January 23, 2012
Vietnam, the world’s second-largest rice exporter, shipped 184,558 metric tons from the start of the year to Jan. 19, the Vietnam Food Association said in a statement dated January 19. The country, which exported a record 7.11 million tons in 2011, according to the group, may ship as much as 7 million tons in [...]
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January 14, 2012
Vietnam aims to raise its coal output to 55-58 million tons in 2015 from an estimated 48.9 million tons this year in an effort to meet demand for fast-growing electricity production, the government said. Output is projected to rise to more than 75 million tons by 2030 thanks to the exploitation of new sites, [...]
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January 9, 2012
Vietnam shipped 7.11 million tons of rice in 2011 Vietnam, the world’s second largest rice exporter, is set to face tough competition from other exporters who offer low-quality varieties at very cheap prices, an industry official said. Rice prices are likely to fall as major exporters have stockpiled a large amount of the grain, Pham Van [...]
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December 12, 2011
Rice exports from Vietnam, the second-largest shipper, reached a record level, boosting supply at a time when floods and government policies may reduce flows from Thailand, the largest exporter. Shipments totaled 6.84 million metric tons in the year through Dec. 8, the Vietnam Food Association said today. That’s more than the 6.75 million tons [...]
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December 12, 2011
Many cement firms are deeply in the red after demand has plummeted due to the housing market slump while supply has soared because of the indiscriminate construction of several plants. Le Van Toi, head of the Ministry of Construction’s Construction Material Department, said: “Sales of many kinds of construction materials, including cement, have fallen [...]
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November 19, 2011
A worker walking a bicycle loaded with construction steel on his way to a construction site in Hanoi The frozen property market and high interest rates have pushed steel producers into the red and some even face the risk of shutting down their business. Pham Chi Cuong, chairman of the Vietnam Steel Association, said [...]
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November 1, 2011
State oil and gas group Petrovietnam has bid for $1.5 billion of ConocoPhillips oil assets in the East Sea, a senior Petrovietnam official said on Monday. The Hanoi-based group plans to do its utmost to acquire the assets, Nguyen Tien Dung, Petrovietnam’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer, told Reuters on Monday. “The investment is in [...]
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October 25, 2011
Vietnam’s rice export between January and October rose 8.5 percent from a year ago to an estimated 6.38 million tons, the government said on Tuesday. Rice export revenue in the first 10 months jumped 17.3 percent from the same period of 2010 to an estimated $3.22 billion, the government’s General Statistics Office said in [...]
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October 19, 2011
Workers sort through green robusta coffee beans for defects at a processing plant in Ho Chi Minh City. Commodity exchange NYSE Liffe has launched a scheme to grade robusta coffee supplies in Vietnam. Coffee exporters in Vietnam, set to ship a record harvest, are being urged not to sign so-called forward contracts unless they have [...]
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October 11, 2011
Vietnam, the world’s second-largest rice exporter, shipped 5.92 million metric tons from the start of the year to Oct. 6, the Vietnam Food Association said. Shipments were 36,977 tons from Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, the association said in a statement on its website Monday. Vietnam may ship 7.52 million tons of rice in [...]
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