Vietnam
ASEAN agrees on minerals compact
Vietnam News, Hanoi, December 10, 2011. The Ha Noi Declaration on ASEAN Sustainable Connectivity on minerals was adopted at the end of the third ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Minerals, which opened in the capital city yesterday. Ministers from 10 member countries re-affirmed their joint commitment to enhancing co-operation on minerals, which they deemed as a [...]
Capturing the Signals
Jakarta (IESR). Responding to the positive signals shown by the country leaders around the globe, Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) and Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) were hosting a strategic planning meeting on EITI campaign in South East Asia region. The meeting was held on Oct 23-24, 2011 in Jakarta attended by representatives of Core group [...]
$25 million invested in Vietnam’s gold mines
VietnamNet, 11 February 2011 Olympus Pacific is the only foreign investor that is permitted to mine and export gold in Vietnam.  It has two operating projects in Bong Mieu, the central province of Quang Ngai and an exploration project in Tien Thuan, Binh Dinh province. The firm has invested around $80 million in the above projects [...]
Dart granted more time in Vietnam
Coalbed methane (CBM) player Dart Energy has been granted an extension of the exploration period for the Hanoi Trough Block, onshore Vietnam. Dart said it had been granted an additional 12 months for the exploration period, which was due to expire on 31 October last year, until 1 November. Dart completed the first phase of [...]
PetroVietnam targets USD 25 billion earnings in 2011
Steel Guru, 31 January 2011, Vietnam News Service reported that President Mr Nguyen Minh Triet was full of praise for PetroVietnam’s achievements gained in 2010, with the company earning total revenue of VND 478.4 trillion, accounting for 24% of the country’s GDP. Speaking at a launch of PetroVietnam’s 2011 plan in the capital city, Mr [...]
Electricity, coal production: one beats the bush and another catches
VietnamNet, 27 January 2011, Steel producers had a prosperous year 2010 when they made a record turnover from exports. About one billion dollars were earned from steel and steel-made exports. Meanwhile, cement producers exported 700,000 tons of clinker and cement in the same year. However, electricity and coal producers are not happy with the high [...]
Can Vietnam Greens Block a Bauxite Mining Project?
Time, 18 January 2011, by Helen Clarck On Oct. 4 last year, as toxic red sludge from a Hungarian aluminum plant flowed toward the Danube, critics of the fledgling bauxite mining industry in Vietnam resurfaced after being silenced in 2009. The European disaster gave Vietnamese dissenters an opportunity to bring attention to two proposed Chinese-backed [...]
