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PetroVietnam signs deals with Uzbeks

February 5, 2010
PetroVietnam signs deals with Uzbeks

The Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) announced it had signed three new contracts at a press conference in Ha Noi yesterday, February 4. The contracts included two oil and gas exploration and extraction deals at Block 105-110 and Block 04-2, and another at Kossor in Uzbekistan.The group reported a total revenue of [...]

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Tuition for state owned schools: how much is too much?

October 20, 2009
Tuition for state owned schools: how much is too much?

VietNamNet Bridge – While the Prime Minister has decided tuition is 240,000 dong per month, the real figure is much higher. The problem lies in the fact that the Prime Minister has only set a rate for tuition per school year, while universities are trying to collect tuition per credit. According to Professor Pham Phu from [...]

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Philippine storm death toll rises to 73, 23 still missing

September 28, 2009
Philippine storm death toll rises to 73, 23 still missing

Seventy-three people were killed while 23 others remain missing one day after tropical storm Kestana battered northern Philippines, bringing epic rainfall that caused massive flooding and landslides. A Filipino girl is carried to safety through floodwaters in a suburb of Manila. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)By 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) Sunday, 69,513 families in Metro Manila and neighboring [...]

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Petrol prices raised, what next?

July 3, 2009
Petrol prices raised, what next?

People always expect that the prices of goods will increase after a petrol price hike. However, analysts have reassured the public that the price increases will not be big this time. Steel production cost will be 60,000 dong per tonne higherPetrol prices have increased four times since early April 2009 by a total of 2,500 [...]

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Foreign baby milk producer cries ‘foul’ over profit claims

July 3, 2009
Foreign baby milk producer cries ‘foul’ over profit claims

VietNamNet Bridge – The multinational firm Mead Johnson Nutrition has denied that it is selling baby formula in Vietnam at overly high prices. Six days after Ho Chi Minh City inspectors released a report  charging that sellers’ greed in the reason the retail prices of baby milk formula products are sky high, the multinational firm, [...]

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Capital moves to solve ammonia water pollution

March 29, 2009
Capital moves to solve ammonia water pollution

LookAtVietnam – High ammonia levels have forced the Ha Noi Clean Water Trading Company to reduce combined water output at Phap Van and Ha Dinh water treatment plants from 60,000 cu.m to 36,000cu.m a day. LookAtVietnam – High ammonia levels have forced the Ha Noi Clean Water Trading Company to reduce combined water output at [...]

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Red tape puts off investors

March 16, 2009
Red tape puts off investors

LookAtVietnam – Cumbersome procedures and inconsistent regulations are scaring away foreign direct investment (FDI) from the agricultural sector, analysts warn. The JV planned to grow 60,000 hectares of forests for pulp production and build a pulp processing factory in Kien Giang.Though the Government has been trying to encourage investors, particularly foreign, to invest in the [...]

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HCM City: Free measles vaccination for 60,000 kids

March 12, 2009
HCM City: Free measles vaccination for 60,000 kids

Measles patients at the Children’s Hospital 1 in HCM City.LookAtVietnam – From now until April 10, children, aged 1-6 in HCM City, who have never been vaccinated against measles, will be vaccinated free of charge. A measles epidemic has spread out in HCM City and neighboring provinces. Though the epidemic is under control, the number of [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...