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Vietnam metro to tighten control on drug prices 

May 3, 2011
Vietnam metro to tighten control on drug prices 

  Ho Chi Minh City authorities will tighten control on the purchase of medicines by hospitals and on drug prices, health officials said at a talk show in HCMC Sunday. The Sunday “Talk and Act” show by HCMC Television focused on the measures to stabilize drug prices with the participation of officials from the Health [...]

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Vinafood 2 says Vietnam should sell rice to Philippines

December 17, 2009
Vinafood 2 says Vietnam should sell rice to Philippines

LookAtVietnam – Vinafood 2, one of Vietnam’s biggest rice exporters, has offered the public reassurances against potential domestic rice shortages. The domestic price of rice has been increasing continuously and worries have been raised about a possible shortage. Local media, quoting international agencies, has predicted a worldwide rice shortage. India reportedly plans to import three [...]

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Global energy giants win contracts for 2 Iraqi oil fields

December 12, 2009
Global energy giants win contracts for 2 Iraqi oil fields

The world’s leading energy companies won rights to develop two major oil fields in Iraq at an auction on Friday. Delegates are seen at the second bidding round for Iraqi oil fields in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, Dec. 11, 2009. More than 40 campanies attended the bidding on Friday.Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas were [...]

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Rising drug prices send health insurance fund into the red

October 7, 2009
Rising drug prices send health insurance fund into the red

LookAtVietnam – The national health insurance fund is projected to exceed its budget by VND2 trillion (US$112,359 million) in 2009 due to the skyrocketing drug prices The health insurance sector found it difficult to cope with illegal prices because they were not directly involved with the hospital’s drug bidding committee.Prices on special drugs, such as [...]

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Southern region’s major H1N1 testing center halts tests

October 2, 2009
Southern region’s major H1N1 testing center halts tests

Southern Vietnam’s main swine-flu testing facility suspended testing Thursday, said HCMC Health Department official Phan Van Nghiem, arguing that not much would change as tests could be performed elsewhere. The Ho Chi Minh City department said Friday that test results from the city’s Tropical Diseases Hospital, Children’s Hospital No.1, and Children’s Hospital No.2 would now [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 2/9

September 2, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 2/9

Transport cost rises will not exceed 15%, says VATA; ACB provides soft loans for rice exporters; Indonesia AirAsia about to operate Jakarta-HCMC direct flights; Vietnam’s exports to the US surge  Transport cost rises will not exceed 15%, says VATA Many transport companies are considering increasing transportation costs due to gasoline rising VND1,000 per liter on [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 1/9

September 1, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 1/9

Foreign players tap into local market; Rice exports reach 4.4 mllion tonnes; Vietnam’s exports to US continue growing  More than 4.4 million tonnes of rice were exported in the first eight months of the year, up 41.93 percent over the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). The free-on-board export value [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 27/8

August 27, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 27/8

New border bridge brings in waves of investors; BNP Paribas up stake in local bank; Trade exhibitions promote leather, shoes and building; New border bridge brings in waves of investors   Even though the inauguration of Kim Thanh bridge, scheduled for Sept. 2, is still days away, as many as 50 investors have already registered to [...]

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Quang Nam poor lose all to credit scheme

August 17, 2009
Quang Nam poor lose all to credit scheme

Nguyen Thi Lanh, a rice farmer in the central province of Quang Nam, put five years of her savings into a hui scheme, hoping to buy a house somewhere other than in the middle of a field.  But early this month she was told that the hui operator Dinh Thi Xe had fled claiming that [...]

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Bidding result of high-rise building project in HCMC cancelled

August 5, 2009
Bidding result of high-rise building project in HCMC cancelled

LookAtVietnam – The controversial “golden land plot” in downtown HCMC will be offered to bidders again in a new competition after the Prime Minister in his instruction to the city demanded that the local government find agreeable solutions According to the bidding committee, HCM City will not apply the old bidding regulations that applied in the [...]

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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...