Search Results for: Vietnam

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CONTINUED threat posed by Chinese shoe exporters willing to fraudulently exploit trade concessions in European Union markets enjoyed by its east Asian neighbours has led to the likely extension of surveillance measures designed to crack down on the problem.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAILAND’S shoemakers have been told they must create a niche market of intricately designed products or rise losing their global market share to China and Vietnam where costs are lower. The Thai Footwear Association said the country should make a virtue of the fact its shoemakers had greater skills than their Asian counterparts.…

BY MARK ROWE
THAI farmers of black tiger prawns have launched a series of protests across the country calling for a ban on cheap imports of prawns from neighbouring countries. The farmers are angry that the prawns are simply processed and re-exported, undercutting their own market in the process.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved a hybrid trade deal negotiated between the European Commission and Vietnam, which while focusing on textile sales, also includes a pledge by both parties not to apply non-tariff barriers to mutual imports and exports of wines and spirits.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved the three year textile trade deal struck between the European Commission and Vietnam. Extending and amending an existing agreement until 2005, it includes the EU increasing the quotas it applies to Vietnamese textile and clothing exports.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country the most generous access to the American market ever granted in an initial two-country agreement, according to a critical American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute (ATMI).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

Keith Nuthall
THE USA government signed a bilateral textile pact with Vietnam that gives the south-east Asian country generous access to the US market. The American Textile Manufacturers’ Institute is angry at its government for granting Vietnam an estimated US$2 billion (Pounds 1.24 billion) in access to a domestic sector that saw 3,000 jobs lost in the last quarter.…