Posts Tagged ‘ Per Day ’

The human cost of defending Libya’s oil 

October 27, 2011
The human cost of defending Libya’s oil 

A worker checks pipes and valves at Amaal oil field in eastern Libya October 7, 2011. Abdula Altako was killed in March guarding the oil field he worked for, one of the first but by no means the last of Libya’s oil workers to die defending the country’s lifeblood. Abandoned by their foreign owners during [...]

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Thai PTTEP says Vietnam 16-1 project starts operations 

August 23, 2011
Thai PTTEP says Vietnam 16-1 project starts operations 

  Thailand’s largest oil and gas explorer, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, (PTTEP) , said on Tuesday its Vietnam 16-1 project started production on Aug. 22 with an initial flow of about 15,000 barrels per day. The production at Te Giac Trang (TGT) field is expected to reach 40,000 bpd of crude oil and about [...]

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Premier Oil fields in Indonesia, Vietnam to begin output soon 

April 11, 2011
Premier Oil fields in Indonesia, Vietnam to begin output soon 

  Britain’s Premier Oil expects first gas production at its Gajah Baru field in Indonesia in six months after a brief delay, while oil output at Vietnam’s Chim Sao field remains on track for July, a senior executive said on Monday. Asian gas and oil markets represent a major portion of Premier’s future growth potential [...]

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Two hours of TV-watching boosts heart risk: researchers 

January 15, 2011
Two hours of TV-watching boosts heart risk: researchers 

  People who spend more than two hours per day of leisure time watching television or sitting in front of a screen face double the risk of heart disease and higher risk of dying, a new study said. Researchers said the effect was seen regardless of how much people exercised, indicating that how we choose [...]

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Bear bile tourism thrives despite exposés 

December 20, 2010
Bear bile tourism thrives despite exposés 

  Influential people might be supporting illegal industry, says a prominent lawmaker A bear lies unconscious at a bear farm in Ha Long Town in Quang Ninh Province, as a man extracts bear bile from the animal On the last leg of a five-day trip, a group of Korean tourists stopped in at a bear [...]

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Vietnam Airlines to provide 30,000 to help people get home for Tet

February 4, 2010
Vietnam Airlines to provide 30,000 to help people get home for Tet

LookAtVietnam – The national flag air carrier has decided to provide 136 more flights during Tet days. The airline has said that in peak days between now until the end of February 28, 136 more flights will be provided on the Hanoi – HCM City – Da Nang air routes. In particular there will be four [...]

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Vietnam’s Jan crude oil output plunges 26.2 pct y/y

January 29, 2010
Vietnam’s Jan crude oil output plunges 26.2 pct y/y

Vietnam’s crude oil output plunged 26.2 percent in January from the same month a year ago, the government said on Friday. The country produced an estimated 1.16 million tons, or about 274,000 barrels per day, of crude oil in January.Crude production last month was revised down to 1.05 million tons, a fall of 25 percent [...]

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Doing business online but still paying in cash

January 25, 2010
Doing business online but still paying in cash

VietNamNet Bridge – Only 11 percent of families in HCM City have been making online purchases, a very low percentage compared with e-commerce development potential in Vietnam.  According to the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade, e-commerce transactions at www.taobao.com in China reach $52.5 million per day, the online payment via AliPay system in [...]

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Helping the sick, one meal at a time

January 24, 2010
Helping the sick, one meal at a time

An employee of Sympameals (L), a charity project supplying free meals to poor cancer patients at Hanoi’s K Hospital A couple in Hanoi brings free food to thousands of poor cancer patients. Nineteen-year-old Le Thi Lan from north-central Thanh Hoa Province has been under treatment for lung cancer at K Hospital since June last year. [...]

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Interbank market cooling, interest rates decline

January 18, 2010
Interbank market cooling, interest rates decline

The interbank interest rate last week saw interest rates on all kinds of loans decrease by 0.07-2.23 percent, following previous week’s interest rate decrease trend. For the second consecutive week, the interbank interest rate decreased considerably. Interest rates of overnight and one week loans, which are the most popular, dropped sharply by 2.23 percent and [...]

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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...