The Business Times: Digital content firms join forces to stimulate IPv6 users

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• Digital content firms join forces to stimulate IPv6 users
• Mai Chau among top 10 awesome cultural tours
• Nokia – Samsung the battle of the two tigers
• Central coast eyes huge tourist wave
• Many banks cut jobs in Q1
• Banks hike exchange rate again
• 18,000 gold taels unsold in May 17 auction
• Vietnam-Cambodia trade up in four months
• FDI sector continues robust export growth
• Vietnam’s medium-term GDP grows 6.5%: Ernst & Young

Digital content firms join forces to stimulate IPv6 users Posted: 18 May 2013 12:57 AM PDT The "deployment" of IPv6 in Vietnam has been going slowly because of the reluctance of enterprises, especially digital content firms. According to Nguyen Hong Thang, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), one year after the Internet service providers (ISP), together with more than 3,000 websites, including the leading websites on Alexa [...]

Mai Chau among top 10 awesome cultural tours Posted: 18 May 2013 12:52 AM PDT Mai Chau, located in northern Hoa Binh province, has been included in the US-based Business Insider's top 10 incredible places for cultural tours. The magazine described Mai Chau as a wonderful destination if visitors are interested in a deeper experience of Vietnam with a warm and welcoming population and unspoiled natural beauty. Tourists can hike [...]

Nokia – Samsung the battle of the two tigers Posted: 18 May 2013 12:50 AM PDT Finnish Nokia still holds the biggest mobile phone market share in Vietnam. However, its Number 1 position has been shaken with the rise of Samsung. Nokia plans to put the factory in the Vietnam – Singapore Industrial Zone in Bac Ninh province into operation in June 2013, when it would churn out 30 million products. [...]

Central coast eyes huge tourist wave Posted: 17 May 2013 11:01 PM PDT HCM CITY (VNS)— Tourism investors are hoping the central coast will become a new Phuket or Bali, and have continued to build resorts and other tourism destinations in the region despite the recession and property-market slump. The Liberated Saigon quoted an investor as saying it is difficult to find beaches as beautiful as the ones [...]

Many banks cut jobs in Q1 Posted: 17 May 2013 10:59 PM PDT Many commercial banks have cut jobs in the first quarter of this year as the banking continued restructuring amid difficult economic conditions, the local newswire Cafef.vn reported. ACB's financial statements showed that the Hanoi-based bank cut 223 jobs in Q1 while the numbers for VietinBank, Eximbank and Techcombank were 79, 29, and 240, respectively. Last [...]

Banks hike exchange rate again Posted: 17 May 2013 10:59 PM PDT HCMC – Local banks increased the dong-U.S. dollar exchange rate to over VND21,000 on Thursday afternoon, with Techcombank quoting the rate at the upper limit of VND21,036 per dollar. Vietcombank, Eximbank and Sacombank quoted their dollar exchange rate at VND20,950-20,960 for selling until the morning but then increased it by VND30-50 to VND20,990-21,000 in the [...]

18,000 gold taels unsold in May 17 auction Posted: 17 May 2013 10:59 PM PDT The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) managed to sell only 8,000 taels of gold bars out of 26,000 taels offered in an auction held on May 17 at start bid price of VND40.83 million per tael, local media reported. As much as 43,000 taels were left unsold in the last five auctions, statistics showed. Demand [...]

Vietnam-Cambodia trade up in four months Posted: 17 May 2013 10:54 PM PDT Two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia reached US$1.3 billion in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent. According to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Cambodia, Vietnam earned US$1.049 billion from exports  to the neighbouring country while it imported US$253 million worth of goods from Cambodia. The total value of Vietnam's main export items [...]

FDI sector continues robust export growth Posted: 17 May 2013 10:53 PM PDT HANOI – Regardless of economic difficulties, foreign investment enterprises (FIEs) have constantly posted strong export growth, with year-on-year growth of 31.1% in 2012 and 21.1% in the first quarter this year. Regardless of economic difficulties, foreign investment enterprises (FIEs) have constantly posted strong export growth, with year-on-year growth of 31.1% in 2012 and 21.1% in [...]

Vietnam’s medium-term GDP grows 6.5%: Ernst & Young Posted: 17 May 2013 10:52 PM PDT HCMC – Ernst & Young, a global assurance, tax and advisory services firm, has forecast Vietnam's average gross domestic product will grow at least 6.5% between 2013 and 2016. "With the growing internal marketing boosting FDI, tourism and agricultural exports helping to finance industrial upgrades, and new power plants ending the perennial energy shortages, GDP [...]

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