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Vietnam power utility forecasts shortfall this month 

November 8, 2010
Vietnam power utility forecasts shortfall this month 

Tri An Power Plant in the southern province of Dong Nai State utility Electricity of Vietnam said the country will continue to face power shortages this month despite more floods and rain being forecast in the central region. The company, often known as EVN, said the country’s total power output in November will be around 280 million [...]

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Global recovery still a fragile process: World Bank

January 31, 2010
Global recovery still a fragile process: World Bank

Workers at an apparel factory in Ho Chi Minh City. The global economic recovery currently underway will slow down later this year and the process remains fragile, the World Bank has cautioned. In its “Global Economic Prospects 2010” report released Wednesday, the bank says the slowdown will happen on the back of the waning impact [...]

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Gov’t apathy takes wind out of power companies’ sails

December 19, 2009
Gov’t apathy takes wind out of power companies’ sails

Vietnam’s first wind-power project will be up and running soon but experts say the country cannot exploit the full potential of this green energy until it becomes more investor-friendly. Nguyen Tien Long, deputy general director of Hanoi-based Vietnam Renewable Energy Joint Stock Company, or REVN, said his company faced many difficulties while building the country’s [...]

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Gov’t apathy takes wind out of power companies’ sails

December 19, 2009
Gov’t apathy takes wind out of power companies’ sails

A wind turbine in Tuy Phong District in the central province of Binh Thuan Vietnam’s first wind-power project will be up and running soon but experts say the country cannot exploit the full potential of this green energy until it becomes more investor-friendly. Nguyen Tien Long, deputy general director of Hanoi-based Vietnam Renewable Energy Joint [...]

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Exports could recover to last year’s levels: experts

September 5, 2009
Exports could recover to last year’s levels: experts

A female worker sews shirts at a Vietnamese garment company in Hanoi. Vietnam is likely to maintain its export earnings at the same level as last year on the strength of market expansion and partial recovery of the world economy, experts say. “In the context of the world economy recovering faster than expected, and firms [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 1/8

August 1, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 1/8

24,000 bombs and mines cleared; Nation to build on successes in population control; Labour support programme launched; Conference highlights latest dental advances; 24,000 bombs and mines cleared  Over the past five years more than 1,400ha of land strewn with bombs, mines and other explosives in the six central provinces of Vietnam have been cleared.Speaking at [...]

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Local exporters urged optimum use of stimulus package

July 9, 2009
Local exporters urged optimum use of stimulus package

Rice is loaded for export at Saigon Port in Ho Chi Minh City Local businesses should take advantage of the government’s stimulus package to improve their competitiveness and boost exports in the second half of the year, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Bui Xuan Khu said. Some exporters are still hesitant to apply for [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 26/5

May 26, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 26/5

EC provides aid to reduce poverty in Vietnam; Vietnam navigates slowdown better than others: WB official; Banquet marks African Day in Vietnam; Dutch artists help disabled children in Quang Tri Province On the advantages and disadvantages of Vietnam, Sarah said the country has made great strides to integrate commercially with the global economy, to the [...]

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Vietnam continues to work closely with UN: PM

May 14, 2009
Vietnam continues to work closely with UN: PM

Vietnam will continue to cooperate closely with the United Nations to achieve a variety of goals, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro in Hanoi Wednesday. Migiro sent well wishes from the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Dung and praised Vietnam for its socio-economic achievements as well as for [...]

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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...