Archive for January 9th, 2008
Company, bank, stock market briefs Jan 09
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange today January 09 after a recovery fell sharply on the stock market when the VN Index lost 15.33 points or 1.71% to close at 878.41 pts with the [...]
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Punters revive on upbeat HSBC report
Ending the session on January 8 on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, after four losses the VN Index regained 6.66 points or 0.75% to close at 893.74 pts with the total marching [...]
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Serica Energy announces completion of share placement
Serica Energy plc (AIM & TSX-V: SQZ) is pleased to announce that, following the admission of a total of 24,770,354 new ordinary shares to the AIM Market and the TSX-V in [...]
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Foreign firms vie to build Vietnam’s second oil refinery
Companies from Thailand, China, Australia, Malaysia and the UK will develop a multi billion US dollar crude oil refining and petrochemical complex with annual capacity of [...]
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Carnarvon granted operatorship of L20/50 onshore Thailand
Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has been awarded the concession rights in petroleum exploration and production for the area known as Block L20/50 onshore Thailand in the [...]
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Government budgets 22% of budget for education
The government will continue to allocate 20% of its budget to education and may even raise the proportion to 22% this year, prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said. The [...]
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Researchers ask: Is China the sleeping giant of biotech?
China’s biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review of licenses issued under a regulator [...]
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Bird flu outbreak under control in NW China, says official
A bird flu outbreak in Turpan city in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been brought under control, the municipal government said Monday January 7. [...]
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Simple handwashing more effective than antiviral drugs
Physical barriers, such as regular handwashing and wearing masks, gloves and gowns, may be more effective than drugs to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses such as [...]
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MIT researchers discover key to bird flu in humans
MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian [...]
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Cholera outbreak hits southern Laos, nearly 200 sickened, 2 dead
A cholera outbreak has swept through more than a dozen villages in southern Laos, killing two and sickening nearly 200 with severe diarrhea, a World Health Organisation [...]
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FACTBOX-Thailand’s controversial capital controls
Thailand has gradually relaxed capital controls imposed in December 2006 to curb speculation in the baht, whose appreciation threatened the country’s export-driven [...]
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Thailand’s ousted PM Thaksin ready to return by April, face corruption charges: lawyer
Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra plans to return to Thailand from self-imposed exile by mid-April and is prepared to defend himself in court against [...]
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Seven Thai policemen, three soldiers held on espionage charges
Seven Thai policemen and three soldiers have been arrested for allegedly supplying intelligence to the shadowy Islamic insurgents in Thailand’s deep south, The Nation [...]
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Thai government expects economy to grow 4.6% in 2008
Thailand’s economy is expected to grow 4.6% this year, supported by domestic consumption and government spending, the country’s Cabinet-level economic committee [...]
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