March 19th, 2009 at 12:11 pm » Comments (1)

While China is feeling the impact of the financial crisis, the Chinese economy is still holding up well and a 'bright spot' in a gloomy global economy, according to the ...more »

December 26th, 2008 at 3:28 am » Comments (0)

Vietnam's growth in 2009 has been projected at 5% and 6.5% by the IMF and World Bank respectively. The Vietnamese economy grew 6.23% this year, which is the lowest level ...more »

November 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm » Comments (0)

VietNamNet Bridge – Wanting teachers to pay more attention to their children, a lot of parents pay extra money to their kindergarten teachers monthly. And thus ‘envelope culture’ (extra money ...more »

October 17th, 2008 at 2:11 am » Comments (0)

Vietnam had 70.4 million fixed and mobile phone subscribers by end-September 2008, against 47.5 million in January, and out of which nearly 81% were wireless subscribers, equivalent to 57 million ...more »

October 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm » Comments (0)

VietNamNet Bridge – It might seem that injecting money in kindergartens is profitable business as the investment does not require a lot of capital. However, people may not know that ...more »

October 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm » Comments (0)

Four of Asia's top ten fastest growing mobile carriers are from India (Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance, Idea), while there are two mobile operators each from China (China Mobile, Unicom), Indonesia (Indosat, ...more »