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  With paltry incomes hardly enough to scrape by on, poor and desperate workers are being brutalized by thieves, loan sharks, swindlers and other criminals Factory workers change shifts at an industrial park in Vietnam. Many workers at industrial parks in Binh Duong...

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A man walks past a factory at the Thang Long Industrial Park outside of Hanoi. Vietnam should only build industrial parks when and where they’re needed, Le Quoc Dung, vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in an interview. Thanh Nien Weekly: Why are so many industrial...

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A man makes shoes in the handicraft village of Gie Ha. The village, with a tradition for leather shoe making that stretches back nearly 100 years, produces about 100,000 pairs of hand-made shoes a year.. Nguyen Thi Dung, a craftsperson from Hanoi’s Van Phuc Silk Village, recently applied for a job at a garment factory...

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Workers at a construction site of an apartment project in Ho Chi Minh City Twenty-four-year-old Nguyen Thi Hoa lives in the slums of Kim Chung Commune in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District along with many other low-income workers from nearby industrial parks. The Hai Duong native moved to this place two years ago after getting...

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Int’l seaport breaks ground in Long An province; Denmark assists private businesses in raising competitiveness; Mooncake makers expect big business this year     Int’l seaport breaks ground in Long An province < />   The Dong Tam Group and the VinaCapital Group co-sponsored a ground-breaking ceremony for...

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Hot weather to blame for forest fire; Six die, dozens hurt on Thu Duc roads; Companies taken off pollution blacklist; Biodiversity can help Mekong Delta; Untreated waste water discharged illegally  Hot weather to blame for forest fire Two forest fires occurred in central Nghe An Province’s Quynh Tan and Hung Yen Nam communes...

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Industrial parks lose appeal for investors; Standard Chartered to close HCMC branch; Vietnam’s largest dairy project breaks ground; No more new taxis: HCMC authorities; Vietnam, Egypt sign marine cooperation deal Industrial parks lose appeal for investors  Investment into industrial parks is declining and many have failed to attract...

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Vietnam’s plan to double the amount of land allocated to industrial parks has met roadblocks in the form of poor infrastructure, stalled site clearance and compensation procedures. VnnNews -Vietnam’s plan to double the amount of land allocated to industrial parks has met roadblocks in the form of poor infrastructure, stalled site...

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Hanoi’s CPI rises 0.75 percent in March; 3,000 Vietnamese entrepreneurs to join Chinese fair; HCM City’s CPI up 0.78 percent in March Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) in March rose by 0.78 percent over the previous month, according to the city’s Statistics Office. The city recorded a CPI increase of...

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ADB funds State-owned giant restructuring; Vietnam to facilitate Russian investment; Industrial park investment falls in southern zone  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 630 million USD multitranche financing facility for Vietnam for further reforms of major State-owned enterprises (SOEs)The financial assistance aims to make...

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