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Silk Road Infrastructure Plan Receives Global Attention
A massive global infrastructure project is being planned to connect countries bordering The Silk Road, via sea routes, roadways and railways. Representatives from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa participated in the One Belt, One Road Summit in Beijing on May 15, 2017. The United States also sent a delegation to the meeting, led
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Grant Thornton: The ASEAN Economic Community
ASEAN was in itself a US$ 2.4 trillion economy in 2015 making it the 5th largest in the world. The Asian Economic Community (“AEC”) came into being at the end of 2015/start of 2016 but seems to have been overshadowed by all the talk of TPP and EU Vietnam Free Trade Agreement. I thought that
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What Obama’s Vietnam Visit Means to US Investors and Businesses
May 20, 2016 Obama’s visit on the 23rd carries heavy political and economic agendas. Chief among the list is the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
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Vietnamese-American Author Wins Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
May 09, 2016 The 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction has been awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen for his debut novel, The Sympathizer.
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Culture, Sports & Tourism Festival Kicks Off
The Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of the Khmer kicked off in the Mekong Delta province this week. The festival aims to have “all people unite to build a cultural life”. Vietnam is home to approximately 1.4 million Khmer descendants. Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình said the Khmer community had made great contributions to
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Exploring a region of diversity and opportunity
November 9, 2015 Asia-Pacific is a region of huge diversity, not only culturally and geographically, but economically too. Japan is a member of the G7 and a world leader in automotive and technology. Singapore competes with London and New York as a global financial centre. Australia and New Zealand are sometimes treated as a region
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Solar Power Incentives in HCM
HCM City has called for more investment in solar power in the city due to the vast potential of the sector. The city has the opportunity to develop solar power as it is located in an area with strong solar radiation, ranging from 4.3KWh/m2 per day to 6.6KWh/m2 per day, according to statistics from city
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Miss Vietnam Dazzles at 2017 Miss Universe Pageant
Congratulations to Miss Vietnam, Le Hang who represented the country with grace and style last eventing in the 2017 Miss Universe pageant. The 23 year old, 5’9″ beauty hails from the central city of Da Nang, where she has been a successful model with the Elite agency for over four years. The Miss Universe pageant
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Decree on Equitisation
August 24, 2016 The recent publication of the draft decree on the equitisation of State Owned Enterprises (“SOE’s”) seems to be aimed at driving out Private Equity or other financial investors and is strictly focused on attracting strong strategic industry partners. The draft decree stipulates that investors wishing to invest into SOE’s, as strategic partners,
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Teen Drama New Box Office Record
October 30, 2015. Grossing $1 million from 350,000 tickets, Yellow Flowers on The Green Grass broke the all-time box-office record for films in the drama category. Yellow Flowers is set in the late 1980s in a Vietnamese countryside and chronicles the life and challenges of a 12 year-old boy and his younger brother. Released in
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Scientists Discover 3 New Plant Species in Vietnam
The Southern Institute of Ecology has discovered three new plant species unknown to the world in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve during a three-year research and revaluation of its biodiversity, Dr Lưu Hồng Trường told a recent scientific conference in Da Nang. “These may be the newest plants found in the world as we have
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Vietnam: Celebrating The Greatest Halloween On Earth
Do Vietnamese celebrate Halloween? The answer might surprise you! In the past decade, Halloween has been introduced to Vietnam and become a celebration with its very own unique version that excites many tourists who visit Vietnam in late October. Since Halloween is not an official holiday, the adoption is mostly observed in bigger cities, especially
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Solar Rooftops Help Meet Energy Targets
Vietnam has very favorable conditions to develop solar energy across the country, but it needs an economical, technically feasible net-metering scheme to promote solar PV rooftops in the country, experts said yesterday. Net-metering is a system in which solar panels or other renewable energy generators are connected to a public-utility power grid and surplus power
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Vietnam Center for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR)’s Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Model Predicts 1.3% Growth in Real GDP
June 2015 GTAP is the standard approach to modeling gains from trade agreements – The standard GTAP model is a multi-region, multi-sector, computable general equilibrium model, with perfect competition and constant returns to scale. This was developed over the last 25 years or so by economists who were frustrated with the limitations of the previous
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VietJet Soars Past Vietnam Airlines in Market Value
VietJet, Vietnam’s famed “bikini airline,” recently saw shares surge to 137,400 dong ($6.03) – making its total market capitalization $1.8 billion. This makes it more valuable than the country’s state-owned Vietnam Airlines, which is valued at $1.7 billion. Prices have been converging in an almost poetic manner – VietJet started the year at $1.4 billion
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Three Lessons from Vinamilk: Vietnam’s Great Cash Cow
September 1, 2016 VinaMilk is one of Vietnam’s greatest cash cows. No pun intended. We swear. Since it went public in 2003, it has become the darling of the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange and a symbol of Vietnam’s rising economy. At a $9.2 billion market capitalization, VinaMilk’s 14,000 cows are literally valued at
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Vietnam Defeats Defending Futsal Champions Japan
September 01, 2016 Highlights of Vietnam edging out defending champions Japan 2-1 on penalties in AFC 2016 Futsal Championship quarter-finals. The victory followed a 4-4 draw after extra-time. Vietnam secured a place in the semi-finals for the first time and qualification for a maiden FIFA Futsal World Cup. Iran went on to win the Futsal
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Global Fashion Retailers Enter Vietnam In Style
Vietnam embraces global shades of international glamour The shopping streets of Hanoi and Saigon are brightly shining with new global fashion retail stores. Vietnamese and Chinese retailers are gradually making way for iconic global brands such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21. Shopping centers that once offered only regional brands now shine as international retailer
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A Wedding in Paradise
May 10, 2016 With unparalleled natural beauty, culture, tradition and history spanning thousands of years, Vietnam has been a destination for world travellers for years.
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Sunflower Mission Scholarships Build Bright Future
December 20, 2016 Originally posted on eSilicon. Sunflower Mission presented a total of 59 university scholarships to engineering and technology students in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29 and in Da Nang on December 1. Sunflower Mission, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, was founded in 2002 to improve the lives of people in Vietnam through
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