October 28, 2011
Vietnam’s dong on Friday closed below 21,000 per dollar for the first time as the central bank set the currency’s reference rate at the weakest level since at least 2005. Government bonds were steady. The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference rate at 20,803, compared with 20,788 on Thursday, according to its [...]
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October 21, 2011
Vietnam’s dong had its worst week in two months as the central bank set the currency’s fixing lower in an attempt to narrow the gap between the official and unofficial exchange rates. Government bonds fell. The State Bank of Vietnam lowered the reference rate four times this week, setting it at the weakest level [...]
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September 16, 2011
Negotiators seeking a trade accord among nine Pacific nations will try to resolve the most sensitive issues over the next two months after progress this week on less divisive matters, a US trade official said. The US is preparing suggestions for labor-rights protections, an issue that stalled ratification of a pending free-trade agreement with [...]
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July 18, 2011
Gold set a record high this week Many Vietnamese rushed to sell gold on Thursday after a price hike, causing domestic prices to stay below world prices. Still the price of gold in Vietnam reached its all-time high of almost VND39.1 million per tael during the day. A tael is equal to 1.21 ounces of [...]
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July 1, 2011
Environmentalists are hopeful the first international study of dioxin contamination around Bien Hoa Airbase will pave the way for a US-funded cleanup International and local researchers conduct sediment sampling around the Bien Hoa Airbase. The first-ever international study has confirmed continued dioxin contamination at the airbase and called for an immediate stop to fish [...]
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May 20, 2011
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) arrives for his bail hearing at State Supreme Court, in New York. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set for release on bail Friday, allowing the once powerful IMF chief to be reunited with his family for the first time since his arrest on sex assault charges. A New York court ordered [...]
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May 7, 2011
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the opening ceremony of the 44th annual meeting of ADB in Hanoi May 5, 2011. Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said developing Asia is behind Latin America in boosting consumption and urged policy makers to take steps to reduce precautionary household savings. “The region needs [...]
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March 29, 2011
Kasemsun Chinnavaso, director general of Thailand's Water Resources Department, stands on the banks of the Mekong River in Muang district, Nongkhai province, Thailand, in March 2010. One year after one of the driest years in half a century, tens of millions of residents along the Mekong River are still trying to determine the cause of [...]
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March 11, 2011
A rebel fighter fires a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in front of a gas storage terminal during a battle on the road between Ras Lanuf and Bin Jiwad, March 9, 2011. Libyan tanks fired on rebel positions around the oil port of Ras Lanuf and warplanes hit another oil hub further east on Thursday as Muammar [...]
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December 20, 2010
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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