Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network

By Bill Hayton in Hanoi
Published: December 14 2006 00:50 | Last updated: December 14 2006 00:50
Legislative gaps are causing serious problems in Vietnam and will dull its competitive edge after it joins the World
Trade Organisation next month, the country’s international business community warned on Wednesday.
Business leaders told the annual Vietnam Business Forum, organised by the IFC, the World Bank’s commercial
arm, they were particularly concerned about missing legislation on securities, banking More »

By NGUYEN PHAM MUOI
January 5, 2007

HANOI, Vietnam — As part of Vietnam’s preparations for official entry into the World Trade Organization next week, the government Thursday announced an easing of restrictions on capital flows in and out of the country for trade and investment purposes.

A key feature of the new regulations guarantees free convertibility of the dong into other currencies up to any amount of legally documented profits or investments, More »

Contact: For more information contact Francey Youngberg at francey.youngberg@verizon.net and Kyle Kikuchi at kikuchik@si.edu

Event details: This is the first Vietnamese American historical exhibit at the Smithsonian.

Location: Washington D.C.

Location: Nguoi Viet Community Room, 14771 Moran Street, Westminster , CA 92683

Registration Information: http://www.ocsbdc.com/training/winter07.htm or 714 564 5200

Cost: No Cost!

Contact: Katie Nguyen, OCSBDC

Event details: Do you need capital to expand your business? Do you need a loan, private investors, or better financial and cash flow management systems ? Fluctuating market conditions, aggressive competition, pricing pressures and rising costs can put a strain on the financial health More »

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Quí vị cần vốn để khuếch trương doanh nghiệp? quí vị cần mượn tiền, cần người đầu tư, hoặc hệ thống quản lý t� i chánh? Nên nhớ rằng: sự thay đổi bất thường của thị trường, sự cạnh tranh, áp lực của việc tính toán giá cả, v� sự gia tăng liên tục của chi phí đều góp phần kìm hãm sự phát triển của doanh nghiệp, nhất More »

HANOI – The Vietnamese trade deficit widened last year, driven by rising imports of machinery, as the country prepared to join the World Trade Organization.
The gap increased by 6 percent from 2005 to $4.81 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the General Statistics Office in Hanoi. Exports rose 22 percent to $39.6 billion, while imports climbed 20 percent to $44.4 billion.
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Vietnam, which moved from communism to form of capitalism three decades ago, now has 8.4 percent growth rate that trails only China’s in region; American companies and other investors pour in billions of dollars, overseas Vietnamese are returning to run ventures, country is set to join World Trade Organization and Hanoi will host Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November.. Read More »

Some of the biggest names in technology are turning to the Asian country for top-notch game design and software development. When Microsoft’s video game unit began looking to offshore some work in 2002, Vietnam was hardly an obvious choice. But after a fact-finding team returned from an Asia-wide tour including stops in India, China, and South Korea, a small outfit named Glass Egg Digital in Ho Chi Minh City was More »

Location: 500 Washington St., 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA

Registration Information: Please contact the Asia Society at 415-421-8707

Event details: When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound—dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Deep” by the Discovery Channel—teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: the Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off More »