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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
BARACK Obama announced this week that will "finish the job" in Afghanistan, but he has yet to say just what that job is – and how he will define victory.
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Dismal (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Bad day for stock markets across the Asian region.
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The foreign currency market has been too hot for the last two months. Export companies, which earn in foreign currencies, refuse to sell dollars to banks, believing dollar prices would riser further. Meanwhile, import companies either cannot purchase dollar from banks, or have to collect dollars on the black market.The dollar fever reached its peak on November 24, when the price nearly hit the 20,000...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Hanoi - Vietnam's stock market suffered its largest drop in seven months after the State Bank raised the benchmark interest rate and devalued the currency. The State Bank on Wednesday raised the prime interest rate from 7 to 8 per cent, effective Dec...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Topping the list are the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, the Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation and the Vietnam Electricity Group.The company’s evaluation is based on revenue, profit, total assets, growth rate and size of workforce. This is the third year that Vietnam Report has announced the list to honour achievements made by such businesses.Vietnam Report cited FPT, the Asia Commercial Joint...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Vietnam’s main share index slips as investors assess the impact of the central bank’s interest rate hike and currency devaluation.
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
With more than 300 stands, the exhibition, the 16th of its kind, will display a wide range of oriental and patent medicines, vaccines, supplementary foodstuffs and medical equipment manufactured by companies from France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, the US, India, the Republic of Korea, China, Taiwan and Malaysia.The President of the Vietnam Pharmaceutical Companies Association (VNPCA), Do Van Doanh,...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Now Cambodia is in high demand for investing in infrastructure construction, power development, mining, food processing, and property projects.Secretary of Cambodian Embassy to Vietnam named a series of big businesses investing in Cambodia at this time, including Electricity of Vietnam, PetroVietnam, Viettel, Southern Food Corp, Vietnam Airlines, Bidv, Vietnam Rubber Industry Group and others.Giving...
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Dismal (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Rising inflation causes central bank to act.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The 15th Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Transport Ministers Meeting and the 28th ASEAN Senior Transport Officials Meeting will be held in Vietnam from Dec. 7 to 11, according to the website of the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam on Thursday. The meetings will review the implementation of the ASEAN Charter and discuss the overall plan for the ASEAN Economic Community. Delegates...
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Travel to Vietnam (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
An eleven-person, a 18-day trip with 11 -day motorcycle trip through Vietnam during the hottest part of the yea r may sound like an endurance test to some, but for John Kerry, vice president of Motorcycle Travel Club in USA. It’s a vacation. Motorcycle trip on Ho Chi Minh Trail, Vietnam From August 30 to September 17, Kerry, two guides and nine others will make the 800-mile journey from Hanoi...
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Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam’s dong fell to a record low after the central bank devalued the currency to curb quickening inflation and a widening trade deficit. Stocks extended losses, heading for the worst week since March 2008.
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
VNBusinessNews.com - Japanese steel marker Nippon Steel plans to build a steel mill in Vietnam at a suitable time.Talking with Saigon Economic Times Online at the margin of seminar "New steel pile design and construction technology in Japan" held in HCM City, Tetsuya Akahoshi-general director in charge of export and technical service at Nippon spoke that Vietnam remains at high potential...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hanoi is set to intervene in the long-term slide of the dong, announcing that it will also raise interest rates and request big exporters to sell foreign exchange to the central bank
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American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thirty-three years after Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point that the war in Vietnam was essential to the stability of Asia, President Obama will use the same venue to pitch his plan to salvage the war in Afghanistan. The president will unveil his new strategy for the Afghanistan war in an 8 p.m. address to Americans on Dec. 1. The top...
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vinalink | 26/10/2009
Miss World Vietnam 2009 : Tran Thi Huong Giang, Trần Thị Hương Giang The Department of Arts and Performance has chosen Tran Thi Huong Giang represent Vietnam in the Miss World 2009 beauty pageant. The 22-year-old professional model, who won the crown of Miss Hai Duong province in 2006, was the second runner-up in the Miss Vietnam Global pageant. The Miss World 2009 pageant will take place in Johannesburg,
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lotramar | 08/10/2009
October 8, 2009 (Hanoi) -- Lotussia Travel has recently launched a new specialist website about car rental, car hire in Vietnam – www.vietnamcarhire.com. Car rental in Vietnam is relatively inexpensive and considered to be convenient. However, travelers who are unused to foreign travel should be aware that, in general, renting a car in Vietnam means renting a driver with the car. The driver also knows...
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fanviet | 13/09/2009
Golden Lake hotel is ideally located at the very heart of Hanoi, surrounded by many cafes, restaurants and typical shops, especially just a minute walk to the famous Hoan Kiem Lake. Guest really enjoys excited location of the Hotel in this Cafes Street of Hanoi Old Quarter. Golden Lake hotel are operated based on the point that bring guest satisfaction about rooms as well as services. Spacious and...