Archive for January, 2008
Company, bank, stock market briefs Jan 31
* The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (STC) recently approved in principle for the Bao Minh Joint Stock Co (coded BMI) to list shares on the southern bourse hereby BMI will list [...]
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VN Index re-bounds, HaSTC Index slumps
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (STC) today January 31 closed the first month of 2008 by seeing another bounce when the VN Index added 1.01 points or 0.11% to 844.11 pts with [...]
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January crude oil exports forecast down 12.7%
Vietnam’s January crude oil exports are likely to have 12.7% on year to 1.16 million tonnes, or 274,284 barrels a day, according to a forecast issued Tuesday January 29 [...]
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Talisman Energy buys into Indonesian Tangguh LNG project: US$212.5M
Oil and gas giant Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM), one of Canada’s most international oil and gas producers, has bought a small portion of an Indonesian liquefied [...]
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Indonesia’s Koba Tin denies illegal mining
Indonesia’s PT Koba Tin, majority owned by Malaysia Smelting Corp Bhd, said on Thursday January 24 production was running as normal, after police said they had closed a [...]
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Asian Mineral Resources announces signing of EPCM contract and expansion of plant capacity
Asian Mineral Resources Limited (“AMR” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:ASN) announced today that Ban Phuc Nickel Mines subsidiary has entered into an [...]
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PetroVietnam budgets US$100m a year on oil search abroad
State oil group PetroVietnam said on Friday it would invest US$100 million annually in the next several years to prospect for oil and gas in other countries to boost its oil [...]
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India steps up culling, calls for calm as bird flu spreads
India’s West Bengal state has said that it was slaughtering chickens on a “war footing” as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of [...]
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China reports bird flu outbreak in poultry in Tibet
China has detected an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry in Tibet, a government Web site said on Tuesday January 29. A total of 1,000 [...]
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Saudis kill poultry after bird flu found
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday January 29 it had killed some 158,000 chickens after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was found at an infected farm. The birds were killed in Kharaj [...]
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H5N1 bird flu detected in two Thai provinces
Thailand’s Livestock Development Department (LDD) confirmed that the avian influenza (bird flu) virus detected in Nakhon Sawan and Phichit provinces is the deadly H5N1 [...]
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Chinese dams threaten Cambodian eco-systems: group
Cambodia’s two largest dam projects threaten to flood huge swathes of protected forests, a conservation group has said, urging reform in the country’s burgeoning [...]
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EU envoy calls for release of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi
The EU’s special envoy for Burma on Tuesday January 29 urged the country’s military regime to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he kicked off an Asian [...]
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Thai central bank set to use interest rates to stimulate economy
Bank of Thailand Governor Tarisa Watanagase on Monday said the bank was ready to count on using applied interest policy to stimulate the Thai economy now expected to be [...]
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FBI director to hold talks in Cambodia: US embassy
Robert Mueller, head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, will visit Cambodia this week to meet top officials, the US embassy said Tuesday January 29, amid increasing [...]
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