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Hi anh, thế chương trình tuần sau cụ thể là như thế nào nhà , anh post lên cho mọi người biết để còn chuẩn bị.

Sau khi bàn bạc, mọi người trong nhóm đã đề nghị 1 số thay đổi.
Địa điểm: như cũ - 456 Hoàng Hoa Thám.
Thời gian: 8h30-10h30 sáng CN hàng tuần.
Nội dung: gồm 2 phần.
Phần 1: 1h30 - nói chuyện theo chủ đề, chủ đề được thống nhất từ buổi lần trước để mọi người có thời gian chuẩn bị.
Phần 2: 30 - trước mắt sẽ chơi ô chữ hoặc cái gì đó tương tự.
Còn sau đây là nội dung cho buổi gặp mặt lần tới 21/1.
Phần 1: Chủ đề sẽ là: "Cơ hội và thách thức đối với VN khi gia nhập WTO". Cái này chắc là quá quen thuộc với mọi người rồi. Vấn đề chỉ là mọi người diễn đạt lại bằng tiếng Anh thôi. Nội dung này cũng khá phong phú và có nhiều khía cạnh để nói, tuỳ theo độ hào hứng của mọi người mà chúng ta có thể kéo dài topic này sang buổi hôm sau hoặc kết thúc ngay trong ngày. Các thành viên sẽ thay nhau trình bày trong vòng 7-10 ph.
Phần 2: Ô chữ hoặc đoán từ. Phần này do bạn Hoàng chuẩn bị.
Mọi người ai đọc được bài nào hay hay liên quan đến chủ đề này thì post cho mọi người tham khảo nhé!
Được starbleu sửa chữa / chuyển vào 23:12 ngày 15/01/2007

Mình Thảo đây. Thấy chương trình của chúng ta đã đổi khác, mình đọc qua thấy rất thú vị. Tuần này thì mình chưa đi được, vì tuần sau mình phải thi 1 môn.
Hẹn mọi người voà 1 buổi khác

hi all the topic we will discuss this sunday is oppotunities and challenges for VietNam in WTO accession, when surfing internet i saw a article about that topic.

Vietnam''s status as the newest member of the WTO officially came into effect Thursday. The trade terms Vietnam agreed to in years of negotiations with the WTO''s 149 other members now have the force of law.
Nguyen Thi Bich, director of international relations at Vietnam''s Ministry of Finance, says the move means tariffs on many categories of goods imported into Vietnam have been slashed.
Bich says Vietnam had committed to reduce tariffs on 1,800 categories of goods, but would actually cut even more than that. She says average tariffs will drop from about 17 percent to 14 or 15 percent for now.
Further reductions over the next few years will bring tariffs on some goods, including information technology products like computers, down to close to zero.
Exporters are eager to gain access to Vietnam''s increasingly wealthy consumers. American companies already enjoyed low tariffs on some goods through the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral trade agreement, or BTA.
But trade expert Shiumei Lin, of the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council, says many new tariffs are even lower than under BTA - and they apply to some products, such as pork, which Vietnam once considered too sensitive to open up.
"For example, the [new] pork tariff is pretty low, I think it''s 15 percent," she said. "Whereas pork was not negotiated at all under the BTA It was considered a sensitive product, so it wasn''t negotiated."
But for importers, reduced tariffs are only part of the story.
"What is more important than the tariffs, even, is the fact that Vietnam''s entire trade regime is reformed õ?Ư There''s a whole list of laws that they''ve had to rewrite in order to qualify for WTO accession today," said Lin.
For Vietnamese consumers, that may mean more choice of foreign products. Tariffs on imported televisions, for instance, dropped from 50 percent to 40 percent Thursday, and will eventually drop to 20 percent.
Economist Vivek Suri of the World Bank''s Hanoi office says consumers won''t see many immediate price cuts, but over the long run, they will benefit.
"It''s not only price reductions that matter, it is the quality of the goods that matter as well," he said. "So perhaps you might not see price reductions, but you might see a greater variety of goods coming into the country, and of a superior quality."
For many Vietnamese, joining the WTO is about more than economics. During the country''s wars against France and the U.S., the country was isolated from the global community.

That isolation deepened after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, when the U.S. and other countries cut diplomatic relations and boycotted Vietnamese trade. WTO accession is seen as the latest step in a long process of what the Vietnamese call "hoi nhap", or "integration".
Duong Trung Quoc, a historian and a member of Vietnam''s National Assembly, says joining the WTO represents a return to normality for Vietnam. He says the country''s long wars, despite their victorious endings, created abnormal ways of thinking, which made it harder to integrate with the rest of the world, and to accept normal values like the market economy.
Such problems persisted even after Vietnam turned to the market economy in 1986. Nguyen Tran Bat founded Vietnam''s first business consulting company in the late 1980s. He says in the early 1990s, even Vietnamese who worked with foreign companies were suspicious of the capitalists.
Bat says Vietnamese working in joint-stock companies formed an all-Vietnamese club to exchange information on how to protect themselves against their foreign investors.
Today, habits like those are largely a thing of the past. Young Vietnamese don''t think of capitalism as a foreign imposition, but simply as the way most of the world does business.
In mid-December, 400,000 Vietnamese turned out for parades in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City celebrating the country''s admission to the WTO.
They weren''t celebrating cheaper consumer electronics. They were celebrating Vietnam''s struggle to become a normal country - one whose exports are expected to rise by 20 percent this year.
@@ to members of Vo Thuong Club: please find more information about that topic to make the offline on sunday more interesting .

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