Last updated: Sunday, October 16, 2011
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...
Last updated: Friday, August 5, 2011
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...
Last updated: Saturday, July 23, 2011
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...
Last updated: Thursday, March 17, 2011
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...
Last updated: Monday, August 9, 2010
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...
Last updated: Sunday, June 27, 2010
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...
Last updated: Sunday, May 16, 2010
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...
Last updated: Sunday, May 16, 2010
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...
Last updated: Friday, March 19, 2010
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...
Last updated: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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...
