Báo chí nước ngoài viết về Vietnam

Một bài mới của AFP, nhưng mang tính điểm tình hình là chính, có phỏng vấn mấy chuyên gia về kinh tế Vietnam
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwR5y_MooiZCRSE6_BO7As0GBfog
Vietnam economy back from brink, global crisis spells new worries
Kinh tế Việtnam có hồi phục, nhưng cuộc khủng hoảng toàn cầu khiến những lo ngại mới
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HANOI (AFP) ?" Vietnam''s economy, which started overheating months ago, has begun to stabilise, but experts warn the government must stay the course as the global financial system is plunged into crisis.
The communist nation, a World Trade Organisation member since 2007, has battled galloping inflation and a ballooning trade deficit, but also managed to slow the macroeconomic imbalances and eased fears of a meltdown.
Inflation reached 27.9 percent year-on-year in September, but the monthly increase in consumer prices had dropped to just 0.18 percent, said the state-run General Statistics Office.
The trade deficit over the first nine months grew to 15.8 billion dollars, but the widening of the trade gap had also levelled off.
"Compared to two or three months ago, economic con***ions have definitely improved," said the International Monetary Fund''s (IMF) country representative Benedict Bingham. "The government is to be commended for stabilizing the situation and breaking the negative sentiment."
Bingham also praised the central bank for restoring trust in the dong currency and fighting inflation and cre*** growth through tightening liqui***y with higher interest rates and other measures.
Sin Foong Wong, country chief of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, also praised Vietnam''s recent efforts.
"Things have become better compared to the situation in the middle of the year when people were talking about a crisis, about a Vietnam that could become the next Thailand," he said, referring to the start of the 1997 Asian crisis.
"Now inflation has trended down, Vietnam had its lowest month-to-month increase in September, and most important, food prices have also come down, especially rice," he told AFP.
"If we look at the trade deficit, we begin to see the alarming trend to be mitigated on a monthly basis as the measures taken to cool the economy begin to have an impact on imports," Wong said.
Other observers said Vietnam''s leaders had not gone far enough, especially in cutting the fiscal deficit and reducing the role of inefficient state owned enterprises (SOEs) that still dominate major economic sectors.
"We need real cutting in expen***ures," said Nguyen Quang A, president of the Institute of Development Studies. "We are awaiting some very concrete measures from the government and the SOEs."
Experts cautioned against a slackening of economic discipline, especially when inflation remains so high and while the financial crisis is sweeping through the United States and Europe, Vietnam''s main export markets.
Vietnam''s young and insulated financial sector is not directly exposed to the factors that drove the US banking meltdown, such as the subprime crisis, but the economy is sure to feel the wider effects of the turmoil, they said.
"The (Vietnam) trend seems to be positive but one issue is: what will be the local impact of the global turmoil?" said the IFC''s Wong.
"Things are hard to quantify. Exports might be impacted if there is a recession in the US and Europe, and FDI (foreign direct investment) could be pulled back, but you can make those comments on many other countries."
Vietnam''s leaders, long focused on economic growth targets, have shifted to fighting inflation first and prepared public opinion for a sharp drop in gross domestic product growth from last year''s 8.5 percent.
The rising prices have driven a wave of strikes this year and fuelled public anger.
Experts warn they threaten to reverse some of Vietnam''s development successes, which have lifted millions out of dire poverty.
Last month the government reported that the number of households who have reported food shortages so far this year had shot up by 60 percent from the same period in 2007, to 3.6 million people.
Còn Bloomberg thì bảo là các công ty Chứng Khoán Viêt Nam cắt giảm nhân sự vì thua lỗ, trong khi đó tớ thấy họ lại đang tuyển lại nhiều rồi. Nhưng sắp tới khủng hoảng tài chính, chắc lại sa thải, hoặc dừng tuyển
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a7QDH1WDAqoo&refer=asia
Vietnam Brokerages Cut Jobs, Pay as Losses Mount, Trade Slumps

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Gần đến bầu cử Mỹ rồi, quan tâm đấn Mc Cain và Vietnam tí
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5010491.ece
Mc Cain nói rằng, thời ngồi tù 5 năm ở Hỏa Lò đã bị tra tấn bởi người Cu Ba. Nhưng bài này ông Trần Trọng Duyệt, the former prison director thì lại phủ nhận. Trong bài trên cũng có phỏng vấn Y tá chăm sóc Mc Cain, những người bắt Mc Cain khi rơi hồ Trúc Bạch
Trích đoạn Mc Cain viết rằng mình bị tra tấn ở Hỏa Lò:
?oI was hauled into an empty room and kept there for four days. At intervals, the guards returned to administer beatings. One held me while the others pounded away. They cracked several of my ribs and broke a couple of teeth. Weakened by beatings and dysentery, with my right leg again almost useless, I found it impossible to stand.
?oOn the third night I lay in my blood and waste, so tired and hurt that I could not move. Three guards lifted me to my feet and gave me the worst beating yet. They left me on the floor moaning from the pain in my arm. Despairing of any relief from pain and further torture, I tried to take my life.?

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49O0RI20081025
China, Vietnam seek sea border resolution "this year"
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam have agreed to find a solution to a festering maritime territorial dispute this year, the two sides said in a joint statement in Beijing.
The two countries dispute sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, a string of rocky outcrops in the South China Sea suspected of containing large oil and gas deposits and also claimed by Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
They also agreed to consult on finding "a proper area and way of making joint exploration," the statement said, according to Xinhua news agency.
"The two countries will coordinate more closely to solve the remaining problems, so as to ensure they complete demarcation and erecting land markers along the whole borderline by year end," Xinhua quoted the joint statement as saying.
China supported the Vietnamese Communists in their decades-long war against South Vietnam and its U.S. sponsors.
But Vietnam has tra***ionally been wary of its larger Asian neighbor and in 1979 the two countries fought a brief border war after Vietnam occupied Cambodia and overthrew the murderous Khmer Rouge regime that favored Beijing.
Beijing and Hanoi normalized relations in 1991.
In 1988, China and Vietnam fought a brief naval battle near one of the Spratly reefs in which more than 70 Vietnamese sailors died.
Another set of islets further north of the Spratly group, the Paracel Islands, were seized by China in 1974 and have been occupied by them ever since despite Vietnamese protests.
In July, China told Exxon Mobil Corp to pull out of an oil exploration deal with Vietnam that it saw as a breach of Chinese sovereignty.
(Reporting by Nick Macfie; E***ing by David Fox)

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