Rubber prices bounce back

TUOITRE

The price of SVR 3L, the major rubber variety Vietnam exports, has increased by 3.6 percent to US$488 per ton on the world market in the past two weeks, the Vietnam Rubber Group said.

This has boosted the domestic prices of latex by 9.4 percent to VND30000-36000 per liter, it added.

The hike in prices is due to increased demand from China and India, the two biggest importers, while production in major exporting nations like the Philippines and Indonesia is lower than expected due to unfavorable weather conditions.

The increase in the prices of oil and fuel has also affected the prices. 

But the price remains far off the record high of $600 touched two months ago.

So far this year Vietnam has shipped 212,300 tons of rubber worth US$934 million, mainly to China, Japan, and Europe.
 
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Director of ‘The quiet American’ to visit Vietnam

Australian film director Phillip Noyce

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TUOITRE

Phillip Noyce, the Australian director of “The quiet American,” will visit Vietnam to promote his authorized biography and meet film and media personalities around the country from May 27 to June 8.

His visit will begin with the promotion of Backroads to Hollywood by Ingo Petzke about Noyce’s journey in Hollywood as an outsider. 

It will be the first translated version to be published anywhere in Southeast Asia.

At the event, Noyce will meet cinema experts, talk about the book, and talk to the media.
On May 28 he will hold a workshop on filmmaking techniques for students and media experts at Lotus University.

On May 31 he will meet filmmakers in Hanoi. He will visit cinema academies in both cities.

Noyce was in Hanoi last October to head the jury for the first Vietnam International Film Festival.

He was born in 1950 in New South Wales and made his first short “Better to Reign in Hell” at the age of 18. 

“The Quiet American” got rave reviews and appeared in more than 20 top ten lists in 2002, including those of the US National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.
 
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