English club Arsenal will play a friendly against Vietnam's national team on July 17. ...
06:14 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The biggest global alcohol companies are sizing up buyout and tie-up opportunities in China, India, South Korea and Vietnam, keen to profit from a $258 billion Asian market that is growing twice as fast as the rest of the world. Banking and industry sources name Hong Kong-listed Kingway Brewery Holdings, China's Beijing Yanjing Brewery Co Ltd, India's Tilaknagar Industries, and KKR & Co-backed South Korean Oriental Brewery among the potential...
11:35 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Amid a row over South China Sea with its maritime neighbours, China today said it is leading a plan to set up a tsunami and other natural disaster warning systems in the area. "Tsunamis don't occur frequently, but they always result in significant damage. In the South China Sea, occurrence of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Manila Trench near the Philippines is highly possible," Zhang Zhanhai, head of the State...
06:53 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Global coffee consumption grew by 1.3 per cent to 139 million bags last year on back of rising demand in Brazil, Vietnam, Mexico, India, Venezuela, etc, ICO has said. World consumption stood at 137.2 million bags (of 60 kg each) in 2010, International Coffee Organisation (ICO) said. "The highest rates of growth (consumption) have been found mostly in exporting countries, which have increased their share of the total...
12:29 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Mumbai: The 60-year-old lady, who was intercepted with two kg of cocaine at Mumbai airport on Wednesday morning, had fooled the officials at Mumbai airport during her last visit on July 1, agencies suspect. According to sources, the Vietnamese national Ly Loegsle (64), who on Wednesday was arrested with two-kg of cocaine (2 foreigners caught with 6 kg of cocaine, August 23), on her previous visit to the city had...
03:56 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Ace director Siddhique will soon kick-start the shoot for his new movie, 'Ladies and Gentleman' starring Superstar Mohanlal. Scheduled to start the shoot by November, the movie is to be releases in 2013. The duo had united earlier for 'Vietnam Colony' which appeared 21 years ago. 'Ladies and Gentleman,' as the name suggests, will have the central gentleman surrounded by a host of lead ladies. The movie is produced by...
05:04 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Air passengers expect a meal and maybe an old movie in flight, but travellers on a Vietnamese plane got the surprise of their lives when bikini-clad women posed for a mid-air beauty pageant. The women in Hawaiian bikinis marched through the cabin on the inaugural VietJetAir (VJA) flight from Ho Chi Minh City to the coastal holiday destination of Nha Trang, the Daily Mail reported. The women performed a...
06:37 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: India and Vietnam should be given a strong response if they remain defiant about exploring oil and gas in China's waters, a Chinese newspaper said on Thursday. The report by the hardline Global Times comes after the ONGC's recent announcement that it had accepted Vietnam's proposal to continue explorations in the South China Sea, an act that China claims violates its sovereignty. The text read, "China must first...
12:41 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Hanoi: In a bid to break a four-year deadlock involving Tata Steel's $five billion project, Vietnam has sought financial assistance of $100 million from India towards payment of land compensation cost. "Government of Vietnam has requested Indian government to assist by giving USD 100 million for site clearance for the project," Vice Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam Le Xuan Quang said. The project has been stalled after the...
03:40 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Hanoi: Amid increasing sparring between China and its neighbours over disputed oil blocks in the South China Sea, India on Friday said the region was key to its energy security and the conflict must be resolved peacefully as per international laws. Expressing concern over the escalating tension in the area, India's Ambassador to Vietnam Ranjit Rae said half of India's export and import go through the South China Sea and...
01:25 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Hanoi: The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three previously restricted sites to help the search for and excavation of the remains of US servicemen listed as missing in action, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The agreement was unveiled at a meeting between visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh, spokesman George Little said. He gave no details about the sites. "The Department...
01:22 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Trang Bang: In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for Associated Press photographer...
12:56 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India and Vietnam are likely to meet the bilateral trade target of $7 billion by 2015, Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Ranjit Rae said on Friday. "The two-way trade is likely to reach $7 billion by 2015," an Assocham statement quoted Rae as saying at an international exposition being held in Hanoi from April 4-7. Last year, trade between the two countries stood at $4 billion. Rae said there...
01:54 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Beijing: Terming the South China Sea as a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from undertaking oil exploration in the resource-rich Vietnamese blocks in order to ensure "peace and stability" in the area. "The area is disputed one. So we do not think that it would be good for India to do (explore oil) that," Deputy Director General of Asian Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong...
11:34 AM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: Absconding directors of multi-level marketing company Gold Sukh Trade India Ltd, which allegedly duped its investors over Rs 300 crore in Rajasthan, have been extradited to the country from Vietnam, a CBI spokesperson said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Rajasthan Police had requested the CBI to issue Red Corner Notices against directors Mahendra Nirwan, Neetu Nirwan, Manvendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, Pramod alias Bablu Sharma and Asha Sharma based...
05:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Hanoi: A mom with a screaming child wanted a quick getaway from a plane on the tarmac in Vietnam and asked for help. The man next to her obliged by opening the emergency exit and triggering the escape slide. But that's as far as they got. A state media report on Tuesday's incident at Ho Chi Minh City airport says nobody used the slide. It wasn't clear if they got...
09:06 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Singapore: Indian bureaucracy is the worst in Asia with a 9.21 rating out of 10, according to a report by a prestigious consulting firm based in Singapore. India fared worst than Vietnam (rated at 8.54), Indonesia (8.37), Philippines (7.57) and China (7.11), said the report released on Wednesday by Hong Kong-based Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd. Singapore remained the best with a rating of 2.25, followed by Hong Kong...
02:05 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: With India's energy exploitation bid in the South China Sea threatening to cast a fresh shadow on bilateral ties, India and China will hold the 15th round of boundary talks in New Delhi next month that could also see the sealing of a joint border mechanism between them. The Special Representatives of India and China will meet November 28 to 29, highly placed sources tol. The two sides...
02:03 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Beijing: China continues to put pressure on Vietnam to abandon its agreement with ONGC to explore oil in the South China Sea. The move comes just days after Vietnam's president visited India. During his visit, ONGC had signed a three-year deal with PetroVietnam for long term co-operation in the oil sector. A Chinese trade magazine, published by the Communist party mouthpiece the People's Daily, has also warned India. The magazine...
10:23 AM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: Vietnam on Wednesday assured India of early implementation of Tata Steel's $5 billion project in Ha Tinh province which is pending since 2008. This is one of the largest investments by any Indian company abroad. "We understand the importance of Tata Group. Indian and Vietnamese officials are trying their best to kick start the Tata project," Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang said in New Delhi. There have been...
06:49 PM, Oct 12, 2011
