MOSCOW (AFX) – Hanoi will reimburse Moscow for over US$230 million put into a joint venture to build Vietnam’s first-ever oil refinery, following Russia’s withdrawal from the project, Russian government sources said. Russian state-owned oil company Zarubezhneft and PetroVietnam formed the company Vietross in 1999 to build the refinery, but disputes and funding shortfalls had…

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