Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa Seeking to Strengthen Police Cooperation Between South Africa And Vietnam

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa will seek to strengthen police cooperation between South Africa and Vietnam while he visits that country on Wednesday. How People Arrived Here: minster of police in south africa

WWF And the International Rhino Foundation Confirm the Extinction of the Javan Rhinoceros in Vietnam

WWF and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) have confirmed the extinction of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) in Vietnam.

Vietnam National Oil And Gas Group Launches Oil Platform

Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, better known as PetroVietnam, have launched the nation’s first indigenously built 300 foot-high drilling rig and Moc Tinh oil platform.

Vietnam Receives $95 Million Loan to Build Vung Ang Power Plant

The Japanese Bank for International Corporation and the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Cooperation are providing a $95 million loan Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to build the Vung Ang Thermal Power Plant No. 1 in Ha Tinh province under a...

Thailand Becoming Transit Country for Hungry North Koreans

Thailand is fast becoming a transit country for North Koreans fleeing severe food shortages and poverty, authorities say. Thousands now make their way along the more than 5,000km, often-dangerous route, through China and Laos to the kingdom en route to...

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Approves 10-year National Power Plan

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an ambitious decade-long national power development plan that will attempt to boost Vietnam’s power production to 330 billion kilowatts by 2020.

Vietnam Considers Wind Power

While Vietnam is a rising exporter of hydrocarbons, government authorities are increasingly interested in increasingly the country’s investments in renewable power sources.

Vietnamese Energy Insurance Company to Issue IPO

Vietnam’s Petrolimex Joint Stock Insurance Co., the insurance entity of Vietnam’s leading oil product importer, Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation, or Petrolimex, will shortly float a initial public offering stock option on the government’s...

David And Goliath: Vietnam Confronts China Over South China Sea Energy Riches

The world’s unceasing quest for new oil deposits has combined with offshore technology to impel many countries to investigate their offshore resources in their “exclusive economic zone,”  (EEZ) defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the...