Vietnam - Overview Vietnam has had an impressive economic growth over the last two decades and continues to grow rapidly. Over a short period of time Vietnam has gone from a starving country to a major exporter of agricultural goods. Today Vietnam is considered one of the most open economies in the world‚ with total import and export value corresponding to roughly 160 percent of GDP. In 2007 Vietnam joined WTO and since then numerous reforms have helped the investment climate improve significantly
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Hanoi‚ Vietnam is Facing the Threats from Water Pollution With the rapid growth of industrialization in urban cities‚ the water around them is getting more and more polluted. One time I casually crossed by To Lich River‚ one of the big rivers in the capital Hanoi‚ behind the industrial zone. The river water there was polluted seriously and smelt really fetid. A lot of small fishes and other sea creatures were dead and floating on the surface of the river. I was thinking about how people could
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The Vietnam War began in December 1956 and ended with the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was fought between North Vietnam‚ supported by China and USSR‚ and South Vietnam backed by the US. The US involvement in the war was part of the wider strategy of containment to stop the spread of communism. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Democratic Kampuchea on 25 December‚ 1978 after
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Franchising in Vietnam Page 1 of 5 Franchising in Vietnam Le Anh February 2011 Summary The franchising model is popular and well-suited to a developing economy like Vietnam. Rising incomes and an emerging middle class are generating growth in consumer-driven sectors. There is considerable demand for lifestyle-oriented products and services‚ as well as growing interest in western-style food and beverage concepts. Franchising first took hold in Vietnam in the 1990’s with the appearance of well-known
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Explain why LBJ escalated US involvement in Vietnam in 1965? 12 Marks Lyndon B Johnson came into office January 1995‚ after been elected president by the American Public in November 1964. Johnson inherited a war that wasn’t really developed military but something that was aimed to developing the South Vietnamese army rather than send in American ground troops. Furthermore Johnson accepted the Communist threat and he believed that it was essential to contain this threat. Furthermore he didn’t want
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The Aqua E-Cigarette: Vietnam Marketing Plan 06 December 2013 III. Market Audit and Competitive Market Analysis I. Introduction II. The Product A. Evaluate the product as an innovation as it is perceived by the intended market 1. Relative advantage Electronic cigarettes‚ also called e-cigarettes‚ are battery-operated devices designed to be used just like regular cigarettes. Their operation is based on the atomization of a liquid solution of nicotine that gives users the feeling
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07/06/2013 VIETNAM COFFEE INDUSTRY I/ Introduction Coffee was first introduced in Vietnam by the French‚ who colonized the country in the second half of the 19th century. During the 1890s the French established coffee plantations in the Annam region surrounded by mountains at an elevation of 3600 feet. The varying climate and mountain slopes are ideal for growing different types of coffee. After three decades of rapid expansion and development‚ the Vietnamese coffee industry has helped Vietnam become
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unstoppable and effective in recruiting a people to force change. Moral violence is a method of responding to unjustness. It allows the dehumanized to respond to subjugation‚ to unify and overcome division‚ and to build solidarity. In Algeria and Vietnam‚ practical
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Vietnam has a comparative advantage over the U.S in producing catfish. This fact is supported in the case by the following three points. First‚ U.S. catfish farmers have a higher loss ratio than Vietnamese catfish farmers because ambitious birds frequently pluck catfish from ponds‚ one study showed that cormorants ate more than five million dollars worth of catfish‚ because of the fast-flowing waters of the Mekong River‚ Vietnamese farmers need not fear these losses. Second‚ Vietnam is setup to
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RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES ON VIETNAM I understand there to be copious amounts of influential events which triggered trends in Vietnamese culture. The Chinese influence in Vietnam may have likely led to its communist political system. Vietnamese nationalism may have contributed to the difficulties the French faced during its colonization of Vietnam. However‚ I believe that the most relevant contribution to contemporary Vietnamese culture is the religious diversity and how it contributes to Vietnam’s
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