Việt Nam qua báo chí nước ngoài 6/2011 ( tiếng Anh )

Party wins big in Vietnam, but with a few twists ( Reuters 4/6/1 )

"As has happened every few years since the mid-1940s Vietnam’s Communists won parliamentary elections last month by a landslide, claiming 91.6 percent of the chamber’s 500 seats, officials announced on Friday. No surprises there. The Communist Party has a constitutionally-mandated monopoly on power."

 Textiles in South-East Asia: Good darning, Vietnam ( The Economist 2/6/11 )

"China still dominates the business. It supplies nearly half of the European Union’s garment imports and 41% of America’s. But more orders are shifting to lower-wage economies such as Cambodia and Vietnam, where garment factories are mushrooming." 

 Democracy in Vietnam: getting down to business  ( Financial Times 3/6/11 )

"Vietnam has taken a small step toward the Chinese model of co-opting business people into the Communist-ruled regime after Dang Thanh Tam, one of Vietnam’s richest men, was elected to the National Assembly."

Millionaire Elected to Vietnam Assembly in Hint of Change ( San Francisco Chronicle 3/6/11 )

"Vietnam's newly elected National Assembly of 500 lawmakers will include 40 entrepreneurs, including one of the communist country's richest men who heads its third-largest listed real-estate company."

Vietnam: gold loses its lustre ( Financial Times 1/6/11 )

"Vietnamese people have long used gold as a store of value, having been battered by decades of war and extended bouts of inflation – the current annual inflation rate of 19.8 percent may be the highest in Asia but it’s nothing compared to the nearly 500 percent inflation Vietnam suffered in 1986."