Posts Tagged ‘ Earlier This Month ’

Dancers in the dark 

August 30, 2011
Dancers in the dark 

    A scene in ‘Story of the shoes,’ a series of vignettes that told the real-life stories of the dancers involved Linh Nga and Thuy Chi, possibly the two best Vietnamese dancers of their generation, each spent over ten years training in China before becoming the renowned artists and choreographers they are today. Both [...]

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Police in northern Vietnam bust human trafficking rings 

July 24, 2011
Police in northern Vietnam bust human trafficking rings 

Pham Van Huan and Dang Thanh Tung, who had announced to sell a girl online in Hanoi. Police in the northern province of Lang Son on Wednesday proposed criminal charges against four people including two Chinese nationals involved in a cross-border human trafficking ring.   On Tuesday night, Ngo Van Manh, 18, Pham Thi Hien, [...]

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Mining company fined for sludge release 

November 28, 2010
Mining company fined for sludge release 

  Cao Bang Minerals and Metallurgy Company has been fined VND100 million (US$5,130) for flooding farmland with waste sludge earlier this month.   Nguyen Hoang Anh, chairman of the northern mountainous province, said the government delivered its ruling on Thursday.   Earlier this month, a sludge dike at the company’s iron ore mine broke, releasing [...]

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Vietnam aims to slow credit growth to 25 pct next year

December 24, 2009
Vietnam aims to slow credit growth to 25 pct next year

Vietnam’s central bank said it aims to slow credit growth to about 25 percent next year after last month’s inflation accelerated to the fastest pace since May, keeping its “cautious” monetary stance. The Southeast Asian nation plans to ease credit growth from more than 37.7 percent this year on inflation concerns, according to a central [...]

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Man challenges aviation authority to $5 million bet

August 27, 2009
Man challenges aviation authority to $5 million bet

LookAtVietnam – A man who challenged Vietnam’s aviation authority to a US$5 million bet said the authority would not have to pay if it loses.  Tran Dinh Ba at a conference to introduce a planned air route that could cut travel time between Hanoi – HCMC by 20 minutes.LookAtVietnam – A man who challenged Vietnam’s [...]

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Man challenges aviation authority to $5 million bet

August 26, 2009
Man challenges aviation authority to $5 million bet

Tran Dinh Ba at a conference to introduce a planned air route that could cut travel time between Hanoi – HCMC by 20 minutes A man who challenged Vietnam’s aviation authority to a US$5 million bet that a new Hanoi-HCMC air route would be more efficient than the agency’s estimate said the authority would not [...]

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Malaysia to redeem itself at U21 tourney next month, coach says

August 20, 2009
Malaysia to redeem itself at U21 tourney next month, coach says

Malaysian striker Thamil Arasu scored five goals in Malaysia’s 7-1 win over East Timor this month Malaysian U21 team coach Ong Kim Swee says his players are ready to redeem themselves at next month’s U21 International Football Tournament after a humiliating performance at last year’s event. Fresh off coaching his U19 squad to the semifinals [...]

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Small shops, local markets loosing ground to superstores

June 29, 2009
Small shops, local markets loosing ground to superstores

Customers shop at Lotte Supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7. Traditional retail channels in Vietnam find themselves struggling as consumers opt for the modern supermarkets and convenience stores invading the fast-growing retail market. Phan Thi Kieu Thu, owner of a grocery store in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1, told a conference earlier [...]

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Major banks to cut dollar deposit rates to inhibit hoarding

May 31, 2009
Major banks to cut dollar deposit rates to inhibit hoarding

Vietnam’s largest banks will lower their interest rates on dollar deposits to 1.5 percent in June from around 2 percent now in a move to help avoid dollar hoarding in domestic markets, the central bank said. All state-run banks plus Vietcombank, Vietnam’s largest partly private lender, have also agreed to set the ceiling for dollar [...]

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Traders wary of longer hours

May 20, 2009
Traders wary of longer hours

LookAtVietnam – The possibility that trading hours on the nation’s stock exchanges would be extended to the afternoon in near future is concerning investors, many of whom think that the market is struggling to reach higher trading levels even with trading limited to half-a-day. Earlier this month, the State Securities Commission released several measures to [...]

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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...