Archive for March, 2008
Company, bank, stock market briefs March 31
* SME Securities Co (SEMS) and Daewoo Capital Trading Joint Stock Co (Daewoo Capital-DWC) under the Korea-based AJU Group on March 27 signed strategic cooperation agreement [...]
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Stock market ends March with a surge
The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (STC) today March 31 closed the month by seeing another surge on the stock market when the VN Index added another 4.15 points or 0.8% to 516.85 [...]
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Food poisoning puts 41 wedding-goers in hospital
Dozens were hospitalised with food poisoning after a wedding party in Thanh Hoa Province last Tuesday. The 41 locals from Vinh Loc District’s Vinh Thinh Commune were [...]
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UN condemns rights abuses in Burma
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday March 28 strongly condemned systematic abuses of human rights in Burma by the Asian nation’s military rulers, including the [...]
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Monk-led protests show Buddhist activism
Buddhist monks hurling rocks at Chinese in Tibet, or peacefully massing against Burma’s military, can strike jarring notes. These scenes run counter to Buddhism’s [...]
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Mitsubishi launches regional jet
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd officially launched its new regional jet programme Friday March 28, saying it expects the plane to enter into service in 2013. The Mitsubishi [...]
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Workers strike at waste-to-energy plant
Hundreds of workers at a garbage processing plant in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue went on strike Thursday March 27, demanding higher pay and better allowances. The [...]
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Wed to strangers, Vietnamese wives try to build Korean lives
South Korea—The two couples’ baby girls were born last month only two days apart, the younger one on the morning of the Lunar New Year. Each girl, everyone later [...]
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Child labour decreases but severity worsens
An investigation launched by the Vietnam government has revealed that although there was a decrease in the number of cases of child labour, the nature of the cases remaining [...]
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Australian tourist raped in Thailand
An Australian tourist has been raped and mugged in a frightening ordeal in Thailand. The incident occurred when an intruder allegedly entered the woman’s room at the [...]
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Vietnam man runs ‘abortion orphanage’
Sitting cross-legged on a straw mat in the middle of the living room, Tong Phuoc Phuc sings a soothing Vietnamese lullaby. For a moment, his deep voice works magic, and the [...]
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Vietnam jails freelance journalist
Reporters Without Borders condemns the five-year prison sentence passed yesterday by a court in Vinh Thuan (in the southern province of Kien Giang) on freelance journalist [...]
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Charges dropped against former transport vice minister accused of ODA corruption
Vietnamese prosecutors dropped their case against a former vice transport minister who was charged in one of the nation’s biggest corruption scandals, state media [...]
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Taiwan’s PC maker Wistron plans Vietnam plant
Taiwan’s Wistron Corp is planning to start building a notebook PC factory in Vietnam by the fourth quarter, with initial investment of about US$10 million, local media [...]
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Ministries plan integrity standards for website owners
Vietnam is compiling standards for websites to protect internet users and online transaction traders, a Ministry of Industry and Trade official said Thursday March 27. The [...]
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