VNStockNews.com – Thu Duc Housing Development Joint Stock Corporation (TDH), on Monday commenced work on a condo project in HCMC’s District 9 shortly after it broke ground for another housing project in the same district.

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Vietnam has changed its mind in how its leaders view foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years. The country now refuses to grant licenses to investment projects that cause environment pollution or projects that use outdated technologies. Binh Duong has always led other provinces and cities in terms of attracting FDI

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Vietnam’s foreign tourism earnings has increased from US$5.45 billion in 2008 to an estimated US$5.8 billion last year, according to VNAT deputy director for tourism development research Pham Trung Luong. …

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The Ca Na steel project with tentative investment capital of nearly $9.8 billion may have its investment license revoked after two years of no progress. Bui Quang Chuyen, Deputy Director of the Heavy Industry Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, has confirmed this information.

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$9.8 billion steel project fails dismally

Vietnam does not lack labourers, but companies often complain that they cannot recruit enough workers to fulfill their needs. Living and working near families, having a stable income and low expenses – all these factors have persuaded many to stay in their home provinces rather than head to big cities. Rural areas benefit from this phenomenon, since many are trying to develop industries.

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Where are the workers hiding?

The transport of goods in many localities of the country has become stagnant because many truck drivers do not have FC licenses as required by the Ministry of Transport. Under a new decision, released by the Ministry of Transport on July 1, 2010, all truck drivers must have a new kind of driver’s license—an FC license. Dragon fruits cannot be sold because of lack of FC licenses According to gardeners and dragon fruit export companies in Binh Thuan province, since July 1, when the decision took effect, the volume of dragon fruits carried to the north and exported to China has dropped by 30 to 40 percent

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Goods getting stuck because drivers have no FC licenses

People in HCM City have been hunting for porcupines to breed, developing porcupine farms after they successfully developed farming of tortoises and crocodiles. After 10 years of development, the “porcupine breeder fever” in HCM City has become hotter than ever. Both regular citizens and small merchants are rushing to hunt for porcupines to breed, although some porcupine couples cost up to 13 million dong.

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Porcupines hunted for breeding

Shrimp prices have spiked since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but Mekong Delta production is at a cyclical low, alas! CEO Le Van Quang of Minh Phu Seafood Company says there’s been a surge in demand by US shrimp importers since the oil spill disaster cratered Gulf of Mexico production. Prices offered for black tiger shrimp have reached $13 per kilo, an increase of 30 percent over 2009 levels and the highest price seen in ten years

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As world prices peak, Vietnam runs out of shrimp to sell

Italian machinery firms look for local partners Viet Nam News Nguyen Anh Ngoc, deputy director of HCM City's Investment and Trade Promotion Centre, said Italian investment in Viet Nam was small as Italian companies had … CapitaLand joins hands with Ministry of Construction Viet Nam News all 6 news articles

Viet Nam is to apply rules for imported animal food products as strict as those of the European Union and the United States. The regulations – embodied in an Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry decree to apply from July 1- would be based on the International Codex Comm-ittee’s procedures, said its Quality Control of Agricultural, Forest and Aquatic Produce Department deputy director Phung Huu Hao. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation introduced the system in 1963 to help develop food standards.

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Food imports must pass US standards