Archive for July 18th, 2008
VN Index tumbles, supply surges
Vietnam’s central stock market today closed a week by seeing a strong surge of supply whereas VN Index tumbling on the stock market. Ending the trading session on July [...]
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Newcrest-Harmony JV gets Papua New Guinea approval
Australian miner Newcrest Mining Ltd (NCM.AX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has received approval from the Papua New Guinea government for a gold joint venture with [...]
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Salamander plans US$200m placing for Asia growth (UPDATE 2)
Southeast Asia-focused oil and gas firm Salamander Energy (SMDR.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) plans to raise about 100 million pounds (US$200.2 million) in a share [...]
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Indonesia’s Krakatau may buy overseas iron ore mines (update2)
PT Krakatau Steel, Indonesia’s largest steelmaker that’s preparing for an initial public offering, plans to buy stakes in overseas iron ore producers to secure [...]
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Indonesia considers delaying Tangguh LNG delivery (UPDATE 2)
Indonesia may delay LNG delivery to China and South Korea from its US$5 billion Tangguh project as long as it does not manage to get higher prices, a senior official at [...]
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Petronas is Asia’s most profitable company
Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is on par with other international oil majors as it takes pole position as the most profitable company among Asia’s Top 50 companies [...]
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Drill results from Agata North nickel laterite project
Mindoro Resources Ltd (TSXV: MIO, Frankfurt: WKN 906167) is pleased to report results for the first 31 drill holes from the Phase 2 drill programme on the Agata North Nickel [...]
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Rang Dong MV17 to arrive in Vietnam in August
MODEC International’s newbuild floating storage and offloading facility (FSO) Rang Dong MV17 is expected to arrive at Japan Vietnam Petroleum Co.’s (JVPC’s) [...]
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DOE to probe IBON’s claim vs oil companies
The Department of Energy is set to probe the allegation made by IBON Foundation that oil companies are still raking in a lot of profits despite their claims that [...]
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Overcrowded hospitals have patients out on the street
Nguyen Thi Cuc, a 70-year-old woman, waits next to her old bicycle outside HCM City’s Binh Thanh District Hospital at 5 a.m. “I left home on my bicycle at [...]
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Next plague ‘will emerge from poor nation’
Scores of infectious diseases have emerged to threaten humans in the past decades as viruses leap the species barrier from wild animals and bacteria mutate into [...]
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Stem cells cloned to treat blood cancer
The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion announced Tuesday it had succeeded in cloning stem cells to treat an acute blood disease. More than a month after [...]
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New outbreak of blue ear pig disease
The blue ear pig disease has spread to three newly-hit central provinces, raising the total number of provinces affected by the disease to 10, a health agency announced [...]
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Vietnam performs first successful marrow transplant
Vietnam has been successful in performing the first marrow transplant, Vietnam News Agency on Wednesday quoted the announcement of country’s Central Hematology and [...]
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Vietnam suspects anthrax in mass food poisoning
Health authorities in communist Vietnam suspect the bacterial livestock disease anthrax caused an outbreak of food poisoning in the country’s far north, a health [...]
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