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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
In the first eight months of this year, Haiphong posted a total industrial production value of VND 22 trillion, up 18% against the same period last year. Of this, State-owned enterprises contributed VND 4.85 trillion, up 24.9%; the non-State sector, VND 7.1 trillion, up 9% and the foreign invested sector, over VND 10.1 trillion, up 21.9% year on year.The city has targeted to gross VND 35 trillion...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
The Viet Nam Chemicals Corporation on August 22 launched a drive to speed up construction of the Haiphong DAP Fertiliser Plant. Awards worth totalling VND 1 billion will be presented to those contractors that have successfully managed to fulfill their assigned work soon. The corporation, investor of the plant, target to put to the plant in trial operation in late September and the first batch...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
... Power Companies, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Power Companies, five one-member limited companies in Haiphong, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh, Danang and Dong Nai, and a joint stock company in Khanh Hoa province.EVN should have equitized by now 11 subsidiary companies but because of the sluggish stock market, the initial public offering has been delayed. (Dau Tu)
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... cities posting higher or equal industrial production values to the common yearly target included: Haiphong, Vinh Phuc, Hai Duong, Binh Duong and Dong Nai. (CPV)
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... we have one Best Western hotel operating here – the recently opened Best Western Pearl River Hotel Haiphong– but it is early days for us and with the appointment of Mr. Corlor to implement our expansion plans, we are confident of achieving our targets going forward,” Mr de Souza added.Kevin Corlor, nickname Vu, is a Hong Kong-Vietnamese national and a graduate of the Hanoi Economic University...
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WhirledView (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
... and quiet conversation - through that awful year of My Lai, the Pentagon Papers, and the Hanoi/Haiphong bombings. Those bombings and all we were doing to Vietnam led me to openly oppose the war and, in 1971, to come very close to quitting the Foreign Service I had joined in such hope just three years earlier. It was only at the urging of Bill Pregnell, my pastor, and Jonathan Bingham, my...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Ninh BinhAs I arrived at the Haiphong bus station I found out that there was no bus leaving in the next 2 hours. This is something that could have upset me if I was home but here in Vietnam it is just the way it is and there is no point in getting upset because it won't change anything it's part of the deal. So during the two hours of waiting I again met with the GermanAustrian couple who wer...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... use of synthetic drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy. On August 22, police in the port city of Haiphong, 100 kilometers east of Hanoi, raided a discotheque and arrested 37 people who tested positive for ecstasy, heroin and ketamine. The country classifies drug abuse as a "social evil" and sends heroin addicts to mandatory rehabilitation camps to break their habits, but such measures have...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... use of synthetic drugs such as amphetamines and ecstasy. On August 22, police in the port city of Haiphong, 100 kilometers east of Hanoi, raided a discotheque and arrested 37 people who tested positive for ecstasy, heroin and ketamine. The country classifies drug abuse as a "social evil" and sends heroin addicts to mandatory rehabilitation camps to break their habits, but such measures have...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The Dinh Vu Steel Joint Stock Company said it will build a coke coal refining plant in northern port Haiphong City. The facility, estimated to cost VND1,037 billion (US$62.84 million), will have a capacity of 450,000 tons per annum. At present, Vietnam has to import almost all coke coal, an important input material in refining cast iron and steel. China is Vietnam’s coke coal biggest supplier....
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... for the flights between HCMC and Hanoi and Danang, and VND650,000 for the routes: HCMC-Hanoi, HCMC-Haiphong, HCMC-Vinh, Hanoi-Danang, and Hanoi-Nha Trang.* Vietnam Airlines is ready to commence three weekly flights from Hanoi to Dong Hoi of the central province of Quang Binh on September 1 to meet the increasing demand for air travel between these destinations.The national flag air carrier's...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
... large-scale projects such as highways and those with high economic yield potential. The Hanoi-Haiphong highway, which is set to be a commodity hub for ASEAN and the Southeast of China, is an example.How will the money be disbursed'As it is planned for four years, the framework agreement has a mid-term and comprehensive vision. Each project will be conducted according to its own form. The...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Kumho – Viet Thanh is set up from two transportation companies: Kumho Express of the RoK and Viet Thanh of Vietnam with the charter capital of US$4 million.Kumho- Viet Thanh will provide high quality coach service. The company will import around 200 coaches and open routes to main cities of Vietnam such as Ha Long, Lang Son, and Haiphong. In the future, Kumho Viet Thanh will plan to open more...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Vietnam Airlines has launched an Autumn Promotion programme for domestic flights from September 8 to October 31. Of which, the promotion rate for routes from Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang /Hue is VND 550,000. VND 880,000 is the promotion rate applied for flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi/Haiphong/Vinh and Hanoi to Buon Ma Thuot/Nha Trang. This is one of the big annual promotion
