 5.3% from last year, the Industry and Trade Ministry said in a report on Dec. 2.Last month, the ministry forecast rice exports this year to be 4.5 million tonnes, which would rank the Southeast Asian country as the largest exporter after...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hanoi - If Vietnam's farmers are unhappy that their bumper harvests are driving down the price of rice, they should direct their complaints to plant scientist Dr Bui Chi Buu, who won the a prestigious international rice science award on Wednesday. Bu...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
In September this year, London-based HSBC became the first foreign bank to obtain official approval from the State Bank of Viet Nam to set up a wholly foreign-owned bank in the country.HSBC Vietnam CEO Thomas Tobin wrote in the new bank’s announcement that as of January 1, 2009, all current contracts, accounts and data of customers, partner banks, suppliers and related sides at the Ha Noi and Ho Chi...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Its remark came before the annual consultative group meeting for Viet Nam to be held tomorrow.The World Bank’s acting country director Martin Rama said the bank expects to lend the country US$1 billion.It has also agreed to provide $1.5 billion over three years from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he said.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) too does not foresee much change in...
