PRESS DIGEST - Vietnam newspapers - April 29
HANOI, April 29 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories.
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FINANCIAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- There are about 300,000 companies in Vietnam, 94 percent of which are categorised as small and medium-sized enterprises, the government said.
-- Japan's FamilyMart Co Ltd (8028.T) plans to open its first store in Vietnam by the end of 2009 and aimed to establish about 300 stores around the country.
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LAO DONG
-- The trade ministry forecast consumer prices in May would rise 0.5 percent from April.
-- Partly private lender Vietinbank has signed an agreement with real estate developer Kinh Bac City Development KBC.HN to underwrite a five-year dong bond issue of 700 billion dong ($39.4 million).
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THANH NIEN
-- Many small listed firms have reported good results for the first quarter of 2009 but the news has failed to cheer investors on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange .VNI and the Hanoi market .HASTCI.
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TUOI TRE
-- Vietnam's largest partly private lender, Vietcombank, said it had projected a 12 percent dividend payment for 2009.
ECONOMIC AND GENERAL NEWS:
VIETNAM NEWS
-- Textile and garment exports to Japan in the first quarter of 2009 jumped nearly 25 percent from a year earlier to $220 million, the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association said.
-- The Vietnam Food Association planned to recommend that the government raise its 2009 rice export target by 200,000 tonnes to a record 5.2 million tonnes.
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HANOI MOI
-- Hanoi police have granted amnesty to 244 prisoners ahead of national holidays on April 30 and May 1.
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TUOI TRE
-- Several hundred Vietnamese people had returned to Vietnam from the United States and another 10 from Mexico before the swine flu warning was in place, raising alarm about the spread of the infection, Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu said. The police will track and monitor them.
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