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News Updates
March 2008
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Regional summit builds connections
Vietnam News,
Vietnam-March 31, 2008
HA NOI Leaders
from nations of the Greater Mekong Sub-region gathered in the
Lao capital of Vientiane yesterday to discuss ways to improve
co-operation and develop trade and investment in the region.
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Asia-Pacific exporters to be hardest hit by US financial
turmoil:
AFP- March 28,
2008
BANGKOK (AFP)
Economic growth in Asia Pacific's developing nations will fall
slightly in 2008 to 7.7 percent, the UN said Thursday, but
buoyed by booming India and China, it will likely weather a
slowdown in the US.
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Cambodia halts rice exports to curb rising domestic prices
International
Herald Tribune, France - March 26, 2008
PHNOM PENH,
Cambodia: Cambodia's prime minister ordered a ban Wednesday on
rice exports to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam in a bid to
curb rising domestic prices for the country's staple food.
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Access grows to remote provinces
Vietnam News,
Vietnam-March 25, 2008
HA NOI The Viet
Nam Expressway Corporation is accelerating the appraisal of
technical designs for the much-anticipated highway linking the
northern border province of Lao Cai to Noi Bai Airport in Ha
Noi. The highway will connect provinces of Lao Cai, Yen Bai,
Phu Tho, Vinh Phuc through to Ha Noi. With the length of
244km, it should shorten the travel time between Lao Cai and
Ha Noi from the current nine hours (over 350km) to three
hours.
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Asian nations feel the
pinch as price of rice keeps soaring
AFP, March
9, 2008
HONG KONG (AFP) --
The soaring price of rice has triggered a supply and demand
crunch that is hurting some of Asia's neediest nations,
forcing them to spend more on imports, industry experts and
officials say.
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Viet Nam, India get down
to business
Vietnam
News, Vietnam- March 8, 2008
HCM CITY
Bilateral trade between Viet Nam and India last year reached
US$1.5 billion, a huge growth compared with $490 million in
2003, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Duong
Quang on a talk show hosted by the Indian Business Chamber of
Commerce (INCHAM) yesterday in HCM City.
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Viet Nam, Thailand
co-operate on rice price
Vietnam
News, Vietnam- March 3, 2008
BANGKOK The
worlds two largest rice exporters, Thailand and Viet Nam,
have agreed to underline their marketing collaboration and
stay away from price cutting in a joint effort to stabilise
rice exports.
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Growing rich-poor divide
tests China's boom
Reuters
India, India-March 1, 2008
ANKANG, China
(Reuters) - Tom Tang and Dong Mijuan represent the two
opposite ends of one of China's most glaring social problems
-- the growing gap between rich and poor.
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