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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... on land passing through Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, and Hau Giang provinces and the city of Can Tho.Once completed, the pipeline will supply 18.3 million cubic metres of natural gas per day, (equivalent to 6.4 billion cubic metres/year) to the O Mon, Tra Noc and Ca Mau power plants as well as households in Vietnam’s southwestern region.The US-based Chevron Group, which holds 43 percent...
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Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... getting the players tuned into what we want in the game situation. Against [Vietnamese club team] Can Tho we looked sloppy, and we got caught in possession and stopped moving the ball around quickly. So we’ve been working on that in training, getting the players to understand what’s required. We can’t afford to get caught in possession in our defensive third because so...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
With time to watch the ebb and flow of a river's life Graham Reilly floats from Vietnam to Cambodia. I stare from the riverbank at this astonishingly vast and lively world of water. Here in the charming provincial city of Can Tho in the heart of southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta it is as if the land is merely an afterthought. Everything is about the river and the way of life it sustains.It is...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A Memorandum of Understanding underscoring the pledge was signed on Nov. 20 in Texas by General Director of the Port of Houston Authority Aleg Dryer and Director of the Can Tho Port Pham Thanh Tien.Speaking at the signing ceremony, General Director Dryer said that the Port of Houston Authority would like to expand the cooperation in the fields of economy, trade and sea transportation with many...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... Thang.He said the province has established industrial complexes along the Hau River and close to Can Tho City, which is very convenient for overland and waterway transport.Five years after being split from a larger province, Hau Giang has attracted tens of thousands of billion of Vietnamese Dong to build infrastructure and invest in social development. It now houses nearly 1,500 enterprises...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The figure was released at a seminar on prospects for the Vietnamese rice sector in 2010 held in Can Tho City on November 27.Export earnings increased from US$322 million in 1989 to US$2.9 billion in 2008. Rice yield rose from 19.2 million tonne in 1990 to 38.7 million tonnes in 2008 and the Mekong Delta region contributed more than half of the export volume.Since early this year, Vietnam has...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... they said.Tran Quoc Khanh from Ha Noi and Le Van Tam from the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho laid emphasis on the competency of the arbitrators in the context of international economic integration.The arbitrators should have at least the BA in law or four years of experience in working in the judiciary or legal sector in addition to other requirements, including politics and foreign...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The 398-kilometre pipeline connecting Block B to O Mon at a cost of around US$1 billion, will include 246 kilometres under the sea and 152 kilometres on land passing through the provinces of Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Hau Giang and the city of Can Tho.The pipeline, with a design capacity of 18.3 million cubic metres per day, will transmit gas from Vietnam’s southwest sea to the O Mon, Tra...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... base transceiver stations to provide 3G networks for southern users in Ho Chi Minh City, Vung Tau, Can Tho and Dong Nai Province and Binh Duong Province.But he said VinaPhone was working on a plan to have more than 600 stations in the area by the end of this year, ensuring a higher network quality for years to come.The firm will also install 4,200 stations for the 2G network across the country...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... Chi Minh City.Zone 2: most rural districts in Hanoi and HCMC as well as the entirety of Da Nang, Can Tho and the town of Ha Long. Parts of Hai Phong City as well as the southern provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Ba Ria-Vung Tau are also included.Zone 3: some rural districts in Hanoi, and parts of Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Vinh Phuc, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Lam Dong, Khanh...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Low-quality rice variety IR50404 was also bought at a rather high price, VND4,600-4,800 a kilo.However, most farmers in Mekong Delta had already sold their stock as this region had finished its third crop of the year. There were just a handful of places still harvesting, though available crops were still very limited.The price of rice for export also rose.Rice polishing plants in Can Tho City’s...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Speaking at the first forum of “Climate change in the Mekong Delta,” which wrapped up November 13 in Can Tho City, Mr. Nguyen said the impacts of climate change have already been seen in the delta, with an increase of high tides, storms, floods, droughts and sea-water infiltration.Therefore, he said, scientists and relevant agencies should choose the delta as a center for their research and...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... using rice husks in the south, namely the Dinh Hai rice husk fuelled thermoelectric power plant in Can Tho city and the Holcim cement project. The third one is the 18.6 million USD 10MW power plant in Tien Giang province, Phong said.WB representative Richard Spencer said that the bank will provide either loans or technical assistance to rice husk fuelled power projects in the country.In...
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Cooking The Books (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Along with the snake another thing that made it onto my heavily food biased 10 things to do whilst away was to visit a floating market somewhere and eat on the river. With this is mind we were always going to visit one down in the Mekong Delta - the mouth of the great river in the south of Vietnam . A quick search around in some guidebooks suggested Can Tho was the best town to start in and...
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holidayindochina | 11/03/2009
The Mekong-Japan Tourism and Culture Festival will open in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 1, one day earlier than previously scheduled. The event will be attended by around 1,000 representatives of the Mekong sub-region countries Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam, as well as Japan. High on the agenda are a workshop underscoring the sustainable development of tourism
