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Vietnam´s active and planned FTAs Free Trade Agreement
The US is missing in the list. If included (given Trump agrees to), the FTAs would cover almost 100% of world´s GDP combined.

 

[Olympus81]

Thailand´s last hope: betting every penny on China. the new PM will go out of office in months. who´s next? Thailand reminds me of a girl that is no longer young. Hopeless.

Your view of Thailand is limited to say the least.

Their economy relies on tourism, agricultural and a strong industrial base.

Sure there are large investments from Chinese, and the same is true for investments from the West.

Thailand economy is going through a rough patch, due to political instability in the last decade. There are areas the Thais need to focus on ie infrastructure and education.

 

[Viet]

Italy´s Mainetti new bag manufacturing plant in Vietnam, making 360 million bags a year with 200 workers
will become the norm. future of manufacturing requires only few workers, majority of components coming from recycled materials.

 

[AViet]

The results of 2022 PISA test for Vietnam was the most disappointed ever since 2012 when Vietnam participated PISA test for the first time, in all 3 subjects of maths, science and reading. One of the most likely reason was that Vietnamese students had to study online for almost the whole school year 2021 – 2022, while PISA test was done in April – May 2022, and not all families could afford to equip their children with laptops, printers and so on, especially in 60% rural population. Hopefully, better results can be seen next year, when 2025 PISA results will be published.

However, from the PISA report, which published on OECD website, with subnational level results for Vietnam and a number of countries, some interesting observations can be made with regards to the difference in education quality of 03 major regions in Vietnam, namely Northern, Southern and Central.

The scores by Northern Vietnamese students are the highest for all 03 subjects, and the Central Vietnamese students score the lowest for all 03 subjects. Scores of Southern Vietnamese students are in the middle.

In mathematics, Vietnamese students score 469. Countries and economies whose mean score is not statistically significantly different from Vietnam are Lithuania, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Malta, United States*, Slovak Republic, Croatia.

At subnational level, Northern Vietnamese students score 480, between Sweden (482) and New Zealand (479) and not far from Finland (484), while Southern Vietnamese students score 463 (between Slovak (464) and Croatia (463), and Central Vietnamese students score 461, between Croatia and Iceland (459).

Similar observation can be made on science. Vietnamese students score 472 and ranked 35th, a deep fall from 2015 result, when its students was among the top 10 best countries (ranked 8th). In 2022, North Vietnamese students score 478 (between Norway 478 and Italy 477), while South Vietnamese students score 474, between Turkey and Malta. Central Vietnamese students score 463, between Israel and Slovak.

Interesting enough, the No.1 country (Singapore) and the bottom country (Cambodia) both are in South East Asia. Singaporean math results is 575, while Cambodian students score only 336

And I am quite surprised about the quality of Israel education. Their results are almost at the bottom of European countries in 2022, and not much better in previous years. Western media loved to brag about China (the No.1 PISA ranking country in 2018) copied from Israel. What China wanted to copy from such a relatively poorly - educated country (by East Asian and Scandinavian standards). With such PISA results, their engineers cannot be good.

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2023/12/pisa-2022-results-volume-i_76772a36/53f23881-en.pdf

 

[Vietnam]

Vietnam’s first light tracked self-propelled gun PTH-01, modeled after the Soviet 2S1 Gvozdika, has been modernized with new technologies, making it combat-ready for the 21st century

 

[Viet]

Your view of Thailand is limited to say the least.

Their economy relies on tourism, agricultural and a strong industrial base.

Sure there are large investments from Chinese, and the same is true for investments from the West.

Thailand economy is going through a rough patch, due to political instability in the last decade. There are areas the Thais need to focus on ie infrastructure and education.

Thai economy stands on shaky ground. Relying on tourists money to make a living is a dead end. even Chinese tourists prefer Vietnam. that’s shocking. yes, instead, the Thai should focus on agra production, on rice planting.
I am a neutral observer.

this political instability, Thailand should abandon western style democracy. that will never work. Not working in last 100y, will not work in 500y. Thailand can return to monarchy or military rule.

 

[Viet]

British warship HMS Richmond stops by for a visit to Saigon.
sale representatives of Vinamilk think that’s a good opportunity to promote company’s products.
weird combo: warship and yoghurt

 

[Viet]

the army works on a bigger version of VJE-01 turbojet engine
range would increase from 300km to 600km.

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[Viet]

announcing next year Q1, 2026: T1 amphibious tank, XTC-03 8x8 Infantry fighting vehicle

 

[Viet]

Viettel introduces comprehensive combat suite for Vietnam's Future Warships, including a class of fast-attack missile corvette
- multi-faced AESA radar
- infrared search-and-track (IRST) sensors
- electronic warfare and countermeasures (EW/ECM)
- remotely-controlled weapon station (RCWS) for 12.7mm machine gun
- general battle management system (BMS)

 

[Viet]

Making RPG-7, SPG-9T2

 

[Viet]

Welcome to Saigon
United Overseas Australia (UOA) has acquired a land plot for $68 million. the bank will invest additional $120 million to build a tower in Q4 2025.

 

[Viet]

next month the communist chief To Lam pays an official visit to North Korea. Some countries are worried. the video does some exaggerations. very possible Vietnam will strengthen economic and military tie, the neutrality will remain unchanged.

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he spends $4,000 a month. if coming to rental Saigon is the most expensive city. He can live comfortably with $1,000 or less in second tier or third tier cities.

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Making AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher