For more than seven years the leaders of 12 countries gathered amidst increasingly angry protests at diverse locations around the world negotiating in secret what was intended to be the mother of all trade deals… […]
Senior policy makers from across the Asia-Pacific have taken the first steps in improving the regions preparedness to meet natural disasters with the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Disaster Resilience Network (APDRN). The initiative was among […]
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At the same time as its army is accused of carrying out barbaric acts including rape and murder in Rakhine, Kachin, and Shan State’s (See: Mehdi Hasan’s Barbed Attack on Aung San Suu Kyi Over Rohingya […]
Vietnam’s real estate and export sectors have proven to be strong drivers of the Vietnam economy in recent times, which remains resilient despite striking some humps earlier in the year. Vietnam GDP grew 6.4 per […]
In just 25 years Vietnam has transformed from one of the world’s poorest countries to a lower middle income economy. This is primarily due to key structural reforms which were implemented in 1986 in areas […]
The Asian Development Bank assured Vietnamese leaders last week that the organisation will continue to assist the country. Takehiko Nakao, the ADB’s president, met with a number of top ministers to discuss future cooperation and […]
Once war-torn and poverty-stricken, Southeast Asia is one of the world’s main growth spots. While developed economies stagger along, constantly on the brink of setting off another global recession, countries such as Myanmar and Indonesia […]
While many Southeast Asian economies are struggling with the impact of China’s continuing slowdown, Vietnam has bucked the trend and posted strong economic growth over the last year. In Q4Â 2015, Vietnam’s GDP expanded by seven […]
In a boost to Vietnam’s increasing attraction as a Asean manufacturing centre, Vietnam and the European Union (EU) yesterday (August 4) agreed in principle to the signing of a EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). Vietnamese […]
Vietnam’s economic growth has continued to strengthen with gross domestic product (GDP) for H1 2015 estimated to expand 6.28 per cent during for the first six months of 2015, according to the World Bank’s latest […]