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Vietnamese IT firms still hesitant to pour money into PPP projects

Vietnamese enterprises do not lack money or technologies to implement PPP (private public partnership) projects. What they lack is the feeling of safety when they implement the projects.

Vietnam masters satellite technology

Vietnam has launched two communications satellites into orbit and hopes to control them without foreign assistance by March 2013.

Vietnamese complain smart phones get out of date too quickly

Smart phones tend to have shorter life circles, thus making users suffer for the big money they spend to buy them.

Non-state owned schools with few students to be forced to get dissolved

Non-state owned schools account for 50 percent of the total high schools in Hanoi, but they receive only 16.4 percent of the total students.

Mekong Delta facing crushing calamity

When hydropower power plant dams are built in masses on Mekong River, this would not only seriously damage the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, but would also threaten the world’s food security.

First Vietnam-made chip put into commercialization

Chip SG8V1 designed by ICDREC Center, an arm of the HCM City National University, has become the first product to be commercialized.

Tourism industry: achievements were not as satisfactory as reported

Travel firms keep doubtful with the figures of foreign and domestic travelers to Vietnam in 2012, because they are “abnormally high” in the context of the global economic crisis.

Billions of dollars outflows to fund Vietnamese students’ studies overseas

Official statistics show that Vietnamese spend billions of dollars a year to fund overseas training courses for their children.

Open source software fully exploited in Vietnam

Open source software has been used not only at local state agencies but also by organizations and enterprises.

Vietnamese children suffer from policy on education socialization

The last 10 years witnessed big upheavals in the pre-school education. The policy on pre-school education socialization has kept a lot of children away from kindergartens.

Steel super-project raises big worries

Formosa Plastics has just started the construction of the first blast furnace of the steel mill in Vung Ang economic zone. However, industry experts say they feel worry instead of joy about the project which may bring unforeseen consequences.

Vietnamese would have to wait until 2015 to have MNP

The necessary things for the MNP plan would be ready no sooner than 2015.

E-commerce: skipping Beta, marching towards 2.0

A series of investment projects in e-commerce have been kicked off, seemingly promising to heat up the market which remains cool despite the presence of the giant eBay.

Ponds and lakes in Hanoi evaporating

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty one lakes in Hanoi and 150 hectares of water surface have disappeared over the last 20 years, since 1990.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 5/11

Unregistered import firms may be closed; SMEs urged to update products; Firms fail to exploit internet marketing; Coffee growers fight FDI business; Tax on jet-plane fuel cut from 12 to 7 per cent