Vietnam Economy Forum

[Srinivas]

So it has begun, congrats Vietnam for attracting investment from Japan and Korea

 

[ianc1818]

Dancing robot made by Viet Nam

Sure????? Not hand outs from daddy USA???????????

 

[ianc1818]

Vietnam’s economy will grow 5.1 per cent in 2012 and 5.7 per cent next year,........................
Yet STILL a tiny-winy drop in the ocean

 

[dunhill]

Vietnam’s economy will grow 5.1 per cent in 2012 and 5.7 per cent next year,........................
Yet STILL a tiny-winy drop in the ocean

At least its growing, better than nothing or standing by. Am I right?

 

[ViXuyen]

Dancing robot made by Viet Nam

Sure????? Not hand outs from daddy USA???????????

wtf are you babbling about ?

 

[Viet]

The IMF predicts

- Vietnam's growth in 2017 to recover to 7.5 percent.
- Inflation will be at 8.1 percent and 6.2 percent in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
- The unemployment rate will remain at 4.5 percent in 2011-2013.

 

[Battle of Bach Dang River]

Dancing robot made by Viet Nam

Sure????? Not hand outs from daddy USA???????????

Sure. Made by Vietnam, not by your daddy.

Vietnam’s economy will grow 5.1 per cent in 2012 and 5.7 per cent next year,........................
Yet STILL a tiny-winy drop in the ocean

This seems right.

 

[ViXuyen]

Yawn....these delusional Korean think that they can use investing as a bridge to penetrate into Vietnamese market to dump their products. Korea's SK Telecom failed badly and got booted out of Viet Nam earlier than they could have imagined. Soon, you'll see Samsung, LG pack their bags out of Viet Nam quicker than they think; I'll give them 10 more years stay at Viet Nam at the most. Nobody is going to have a bright future in Viet Nam if they try to dump their products/services in the Vietnamese market that state-owned enterprises of Viet Nam are thriving to monopolize.

 

[ahfatzia]

I think Chinese banks and suppliers got stuck with billions of dollars of unpaid loans and bills by Korean companies a few years back in Shandong Province. They fled back to Korea after their business ventures supposedly 'failed'. Use that as a guide is my advice.

 

[djsjs]

I think Chinese banks and suppliers got stuck with billions of dollars of unpaid loans and bills by Korean companies a few years back in Shandong Province. They fled back to Korea after their business ventures supposedly 'failed'. Use that as a guide is my advice.

if the Korea investers do such stupid things to Vietnam,it would be disastrous for VN!

 

[ahfatzia]

if the Korea investers do such stupid things to Vietnam,it would be disastrous for VN!

I'm sure the Vietnamese knew about their behaviors in China and will watch them like hawks. They'll lock them up until the Korean government pays for their mischief.

 

[ViXuyen]

I think Chinese banks and suppliers got stuck with billions of dollars of unpaid loans and bills by Korean companies a few years back in Shandong Province. They fled back to Korea after their business ventures supposedly 'failed'. Use that as a guide is my advice.

In Viet Nam, 80% the banking sected are dominated by state-owned with the rest split between a few private Vietnamese banks and a few private joint-stocked between Vietnamese and Western banks. Korean have zero chance to setting their foot in this industry.

 

[Viet]

Why so pessimistic and hostile?
Just look at the number: 24-billion dollars! That´s what the Koreans have invested so far. They brings technology and jobs to Vietnam. Not bad at all.

By the way Vietnam plans to establish the Institute of Science and Technology Research following the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) model.

 

[Viet]

Health insurance for all
10/10/2012 | Voice of Vietnam

(VOV) - Vietnam aims to extend health insurance coverage to 75 percent of its total population by 2015, and to more than 90 percent by 2020.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has submitted a draft project on “health insurance for all” to the Government. The aim is to dramatically raise the number of participants, expand available healthcare services, and reduce expenses. But many challenges remain.

The ministry’s roadmap for the project implementation identifies three key issues: the number of participants, the scheme’s benefits, and increasing payments from health insurance funds.

What Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien is still worried about is the willingness of citizens to take part in the health insurance scheme when they have to pay higher fees for healthcare services not up to par. Check-up procedures, she says, are still cumbersome while there is a limit to the rights of insurance holders.

Currently, around 64.7 percent of the population are covered by the health insurance scheme.

Tong Thi Song Huong, head of the MoH’s Health Insurance Department, agrees that it’s difficulty to achieve the health insurance target when not all compulsory subjects are covered. Huong says Vietnam’s health insurance scheme has been in effect for 20 years. As for some countries like the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Thailand, it has taken them 36 years to ensure “health insurance for all”.

At present, more than 30 percent of citizens are not involved in the health insurance scheme, even though most of them are farmers, students, and free labourers in difficult circumstances.

By far, only 27 percent of those living under the poverty line have received health insurance cards, either funded by the State or local budgets (70-90 percent).

Huong says that the draft project proposes covering half the value of health insurance cards for students and 30 percent for ethnic minority people and other residents in mountainous areas.

World health experts maintain that with 64.9 percent of the population currently holding health insurance cards, the “health insurance for all” target is not far from reach.

At a recent meeting with representatives from relevant ministries and agencies, the Health Minister admitted that elderly health insurance holders sometimes have to wait long hours for their check-ups, even from 5AM to 11AM, and two or three patients also have to share a single bed.

Franco - Vietnamese Hospital (Saigon)

Vietnam-Sweden hospital (Uong Bi)

However, she said the seriously ill and extremely poor are not well aware of the virtue of health insurance cards. The individual payment for each card is just small potatoes compared to the state subsidy worth millions of Vietnam dong.

At the 63rd session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, Minister Tien proposed the level of health insurance payment at VND 550,000 (26.37 US dollars) per person, which, she said, is comparatively reasonable in a broader sense when one needs expensive medicines for treatment in hospital.

Health insurance for all | VOV Online Newspaper

 

[Minjitta]

What is that got to do with vietnam economy?

Nothing he just reminding others