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...Multinational bankers are upbeat about their prospects because there is plenty of low-hanging fruit in this woefully underdeveloped market. Vietnam, which is modernizing parts of its communist economy through China-style free-market reforms, has no credit bureau and only a rudimentary system of deposit insurance. Consumer lending is nearly nonexistent. Banking has been dominated by five state-owned institutions-including the largest, the Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (Agribank)-which traditionally focused on financing large, government-owned factories and other enterprises. The country's burgeoning private businesses were virtually ignored. Because of these factors, "You have a pent...
...story, and not be able to leave, even to go to the toilet. But it is as important that among the dark, shadowy, deceitful betrayals the movie says there is something positive to build upon. I think that the fact that two people, one of them an anti-Semitic Communist and the other a Jewish girl, come together at the end and do this thing - killing the common enemy - says that although things will never be completely OK, there are moments that are OK enough...
...first and dissolve the Rada. Tensions are growing. In a mirror image of the orange fall of 2004, a tent city has rapidly formed around Kiev's Rada and Cabinet buildings, though this time in pro-Yanukovych blue and white. These colors mix with the red banners of his communist and socialist coalition allies in Independence Square, while orange loyalists have set a defensive tent ring around the President's office. The Crimean autonomous region in the east passed a resolution supporting Yanukovych; the Lviv region in the west voted to support Yushchenko. Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko...
...Communist party control was...felt not only in politics, but also in academics...Even the early modern history of the 17th and 18th centuries was really dictated by the direction of party historians,” says Plokhii. “You were not able to get access to certain materials...
...Such harsh punishment of dissent is not surprising in Vietnam, where the Communist Party remains firmly in control despite 20 years of economic liberalization. What was new is that the court spectacle in the ancient imperial capital of Hue was so open. Politically sensitive trials especially tend to be held quietly and - perhaps - announced after the fact...