Archive for December 6th, 2007
Company, bank, stock market briefs Dec 06
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (STC) today December 06 continued falling on the stock market when the VN Index lost another 1.75 points or 0.17% to close at 974.46 (after 11 [...]
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Stock market plunges, turnover dips
After only two surges, the psychology, which is waiting for more information about the Vietcombank’s IPO so as to determine the market tendency, made the stock market [...]
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Six Thai’s killed in violence-racked south
Six people have been killed and at least 20 injured in an explosion in the southern Thai province of Pattani. Reports say that the blast was caused by a bomb left in a [...]
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Foreign firms headhunt in Vietnam’s vocational training schools
Foreign companies in Vietnam are focusing their attention on the skilled workers produced by the country’s training schools. According to Nguyen Van Thong, director of [...]
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Bird Flu long-term threat, experts warn
Bird flu is a potentially lethal problem that will persist for years as the H5N1 virus strain continues to spread, pandemic experts were told Tuesday December 4 at an [...]
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Conference hears of bird flu person-to-person infection
The convenor of an international medical conference says there is evidence that potentially lethal bird flu is being passed from person to person. A total of 1,600 doctors [...]
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Bird Flu: Climate change could spread disease, says UN
Climate change and globalisation could promote the spread of avian influenza and create a global pandemic, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). [...]
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Bird flu pandemic could cost US$2tr: World Bank
The global cost of a possible bird flu pandemic could be up to two trillion dollars, a top World Bank official said Tuesday December 4. The risk of a pandemic was still as [...]
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Government plans compulsory bird flu vaccination
Vietnam plans to make bird flu vaccination among poultry, including chickens, ducks and white-feathered ducks, compulsory in the entire territory of 33 cities and provinces [...]
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Thai king calls for unity in run-up to elections
Thailand’s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Tuesday December 4 called for national unity as the country heads into an election meant to restore democracy after a [...]
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Canadian man faces Thai court on child sex charge
A Canadian man accused of committing sex crimes against young boys in Thailand was in court Monday in Abbotsford. After the hearing, Orville Mader, 54, pushed past reporters [...]
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Thai central bank denies change in currency policy
The Bank of Thailand denied on Tuesday December 4 a newspaper report that it had abandoned the managed float of the baht it adopted in 1997 and reverted to using a basket of [...]
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UK brewer S&N to invest US$75 million in Vietnam brewery
Britain’s biggest brewer Scottish and Newcastle is looking to start its first brewery in Vietnam with a US$75 million investment, state media reported on Tuesday [...]
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Vietnam keeps third position in medium business potential ranking: Jbic
2007 is the consecutive second year Vietnam maintains its third position in terms of medium term business potential in the region after China and India. This is the survey [...]
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Hyundai wins US$232m polypropylene plant EPC contract
The state-run Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) is developing the country’s first polypropylene plant with investment of 232 million US dollars in [...]
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