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Vietnam's Vinashin creditors to meet Tue on loan: Basis Point 

December 6, 2010
Vietnam's Vinashin creditors to meet Tue on loan: Basis Point 

  Creditors of a US$600 million, eight-year loan for Vietnam’s troubled state shipbuilder Vinashin will meet on Tuesday to discuss a request for a standstill from the near-bankrupt conglomerate, Basis Point reported on Friday. The creditor group would be led by Elliott Advisors and Standard Chartered Bank, sources told Basis Point, a Thomson Reuters company. [...]

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IMF says no request for financing from Vietnam

November 1, 2009
IMF says no request for financing from Vietnam

Anoop Singh speaks during a press briefing in Washington in a 2004 file photo Vietnam has not made any request to the International Monetary Fund for financing and is not seen as in a situation serious enough to require assistance, a senior IMF official told Reuters on Friday. But an IMF mission is currently visiting [...]

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Cyber probe irks South Korean IT security center

July 20, 2009
Cyber probe irks South Korean IT security center

Complaints arise after a leading Vietnamese IT firm claims it traced South Korea, US cyber attacks. The Korean Computer Emergency Response Team (KrCERT) has complained to its Vietnamese counterpart about a Hanoi-based IT security company, Bkis, over the latter’s investigations into cyber attacks in South Korea and the US.On July 15 and 16, in emails [...]

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Draft ‘freedom of information’ Law defines what’s accessible, what’s not

July 3, 2009
Draft ‘freedom of information’ Law defines what’s accessible, what’s not

 “We are not hungry for rice but for information. This law is really a life preserver,” said a retired government employee from Hanoi, Nguyen Bon Bay.LookAtVietnam – A draft law, now open for public comment, would for the first time specify the public’s right to Information on land use planning, land reclamation, site clearance, the use [...]

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Iraqi security forces take control of cities with confidence

July 1, 2009
Iraqi security forces take control of cities with confidence

What are added to Baghdad’s usually tensional streets — featured by countless checkpoints, blast walls and steel wire that fend off suicide and car bombs — are more fully armed soldiers compounded with both U.S. and Iraqi armed vehicles. U.S. General Daniel Bolger (1st L), commander of US forces in Baghdad, hands over a symbolic [...]

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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...