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		<title>Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge in Southeast Asia Opens in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apr. 27 &#8211; Vietnam inaugurated the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Southeast Asian region on Saturday connecting the Hau River in the Mekong Delta with Can Tho City and Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam.
The project was completed with the help of a preferential official development assistance for socio-economic development and infrastructure upgrading from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximizing Import Duty Exemptions in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joyce Roque
Mar. 17 – Foreign investors in Vietnam may need to import components of their business not readily available in the local market.
Import duty rates regularly change so it is best to always keep abreast with the latest rates. Authorities however prefer businesses that do not import majority of their manufacturing needs from overseas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam to Limit Car Imports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar. 4 &#8211; The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to limit car imports by implementing regulations that would help cut down its trade deficit.
The new restrictions will affect the importation of cars with less than 16 seats which make up majority of total cars imported from abroad and require that they pass quality tests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Grants 169 Licenses to Foreign Distributors in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 18 &#8211; A total of 169 licenses were granted to foreign distributors in provinces and cities across the country last year with most of them investors from South Korea, China, Japan, Singapore, Italy, France and Germany.
Vietnam&#8217;s distribution market only fully opened to foreign investors on Jan. 1, 2009 in fulfillment of its World Trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Agencies to Adjust Car, Bike Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 11 &#8211; Local tax agencies will now be allowed to adjust retail prices of cars and motorbikes should they be deemed lower than actual value following a newly drafted decree.
Manufacturers and distributors of vehicles will be fined should they be be caught under-invoicing to evade taxes. Tax agencies will base prices on information given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Raises Minimum Tax on Imported Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 12 &#8211; The General Customs Department of Vietnam has set higher minimum taxable prices for more than 600 models of imported cars, following allegations that local importers were under-invoicing to avoid higher taxes.

Thanh Nien reports that there have been cases wherein car importers were caught declaring lower prices for imported cars. Taxable prices of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Auto Sales Surge 104 Percent in September</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 8 &#8211; Auto sales in Vietnam surged 104 percent in September from a year earlier after a 31 percent increase in August, an industry report said on Wednesday.
While 11,071 vehicles were sold in September, cumulative sales for the first nine months of the year were still down 12 percent from the same period last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nissan Pushes Ahead with Vietnam Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jul. 2 &#8211; Japanese carmaker, Nissan, is pushing ahead with plans to produce its vehicles in the country by 2010.
The joint venture called Nissan Vietnam remains optimistic on the potential of the market despite the ongoing credit crisis. The partnership is between Denmark&#8217;s Kjaer Group and Japan&#8217;s Nissan Motor but production itself will be done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDI Drops by 77 Percent for First Half of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jun. 25 – According to a Vietnamese foreign investment official, foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country plunged by 77.4 percent to US$8.87 billion for the first 6 months of the year.
Figures compiled by the agency showed that only US$4.7 billion worth of new projects were licensed during the period, a 86.7 percent in value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanoi Stock Exchange to Open on June 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jun. 15 &#8211; Vietnam will soon re-launch the Hanoi Securities Trading Center as the Hanoi Stock Exchange to serve as a new trading floor for unlisted public companies on June 24.
The country’s main bourse will still be the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange while the Hanoi Stock Exchange will provide the market for listed medium [...]]]></description>
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