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Broke handicraft villages look to tourism to survive hard times

Broke handicraft villages look to tourism to survive hard times

Nearly 60 per cent of handicraft villages around the country have been forced to cut back on their production because of the global financial crisis, according to a ministry official.
Tran Chien Thang, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said while tourism in the villages had helped raise standards of living, many tour services were [...]

Vietnam’s economic statistical data in 11 months of 2008

Vietnam’s economic statistical data in 11 months of 2008

The country’ social-economic situation in November 2008 happens in the background of many complicated and difficult to forecast changes. The world financial crisis has brought about a regression in some big economies and a decline in the world economy. High inflation, natural disaster, diseases consecutively happened in the country causing great damages to production and [...]