Archive for November 2nd, 2007
Company, bank, stock market briefs Nov 02
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange today November 02 after a rally on the stock market in the first session of November, the VN Index lost 9.29 points or 0.86% to close at [...]
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Vn-Index rallies in November’s first session
The Vn-Index in the first session of November suddenly rebounded thanks to the strong recovery of key scrip like DHG, GMD, KDC, NKD, REE, SAM and SFI. Ending the session, the [...]
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Bird flu returns to Nam Dinh, threatens north
Avian influenza has been discovered in a flock of one-month-old ducks in Nam Dinh Province, raising the total number of provinces with a return of the H5N1 virus to three. [...]
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Indonesia’s bird flu boy defies hospital orders, returns home
The parents of a three-year-old Indonesian boy infected with bird flu have defied hospital orders that he stay in isolation and taken him home, a hospital official said on [...]
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Ignorance fuelling spread of hepatitis B in Asia
Ignorance is fuelling the spread of hepatitis B in Asia, where patients are failing to get proper treatment and not enough is done to reduce transmission of the virus from [...]
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Tests of bird flu vaccine begin at Stony Brook
Stressing the need to prevent the spread of a highly pathogenic influenza virus -such as the bird flu strain circulating in Southeast Asia and elsewhere -researchers at Stony [...]
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Japan, RI exploring cooperation in bird flu vaccine production
Indonesia and Japan are holding intensive talks on Indonesia`s desire to develop its own capacity in handling the spread of bird flu disease and on possible cooperation in [...]
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Burma monks march again, UN envoy due back
Buddhist monks in Burma staged a protest march on Wednesday, their first since troops crushed a pro-democracy uprising a month ago, as UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari [...]
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Asia’s one-time drug warlord Khun Sa dies
One-time drug warlord Khun Sa, variously described as among the world’s most wanted men and a great liberation fighter, has died in Burma at the age of 74, an associate [...]
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MSF calls on Thailand to halt forcible return of Hmong refugees to Laos
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on the Thai government to halt all forced [...]
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China approves food safety law, WHO lauds efforts
The Chinese government approved in principle Wednesday a new food safety law aimed at raising standards at every level of production, a senior official said. The quality of [...]
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Pressure can move Burma junta-exiled leader
Burma’s ruling junta is sensitive to world opinion despite its isolationism, an exiled opposition leader said on Wednesday, urging more international financial and [...]
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Brand name registration, IP laws key
Vietnamese firms should focus more on brand name registration and intellectual property laws if they want to increase exports to the stringent American market, experts said. [...]
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PVFC nearly completes financial targets
The PetroVietnam Finance Joint Stock Co (PVFC) recently announced that to date, it earned nearly 700 billion dong in profit accounting for 90% of the year’s target. [...]
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Vinacomin builds cement plant in north
Vietnam Coal and Natural Resources Group (Vinacomin) and Tuyen Quang provincial People’s Committee recently made the debut of CTQ Cement Joint Stock Co as the investor [...]
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