HANOI, July 10 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories. FINANCIAL NEWS: THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM -- Top diary firm Vinamilk <VNM.HM> said its first half gross profit reached 1.15 trillion dong ($64.6 million), 68.6 percent of its target for the whole year. DAU TU -- Partly private Lien Viet Bank said it was preparing an application for a licence to list shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange <.VNI>. ECONOMIC AND GENERAL NEWS: SAIGON GIAI PHONG -- Vietnam aimed to improve supply and demand of foreign exchange after recent pressure was caused mainly by dollar hoarding by residents and banks, Nguyen Quang Huy, a central bank manager, said. LAO DONG -- Prosecutors have pressed charges against 23 people, 20 of them accused of abusing power while executing official assignments related to a project on upgrading the government's information technology infrastructure. TUOI TRE -- Vietnam has detected so far 262 people as carrying the H1N1 flu virus but no fatality has been reported, the Health Ministry said. THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM -- The summer-autumn rice crop in southern provinces and another crop in the north look very positive, after a bumper winter-spring crop provided record paddy output of more than 18.6 million tonnes, Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat said. -- The government has approved an investment of 1.79 trillion dong ($101 million) to build a road in the central highland province of Kontum connecting to the Ho Chi Minh Highway, using funds from government bonds. (Reporting by Hanoi Newsroom)
A photojournalist walks at the site of a mountain landslide in Khen Len village, in Vietnam's northern Bac Kan province, July 8, 2009. Vietnamese soldiers and police used sniffer dogs on ...
