VietNamNet Bridge – The greenback seems to have become short of breath after it reached the VND17,600/US$ peak on the black market, decreasing considerably on December 25 in the afternoon. However, there have been no big changes with the transactions on the market. The dollar price escalated to VND17,500/US$1, and then VND17,600/US$1 on December 25, [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – SBV is hurrying to complete the draft regulations on the management of gold trading floors. The document has been long awaited by investors, which is believed to help stop the problems on the floors. By December 2008, over 10 gold trading floors have been established and become operational. These do not include small [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese engineers have won the gold medal at an international creativeness exhibition, in Seoul, South Korea, for their new-style of toilet tank. In the past two years, hundreds of toilet tanks of this kind have been installed in Ba Ria – Vung Tau.VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese engineers have won the gold medal [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The hope of gold investors about a new price hike wave disappeared almost as soon as it arose. The gold price only increased slightly yesterday and then began going down again. Earlier this morning, SJC gold price was quoted at VND17.2mil/tael (purchase) a decrease of VND20,000/tael over yesterday afternoon, while the sale [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The story about the troubles on ACB gold trading floor has raised a lot of worries about the bad management of gold trading floors. Nguyen Thanh Toai, Deputy General Director of ACB, called the mistake of entering the wrong gold sale price on December 10 (VND17,000/tael instead of VND17mil) a ‘regrettable incident’. [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Dinh Toan and Nguyen Minh Tu bagged a gold medal in the mixed doubles of the World Taekwondo Performance (Poomsea) Championships in Ankara, Turkey over the weekend. The Hanoian duo grappled with powerful opponents from Spain, Turkey and Italian on their way to victory.Earlier, Toan took silver in the men’s singles, [...]
Gold dropped more than 2 percent in thin volumes Friday as the euro lost ground against the dollar and bullion’s recent rally slowed the pace of physical purchases, traders and analysts said. Spot gold fell to US$833.70 an ounce by 11:16 GMT, against $852.15 an ounce late in New York on Thursday. It had traded [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – It was a great day for Vietnamese martial artists yesterday at the ASEAN University Games in Malaysia, with five golds and one silver won. Photo: www.travelatvietnam.comNguyen Ngoc Thanh triumphed in the men’s karate kumite (combat) open event by trouncing Yellovin Prasetyo Piscessa from Indonesia 8-3 in the final match.His victory was a [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Gold jumped about VND250,000 (US$14.79) per tael yesterday to as high as VND17.45 million in an immediate response to the US Federal Reserve’s lowering of the prime interest rate to a record low of 0.25 per cent. The Sai Gon Jewellery Co (SJC) listed the buying-selling price at VND17.22/17.42 million ($1,018-1,030) per [...]
