Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI - Buffeted by persistent double-digit inflation, slowing economic growth and rising worker unrest, Vietnam's economic reforms are at risk of coming undone. While Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized this month the need to maintain quick and sustainable growth, questions are rising whether Vietnam can have both amid global economic and financial turbulence.

Many economic problems are still looming large in and outside Vietnam, making experts at a business forum in HCM City on Monday believe this year would be very challenging for Vietnam to reach targets for gross domestic product growth and inflation.

Three possible scenarios for the country's economic growth this year were unveiled yesterday by the National Committee for Financial Supervision.

Studies reveal that Vietnam is the only country among the Next Eleven (N-11) countries that has managed to maintain a growth comparable to that of China and India in the past five years.

Vietnam saw several changes in government policies and activities from today January 1, 2012 :

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.

SINGAPORE - Vietnam's spectacular growth story in recent years has turned it into a poster boy for emerging economies but it may be starting to lose some of its shine.

With economic zones and border gate economic zones countrywide developing haphazardly and operating ineffectively, the National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday called for stopping building new zones.

Vietnam needs to accelerate its economic reform process as it grapples with high inflation and other problems, international donors say.

Vietnam is losing its attraction as a regional investment destination because of trade restrictions, new regulatory burdens and economic instability, the European Chamber of Commerce said Thursday.

Schooled in the arts of Marxist-Leninist political discipline, Vietnam’s Communist rulers do not usually air their dirty linen in public. But, at a government forum on the country’s deepening economic crisis in Hanoi last month, tempers boiled over.

Only 37 percent of Vietnamese consumers believe that the economy can get out of the recession in the next 12 months, a survey by Nielsen Vietnam has found.

Not too long ago, the Philippines served as a launching pad and R&R station for US troops fighting communist forces in Vietnam.

Vietnam stands a chance to be among world's next tiger economies - called CIVETS, the government website reported, citing a report on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

HANOI — Vietnam's battle to subdue Asia's highest rate of inflation must continue, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday, but it predicted more pain ahead for the country's consumers.