Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation â the World Bank’s private lending arm â are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity
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The Vietnamese Ministry of Health instructed health centers across the country to suspend the use of Quinvaxem vaccine until the World Health Organization reports its final investigation conclusions, local media reported on Thursday.
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Vietnam plans to use its space program to launch weather satellites. The first satellite, which will be manufactured in Japan, will be launched in 2017. A second satellite will be produced by Vietnamese engineers who have undergone training in Japan.
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The strain appeared to be a mutation of the H5N1 virus which swept through the country’s poultry flocks last year, forcing mass culls of birds in affected areas
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Depositors in Vietnam have withdrawn hundreds of millions of dollars from one of the country’s largest banks after the arrest of one of its founders. Mind you, this is still a communist country.
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The problem in Vietnam is a very, very toxic cocktail from the European debt crisis, the stagnation in the U.S. economy plus a very critical situation in the domestic economy.
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Countries not so long ago bombed back to the stone age by the US are suddenly BFF’s. This really is a case of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” These parties don’t like each other, they just dislike China even more.
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Historic irony; this used to be a US naval base before they lost the Vietnam war. Now the US wants renewed access to contain the Chinese, and they might even get a deal. The Vietnamese leadership is far more afraid of the Chinese than of their former enemy, the US.
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The Government of Vietnam will receive U.S. assistance in carrying out clean energy development in that nation, a measure that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says will help the Obama Administration to execute its global “climate change” policies.
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Stashing gold at home rather than having cash in the bank is a generations-old habit in communist Vietnam, but a recent surge in prices has sparked government attempts to bring the yellow metal to heel.
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