Archive for May, 2007
Company, bank, stock market briefs May 31
The southern stock market today May 31 rallied when the VN Index rose by 3.6 points to close at 1081.48 up slightly 0.33% against the previous session with a total market [...]
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Market stalls as investors await Bao Viet share auction
The HCM City Securities Trading Centre yesterday May 30 saw a drop on the stock market when the VN Index lost 15.78 points to close at 1077.88 down 1.45% from the previous [...]
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SBV forex rates for May 31
Interbank rate: 1 US dollar = 16,114.00 dong State commercial bank rates: US$buy 16,083.00 sell 16,088.00 JPY buy 131.31 sell 133.47 Euro buy 21,469.87 sell [...]
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Vietnamese-American liberal advocates call on US to pressure Vietnam on human rights
Four Vietnamese-American activists urged US President George W. Bush on Tuesday May 30 to increase pressure on Vietnam to respect human rights and said the United States [...]
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Why miners dig Indochina
War and political instability, uncertain legal and regulatory regimes, and the sheer difficulty of working in isolated mountainous and jungle terrain have long conspired [...]
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Keppel to build US$191m oil rig for PetroVietnam
Singapore’s Keppel FELS Ltd has won a US$191 million bid to build a jack-up oil rig for state-run PetroVietnam’s recently established arm PetroVietnam Drilling [...]
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One million students to sit for high school graduation exams
More than a million 12th graders across Vietnam will sit their high school graduation exams beginning Wednesday May 31 covering six subjects of Vietnamese literature, [...]
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Korea medics help Agent Orange victims
The Korean The Quang Group recently gave US$45,000 to support Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange to the Vietnamese embassy in Seoul. The money was collected at a performance [...]
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WHO cannot confirm child deaths tied to Italian vaccine
The World Health Organisation is unable to confirm the rumours of child deaths in connection with the use of a South Korean-made vaccine in some Asian countries, a press [...]
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British transport firm sued for usurping domestic firm’s name
The Da Nang-based Multi-modal Transport Co on May 12 filed a lawsuit against Britain’s ALE of using Vietransimex’s name to carryout contracts to carry over-weight [...]
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Tanker ship hull structural monitoring with Smartec’s fibre optic solution
Smartec SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Roctest Ltd (TSX: RTT) announced today that it has provided, in conjunction with the Italian Co Pegaso Systems S.r.l., a structural [...]
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DSTi signs signs trading solution software package for Sacombank brokerage
DST International (DSTi), a leading provider of software solutions to the investment management, work management and securities industries announced today that Sacombank [...]
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Investors miss dividends after hasty sale
Securities investors always consider price rises and dividends as their two top priorities but for informal share trades, after having been disappointed at the downtrend over [...]
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SSC announces new IPO applications
The State Securities Commission has received applications to auction shares to the public from 13 joint stock companies including: * HCM City based Construction Investment [...]
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Watchful eyes on hospital scrip
The HCM City People’s Committee to date has not yet submitted its plans to equitise the state owned Binh Dan hospital. This was to be a pilot project spearheading the [...]
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