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Vietnam’s Ocean Group lowers profit, sales target on property market slump 

November 5, 2011
Vietnam’s Ocean Group lowers profit, sales target on property market slump 

  Ocean Group Joint-Stock Co., a Vietnamese real-estate and financial company, reduced its 2011 pretax profit target by 54 percent as a slump in the property market hurt its business. The Hanoi-based company lowered pretax profit target this year to VND380 billion (US$18 million) from its earlier forecast of VND825 billion, Chairman Ha Van Tham [...]

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Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis 

March 31, 2011
Japan mulls reactor covers in nuclear crisis 

In a file picture taken on March 23, 2011 Norio Tsuzumi (C-standing), vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company,  and employees bow their heads to apologize to evacuees at a shelter in Fukushima prefecture Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water [...]

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Global consumer confidence stabilizing: survey

June 3, 2009

Global consumer confidence is stabilizing after falling for 18 months, providing a glimmer of hope for a shattered world economy in which three quarters of households cut spending, a survey showed Tuesday. Some 40 percent of consumers blame the banking and finance industry for the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, while 19 percent [...]

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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...