• Asked to tighten credit, banks try to expand business through subsidiaries

    13/04/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – How to make profits once the credit growth rate is curbed at 20 percent has become a headache for all banks. Expanding the scale of business through subsidiaries is one of the solutions. It is not by chance that at the...

  • Many workers labour under FIE employment conditions

    Many workers labour under FIE employment conditions

    13/04/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge - A low-salary, high-pressure environment is driving many workers at scores of Vietnam-based foreign-invested enterprises to strike or change jobs. Vietnam Economic Institute head Tran Dinh Thien last week said that the average income of...

  • Sugar import quotas keep sugar refineries on the tenterhooks

    Sugar import quotas keep sugar refineries on the tenterhooks

    13/04/2011 05:00

    The information that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has announced a  quota of 250,000 ton for imported of sugar in 2011, including the 50,000 tons to be imported right after April 15, has made sugar refineries worried stiff. The announcement...

  • Most waste recycling enterprises still use backward technology

    12/04/2011 05:00

    HCM City now has nearly 800 waste recycling businesses but many of them are small and use outdated technology, causing serious environmental pollution, according to the HCMC Waste Recycling Fund (Refu). Le Van Khoa, director of Refu, told the Daily at a press conference on...

  • Vietnam hopes to attract more FDI with Vietnam-EU FTA

    Vietnam hopes to attract more FDI with Vietnam-EU FTA

    12/04/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese officials and businesses believe that once the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is inked, the EU’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam will increase. The scenario has also been confirmed by Vietnam’s foreign...

  • Coffee sector calls for Government support

    12/04/2011 05:00

    The Government should support sustainable development of the coffee industry with preferential loans for exporters and those who purchase coffee for storage, says Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association. At a meeting held in HCM City on Saturday to set directions for the...

  • Retail prices all rise on increasing input costs

    12/04/2011 05:00

    Many businesses announced that they would raise their retail prices early this year due to the increases in energy, input costs, stronger dollars and high lending interest rates. Pork prices at wholesale markets increased by an average of VND10,000 per kilogram,...

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