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The nation is becoming a coal importer due to high demand and dwindling domestic supplies. Last month, the State-owned mining giant Vinacomin Group accepted the country's first-ever batch of imported coal for domestic use.SEE MORECopper will remain in short supply
for a third straight year in 2012 as China-led demand boosts
prices, Japan’s top producer said.
Demand will likely exceed supply by 495,000 metric tons in
2011, the biggest deficit since 2004, compared with 214,000 tons
last year, said Akira Miura, executive officer of the marketing
and raw-material department at Pan Pacific Copper Co., Japan’s
biggest producer. The shortage may shrink to 31,000 tons in 2012,
he said. SEE MORE The U.S. dollar advanced against the
euro, the Australian and New Zealand currencies, extending gains
from last week that had come amid concern Europe’s sovereign-
debt crisis will worsen. SEE MORE Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has
outlined the key task for the remaining months of the year – to continue
with a tightened monetary policy while allowing credit for production –
in order to achieve the goals of containing inflation and maintaining a
rational growth of around 6 percent. SEE MORE MDI
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