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SaigonTimes English 1 week(s) ago 2 related news

Paradoxically, bumper crops are placing an increasingly heavy burden on local rice farmers’ shoulders, literally and figuratively. The summer-autumn rice harvest is nearing its peak, but farmers are finding themselves helpless with the mounting rice stockpiles, as traders turn their back to the farm produce while prices tumble, promising huge losses for agriculture in a country taking pride in its position as the world’s second largest rice exporter. No one is there to share their burden.

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EU ends arms embargo against Syrian rebels

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 3 week(s) ago 2 related news

EU ends arms embargo against Syrian rebels

The European Union agreed Monday to lift its embargo against arming Syrian rebels, but no member state intends to send any arms in the coming months for fear of endangering a US-Russia peace initiative.

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New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses

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Báo Thanh Niên English 3 week(s) ago

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Wells Fargo and Co (WFC.N) and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses.

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Vietnam stresses integrated measures against disasters

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Báo QĐND English 3 week(s) ago

Vietnam stresses integrated measures against disasters

Natural disasters and climate change are posing mounting challenges to sustainable development and Vietnam’s practical experience in mitigating natural calamity consequences suggested taking integrated measures to make the work productive.

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Vietnam stresses integrated measures against disasters

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VietnamPlus English 3 week(s) ago

Natural disasters and climate change are posing mounting challenges to sustainable development and Vietnam ’s practical experience in mitigating natural calamity consequences suggested taking integrated measures to make the work productive.

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Asia Commercial Bank faces great difficulties

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Báo Dân Trí English 1 month(s) ago

Asia Commercial Bank faces great difficulties

More than 200 staff of the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), one of the most well-known banks in Vietnam, have been laid off over the past 3 months due to financial difficulties.

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Ban talks Syria as UN envoy appears set to quit

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago

UN leader Ban Ki-moon discussed deadlocked efforts to end the Syria conflict with the major powers on Thursday amid mounting signs that peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is to quit. Diplomats and UN spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed the meeting but declined to say whether Brahimi has already told the United Nations and Arab League that he would be leaving. "The decision has been taken, but we don't know when it will be formalized," said one UN diplomat, speaking on condition of...

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Concrete problems for firms

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Báo Đầu Tư English 2 month(s) ago 1 related news

Concrete problems for firms

Mounting inventories of housing and commercial units amid a woeful real estate market have left Vietnam’s cement industry in the lurch, forcing policy makers and investors to review on-going projects.

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Shares firm in north, fall in south

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Báo QĐND English 1 month(s) ago

Shares firm in north, fall in south

Trading continued to be sluggish due to mounting caution among investors, failing to retain gains on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on April 24.

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Shares firm in north, fall in south

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VietnamPlus English 1 month(s) ago 2 related news

Trading continued to be sluggish due to mounting caution among investors, failing to retain gains on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on April 24.

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Shares firm in north, fall in south

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago 2 related news

Shares firm in north, fall in south

Trading continued to be sluggish due to mounting caution among investors, failing to retain gains on the HCM City Stock Exchange.

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Shares maintain rise in Ha Noi, slide in HCM City

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago 2 related news

Shares maintain rise in Ha Noi, slide in HCM City

Trading continued to be sluggish due to mounting caution among investors, failing to retain gains on the HCM City Stock Exchange.

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Shares maintain rise in HCM City, slide in Ha Noi

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago 1 related news

Shares maintain rise in HCM City, slide in Ha Noi

Rises of blue chips again sustained the market uptrend on the HCM City Stock Exchange this morning, but trading continued to be sluggish due to mounting caution among investors.

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Maduro sworn in as Venezuela's president

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Nhân dân English 2 month(s) ago 1 related news

Maduro sworn in as Venezuela's president

Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor, is sworn in Friday as Venezuela's president.

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For US and North Korea, will crises ever end?

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 2 month(s) ago

For US and North Korea, will crises ever end?

With tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring to include threats of nuclear war, frustration is mounting at what US policy experts see as the failure of all efforts to rein in North Korea.

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