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Current Events
· Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets the Australian ex-Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport of the Republic of Korea (Nhan dan, p1).
· Vietnam-Laos cooperation (Nhan dan, p8).
· Forty-five overseas Vietnamese invited to attend the national day celebration (Quan doi Nhan dan, p1).
· Legal proceedings launched against the Thai Ha parish on charge of illegally appropriating land and building at No. 178 Nguyen Luong Bang street , Hanoi (Hanoi Moi, p1).
Socio-economic Events
· Collaboration strengthened for development of the central key economic region (Nhan dan, p1).
· The Bach Dang Construction Corporation completes 17 works at the Dung Quat Oil Refinery (Nhan dan, p1).
· Petrol and gasoline price was down by 1,000 VND per litre as from 10 am of August 27 (Nhan dan, p1).
· More than 982 billion VND pumped into breeding programmes for agriculture, forestry and fisheries (Nhan dan, p2).
· Demand and supply of some essential commodities forecasted (Nhan dan, p8).
· Regulation on exchanging banknotes and coins ineligible for circulation issued (Quan doi Nhan dan, p1).
· State Audit released its results of audit of State-owned enterprises, saying 45 of the 49 audited one earning profits (Hanoi Moi, p1).
· Hanoi to have seven private hospitals (Hanoi Moi, p2).
· Agreement on protection of software copyright signed (Hanoi Moi, p7).
· Macrofinance Forum 2008 takes place in Hanoi (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Five strange ancient objects found in central Thanh Hoa province (Lao dong, p1).
· National poor household rate reduced to 13.08 percent (Saigon Giai phong, p2).
· University graduates with good and excellent academic records to be trained overseas (Saigon Giai phong, p2).
· 1.6 trillion VND to go for the building of the Thuan An tourism site in central Thua Thien-Hue province (Saigon Giai phong, p6).
· Will private airlines ‘die young’? (Tien phong [Vanguard], No. 240, p5). After registering for establishment of private airlines, many businesses seem to be quiet now when the first private airlines postponed its inaugural flight.
· “Preferential” mechanisms for a fund to develop houses for low-income earners (Dien dan Doanh nghiep [Business forum], No. 69, p10). Ho Chi Minh City has so far this year applied ‘preferential’ mechanisms in terms of finance and public land fund to build more houses for 120,000 low-income earners.
· Animal feed worth 3 billion USD imported (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam [Vietnam Economic Times], No. 206, p1).
· Flexible monetary control policy needs to be maintained (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 206, p3). Dr Nguyen Thi Muoi, Vice Director of the Institute of Finance and member of the National Monetary Policy Advisory Council talks about the issue.
· Whether or not steel scraps are imported for production? (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet nam , No. 206, p8). An interview with President of the Vietnam Steel Association Pham Chi Cuong.
· Businesses’ recruitment demand is decreasing (Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam , No. 206, p13). Unemployment rate may be higher by the yearend.
· Sign of stability of macro-economy (Dau tu [Investment], No. 103, p1). Macro-economic indexes showed signs of gradual stability of the national economy in August. However, big difficulties and challenges still remain.
· Farmers encouraged to expand rice-farming acreage (Dau tu, No. 103, p3).
· Capital is sought to “rescue” the real estate market (Dau tu, No. 103, p5).
· Boosting payment activities to better meet demands of the national economy (Thoi bao Ngan hang [Banking review], No. 103, p5).
· Stock market: do local investors dominate the stock market? (Thoi bao Ngan hang, No. 103, p8).
International Events
· Shanghai Cooperation Organisation convenes its summit (Nhan dan, p8).
· Violence spreads out in the Philippines (Nhan dan, p8).
· Canada announces to make a map on natural resources in the North Pole (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Russia-NATO ties become tense (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· The Democratic Party’s move in the US presidential election race (Quan doi Nhan dan, p8).
· Crude oil price in the world market rises again (Hanoi Moi, p8).
· Russia acknowledges independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Many countries call for dialogues to solve the issue (Saigon Giai phong, p8).
· H. Clinton calls for voters to unite to support Obama (Saigon Giai phong, p8).
· Decline seen in the world’s poverty, except for Africa (Saigon Giai phong, p8).-Enditem
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