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BPNews.net - Tue Dec 15, 5:18 pm ET
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (BP)--Christian sources in Vietnam report that some 40,000 people gathered in a hastily constructed venue in Ho Chi Minh City to worship God, celebrate Christmas and hear a Gospel message on Dec. 11 -- an event of unprecedented magnitude.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 21, 1:49 am ET
Hanoi - The trial of a group of former students accused of running Vietnam's largest and best-known pornographic website was due to begin this week in Ho Chi Minh City, a court official said Monday. Vu Phi Long, deputy president of Ho Chi Minh City's...
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WFMJ Youngstown - 1 hour 19 minutes ago
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese court sentenced five Chinese men to death by firing squad for trafficking nearly 8 tons of hashish in one of the country's biggest drug hauls ever, state media reported Saturday.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Sun Dec 20, 8:00 pm ET
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam----After over twelve months of setting up and introducing the most modern food laboratory in Vietnam, TUV Rheinland Aimex Vietnam has been officially accredited by the German Accreditation System for Testing Laboratories in accordance with the international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 on 25th November 2009.
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UPI - Thu Dec 24, 7:43 pm ET
HANOI, Vietnam, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Vietnam is seeking to increase its investments in Iran's oil and natural gas industries.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 23, 11:19 pm ET
Hanoi - Hanoi officials said Thursday that they are to invest in a German sludge-removal system to clean up the city's famous Hoan Kiem turtle lake. The city had been running a pilot project since November. ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 25, 12:49 am ET
Hanoi - The global economic slowdown has not caused job losses in Vietnam as severe as had been expected, government officials said Friday. The head of Vietnam's Labour and Employment Agency, Nguyen Dai Dong, said 130,000 people had lost their jobs s...
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New York Times - Fri Dec 25, 8:05 am ET
Quality handicrafts and specialized clothing have not freed Vietnam from its dependence on the U.S. market.
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Nasdaq - Thu Dec 24, 4:32 am ET
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- State-owned Vietnam Airlines Thursday forecast a pretax profit of VND150 billion ($8.1 million) on revenue of VND23.74 trillion this year.
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Nasdaq - Fri Dec 25, 4:17 am ET
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net buyers of VND5.16 billion ($ 280,000) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND2.16 trillion traded Friday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
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New York Times - Thu Dec 24, 5:35 pm ET
Creating quality products like handicrafts or specialized clothing has not freed Vietnam from its dependence on the United States market.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 24, 12:19 am ET
Hanoi - Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.38 per cent in December from the month before, bringing the annual inflation rate to 6.9 per cent, much lower than last year's 25.2 per cent, the General Statistics Office said Thursday. Inflationar...
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Bloomberg - Fri Dec 25, 12:27 am ET
Dec. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam’s central bank will keep the benchmark interest rate at a one-year high of 8 percent in January to help strengthen the economy.
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New York Times - Thu Dec 24, 6:23 am ET
Intensifying a crackdown on dissent, Vietnam charged a human rights lawyer and at least two associates with the capital crime of subversion, the official press reported.
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INO News - Fri Dec 25, 2:10 am ET
(RTTNews) - Friday, Vietnam's central bank said it will keep the benchmark interest rate at a one-year high of 8% in January to boost the economy. In November, the central bank unexpectedly hiked the base rate to 8% from 7%.