Posts Tagged ‘ corporation ’

Chinese firm booted from equipment supply contract in Vietnam 

October 15, 2011
Chinese firm booted from equipment supply contract in Vietnam 

  Unprecedented move against Chinese contractor not easy, but ‘wise’, local firm says Vietnam’s state-owned Construction Corporation No.1 has decided to end its contract with a Chinese supplier due to poor performance at a major hydropower project in the Central Highlands. Beijing IWHR Corporation was terminated from the contract to supply and install the main [...]

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Top hits available soon for ‘cheap’ download 

September 3, 2011
Top hits available soon for ‘cheap’ download 

  Universal Music and Sony Music, two world leading record companies, will distribute hit songs to Vietnamese music lovers through NCT Corporation’s website nhaccuatui.com, thanks to an agreement signed August 30 in Ho Chi Minh City. Music fans in Vietnam can now listen first hand to all audio and video owned by Universal Music and [...]

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Farmers lodge complaints, demand compensation from polluting firm 

August 9, 2011
Farmers lodge complaints, demand compensation from polluting firm 

Farmers in Tan An Commune submit complaints about the Sonadezi Corporation at the commune People's Committee office. Eleven households in the southern province of Dong Nai lodged complaints on Monday against the state-owned Sonadezi Corporation for damaging their seafood farms by discharging sewage into a local river. The farmers in Tam An Commune, Long Thanh [...]

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Farmers accuse polluting company of destroying livelihoods 

August 9, 2011
Farmers accuse polluting company of destroying livelihoods 

Sewage flows from a sluice gate of Sonadezi Corporation's waste treatment plant into a canal that runs into the Dong Nai River. Fishermen living near the waste treatment plant of state-owned Sonadezi Corporation in southern Vietnam have accused the company of hurting their livelihoods by dumping untreated sewage into the river. Last Thursday, after observing [...]

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Vinamilk, partners ink deal to better tend to Vietnamese needs 

March 2, 2011
Vinamilk, partners ink deal to better tend to Vietnamese needs 

  Vietnam’s leading dairy company Vinamilk has signed with three nutritional companies in Europe a cooperation agreement in research and application of nutrition science into products for Vietnamese children. The signing partners, namely DSM Corporation (DSM) and Lonza Corporation (Lonza) from Switzerland, and Chris Hansen Corporation (Chr.Hansen) from Denmark, have been working with Vinamilk in [...]

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Pele to come to Vietnam in March 

January 22, 2011
Pele to come to Vietnam in March 

  Football legend Pele will come to Vietnam early March to attend a coffee festival in Buon Ma Thuot Town organized by the Trung Nguyen Corporation and the Dak Lak People’s Committee. The organizers said the greatest footballer of all time will be among many culture and sports ambassadors from famous coffee-producing and consuming countries [...]

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Business is for the adventurous 

January 22, 2011
Business is for the adventurous 

Dang Thanh Tam, chairman of Saigon Invest Group and Kinh Bac City Development Share Holdings Corp., poses for a portrait in Hanoi. Businesspersons must be adventurous and explore new opportunities every day, says Dang Thanh Tam, Vietnam’s third richest businessman in the stock market in 2010. In an exclusive interview with Thanh Nien Weekly, Tam [...]

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Predictions revealed for 2010 M&A trends

January 26, 2010
Predictions revealed for 2010 M&A trends

LookAtVietnam – Economists believe that merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in 2010 will be seen mostly in consumer goods, entertainment and media, and financial services. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Thomson Reuters, the total number of M&A cases for 2009 was 295, an increase of 77 percent over 2008. The total value of M&A cases wrapped [...]

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Singaporeans invest heavily in local real estate

January 23, 2010
Singaporeans invest heavily in local real estate

While property developers from other countries are holding off on investments in Vietnam, Singaporean developers are stepping up their involvement in this country. Singapore real estate investors are very active in VietnamSingapore-based Keppel Land International Limited last week announced it had signed a joint-venture agreement with Tien Phuoc Company to develop an 11 hectare waterfront [...]

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US dollar quietly decreasing in value in Vietnam

January 14, 2010
US dollar quietly decreasing in value in Vietnam

LookAtVietnam – The dollar price, both the exchange rate quoted by commercial banks and the price on black market, has been decreasing after efforts by government agencies to stabilize the forex market. The State Bank of Vietnam announced the interbank exchange rate of 17,941 dong per dollar for January 12, a rate which has been [...]

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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...