November 3, 2011
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed agreements with Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda to provide Japan with rare-earth minerals used in hybrid cars and wind turbines and to cooperate on a nuclear project. Japan agreed to cooperate on exploration, mining and processing of rare earths, starting with the Dong Pao project in Vietnam’s Lai [...]
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August 6, 2011
Chilean ex-miners carry a portable platform with a religious image during a ceremony in Copiapo, 700 kms north of Santiago, to commemorate the first anniversary of the mining accident which left 33 miners buried in the shafts for 68 days Miners who were trapped underground for over two months led Chile Friday in marking the [...]
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June 1, 2011
A panel of foreign and local experts have called for improved transparency and accountability in Vietnam’s gas and mining sector A copper mine run by the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group in the north-western province of Lao Cai. An anti-corruption dialogue on May 25 called for improved transparency and accountability in Vietnam’s gas [...]
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May 27, 2011
A damaged section of Road 723 in Lam Dong Province. Local authorities have blamed the damaged roads on heavy trucks travelling to and from the controversial Tan Rai bauxite mining plant. Several weeks from now, a controversial bauxite mining plant will process its first alumina batch in the Central Highlands. The project has attracted strong [...]
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April 26, 2011
A local radio reporter in Nghe An attempted to expose safety problems at the Nghe An quarry, last November, only to be ignored by newspapers and government officials Rescuers search for the bodies of quarry employees buried in a rockslide at the Len Co Mountain stone quarry in the central province of Nghe An [...]
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April 26, 2011
PM Nguyen Tan Dung chairs the second Vietnam-Cambodia Investment Promotion Conference in Phnom Penh on April 24. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Hun Sen co-chaired the second Vietnam-Cambodia Investment Promotion Conference in Phnom Penh on Sunday. “The second Vietnam-Cambodia Investment Promotion Conference is significant and necessary for the current period [...]
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April 23, 2011
This photo, provided by Philippine Military, shows an aerial shot of a landslide that occurred in the isolated town of Kingking, in a mountainous area of the resource-rich but poor and violence-plagued southern island of Mindanao. Rescuers clawed through dirt in a desperate search for survivors a day after a landslide buried workers in mining [...]
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February 18, 2011
The Bong Mieu gold mine in the central province of Quang Nam. Olympus Pacific's production in Vietnam comes from the Bong Mieu and Phuoc Son properties in the province. Industry insiders fear that a new export tax may drive foreign investors away from Vietnam’s gold production sector, which could send the industry reeling back into [...]
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November 9, 2010
The red mud lake at the bauxite mining and processing complex in Lam Dong Province Vinacomin, a state-owned mining group, has announced that its bauxite mining and processing complex in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong will begin commercial production this spring. Starting in April, the plant will refine bauxite ore into alumina to be sold to aluminum [...]
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December 26, 2009
Vietnamese and Cambodian businesses have signed investment agreements and contracts worth US$6 billion to invest in many fields. Representatives of Vietnamese and Cambodian businesses attending the conferenceThe deals were signed at a conference held in HCM City on December 26 to promote Vietnamese investment in Cambodia. The event was co-chaired by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen [...]
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