HANOI -- Vietnam Electricity has brought new transmission lines online, supplying more power from the central part of the country to the north's factories in hopes of averting more costly blackouts.
Lines linking north and central regions double transmission capacity

State-run Vietnam Electricity has been building hundreds of kilometers of transmission lines. (Vietnam News Agency)
HANOI -- Vietnam Electricity has brought new transmission lines online, supplying more power from the central part of the country to the north's factories in hopes of averting more costly blackouts.