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Articles in August, 2003 issue of Vietnam Investment Review

• Fruit sleeping in water: raising export revenue
  by Bich Ngoc
• Highlights
• Employee to pay firm after ditching training course
• Central provinces to vamp up heritage road image.
• Twist of fate: James Sycamore stumbles across a local tale in which a young man does all he can to cheat fate ...
  by James Sycamore
• Billboard pricing system to be overhauled
  by Vu Long
• Investment update: Vietnam's only comprehensive weekly-updated guide to investment.
• Taiwan signs new trade agreement
• US shrimp dumping suit looms large for local farmers.
  by Bao Giang
• Timeout guide: your listings bible for Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
• Newest districts have highest violation rates
  by Ngoc Anh
• Greens and farmers unite to trade water
• ADB to finance housing for low income earners via the State
• Hair today, gone tomorrow: Phuong Lien looks into the plight of local barbers
• Cool spell fails to soothe Tokyo's blackout fears.
• Rosemary
• Bali bomb trial nears end.
• Perfume pagoda cable cars ontrack.
• Hong Kong has new finance chief
• Trade up, but experts predict lone recovery
• State sanctions giant $142-million Binh Duong development
  by Nguyen Hong
• Setting a document's use by date: to what extent does the law impose an obligation to retain documents beyond their current usefulness? Vietnamese law has fairly specific rules which identify documents that must be preserved, and for how long. Law firm Ru
  by Ly Thanh Hien
• Afghanistan opens its doors to Asian firms
• Special fund to help local firms abroad.
  by Vu Long
• Investors take decade in Vietnam into account; to celebrate 10 years in Vietnam, consulting and accountancy firm Grant Thornton Vietnam has announced a number of further investment plans. Bao Giang speaks with Grant Thornton Worldwide CEO David McDonnell,
  by Bao Giang
• Successful port reform to spread.
  by Giang Kim
• Cashing in on the A to Z of Vietnam
  by Viet Hung
• Cinnamon
• Local insurers still trailing foreign.
  by Nguyen Hong
• Investment update: Vietnam's only comprehensive weekly-updated guide to investment.
• Overseas training courses to give local auditing certificates.
• Stamp of pride: Pham Ngoc Toan was a teacher before he traded in his textbooks for a chisel and returned to the occupation of generations of his family--stamp carving. He is one of the longest-serving stamp makers of Hang Quat Street, where the traditiona
  by Phuong Lien
• Foreigners eye insurance cash.
  by Ngoc Mai
• Lee poised to grab the reins of power
• City of God
• Banks told they may only buy cheap cars
• World Bank funds eco-friendly power revamp for the poor
• Consumption tax fever hits car buyers
  by Tran Son
• Nation's pop icons hit a flat note: an emerging trend in Vietnam's culture in recent years has been the rise of young pop singers. The boom of self-promoting young music icons, whose appearance is much better than their vocal quality, is pushing some to r
  by Ngoc Mai
• EVN supports end of monopoly
• Celebrating 30 years of friendship and trade: Singaporean Ambassador Tan Seng Chye discusses the occasion of Singapore's National Day on August 9, and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Singapore
  by Tan Seng Chye
• Ascott looking forward to SEA Games bonus
• Highlights
• Designs on fashion: Vietnam's clothing industry is known more for its production capacity than its design innovations. Ngoc Mai reports on how local clothing companies, who are designing and producing their own lines, are trying to attract local consumers
  by Ngoc Mai
• Fierce ITC blaze insurance row heads to court
  by Minh Ngoc
• Coriander
• Hoan Kiem bars beggars.
  by Bich Ngoc
• No cure for medicine price ills.
  by Vu Long
• No life, singed her: the tale of one woman's misfortune
• ADB-MPI cast eye over infrastructure projects
• Cinema paradiso: mullets and magic puddings, banks and barbecues, road trips and revelations ... James Sycamore reviews the 2003 Australian Film Festival in Hanoi.
  by James Sycamore
• Foreign investment made clear: a new decision and circular have clarified and further opened the market for foreign investors to contribute capital to local firms. Pierre Angles d'Auriac, managing lawyer of Flecheux, Ngo & Associes, discusses their po
  by Pierre Angles d'Auriac
• The two towers: Phuong Lien in Malaysia: the rousing tale of a Vietnamese journalist's epic voyage to Kuala Lumpur.
• Auditing firm goes public
  by Duong Nguyen
• Land headaches set to be cleared by new draft law.
• Trams on track for Hanoi.
• Local registration cuts will see Honda sell overseas.
  by Vu Long
• Five o'clock shadow: a young mother comforts her only child by resorting to an unusual tactic
  by James Sycamore
• Australia-Vietnam trade pact looming
• New Hanoi to Taiwan air service
• Walk like a Hanoian: Ngoc Chau hits the ground walking
• Encouraging measures still to be felt on bourse.
• The Life of David Gale.
• Golf course hoping for smooth run
• PM sees bourse as integral part of the economy
  by Nguyen Hong
• SCT tax changes will cap growth: VAMA
  by Ha Nguyen
• Motorbikes heading for the country: motorbike assemblers are focusing more on rural and export markets as traditional urban markets shrink under new restrictions. Vu Long talks with Honda Vietnam's sales and public relations director Takashi Fujisaki abou
  by Vu Long
• Australian bushfire report ignites public law suit push.
• Timeout guide: your listings bible for Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
• EPZ firm to expand role
  by Nguyen Hong
• Bus service helps bridge bitter India-Pakistan divide.
• Polluters leave at snail's pace
  by Duong Nguyen
• PM supports bond move
• Vinamarine crafts fresh action plan
  by Giang Thanh
• MPT shuts FPT net phone
• Timeout guide: your listings bible for Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
• SMEs take centre stage as APEC leaders talk growth; on his return from Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he met with other APEC delegates to discuss small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the head of the MPI's newly-established, SMEs Agency Nguyen Ngoc Phu
  by Thuy Dung
• Rush on bonds before issuance
  by Nguyen Hong
• Call to open IT sector before BTA's arrival
  by Hai Van
• Producers and artists vow to fight CD, DVD piracy together.

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