Reports

Focus on ‘easy’ markets first
18/06/2011 05:00
No need to curb investments abroad by Vietnamese firms A tuk-tuk rides past a large advertising poster featuring investment fields by Vietnam’s group Hoang Anh Gia Lai in the Laos...
Vinashin inspection report released
10/06/2011 05:00
Sixteen former Vinashin officials and three government ministries implicated in the company’s financial debacle A ship assembled by the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group...
The last pines
10/06/2011 05:00
Handicrafts carved from thuy tung are publicly advertised online and sold throughout the country. Nguyen Van S is near tears as he recalls the day when hundreds of thuy tung (Glyptostrobus Pensilis or water pine) disappeared from...
Lack of expertise complicates nuclear plan
05/06/2011 05:00
Vietnam needs some 3,000-5,000 field-trained experts by 2020. The country is scheduled to build 14 nuclear power plants, each of which needs at least 300 field-trained engineers. Vietnam hopes to resolve its power shortages by...
Bears pack park for summer
04/06/2011 05:00
The members of Â Ho Chi Minh City’s Great Bear Club have poured into the park for a summer of exercise and fun Members of the Sao Bac Dau (Great Bear) Club stand ready for...
The gasoline thief
04/06/2011 05:00
A Delta town struggles with the bizarre addiction of an abandoned boy Ho Van Thao (R) sucks on a gasoline as his grandmother looks on at their house in the Mekong Delta province of...
Maritime experts cry foul on China
03/06/2011 05:00
International experts condemn China for disrupting Vietnam’s legal marine activities and urged the country to be better prepared for the next encounter Fishermen unloading tunas in...