Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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Major Festivals in March 2009
 Jewelry trade Festival: March 3 - 5 (Lunar February 7 - 9)
 Avalokita Bodhisattva Festival: March 6 (lunar February 10)
 Da Trach Temple Festival: March 6 - 9 (lunar February 10 - 13)
 Voi Phuc (the elephants in a kneeling position) Temple Festival: March 7 (lunar February 11)
 Ma Temple Festival: March 8 - 9 (lunar February 12 - 13)
 Bat Trang Village's Festival: March 11 - 18 (lunar February 15 - 22)
Major Festivals in February 2009
 Giong Festival (Soc Son Temple Festival): January 31 - February 2 (lunar January 6 - 8)
 Co Loa Festival: January 31 - February 6 (lunar January 6 - 12)
 Huong Pagoda Festival: January 31 – April 9 (lunar January 6 - March 15)
 Lim Festival (Love duet singing festival): February 3 - 6 (lunar January 9 - 12)
 Con Son Festival: February 12 - 17 (lunar January 18 - 23)
Major Festivals in January 2009
 Tet Nguyen Dan (traditional Lunar New Year’s Festival): January 26 - 28 (lunar January 1 - 3)
 Keo Pagoda Festival: January 29 (lunar January 4)
 Ngoc Xuyen Village Festival: January 1 (lunar December 6)
 My Duong Festival: January 12 (lunar December 17)
 Tho Tang Festival: January 13 (lunar December 18)
 Dinh Mai Festival: January 15 (lunar December 20)
 Quynh Village Festival: January 22 (lunar December 27)
 Thuong Khe Village Festival: January 24 - 28 (lunar December 29 - January 3)
Economy
Phum Xoai Brocade – Unique in Designs and Colours
Phum Xoai brocade weaved by the Cham ethnic people from the South-western province of An Giang has long been sought-after nationwide because of its unique designs and colours. In recent years the product has reached out to customers in many countries.
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Promoting the advantages of co-operatives in the global crisis
The meeting of the 8th International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific (ICA-AP) Regional Assembly was held between December 1 - 6, 2008 in Hanoi, attracting the participation of 23 ICA-AP members and 18 countries from other continents. Via forums and workshops, the assembly focused on strengthening the advantages of co-operatives in the current global economic crisis.
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Vietnam’s attractive retail market

In recent years the retail market in Vietnam has developed rather strongly, reaching a growth rate of over 20% and is expected to reach 25% this year. The retail turnover was about 37.5 billion USD in 2006, increased to 42.5 billion USD in 2007 and will reach 53 billion USD by 2010. On January 1, 2009, Vietnam will fully open its retail market, which will provide a great opportunity for foreign retail groups to do business in Vietnam, at the same time pose challenges to domestic businesses.
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Vietnamese Rubber – Potential and Prospect

The main component of the rubber tree is latex, also called “white gold”, because it is an essential material for many technologies. There isn’t a day that passes that we don’t have contact with products made of rubber in our daily activities.
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The Attraction of a Land
In 1983, pharmacist Nguyen Van Be, a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University and Vice Director of Phytopharco Company, decided to work in Dong Thap Muoi in southern Vietnam. Here, he and his colleagues have spent 16 years digging over 100km of canals and arroyos and building up dams to preserve water on an area of 1,041ha in Binh Phong Thanh Commune, Moc Hoa District, Long An Province and established Dong Thap Muoi Medicinal Herbs Research, Preservation and Development Centre in 1999. It is now an eco-tourist convalescence and disease treatment area.
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VID Group – Dynamic and Effective
Vietnam Investment Development Group (VID Group) led by 30 something year-old Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong, its Chief Executive Officer and General Director, is considered a leading investor that has facilitated investment flows to many localities. So far, 10 industrial zones of VID Group in the northern cities and provinces have attracted nearly two billion USD of foreign direct investment (FDI) from over 300 investors from many countries and territories, including large brand names such as Sumitomo, Hitachi, Brother, Terumo and Nidex.
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Steps Taken by the Leather and Footwear Industry

Vietnam’s leather and footwear sector has had spectacular results that have made it the 4th largest footwear exporter in the world and the country’s 3rd largest exporter with a trade turnover of more than 3.5 billion USD a year.
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A New Area of Energy