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Hanoi To Reluctantly Raise Foreign Bank Ownership Cap

January 6 2009

Vu Bang, Chairman of the State Securities Commission, has spoken in favour of raising the limit on foreign ownership of Vietnamese banks fro ...

Financial Markets
Stocks: S-T Gain, L-T Pain In 2009

January 6 2009

The New Year has seen a measure of optimism return to global markets, with investors starting to look more closely across the EM universe fo ...

Industry
Pemex Awards US$148mn Of Chicontepec Contracts

January 6 2009

Mexico's state-controlled Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has awarded MXN2bn (US$148mn) worth of construction contracts at the Chi ...

Companies
Bharti Airtel To Launch Services In Sri Lanka

January 6 2009

One year after receiving a licence, Indian telecoms operator Bharti Airtel is to commercially launch mobile services in Sri Lanka o ...

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