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we should also make boats for vietnam and sell them some.

We must give special attention to Vietnam as a future ally and a possible client for indian systems.

afaik, we have a credit line upto $1 billion for Vietnam. for military exports et el..
 
@Rechoice , @Viet , @Carlosa , @Battle of Bach Dang River , @xesy


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Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh raise a toast after a signing ceremony at the Government Guesthouse in Hanoi August 1, 2014. Photo credit: Reuters




Japan will give six navy boats to Vietnam to boost its patrols and surveillance in the East Sea (aka South China Sea), Japan's foreign minister said on Friday, in the latest sign of a strengthening of alliances between states locked in maritime rows with China.

The used vessels, worth 500 million yen (US$4.86 million), would be accompanied by training and equipment to help the coastguard and fisheries surveillance effort, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said after talks with Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh.

The deal represents a notable shift in the two countries' close diplomatic and investment ties towards defense, a move likely to irk an increasingly assertive China that is pressing hard on claims to nine-tenths of the potentially energy-rich sea, and worrying much of the region.

"Japan's actions are understandable, since all claimant countries suffer from Chinese assertiveness," Yun Sun, a China security policy expert with the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, told Thanh Nien News.

"But then certainly, such 'alignment' of positions is perceived as hostility by China," she said.
Kishada told a news conference in Hanoi.on Friday that international security is getting more "complicated."
"Prosperity only comes with stability in the South China Sea and the East China Sea," he said. "I hope this equipment will strengthen the ability of Vietnam's coastal enforcement authorities."

Vietnam enjoys tight business ties with Japan, its biggest investor, but relations with Hanoi's largest trade partner, China, are at their worst in three decades.

Beijing's May 2 deployment of a drilling rig in waters Vietnam's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone lit the fuse on simmering anti-China sentiment in Vietnam, worsened by accusations that the southeast Asian country's fishing boats were deliberately rammed by Chinese vessels.

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That led to protests, rioting and arson in Vietnam aimed at Chinese factories, although Taiwan facilities were worst hit.

The rig was moved out of Vietnamese waters on July 16, a month before schedule. China said the rig was shifted because its mission had been completed.

China is not showing any sign of easing off on its maritime push. It will hold live-fire drills for five days from Tuesday off its coast in the East China Sea opposite Japan and in the Gulf of Tonkin, which borders both China and Vietnam, according to the Ministry of National Defense.

The Japanese support for Vietnam will include radar equipment and the vessels are to be handed over by year end, according to a Japanese government source in Tokyo, who requested anonymity.
Japan's already fragile ties with China have soured over their competing claims to a string of uninhabited East China Sea islets that Beijing calls Diaoyu and Tokyo refers to as Senkaku.

China also has overlapping East Sea claims with Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines, to which Vietnam has recently cozied up, and says may follow in pursuing international legal action against China.

Japan offers vessels to Vietnam to boost its sea strength | Politics | Thanh Nien Daily

Thanks for help of Japan People when we are in difficult time now.

Japan foreigner minister visite old city in Hanoi.

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Intel began production in Vietnam in June 2010 with chipsets for laptops and mobile devices. It later launched Atom SoC (System on a Chip) in late 2013.

The debut of Intel’s first CPU product proves that Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular is an attractive destination for the world’s hi-tech companies, said Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Manh Ha.

In 2013, Intel contributed about 2 billion USD to the city’s export turnover.
 
That's not all true. Most Vietnamese restuarants I've been to are doing very well here in Canada in fact we are replacing a lot of Chinese restaurants which are located in China town. I don't know about the Vietnamese Americans but the Vietnamese Canadians are doing very well for themselves here.
Do you live in an area with many white canadians? If so, I can think that is why Vietnamese businesses have to adapt in order to survive.
 
Do you live in an area with many white canadians? If so, I can think that is why Vietnamese businesses have to adapt in order to survive.

Not really, Vietnamese food was not popular before but now since a great number of Vietnamese restaurants are open and exposed, more white people are coming into the restaurants. It's all about the exposure.
 
  • Updated : 8/7/2014 12:56:38 PM
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GE appoints first Vietnamese CEO

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(VOV) - American multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) recently announced the appointment of Vu Thu Trang as CEO of its GE Haiphong Division.

GE said that Trang is the first Vietnamese national to manage the GE Haiphong Division since its founding in 2008.

Trang began work for GE in 2008. Since then, she has served as the Project Director in charge of managing and distributing new products and subsequently was appointed to Finance Director.

GE Haiphong specializes in manufacturing wind turbine generators and other energy products. Its products are exported to GE production and service centres around the globe.
 
  • Updated : 8/7/2014 12:56:38 PM
  • Voice of VN
GE appoints first Vietnamese CEO

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(VOV) - American multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) recently announced the appointment of Vu Thu Trang as CEO of its GE Haiphong Division.

GE said that Trang is the first Vietnamese national to manage the GE Haiphong Division since its founding in 2008.

Trang began work for GE in 2008. Since then, she has served as the Project Director in charge of managing and distributing new products and subsequently was appointed to Finance Director.

GE Haiphong specializes in manufacturing wind turbine generators and other energy products. Its products are exported to GE production and service centres around the globe.

She's not the CEO of GE. Probably GM or VP. The real CEO is Jeffrey R. Immelt
 
Vietnam’s vegetable granary will be Asian hub for green produce: Japanese officials
The Central Highlands city of Da Lat, renowned countrywide for its fresh and clean green produce, would become Asia’s vegetable hub if it establishes a comprehensive cooperation with Japan in producing agricultural products, two Japanese officials said Wednesday.


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Da Lat has an incomparably huge opportunity to any other regional countries to become the“Asian vegetable hub,” Tadahiko Fujiwara, mayor of Kawakami village in Nagano, known for its high-quality lettuce production, remarked.

Tadahiko is in Vietnam with Yoshito Sengoku, member of the Democratic Party of Japan, to work with Lam Dong authorities and the An Phu Lacue, a Vietnamese– Japanese joint venture working on a project to set up a‘miracle village’ in Da Lat.

With 1,735 hectares of agricultural land, Kawakami–Japan’s‘miraculous village’–earns an annual income of US$150 million by sowing only American salad greens. Each household makes an average of $250,000 a year despite working for only four months out of the year.

The An Phu Lacue was set up to build a similar village in Vietnam, and Da Lat has been chosen as the prime location.

Under a comprehensive cooperation with Japan, after five years, Da Lat would account for 30 to 50 percent of the high-quality vegetables supply for the entire Asia, Yoshito said.

In the Southeast Asian region alone, the proportion could be much higher, he added.

Tadahiko said there are reasons for the Japanese officials to make such a firm statement.

“We have experience and technology, and you have fertile soil and favorable weather,” he explained.

The Japanese official said the East Asian country is committed to transferring the entire technology to increase productivity and quality of lettuce grown in Da Lat by three times, and incomes of farmers by 20 times.

There are three key factors to make such a miracle, according to Tadahiko.

“Discipline, technology, and young workforce–this is what we apply for Kawakami, and we will continue bringing them to Da Lat,” he said.

However, Yoshito, the politician, also noted that Da Lat should improve its infrastructure to be able to become the Asian vegetable hub.

“We will call on the Japanese government to grant ODA supports for agricultural infrastructure development in Da Lat,” he said.

Japan will also create conditions for laborers in Da Lat to work in Japan to gain experience, he added.

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Vietnam’s vegetable granary will be Asian hub for green produce: Japanese officials

Times for VN farmers to earn more money :cheers:
 
Sanjay Dutta & Indrani Bagchi,TNN | Aug 21, 2014, 02.31 AM IST

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NEW DELHI: Vietnam has renewed India's lease of two oil blocks in the South China Sea for another year, on the eve of foreign minister Sushma Swaraj's first visit to Hanoi next week. The move reaffirms India's position as a continuing commercial stakeholder in a region where territorial disputes between southeast Asian nations and China have flared up recently.

Swaraj will travel up to China for a meeting of the almost irrelevant Russia-India-China grouping. before having bilateral meetings with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi. The meeting is part of the preparation for Chinese premier Xi Jinping's visit here in mid September.

The oil blocks, 128, have little commercial value because the Indian entity, OVL had concluded there is little prospect of striking oil in that area. After India gave up the blocks in 2012, Vietnam persuaded India to stay on to explore further. That lease expired this year and has just been renewed. India clearly remains there because it believes it has strategic interests in the South China Sea. India maintains the importance of free lanes of navigation and access to resources. It also gives India a very good reason to keep a naval presence there. Indian naval vessels run goodwill visits in all the countries affected by China's expansionist foreign policy.

Chinese assertiveness in South China Sea sharpened in May this year, when China sent its mobile oil rig Haiyang Shiyou 981 to Vietnamese waters for alleged oil exploration, despite Hanoi's protests. Although the Chinese withdrew on July 15, it stamped its hegemonic presence there, asserting its right to move at will. More recently, China has announced it will build lighthouses on five islands in South China Sea, of which two islands are in waters claimed by Vietnam. This was announced as a reaction to a possible move by Asean countries to freeze all activity. China showed it would build whatever, wherever on the East Sea. According to Beijing's maps, China claims almost 90 per cent of the East Sea.

The Chinese strategy in South China Sea is the same as it is in Depsang and Demchok area in Ladakh. It makes a series of small transgressions, each individually not big enough to spark a conflict. But repeating the same exercise, China seeks to change the status quo in its favour. Recently, China had also dispatched a minor flotilla of fishing vessels around Phillippines, to assert its claims.

Vietnam is building ties with others and has drawn closer to US, Japan, Korea and India. Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida recently announced Japan would give six used naval boats to Vietnam to boost its patrols and surveillance capacity in the East Sea. Vietnam also wants India's Brahmos missile but the UPA government has dragged its feet on the decision, largely because of the dangers of the missile designs ending up with the Chinese.

Eye on Dragon, Vietnam renews lease of Indian oil blocks in South China Sea - The Times of India



Very good move of India: to stay put in the South China Sea and correctly assessment of Russia-India-China grouping: an empty talk group aka almost irrelevant.

India should not hesitate exporting Brahmos to Vietnam: we make sure the technology remains in the country, and the Chinese won´t have a chance to grab it.

Let poke the Dragon!
 
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