Scavengers can easily be ‘swallowed’ by waves and swept away by the sea

By Tuoi Tre News – October 9, 2017, 10:03 GMT+7

Two women are pictured painstakingly scavenging for barnacles ‘glued’ to the cliffs precariously protruding to the sea in Tam Hai Commune, Nui Thanh District, located in the central province of Quang Nam Photo: Tuoi Tre

Groups of women in a province in central Vietnam, including the elderly, have toiled hard at the risk of their own lives in order to scavenge for barnacles and eke out a meager living for years.

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Last update 12:00 | 04/10/2017 vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – One of the major purposes of Vietnam attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last 30 years is to receive technology to be transferred by foreign investors. 

However, according to the 2016 World Economic Forum, the efficiency of technology transfer from foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in Vietnam is surprisingly low. Vietnam ranked 57th in the world in 2009, while it ranked 103rd in 2014, falling by 46 grades after five years, much lower than other regional countries, including Malaysia (13th) Thailand (36th), Indonesia (39th) and Cambodia (44th).

Last update 15:00 | 23/08/2017 –  vietnamnet

Unresolved issues in Vietnam’s regulations and the business environment have resulted in relatively low FDI inflows from US and European multinational companies, experts say.

According to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), as of July 2017, US companies had invested US$9.3 billion in Vietnam and the major EU nations of France and Germany registering US$2.8 billion and US$1.6 billion, respectively.

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Lương Duy Hanh (standing), dismissed from his post over the Formosa fish deaths disaster, is currently working at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. – Photo thanhnien.vn

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – Lương Duy Hanh, dismissed as head of the Environmental Protection Department for his wrongdoings in the 2016 Formosa plant pollution disaster, was later appointed deputy head of the team inspecting the company’s activities.

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Last update 16:00 | 05/10/2017 –  vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – VAMC (Vietnam Asset Management Company) is now holding VND230 trillion worth of bad debt, including real estate which is used as collateral for bad debts it has purchased from commercial banks.

It is expected that from now to the end of 2017, VAMC will settle VND23-25 trillion worth of bad debt, or 10 percent of the amounts of bad debt it is holding.

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