Measured by modem economic standards, Vietnam has been very poor throughout its history. Its largely agrarian economy did not permit the accumulation of surpluses which would have fuelled economic development. While handicrafts and small-scale industry certainly did thrive, economic development in the...
Vietnam's economic growth remains hampered by the government's control of many factories as state-owned enterprises (SOEs). These SOEs produce almost 40% of the country's GDP. Perhaps inspired by the success of Asia's capitalist "tiger economies," however, the Vietnamese recently declared a...
Conversely Central Thai food has become popular in Isan, but the French and Vietnamese influences which have affected Lao cuisine are absent. The people of the region famously eat a wide variety of creatures, such as lizards, frogs and fried insects such as grasshoppers, silkworms and dung bee...
It can be said that compared to the value when Vietnam Dong was first published, the money has its value re-evaluated significantly. It reflects the impact of the global economy and the currency policy that Vietnamese government pursued. For example, in 1985, if you had 1 Vietnam Dong in...
5) When we saw him in the hospital, the old man could not recognize us and Vietnamese spoke to us in , his mother tongue that none of us understood. refugees 6) When the war broke out, ...
Developing process of Vietnam ideological history includes the primitive thinking stage for Vietnamese in ancient times, the forming stage for thinking system of Vietnamese nation, the developing stage of the feudal ideological patterns and the mixed and innovating stage between traditional and western...
By the late 1960s, Iran seemed to be a real success story for U.S. foreign policy at a time when Lyndon B. Johnson was increasingly preoccupied with the quagmire that he had inherited from JFK in Vietnam. Hundreds of U.S. corporations were investing in the Shah's economic miracle, tho...
In 1971, two United Methodist ministers opposed to the Vietnam War created the Pax World Fund, the first publicly available mutual fund in the U.S. that factored social and environmental criteria into investment decisions. Meanwhile, pension funds with the interests of worker-investors in mind ...
History of Vietnam, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Vietnam. Located in the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia, Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, the South China Sea to the east and south, the Gulf of Thailand (Gu
Vietnam, country occupying the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia. It has a long coastline, much of which fronts on the South China Sea to the east and south. The country is bordered by the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, Cambodia and Laos to