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Kyodo – Bình Yên Đông lược dịch, Mekong-Cuulong

South China Morning Post – 12 September 2020

•           Phụ tá Ngoại trưởng Hoa Kỳ Stephen Biegun dùng phiên họp để tố cáo Trung Hoa về hạn hán đang xảy ra ở vùng hạ lưu Mekong

•           Tuy nhiên, một viên chức Thái nói phiên họp có mục đích thảo luận các biện pháp để “tăng cường hợp tác qua Sáng kiến Hạ lưu Mekong (Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI))”

Phụ tá Ngoại trưởng Hoa Kỳ Stephen Biegun và các ngoại trưởng của 5 quốc gia Đông Nam Á (ĐNA) dọc theo sông Mekong đã gặp nhau lần đầu tiên hôm Thứ Sáu, thảo luận các biện pháp để tăng cường việc hợp tác trong lúc có sự kình chống với Trung Hoa về dòng sông dài 4.350 km.

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They are ‘Phat Oil’ in Hai Phong, ‘Son Iron’ in Thanh Hoa, and Trinh Suong in Soc Trang.

15/09/2020    19:32 GMT+7 vietnamnet

‘Phat Oil’ in Hai Phong, ‘Son Iron’ in Thanh Hoa, and Trinh Suong in Soc Trang, well-known characters in their specific worlds, have been arrested for producing and trading counterfeit petrol, smuggling and buying smuggled petrol, and illegal trading of VAT invoices.

Ngo Van Phat

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By Dat Nguyen   October 3, 2020 | 02:30 pm GMT+7 vnexpressAn LNG carrier seen at the port of Nakhodka, Russia. Photo by Shutterstock/VladSV.

The northern port city of Hai Phong has given approval to Exxon Mobil to build a liquefied natural gas-fired power plant.

The city People’s Committee said in a recent statement that the $5.09 billion plant will be built in two phases, each with a capacity of 2.25 gigawatts, the first going on stream in 2026-27 and the second three years later.

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16/09/2020    09:10 GMT+7 vietnamnet

Hotels for sale is reaching a record number in a decade in Vietnam.

The number of hotels for sale is reaching a record high in a decade in Vietnam as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the local tourism industry in abyss, according to real estate brokers.

Every day, dozens of hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and coastal cities are for sale, but the number of properties hitting the market far outstrips that of buyers.

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16/09/2020    10:00 GMT+7 vietnamnet

The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Hanoi authorities to check reports in local newspapers about 300 pending or abandoned real estate projects in the city.

The Hanoi Planning and Investment Department has released a decision to stop a housing project in Me Tri ward of Nam Tu Liem district. The investment certificate was given in June 2008 to Vietnam Trade Union Tourism Co Ltd.

The company has to give back the land plot allocated to it before implementing the project, because the investor did not start the project within 12 months as stipulated in the 2014 Investment Law.

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