...Cambodia Cambodia is a small country bordered by Thailand and Loas on the north and Vietnam on the east and south. The country has a rough population of 15 million and is the size of Missouri. The country consists mainly of grainy plains ringed by mountains and has two large body of waters Mekong River on the east side and in the center Lake Tonie Sap, which is the storage basin of the Mekong. Cambodia’s main language is 95 percent Khmer and then French and English are the other 5 percent. Their labor force is 8.8 million est. in 2012 with 75 percent of it being agriculture. The industries that they focus on mainly are tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, gem mining and textiles and that’s how the country gets a living. They also have almost 45 percent of women employed in nonagricultural sectors, which is very low for a country of any size. The country also has a very low percentage of females that have seats in their national parliaments with 20 percent so it shows that males dominate the work force and the nations power of voting for decisions. The Quantitative figures of this country and their labor force participation rates for men and women are actually very close over all despite the idea of men over taking women in the working fields. The figures actually show that men of Cambodia are actually 90.9 percent for primary completion rate. The women actually have the upper hand with a percentage of 91.7 and that’s above the men...
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...Annotated Bibliography Mitry, D. J. (2008, November). Using Cultural Diversity in Teaching Economics: Global Business Implications. Retrieved February 3, 2016,, from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/docview/232977843?pq-origsite=summon The purpose of this article was to discuss the concerns how globalization have allegations for education globalization an how accumulating cross-cultural interactivity have implications for education in general which may present valuable academic opportunities in the practice of teaching economics for business students. The author defines a method for using cultural diversity measures in teaching economic principles courses, experiments were performed to test the impact of a teaching approach that explicitly includes cultural diversity measurements in a classroom discussion and statically tested student learning outcomes using this type of approach. In order for students to obtain profitable skills they need to be able to physically apply basic economic models to an casual observation. Further research reveals students economics test are lower than any other subject, except science. Today students need to learn how to synthesize economics with other business tools in the global context. Other disciplines associated with the functional areas of business has avidly incorporating implications of globalization for teaching. Chang, S. J. (2010, February). When East and West Meet: An Essay on the Importance of Cultural Understanding...
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...Case Analysis Mekong Corporation Mekong Auto, a Joint venture with a Japanese industrial group, is Vietnam’s oldest vehicle manufacturer, granted a license on June 22, 1991. It is the pioneer of the local auto industry. The joint venture faced substantial changes due to the changed plans by Vietnam government policies. Complication for foreign business also increased due to the membership of Vietnam in ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations).Over the last thirty years, Vietnam evolved from “war after war” to an emerging economy with an attractive foreign investment policy and commitment to a liberalized economy. Poter’s Five Forces: Threat of new entrant In 1993, Vietnam government introduced new liberalizing reform, this action was taken due to the low e growth rates under centrally planned economy. Introduction of privatization eliminated trade barriers and Vietnam became open economy. This increased competition due to the new entrants in market. Many well-known automobile companies including Toyota, Chrysler, and Ford motors invested in Vietnam. Prior to this, Mekong motors were the only automobile industry in Vietnam. Prior to 1995, Vietnam motor corporation and Mekong corporation were the only automobile and truck assembler in Vietnam. Bargaining power of consumers Due to the new open economy, and resulting new entrants, consumers had more choices to buy. Also, Per capita income was also increasing and ASEAN trade agreements lead to competitive prices...
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...บทที่ 3 ยุทธศาสตร์แผนพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวปี 2554 -2558 การจัดทำยุทธศาสตร์แผนพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวปี 2554 -2558 อยู่ภายใต้กรอบแนวคิด “ ความร่วมมืออาเซียน สู่การพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน ” เนื่องจากภายในปี พ.ศ. 2558 นี้ประเทศไทยละอีก 9 ประเทศสมาชิกอาเซียนจะก้าวสู่การเป็นประชาคมอาเซียนอย่างสมบูรณ์แบบ ดังนั้นด้านการท่องเที่ยวจึงต้องมีการวางแผนพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวที่ต้องควบคู่ไปกับการเป็นประชาคมอาเซียน ที่จะสร้างประโยชน์ด้านการท่องเที่ยวต่อประเทศไทยเป็นอย่างมาก หากประเทศไทยมีการเตรียมความพร้อมและการวางแผนการพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวที่มีคุณภาพ และยั่งยืน ประกอบกับกรอบความร่วมมือของอาเซียนจะช่วยให้ประเทศไทยสามารถเป็นประเทศไทยได้รับผลประโยชน์ที่ยั่งยืนจากการเป็นประชาคมอาเซียนในปี 2558 นี้ได้ วิสัยทัศน์ มุ่งสู่การเป็นศูนย์กลางการท่องเที่ยวแห่งอาเซียนด้วยการพัฒนาศักยภาพเพิ่มขีดความสามารถในการแข่งขันภายใต้กรอบความร่วมมืออาเซียน ด้วยทรัพยากรการท่องเที่ยวที่มีคุณภาพ เกื้อกูลกันอย่างสมดุลและยั่งยืน พันธกิจ 1. พัฒนาข้อได้เปรียบทางการแข่งขันเพื่อเพิ่มขีดความสามารถทางการท่องเที่ยว 2. ส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวเชิงอนุรักษ์และการมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชน เพื่อสร้างรากฐานการท่องเที่ยวแบบยั่งยืน 3. พัฒนาบุคลากรด้านการท่องเที่ยวทุกภาคส่วน เพื่อเตรียมพร้อมการเคลื่อนย้ายแรงงานเสรีภาคการท่องเที่ยวของกลุ่มประเทศในอาเซียน 4. สร้างความร่วมมืออันดีกับประเทศเพื่อนบ้านและอาเซียนเพื่อสนับสนุนการอำนวยความสะดวกในการเดินทางท่องเที่ยวในกลุ่มประเทศอาเซียน โดยอาศัยการร่วมมือกันอย่างเกื้อกูลและยั่งยืน ยุทธศาสตร์ ที่ 1 : พัฒนาข้อได้เปรียบทางการแข่งขันของอุตสาหกรรมการท่องเที่ยวไทยเพื่อเพิ่มขีด ความสามารถในการแข่งขัน ...
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...Children’s online time should be controlled by parents A report of Flinders University showed that most of Australian students spend at least two hours a day online, and it is double in England. But the most worrying problem is that only 17 per cent of parents who have children at the adolescent age take an eye on what their children are looking for on the Internet. It is clear that internet is one of the best educators for our children. However, there are also many dangers of the Internet. Therefore, parents need to control the amount of time that their children spend online. That spending long hours online is damaging to health is the first thing need talked about. Kids who don not get enough outdoor play easily become overweigh because they spend a lot of time sitting down and not moving. They are regarded as couch potatoes of Internet. In addition, it is said that this hobby tend too suffer because of too much viewing. And the fact that many children have to wear glasses for the hobby above. Furthermore, scientists proved that watching computer causes your brain to slowly operate. When most children think of the internet, they think of the main source of entertainments such as music, films, games, etc. Playing game on the internet becomes tendency nowadays. Vo Lam Truyen Ky, Audition, Thien Long Bat Bo are some typical of this. Accordingly, a lot of students take their free time for this trend, even some play truant to play online games. Meanwhile, parents and educators often...
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...VIETNAM: FOOD PROCESSING In the past 15 years Vietnam was grown from a net importer of food to a substantial exporter. It is the world's second most important exporter of rice, and the world's largest coffee exporter and producer of cashew nuts. Tea, peppers, nuts and spices have become important exports. Rice and coffee account for about half of agricultural export revenues. Soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas, poultry, fish and seafood are growing. Vietnam's agricultural exports are vulnerable to international price fluctuations because these exports are largely commodity based. Vietnam's agricultural fishing and forestry industries together produce over US$3 billion of goods annually. Roughly 55% of Vietnam's workforce is employed in agriculture. Commensurate with economic development, the sector had gone from a 25% share of GDP to less than 20% in 2008. Farm products accounted for 22% of the country's income in 2008, down sharply from 50% in 2005. Finally 17% of all of its exports are related to the agricultural, fisheries or food processing industries, down from 55% in 2006. Despite the trend, agriculture will continue to be very important as it raises the productivity of the 70% of Vietnam's population that lives in rural areas. Traditionally, Vietnam has protected agricultural market with regulations and high tariffs. Vietnam's WTO accession reduced tariffs and led to sharp increases in imports ($7.3 billion in agricultural goods by 2008). Key agricultural...
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...Foreign Trade University & Bedfordshire University Faculty of International Education The Report Building Company’s Website and Online Shop Name: Lê Văn Bảo Phạm Anh Tuấn Lê Trường Quân Class: FB5A Course: E-Commerce Table of contents Introduction Main contents I. Business idea 1. Idea 2. Products 3. Sipplier list II. Business Plan 1. Strategic Analysis 2. Marketing plan 3. Financial plan III. Task conducted IV. Participants Introduction Consumer Trends for Fruit and Vegetable Products looks at the STEEP model to analyze factors that affect the marketplace. It explores consumer trends in Vietnam using the statistics on food consumption, how Vietnamese are spending their food money, demographics and growth in produce sales. Retail trends are explored, which include specialty foods, packaging, branding, organics, convenience foods and the ethnic market in their relation to fruit and vegetables. Finally, this information is applied to the Alberta situation, suggesting market research activities that producers and processors may consider. Fruit and vegetable consumption has grown over the last few years for a number of reasons. In general, people are more concerned about staying healthy and eating right, and research into nutraceuticals and functional food has highlighted the health...
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...STUDENT’S NAME ID Đàng Thành Mai Thảo BABAWE15048 Bùi Thanh Thùy BABAWE15038 Nguyễn Ngọc Thúy An BABAWE15128 Mai Quỳnh Như BABAWE15097 INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: Đoàn Kim Khoa TOPIC: Is Tet no longer suitable for Vietnam? (Thanhniennews.vn) SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE According to the writer of the article, Tet is not appropriate for the current Vietnam economic situation. There are three main reasons the author argued. Firstly, the majority of the poor have to spend a great amount of money during Tet event, which pauperizes them and may get them commit crimes. Secondly, before and after Tet celebration, people get lazy and pay less attention on work, which not only slows down the whole business but also waste time and money. The final reason is Tet holiday interrupts Vietnam economic sectors while our country is integrating global economy, which can bring to some serious consequences. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENT ESSAY Global economy has become a common trend nowadays. Vietnam, a developing country, has to face lots of difficulties in making suitable policies for current economic situation, so that the international integration can be rapid and effective. One policy according to an author of the article “Tet is no longer suitable in Viet Nam” (Thanhniennews.vn) is that Tet festival should be removed or modified because it has many negative impacts as well as inappropriate for Vietnam economy. In my opinion, Tet is the most valuable traditional festival, hence...
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...Banking system in the lower Mekong system Introduction In the last century, many reforms of the banking system have been done in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Cambodia and Vietnam, the lower Mekong countries. Various policies and regulations were formulated in order to resolve the problems which were caused by planned economics system in these three countries. The development of financial system was mainly controlled by government and less freedom can be given so that it caused the less-developed problems among these Mekong countries. However, during the last decades, with the distribution of market-oriented economy government released the control of private enterprises and the discrimination of small and medium enterprises have been gradually eliminated. The banking system faced new challenge. New reforms should be done to adapt to the changing circumstance. The new regulatory and supervisory was strengthened for more efficient banking system. This essay will first illustrate the banking system in these three countries respectively and then find some similarities or differences between them during the reforms. Finally conclusion will be illustrated. Banking system in Vietnam In order to adapt to the transformation of economy system in Vietnam, much attention are paid on the banking reform and optimization. The financial liberalization process has been continued to accelerate. (1) The government made the duties of specialized banks clear and commercialized the operation...
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...governments that wish to raise revenue and increase energy security through dam projects along the Mekong River and the populations that rely on the fish and fertile soil in and along the river to survive. In this paper, the author feels that Southeast Asian Governments do not properly assess the potential consequences of their decisions to pursue massive energy projects on the people who rely on the river for food and job security. Although at times it seemed that Fullbrook was strong in his convictions, I found that I agreed with many of his conclusions. Based on my experiences living as an expat in Southeast Asia, I was also not surprised by the author’s extreme conclusions and found the topic very interesting. The Mekong River runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodian and Vietnam and is over 4,000 km long. According to Fullbrook, the livelihoods of over sixty million people depend on the ecology of the free-flowing river. But current dam construction along the Mekong has the potential to seriously upset the ecological balance of the Mekong and in turn, displace millions and negatively affect food security. One theme of the passage is that further analysis of the consequences of these projects is needed. As I will discuss in more detail below, this concern seems like a legitimate one. It is true that energy security is an important in Southeast Asia and damming the Mekong allows for a diversification of energy supplies. Dams also make money from the clean development...
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...Analysing advantages and disadvantages of banking reforms in Mekong countries in comparative perspective Introduction In a number of transition economies the banking systems are at different stages of the transformation process from mostly planned to market economy structures. But the past two decades led to further distinctions in developments within these countries. This paper will review recent banking reform efforts in the lower Mekong countries (LMCs), including Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Vietnam. Associated by close economic and cultural links, the three LMCs have tackled the challenges of both economic development and transition to more market-based economies. These links are apparent as they are some of the countries that make up the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) which is a natural economic area bound together by the Mekong River. In 1992, with the assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), these countries entered into a program of subregional economic cooperation designed to enhance economic relations among them. It is important to explain the economies of these countries to lay the grounds for analysis of banking reforms. It has become clear that increasingly, modernization and industrialization are emerging from a process of transition and transformation. The Mekong countries are gradually shifting from subsistence farming to more diversified economies, and to more open, market-based systems. In parallel with this are the growing...
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...Vietnam. From the 9th Infantry Division activation to getting their draft notices. Dr. Wiest then tells about their training at Fort Riley. The path continues with their individual training and the deployment to Vietnam, This, along with their first heart-wrenching losses to their lives after returning from Vietnam, will fill you with a whirlwind of emotions. Dr. Wiest shows, not only the life of a group of soldiers fighting for their country in a foreign land, but also how the Vietnam changed the lives of those involved. Wiest starts by chronicling the need for the 9th Division to be revived for service in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. Ninety percent of the transportation in the Mekong Delta was done by boat. Wiest noted the importance of the...
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...Cambodia in an area known as the Eastern Plains Landscape (EPL). Cambodia large variety of habitats both on land and in water are home to a significant diversity of threatened wildlife species. Among mammals, wild cattle and deer species as well as predators like tiger and leopard still roam the remote forests of the Eastern Plains Landscape, while a small population of Irrawaddy Dolphin inhabits the Cambodian section of the Mekong River. Birds are equally plentiful - especially Cambodia's populations of large waterbirds in both forests and wetlands stand out as globally significant. The Mekong River is also home to several endangered and iconic fish and reptile species, and critically endangered Siamese crocodile have been observed in the Eastern Plains' Srepok River. Irrawaddy Dolphin : ផ្សោត The Irrawaddy is a shy, small dolphin that is dark grey in color with a pale underside, a small rounded dorsal fin, and a bluntly rounded head. The Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin is the proud symbol of the Mekong River and its biodiversity. The Mekong River is one of the world’s most important remaining freshwater habitats...
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...mostly on wells or boreholes, rivers, springs, and rain water for their domestic consumption. Human activities such as intensive farming that use a lot of pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides, mining, and industrial run off are the primary sources of water pollutants and contaminants. According to Li L, Li CS, and Wichelns’ (2016) study established that rural areas in Tra Vinh Province of Vietnam experience seasonal fluctuations of water quality annually. L, Li CS, and Wichelns (2016) observed that during the wet monsoon season in the Mekong Delta, the inhabitants have access to abundant rainwater that they collect for both domestic and commercial applications. However, during the dry season they are faced with acute shortages of clean and safe drinking water often opting for canal or groundwater that is usually contaminated and unsafe for human consumption. L, Li CS, and Wichelns (2016) observed that during the wet season, inhabitants of the Mekong Delta were unwilling to purchase clean and safe bottled drinking water from vendors compared to the dry season when demand for the same was extremely high. A study carried out by Trevett, Carter, and Tyrrel (2004) in rural Honduras to investigate water quality deterioration established that risks of household water contamination was extremely high. Trevett, Carter, and Tyrrel (2004) posit that water sourced from typical communal sources such as tap stands and well were susceptible to contamination through various avenues. There are...
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...------------------------------------------------- Early history ------------------------------------------------- In 2009 an ancient human skull was recovered from the Tam Pa Ling cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos; the skull is at least 46,000 years old, making it the oldest modern human fossil found to date in Southeast Asia.[19] Archaeological evidence suggests agriculturist society developed during the 4th millennium BC. Burial jars and other kinds of sepulchers suggest a complex society in which bronze objects appeared around 1500 BC, and iron tools were known from 700 BC. The proto-historic period is characterised by contact with Chinese and Indian civilisations. From the fourth to the eighth century, communities along the Mekong River began to form into townships called muang. ------------------------------------------------- Lan Xang ------------------------------------------------- Laos traces its history to the kingdom of Lan Xang (Million Elephants), founded in the 14th century, by...
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