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• Firms urged to tackle trade barriers

  December 27, 2014

  – HCM CITY — Vietnamese businesses are not fully aware of technical barriers to trade, said Duong Dinh Giam, general director of the Industrial Policy and Research Institute, at a seminar in HCM City on December 26, 2014.

  In the international economic integration process, standardisation in general and technical barriers to trade more specifically have become increasingly important, Giam said.
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• Fear factor fades as global M&A hits seven-year high

  December 21, 2014

  – Chief executives got their deal-making confidence back in 2014, emboldened by a clearer outlook for their businesses to take the global value for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to their highest annual level since 2007.

  The total was boosted by a rush of large deals in the telecoms, healthcare and consumer sectors, with transactions, some of which had been contemplated for years, promising to cause a chain reaction as rivals move to defend their territory.
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• Ineffective barriers

  December 20, 2014

  – At the moment, foreign distributors and retailers are vigorously deepening their presence on the domestic market while sidelining domestic counterparts. Such a penetration is also manifested in the number of mergers and acquisitions which allow foreign enterprises to increase their market share.
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• Changes to World Bank Safeguards Risk “Race to the Bottom”, U.N. Experts Warn

  December 19, 2014

  – WASHINGTON – An unprecedented number of United Nations special rapporteurs and independent experts are raising pointed concerns over the World Bank’s ongoing review of its pioneering environmental and social safeguards, particularly around the role that human rights will play in these revamped policies.
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• Conference focuses on TPP challenges

  December 19, 2014

  – HCM CITY — A meeting to review opportunities and challenges of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to the national economy was held in HCM City on December 18, 2014.

  Representatives of the southern regions’ business community highlighted the need for information support and legal guidelines to utilise investment and business opportunities in the context of the country’s further integration into the world economy and Viet Nam’s participation in TPP.
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• Google looks to head off U.S. antitrust lawsuit over Android

  December 18, 2014

  – Google will try to persuade a U.S. judge on December 18, 2014 to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit over its Android smartphone operating system, as the Internet search company faces increased regulatory pressure from European authorities.
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• Concerns remain

  December 13, 2014

  – During the recent Vietnam Business Forum 2014 (VBF 2014), foreign business communities no longer expressed harsh reactions from macro-economic uncertainties the way they often did in the previous times. Some representatives even praised the Government’s achievements. Problem still abound, though.
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• Foreign investors on their way

  December 13, 2014

  – Some experts have remarked that while foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) have dominated almost all sectors of the economy, domestic firms are still mired in troubles, or find it difficult to make connections with their foreign business community here.
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