PRESS DIGEST - Vietnam newspapers - December 28
HANOI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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VIETNAM NEWS
-- Vietnam would receive 4.2 million tourists this year, a rise of 17 percent from last year, a tourism official said.
-- State oil group Petrovietnam has signed a $270 million credit agreement with BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), ANZ (ANZ.AX), Natixis (CNAT.PA) and Petrovietnam Finance Corporation to help build the 450-megawatt Nhon Trach Power Plant 1 in the southern province of Dong Nai.
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HANOI MOI
-- The Vietnam Railways Corporation estimated revenues this year would rise 11 percent to 6 trillion dong ($372 million).
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SAIGON GIAI PHONG
-- Vietnam needs to invest $4 billion to $5 billion to develop sea ports by 2015, the Vietnam Maritime Department said.
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LAO DONG
-- Chickens had been dying for two months in Son La province but the local animal health unit did not know until a child died from bird flu there, Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Medicine Department said, critising loose disease surveillance.
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TUOI TRE
-- Rockslides killed seven workers at a stone mine on Thursday in the central province of Ha Tinh.
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THANH NIEN
-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City will fine a Korean man 15 million dong (nearly $1,000) for attending an audition during which 65 Vietnamese women were shown to him to choose to marry.
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THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM
-- Foreign direct investment in tourism reached a record $1.7 billion this year, the Vietnam Tourism Administration said.
-- Setia Berhad of Malaysia and Treasure Link Far East of Hong Kong have received a licence to invest $620 million in a new urban centre in the southern province of Binh Duong, near Ho Chi Minh City.
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