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News Updates –
April 2008
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PM
signs decree to protect consumers
Vietnam News
Agency, Vietnam-April 26, 2008
Hanoi (VNA) -
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decree intended to
reinforce an ordinance designed in April 27, 1999 to protect
consumers.
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The
way to go
Saigon Times
Weekly, Vietnam-April 24, 2008
Vietnam’s export
performance after its WTO admission has not fared as well as
expected. However, trade experts point out that boosting
export is still the best way to maintain high economic growth
and help reduce inflation.
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The
Level of Openness
Saigon Times
Weekly, Vietnam-April 24, 2008
Management
agencies and economists often view the openness of Vietnam’s
economy through the export revenue or the import-export
revenue against the gross domestic product (GDP), and conclude
that the economy has a high level of openness which has
increased fast through years
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Monopoly hits Airlines’ Business
Saigon Times
Weekly, Vietnam-April 24, 2008
The operation of Pacific Airlines has been facing some hiccups
recently due to the arbitrary actions of air service companies.
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4th
East Asia Top Level Officials' Meeting on Competition Policy
ADB Institute,
April 16, 2008
The Asian
Development Bank Institute and the Japan Fair Trade Commission
(JFTC) co-organized the 4th East Asia Top Level Officials'
Meeting on Competition Policy held in Kyoto, Japan on 16 April
2008. 40 senior officials from 14 East Asian competition and
related authorities/agencies participated in the meeting.
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Consumer prices begin
to level off in April
Vietnam News, Vietnam-April 22, 2008
HA NOI — Prices in the domestic market have
regained some stability during April, following a more
volatile March, thanks to a series of comprehensive and bold
measures taken by the Government.
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UN chief warns world
must urgently increase food production
The Associated Press - April 20, 2008
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.N. chief warned
Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production
to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force
on a crisis threatening to destabilize developing nations.
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Foreign trade can be
so tricky
Vietnam News, Vietnam- April, 19, 2008
HA NOI — The business of trading overseas
can be very tricky, especially for companies unfamiliar with
the detailed way accounts are paid.
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WTO deal seen having
little impact on food prices
Reuters India, India- April 18, 2008
GENEVA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Soaring food
prices have surfaced as a big concern in the delicately poised
agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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Poor Thai farmers
guard their fields as rice prices soar
AFP-April 8, 2008
BANGLANE, Thailand (AFP) — Crime had never
really been a problem in Takham Uthao's impoverished rice
farming village in central Thailand until prices for his crop
began hitting record highs.
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