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Day: December 4, 2023

Vietnam’s Just Energy Transition Partnership released at COP28

Vietnam revealed its Just Energy transition Partnership agreement on Friday at COP28, with the bulk of the funding to be provided in the form of loans for hydropower projects, Climate Home News is reporting. The agreement is mostly made up of loans as opposed to the grants that Vietnam wanted,

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Claims for unemployment benefits in HCMC fall in November

Only 13,300 people were registered to receive unemployment benefits in HCMC in November, a drop of nearly 25 percent from June, VN Express is reporting. The publication is saying that this is a sign that the wave of layoffs that have plagued the manufacturing sector may have slowed this year. 

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Vietnam’s Economy, November 2023: Snapshot

Vietnam started November with state media boasting that the country had overtaken South Korea to become the 6th biggest trading partner of the US by import value. This was, however, on closer inspection, old news with the jump actually taking place in 2022. That’s not to say this report was

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