While low-income consumers still consider product prices the most important factor in their spending, a new class of consumers who can spend up to $4,800 each time they shop has emerged in Vietnam, a recent survey has found.
Tag - demography
mercredi 28 décembre 2011
New high-income consumers emerge in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 28 décembre 2011, 10:05 - News in english
mardi 23 novembre 2010
Tackling gender inequality in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 23 novembre 2010, 08:32 - News in english
Poverty and cultural attitudes in Vietnam mean many women still die in childbirth, female foetuses are aborted and sex is a taboo subject
mardi 26 octobre 2010
UN warns on Vietnam birth ratio
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 26 octobre 2010, 20:24 - News in english
Sex ratios at birth are becoming increasingly imbalanced in Vietnam, with far more boys being born than girls, the UN Population Fund says.
vendredi 30 juillet 2010
Vietnam health experts call for more breastfeeding
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 30 juillet 2010, 08:32 - News in english
Hanoi - Vietnamese health experts have called for urgent action to promote breastfeeding, government officials said Friday.
vendredi 12 mars 2010
Vietnam officially allows some couples to have third child
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 12 mars 2010, 08:39 - News in english
Vietnam has officially allowed exceptions to its longstanding two-child policy under certain circumstances, a government official confirmed Wednesday.
mardi 27 octobre 2009
Population in Vietnam’s largest city goes past 7 million
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 27 octobre 2009, 08:48 - News in english
Ho Chi Minh City's population experienced an increase of more than two million people in the last decade to reach 7.123 million, according to a census statistics released Friday.
samedi 10 octobre 2009
Campaign launched to cut Vietnam’s infant mortality
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 10 octobre 2009, 08:43 - News in english
Around 65-70 infants die every day in Vietnam, according to a US NGO promoting a new campaign to reduce the number.
vendredi 2 octobre 2009
Vietnam's population to touch 90.4 million by 2013
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 2 octobre 2009, 08:41 - News in english
Vietnam's population is expected to grow by 1 percent a year from 2009 until the end of 2013. The country's population by 2013 will be 90.4 million people from 86.1 million people in 2008. The more populous labour force will be precious assets of Vietnam when the economy is improved and there are more employment opportunities.
lundi 24 août 2009
Vietnam’s ‘golden population’ to lack luster
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 24 août 2009, 09:00 - News in english
Vietnam’s population is maturing with more people entering the labor force but their “quality” in terms of health, educational and vocational qualifications is relatively low, population authorities said Thursday.
lundi 13 juillet 2009
Vietnam could sack doctors revealing foetal sex
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 13 juillet 2009, 08:54 - News in english
HANOI — Vietnamese doctors who reveal the sex of a foetus to parents could lose their licences, according to state media.
lundi 6 juillet 2009
Vietnam sees alarming rise in boy births vs girls
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 6 juillet 2009, 08:50 - News in english
For every 100 girls born to Vietnamese families, there are 112 boys born, a disparity in the sex ratio that has been rapidly increasing in recent years, an official said Thursday.
lundi 1 juin 2009
Vietnam to censor gender selection info on Internet
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 1 juin 2009, 17:46 - News in english
Vietnam is clamping down on websites that post articles on how to give birth to children of a particular sex, a government official said Thursday.
Vietnam population growing on lower mortality, higher expectancy
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 1 juin 2009, 12:05 - News in english
Vietnam’s population will continue rising over the next 20 years, even as birth rates drop, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in a recently-published booklet.
samedi 30 mai 2009
Vietnam has too many boys
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 30 mai 2009, 21:12 - News in english
HANOI — Officials in Vietnam have warned that too many boys are being born and said the country should learn a lesson from its Asian neighbours, state media reported on Tuesday.
samedi 22 novembre 2008
Vietnam to tighten two-child rule
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 22 novembre 2008, 09:48 - News in english
Officials in Communist Vietnam alarmed by a new baby boom are to crack down on couples having more than two children, family planning chiefs said on Thursday.
