PRESS DIGEST - Vietnam newspapers - Oct 28
HANOI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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FINANCIAL NEWS:
TUOI TRE
-- Vietnam Airlines said it has waived fuel surcharges on all domestic flights from Nov. 1 following a dip in the global oil prices.
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THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM
-- The State Bank of Vietnam has allowed Handico Finance Co to raise six times its capital base to 350 billion dong ($21 million).
-- Viet Thai joint venture bank would raise its registered capital to 1 trillion dong ($60.5 million), following a central bank's approval.
-- Partly private Saigon Commercial Bank said it would further cut dong deposit rates and lend more to meet corporate demand for funds.
-- Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI) has won an approval to open a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City.
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THANH NIEN
-- About 50 more companies are scheduled to list on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange .VN and the Hanoi Securities Trading Center .HASTCI by the end of this year, Thanh Nien newspaper said.
ECONOMIC AND GENERAL NEWS:
SAIGON GIAI PHONG
-- Officials ruled out terrorism in the fire in Tan Son Nhat airport's domestic terminal on Monday.
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TUOI TRE
-- More than 140,000 Vietnamese people are still illiterate now, said Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien.
-- More than 90 percent of 140 listed companies said they made profit in the third quarter, statistics from the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange showed.
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THOI BAO KINH TE VIET NAM
-- Vietnam-Russia trade is expected to reach $3 billion in 2010 and $10 billion in 2015, President Nguyen Minh Triet said during a visit to Russia from Oct. 26-29.
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