Wikio - Vietnam

Vietnam is the Fourth Most Attractive Retail Market in the World in Terms of Potential Growth (Business Wire)

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Vietnam is the fourth most attractive retail market in the world in terms of potential growth owing to both increasing demand for consumer goods and rising disposable incomes, behind India, Russia and China. The retail market of the country has expanded rapidly over the past few years and will accelerate further on the back of rising disposable income, growing consumer spending and sectors liberalization...

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Hip Hop in Hanoi - Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:21:58 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam Who would have thought that the youth on Hanoi would embrace breakdancing so much...

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Rice Terraces, Redux - Sapa, Sapa, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:18:48 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Sapa, Sapa, Vietnam Wow... I thought the rice terraces at Banaue where stunning, but the sheer number of terraces found in Sapa boggled the mind. Then again, the time Auntie Gigi and I went to check them out, it was cloudy and rainy thus reducing the views of the rice terraces at Batad.

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Made to measure clothes... I'm in heaven!!! - Hoi An, Hoi An, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:18:01 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hoi An, Hoi An, Vietnam This town is well known for the ridiculous amount of clothing shops where you can get stuff made in less than 48 hours... Not only that, but there's a pretty beach about 30-min bike ride from the city centre. Was able to catch up with my friends Clothilde and Dominique as it happened to be Khmer New Year during that time...

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more beach time!!! - Nha Trang, Nha Trang, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:19 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Nha Trang, Nha Trang, Vietnam It was nice to hit this beach town and get some sun...

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Where's the strawberry jam?!?!?! - Dalat, Dalat, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:59:55 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Dalat, Dalat, Vietnam This city made me think of Baguio in the Philippines. It's located in a hillier part of the country and gets cooler than the rest of the country. Supposedly this place is reknowned for their straberry jam, but unfortunately, didn't get a chance to get a taste.

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Floating Markets - Can Tho, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:57:23 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Can Tho, Vietnam Checked out a day in the life of a floating market...

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Vietnam Police Seize 8 Tons of Marijuana in Record Bust (Get Mash)

Thu, 15 May 2008 16:31:38 GMT

Vietnamese authorities have seized marijuana worth $90 million in the country's biggest drugs haul, police said Thursday. Read the full story

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John McCain, Vietnam and Iraq (PoliGazette)

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:50:08 GMT

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Orange Business Services Partners with Vietnam Datacommunication Company to Provide MPLS-Based IP VPN Services in Viet Nam (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:31:00 GMT

Orange Business Services, France Telecom Group’s division for worldwide enterprise services, and Vietnam Datacommunication Company (VDC), a leading telecommunications provider in Viet Nam, have entered into a new commercial and technical partnership to offer advanced MPLS-based IP VPN services in Viet Nam. The advanced MPLS-based IP VPN services will offer local and multinational companies

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Vietnam Plush Hotels and Tailored Suits while still living like a filthy backpacker (Travelblog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:25:36 GMT

Let's work backwards.Right now I'm in Hoi An a small historic town about halfway between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. It's the type of town that is quaint if you look past the big hotels and boisterous organized tour groups. In an hour's time Adrienne and I are off to have dinner with an Israeli pair we met up with here but first met on the bus from Phnom Penh to Saigon. We met up with them agai

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Vietnam's Exports To US Grow At Slower Pace (Chao-Vietnam)

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:37:00 GMT

... International Trade Commission. In the first quarter of 2007, they had risen 26 percent. The US is Vietnam's largest market. The dong rose on March 21 to its strongest against the dollar since 2005, before weakening after the central bank said it was buying dollars to help exporters. The US economy has expanded during the last two quarters at the slowest pace since 2002. “The weak dollar...

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NYT claims John McCain is not a real Vietnam vet (Rathergate.com)

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:19:57 GMT

In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, reporter Matt Bai will explain that John McCain did not really serve in Vietnam in the same, gritty sense as did Jim Webb, John Kerry, and Chuck Hegel. McCain is an “outlier,” Bai reports, who spent his time in a North Vietnamese prison while the others had [...]

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Corporate tax drop boosts Vietnam's competitiveness (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:25:00 GMT

Warrick A. Cleine underscored the importance of the proposed cut in the standard CIT rate from the current 28% to 25%, which is one of the key proposals by the Government being debated at the third sitting of the 12th National Assembly in Hanoi."A cut of three percentage points in the headline CIT rate is great news, and very important," Cleine told more than 140 participants at a luncheon on Vietnam's...

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Rest of Vietnam - Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:19:04 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Hello all, sorry it's been a while but busy busy! Anyway we are now in Thailand and about to pick up our final tour so I am taking the time in between to update you all on the last one. Vietnam was great we enjoyed the culture and the food, it's sad though that so much of the heritage of the country has been decimated...

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Mixing up with the tourists - Halong Bay, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:38 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Halong Bay, Vietnam Mmm, Sapa, mmm, I wrote a storry on a girl from Sapa, but you'd have to wait for 3 weeks to read it. I'm too unmotivated to write anything else right now. Check out the pics.

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Pretty even on a bad weather day - Halong Bay, Halong Bay, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:43:50 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Halong Bay, Halong Bay, Vietnam Sin Chao, he said. What? - I asked confused. Sin Chao, he looked into my face and smiled. Hello in Vietnamese. You are very nice. I blushed and mumbled something. Great opening line though. He was a tour guide to another group. We are in the most magnificent cave I've ever seen in my life. Colorful lights are illuminating...

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Mr & Mrs Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:03:47 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam HCMC: more details to come once we get there.

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Corruption Halts Vietnam Adoptions by Americans (ABC News)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:27:02 GMT

Baby-Selling Concerns in Vietnam Leave Many Americans Hoping to Adopt in Limbo

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We're in!... now which way to the gathering? - Hanoi, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 15 May 2008 08:15:08 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam hello there

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