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Many economic problems are still looming large in and outside Vietnam, making experts at a recent business forum in HCM City believe this year would be very challenging for Vietnam to reach targets for gross domestic product growth and inflation.View original post here: 2012 GDP, inflation targets hard to achieve

Ho Chi Minh City industrial zones are crafting ways to weather the economic storm and push performances in 2012.Read More: HCM City in the zone

Author: Doan Hong Quang, World BankConsensus-based policy making is a salient feature of Vietnam, where important decisions are collectively made. Consensus is needed not only for the formulation of a reform vision but also for the elaboration and implementation of this vision. Doi Moi, the most successful economic reform to date, ...

The investor of Thach Khe iron ore mine, the biggest of its kind in Southeast Asian region, has decided to double investment in the project to ensure it is completed on schedule.View article: Southeast Asia's largest iron mine to double investment

Businesses, which are facing high inventory level and production stagnation, welcome the New Year 2012 in anxiety.Excerpt from: Facing production stagnation, businesses welcome 2012 in anxiety

The Mekong, one of the world’s major rivers, starting in Tibet and flowing through south China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, provides sustenance through irrigation and fishing to those living in its basin. But it also provides hydroelectric power through dams, three of which were built in ...

It is quite normal to see elderly people and married people, who have to feed dependent children to “save up for the rainy day” by keeping gold at their coffers. However, hoarding gold has become “in fashion” among young people as well.More: The youth also hoard gold

Bloomberg News ANZ has received approval to sell its 9.6% stake in Vietnam’s Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank, known as Sacombank, to Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank, or Eximbank. ANZ established its relationship with Sacombank in 2005, but its self-branded business has grown significantly larger ...