Archive for November 25th, 2009
Coastal Energy completes A-08 development well at G5/43 oil block in offshore Thailand
Thailand operating exploration and production company Coastal Energy Company has completed the Songkhla A-08 oil development well on Block G5/43 in the Gulf of Thailand, [...]
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MPs told of gang rapes at mine
A usually sedate parliamentary hearing room was jolted with stories of alleged gang rape as MPs heard testimony about the operation of a Canadian-controlled gold mine in the [...]
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PTTEP reboards jack up in Montara field for assessment
PTTEP Australasia, Perth, has reboarded the West Atlas jack up rig and the Montara oil field wellhead platform in the Timor Sea to carry out an assessment of damage and [...]
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Philippine’s BOI grants tax breaks to projects in oil, real estate sectors
The Board of Investments granted tax holidays to various business ventures, particularly in the oil and property sectors, worth more than a billion pesos. The biggest project [...]
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Philippines declares emergency rule after political violence – Summary
The Philippines Tuesday declared emergency rule and dispatched additional security forces to a southern province as the death toll in the country’s worst-ever [...]
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Vietnam nuclear plants to be approved despite concerns
Vietnam’s National Assembly will likely vote to approve two projected nuclear power plants Wednesday, a deputy said, despite concerns over safety and costs. “It [...]
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VN Index slips to 500 pts November 25
Vietnam’s stock markets witnessed a sharp reducing session at highest level in the past seven months, marking today as the forth consecutive point losing session so [...]
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Business, banking and stock market briefs November 25
* Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group has been named one of the investors of the Asia Pacific Gateway undersea fiber cable network project. The APG network will connect [...]
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Foreign banks promote international payment
In addition to eyeing up the retail sale segment, foreign banks are targeting import and export businesses by introducing new international payment products. This is [...]
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Banks hard to expand network
Business network expansion is the demand of all Vietnamese banks at this time to increase the competitive strength but as for market regulators, the expansion must be in [...]
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Vietnamese retail market still woos investors
Consumers partially “liberalised” the “saving” psychology throughout the economic crisis time. This was the general assessment of experts at the [...]
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NA passes Telecoms and radio frequency laws
The National Assembly on November 23 approved the Telecoms Law and the Radio Frequency Law. The two laws will become effective from 1 July 2010. The law is applied for [...]
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RNCOS releases Vietnam’s finance area forecast to 2013
In the globalisation context, thanks to the rapid transformation of market mechanism and the enhancing of equitisation, many state corporations and enterprises of Vietnam [...]
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Vietnam reports high trade deficit from Asean
At the “Asean-regional economic integration” seminar held yesterday in HCM City by Institute for Legal Science and International Business, Truong Dinh [...]
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Hanoi’s retail sales increases by 19.6pct
Hanoi Statistic Bureau announced that the city’s retail sales and services turnover in November – the promotion month has reached over 47.68 billion dong, an [...]
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