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The Prime Minister has rejected a multi billion USD project to construct a steel mill in the southern province of Khanh Hoa by the Republic of Korea’s soft cialis trial pack tab cialis Posco Group, the Government’s Office announced on Nov. 14.

The project would have clashed with the planned development of a major container port in Van Phong Bay and breached environmental protection rules for the deep-water area, according to the PM’s statement.

The Posco project has been online pharmacy opposed by experts, administrators and local residents over possible negative environmental consequences once the mill was built.

The PM also requested Khanh Hoa province to make an announcement to the company and discuss possible alternative sites for the mill./.

The project, carried out from 2007 buy cialis generic to 2014 , involves six components, including the construction of a drainage system, a waste collection system and 3 wastewater treatment plants.

As part of cialis sale online the project, a 30-ha solid waste management area and a resettlement area will be built.  The eight-year project also aims to buying prescription drugs online promote hygienic practices in families and schools

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MHE Director Dr. Tran Thuc, speaking at a seminar on Oct. 30, said that the mapping of sea level rise scenarios as a result of climate change throughout the country, particularly around the Red cialis low cost River and Mekong Delta areas, is expected to provide an important foundation for sectors and localities to formulate suitable strategies in response to the issue.

The project, estimated to cost 830,000 USD, will assess the extent of the environmental impact resulting from a rise in sea levels, as well as the effects buy drugs online upon socio-economic development and the vulnerability of coastal regions, and suggest effective measures to cope with such a situation.

According to the results of a study carried out by the World Bank, Vietnam topped a list of 10 countries and territories around the world that would be worst affected by a rise in sea levels.

In its report, the World Bank said just a 1m rise in sea levels would negatively affect the livelihoods of around 10.8 percent of Vietnam ’s population, mainly in the Red River and Mekong Delta regions.

If sea levels rose by 5m, Vietnam would lose up to 16 percent of its landmass area, which accounts for 35 percent acheter cialis original of the country’s population, and around 35 percent of the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP).

Representatives of Russian gas giant Gazprom (C) and the Vietnamese government (L) shake hands at the Kremlin in Moscow Monday while Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (Background/R) and Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet look on. Russian firms Gazprom and United Company RUSAL signed deals on Monday to participate in natural resources projects in Vietnam as the Kremlin aims to triple annual trade between the two countries to US$3 billion.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presided over the signing of the deals, which will involve Gazprom exploring for oil and gas off the Vietnamese coast, during the visit to Moscow of his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Minh Triet. “The negotiations confirmed the framework for strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam,” Medvedev said after the meeting.

He said talks had focused on increasing annual trade between the two countries first to $3 billion, and subsequently $10 billion, from about $1 billion in 2007. He said the countries were prepared jointly to conduct “geological exploration in Vietnam, Russia and third countries.”

Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom signed a 30-year agreement with Vietnamese state oil monopoly group PetroVietnam to explore four blocks of Vietnam’s continental shelf. Gazprom said in a statement it would finance initial exploration work.

The companies’ existing joint venture, Vietgazprom, will carry out the work. It is already exploring off Vietnam’s coast.

Separately, the two sides created a new joint venture, Gazpromviet, to work in Russia and third countries. Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom Zarubezhneftegaz will own 51 percent and PetroVietnam 49 percent of the joint venture, which will work at the Nagumanosvkoye deposit cialis cheap online in Russia’s Orenburg region.

The blueprint for Russian-Vietnamese partnership in energy is Vietsovpetro, a joint venture between PetroVietnam and state-owned Zarubezhneft from the 1980s, which produces over 150,000 barrels of oil a day on average from the Bach Ho field off the coast of southern Vietnam.

Alumina refinery

UC RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminum producer, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vietnamese company An Vien to build a 1.5 million-ton-per-year alumina refinery buy prescription drugs online to run on bauxite mined from the Binh Phuoc deposit in southern Vietnam. UC RUSAL Chief Executive Alexander Bulygin told Reuters at the signing ceremony investment in the bauxite and alumina project was estimated at $1.5 billion. UC RUSAL would hold 51 percent of the joint venture and An Vien 49 percent, he said.

Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2012 after a preliminary feasibility study is conducted next year and in 2010, UC RUSAL said in a separate statement. “The Asia-Pacific region will play an important role in UC RUSAL’s business development. This MoU on construction of a bauxite and alumina complex is part of our strategy to expand our raw materials base,” Bulygin said in the statement.

Vietnam has the world’s third-largest explored reserves of bauxite, the raw material from which alumina and aluminum metal is made. UC RUSAL, which cialis free shipping produces about 15 percent of the world’s alumina, said Binh Phuoc contained about 700 million tons of bauxite from a national total of more than 3 billion tons.

Vietnam is also prepared to invest at least $750 million in a $1.5 billion joint venture to build a fertilizer plant in the Russian republic of Kalmykia, the republic’s president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, told reporters after the signing ceremony. The plant would be built next year and would generate $1 billion in annual sales at today’s fertilizer prices, he said.

The Russian and Vietnamese presidents also discussed the participation of several other Russian companies in Vietnam’s natural resources, automotive and telecoms sectors. These companies include steel makers Evraz Group and Mechel, truck maker KamAZ, car producer Gaz and Vimpelcom, Russia’s second biggest mobile phone operator.

‘Favorable conditions’

At a meeting with Russian business in Moscow Tuesday, President Triet called for them to increase trade and investment in Vietnam, promising them “favorable conditions.” “Vietnam would like Russia to contribute more to foreign investment in Vietnam,” Triet said. Following the meeting, Triet witnessed the signing of a series of agreement and contracts between businesses of the two countries, including one on the establishment of a joint venture to assemble KamAZ trucks in Vietnam.

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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project to dredge Ho Chi Minh City’s canals and improve the sewerage system to deal cialis 5 mg daily with the chronic flooding on the Saigon River.

 The project, which hopes to put an end to the flooding by 2012, will dredge the river’s channels on the city’s south, increasing their capacity to hold water, and increase the capacity of the sewer network.

It is expected to cost VND 11.53 trillion (US$ 698 million). Besides Government and ODA funding, money for it will also be raised through bond issues.

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