January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay, the stars come out, to pepper the [...]
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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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September 22, 2011
Vietnam is advising power-consuming manufacturers in the south to stagger production while the Nam Con Son gas pipelines that feed power plants undergo maintenance, an official at state utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) said. Gas supply to two power plants with a combined capacity of about a quarter of the country’s total was to halt [...]
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September 10, 2011
The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi and the Nam Hai in Hoi An share top billing as Asia’s best leisure properties for 2011, according to an online poll by Smart Travel Asia, an authority on the regional travel industry. The results of the three-month Best in Travel Poll 2011 were culled from votes cast by [...]
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August 28, 2011
An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]
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August 4, 2011
PetroVietnam has launched the 2011 licensing round for nine oil and gas blocks offshore Vietnam, the first since 2007 and the most in recent years, while Vietsovpetro will boost investments, as the country works on reversing declining output and exports. Vietnam, a net oil exporter and Southeast Asia’s third-largest producer, has been facing falling [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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July 8, 2011
State oil group PetroVietnam and its partners may buy $1.5 billion in Vietnamese oil assets in the East Sea from ConocoPhillips , according to PetroVietnam’s chief executive. PetroVietnam’s plan demonstrates a commitment to help protect Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea, as it calls the disputed area, the company’s chief executive, Phung Dinh Thuc, [...]
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January 27, 2010
The lack of binding beams was the cause of a warehouse collapse under construction that killed one person and injured at least nine others in Binh Duong Province Saturday, authorities concluded Monday. Workers of the Vifaco farm in Thuan An District that belongs to the Binh Duong Export, Import and Production Company said the warehouse [...]
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December 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A two-week inspection on the quality of 34 new urban areas is being conducted, focusing on those built for resettlement purposes. The Nam Trung Yen New Urban Area in Cau Giay District. This is one of 34 new urban area projects being checked by local authorities for the quality of technical and social [...]
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