Outsourcing - an important strategy to ease labour shortages

Outsourcing - an important strategy to ease labour shortages 1

Kim Le, outsourcing and staffing manager for North Vietnam of ManpowerGroup, discussed with VIR's Bich Thuy the advantages of the outsourcing service and the future trend in Vietnam and the world in the digital age.
Blackouts to darken economy

Blackouts to darken economy

Serious power shortages are forecast this year leading to blackouts which will bite into the economy. Dinh Quang Tri, Electricity of Vietnam’s (EVN) deputy general director, said power shortages would be felt more acutely than previous years as the economy was expected to grow by around 9 per cent in 2008.

Sugar crop shortages sour power plant plans

Foreign investors are reluctant to build new power plants fueled by cane bagasse – the pulp left over after sugar has been extracted from sugarcane – because of shortages of the crop throughout Vietnam.