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  Consumer demand for holiday goods and transportation will grow 10 percent from last year, according to a government forecast that urged authorities to monitor and stabilize prices. Asia’s fastest inflation is the last thing on Tran Hang’s mind as she jostles fellow shoppers...

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  Property projects under construction seen from a high-rise building in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Many companies in Vietnam were dealt a harsh blow by the real estate market slump last year. Singapore property developer Keppel Land, though not completely untouched,...

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  Many overseas Vietnamese scientists have been returning to the country in recent years to work in education and research, and they are troubled by the indifference shown towards both pure science and their return. Educational institutions needed to...

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  Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily...

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  Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the...

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A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her...

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  There are many factors responsible for this, but the key reasons are: poor infrastructure, poor tourism promotion; and weak cooperation between travel agents and service providers. These combine to make tour prices in Vietnam less competitive than those in other countries, Nguyen...

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  As Russia marked the 94th anniversary of the October Revolution (November 7), Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association Nguyen Quang Thieu says while the country seems confused by changes under westernization, but it will prove its once powerful culture in the...

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Brick-making kilns in the northern province of Phu Tho Vietnam’s government needs to put more investment into trade villages where locals are facing critical environmental pollution threats, lawmakers said at the National Assembly’s session on Monday. Representative Tran Du Lich from Ho Chi Minh City said that...

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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou secured the unanimous backing of his cabinet for a referendum on the eurozone debt rescue plan, government spokesman Elias Mossialos said early Wednesday. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou secured the unanimous backing of his cabinet for a referendum on the eurozone debt rescue plan,...

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