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21.10.11 Vietnam Focus
October issue: Table of contents
SPOTLIGHT
- Floods wreak havoc across the Mekong region: Effect in Thailand; In Cambodia; In
Laos; The picture in Vietnam
- China and India thrash it out: Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang spent three
busy days in India; Oil and gas deal a problem
- Beijing backfooted by Myanmar?
POLITICS & SOCIETY
- Protests under threat: Hanoi turned a blind eye while tensions were high
- Time to plan for old age: Just over 10 per cent of all Vietnamese will be
'elderly' by the end of this year
- Woman gaoled for subversion
- Smuggled ivory seized: Customs officials last year confiscated 2 tonnes of tusks
bound from Kenya
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- New IMF representative for Vietnam
- Vietnam looks westward: More agreements; Prime Minister Dung said that Vietnam's
total commercial energy demand is forecast to increase by over 7 per cent
- Vietnam ups cooperation with Interpol
ECONOMY & ENERGY
- Vietnamese GDP expanding: Human trafficking from Vietnam into China; Focus on
inflation and stability
- More meddling with FX: Reserves to grow
- Steel firms face anti-dumping charges
- Vietcombank sells stake to Mizuho: Vietnam has been opening its financial
services sector to foreign investment
- Vietnam seeks cleaner businesses: The National Assembly is also considering a
law on energy efficiency
- Funding a second refinery
- Japanese aid for nuclear project
GREATER MEKONG
- Myanmar news: Trading currencies; Natalegawa welcomed Myanmar's recent reforms
- Daewoo prepares for gas project
- Sacombank opens in Cambodia: Trade between Vietnam and Cambodia has grown in
recent years
- Judge quits UN tribunal
- Rainsy's sentence reduced: Rainsy was earlier this year stripped of his
parliamentary seat
- Draft NGO law too restrictive
- Cambodian oil and gas in 2012.
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