• Cheap Coal Is Dead. Long Live Renewables

      20/06/2012
    “Sustainable Energy for All” is the
    main theme for this week’s Rio+20 United Nations gathering in Brazil. The challenge of making energy both accessible and
    sustainable has grown more complicated in the past year or so,
    and also more exciting. These are tough times for coal and other
    high-carbon sources of energy, while the news about clean energy
    is more promising.
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  • Inflation rate in 2012 would be “abnormally low”

      08/06/2012
    VietNamNet Bridge – While prestigious international institutions have warned
    that Vietnam’s inflation rate would be high in 2012, domestic economists believe
    that the inflation rate would be very low. Especially, some of them have warned
    against the deflation.
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  • Price of petrol and diesel down

      08/06/2012
    HA NOI – The retail price of petrol was slashed by
    VND800 (US$4 cents) to VND21,900 ($1.1) per litre at 2pm today in
    accordance with the continuous drop in world prices, the Ministry of
    Finance reports.
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  • Dong/dollar exchange rate fluctuates in short term, but stabilizes in long term

      07/06/2012
    VietNamNet Bridge – The dollar sale prices quoted by commercial banks are
    marching toward the 21,000 dong per dollar threshold. However, experts believe
    that no heavy price fluctuations would be seen in 2012.
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  • Vietnam 2012 Growth May Be as Low as 5.2%, Official Says

      05/06/2012
    Vietnam’s planning ministry said that economic growth may slump to as low as 5.2 percent in 2012,
    which would be the slowest pace in more than a decade.
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