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Laos - Custom and Trade Facilitation Project : procurement plan
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UPDATE 3-China's Minmetals wins $1.3 bln Anvil bid, eyes more
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* First expansion out of Australia, Laos MELBOURNE/HONG KONG, Feb 17 (Reuters) - China's Minmetals Resources sealed a C$1.3 billion ($1.3 billion) bid for Africa-focused copper miner Anvil Mining on Friday, and said it was on the lookout for copper, zinc
China's Minmetals seals $1.3 billion Anvil takeover
5 hours ago

MELBOURNE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Minmetals Resources (1208.HK) has succeeded with its C$1.3 billion ($1.3 billion) bid for Africa-focused copper miner Anvil Mining (AVM.TO), winning 90 percent acceptances, the Hong Kong-listed firm said on Friday.
China's Minmetals seals $1.3 bln Anvil takeover
5 hours ago

By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Minmetals Resources has succeeded with its C$1.3 billion bid for Africa-focused copper miner Anvil Mining, winning 90 percent acceptances, the Hong Kong-listed firm said on Friday. Minmetals (MMR), a
UPDATE 2-China's Minmetals seals $1.3 bln Anvil takeover
5 hours ago

* First expansion out of Australia, Laos MELBOURNE/HONG KONG, Feb 17 (Reuters) - China's Minmetals Resources sealed a C$1.3 billion ($1.3 billion) bid for Africa-focused copper miner Anvil Mining on Friday, and said it was on the lookout for copper, zinc
TIMELINES: What invasion that Vietnam quickly repelled began Feb. 17, 1979?
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Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 What invasion that Vietnam quickly repelled began Feb. 17, 1979? THEN On Feb. 17, 1979, following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, Chinese forces invade Vietnam. After the Vietnam War ends in 1975 tensions between China and Viet
Murdock: Problems multiply on voter rolls
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Reports of dead voters are greatly understated. While Democrats dismiss voter fraud as a collective Republican hallucination, a study released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States confirms the GOP's concerns. The ghosts in America's voting machines ma
Vietnam's Central Highlands
8 hours ago

Last time we were in Vietnam, we missed the Central Highlands, so we were glad to make the trip this time. The highlands are in the west of the country, right along the Cambodian border. For several reasons, mostly political, the government requires that
South East Asia Travelling Route
8 hours ago

Hey, im going to go on my first solo travelling trip and was planning to travel through Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand and was unsure about what route to take. I would be flying into Bangkok and dont know where to start off, at the moment my plan w
Dongfeng minitruck starts production in Thailand
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BANGKOK - Dongfeng Xiao Kang, a well-known minitruck model of China, has been put into mass production in Thailand to address rising local demand, the company announced on Thursday. The factory, located in Gateway Industrial Estate in Cha Choeng Sao prov
MIDDLE EAST: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 373 16 February 2012
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Countries - Select a country - Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic (CAR) Chad Comoros Republic of Congo Cote d'lvoire Djibouti Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Egypt Eq
Dan Kovalik: The U.S. War for Drugs and of Terror in Colombia
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The CIA can (and does) point to its role in the arrest or elimination of a number of major Colombian traffickers. These arrests have not diminished the actual flow of cocaine into the United States, which on the contrary reached a new high in 2000. But t
Debt crisis and Greek talks: as it happened February 16, 2012
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The Greeks clearly have an allergy to paying taxes. Their slang term for tax is the Turkish word "haradsi", a legacy from the Ottoman Empire which extracted tribute and conscripted Janissaries for the army without offering much in exchange. It is almost
Thailand/Laos/Vietnam/Cambodia March-Jun
14 hours ago

Hi there, I'm flying into Bangkok on 14th March, and doing an as yet unplanned route through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia over the course of 3 months. If anyone is in Bangkok at that time, or planning to cover the same kind of ground, it would be
Vietnam & Laos
14 hours ago

I'm organising a solo trip to Laos and Vietnam this summer (I know, I know, the wet season) and wanna know if anybody else has got similar plans as would be good to have travel buddies for part of the route. Drop me a line if you have advice to pass on a
KBank provides loan to Dongfeng unit
16 hours ago

Kasikornbank has awarded a Bt106.82-million loan to Dongfeng Automobile (Thailand), the local arm of the Chinese maker of Dongfeng vehicles, in its bid to lead in financing overseas businesses in Thailand. Dongfeng Automobile is building an assembly plan
Global Markets Update: U.S. Economic Data Helps European Markets
18 hours ago

Highlight transcript below to create clip This term does not appear Click text to jump within video European markets come off lows after good U.S. economic data. Unemployment in Portugal jumps to 14 percent in Q4. French yields fall below 1 percent at 2-
Angkor Gold Corp.: Diamond Drilling Commences on the Okalla Gold Prospect
22 hours ago

Diamond drilling commences on the Okalla gold prospect, Banlung tenement, Cambodia Over 2000m programmed for this prospect ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (TSX-V: ANK) ("ANGKOR") is pleased to announce that a contract for a minimum of 2000m NQ cored diamond drill hole
Visit Thailand literally a land of smiles
1 day ago

Are you planning for vacations and looking for world’s best holidaying destination if yes then look no further than Thailand, literally means ‘the land of smiles’ a southeast-Asian destination fascinates tourists from every nook and corner of the world.
Chinese truck maker wins KBank loan
1 day ago

Dongfeng Automobile is investing in an assembly plant in Thailand, for exports to Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Malaysia. With the annual production capacity of 5,000 small-sized commercial trucks, the only plant in Southeast Asia will take advantage of zero

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Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million Elephants,... Full Article

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