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...The company’s so-called free float is just around 1 per cent with the rest held by Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s richest man....
...Bloomberg said that the spectacular first-day pop “added $39bn to the net worth of the chairman Pham Nhat Vuong.”...
...Only, he wasn’t who he said he was, Vanity Fair reports....
...“I think when you deal with software, there are always bugs that you don’t find in testing,” she said....
...It won’t raise any fresh capital after Vietnam’s richest man and Vingroup’s owner Pham Nhat Vuong ploughed another $2.5bn into the business, a welcome boost given that it had $181mn of cash at the end of...
...Censorship isn’t limited to feature films. Vietnam’s most popular singer, Son Tung, had his music video depicting suicide blocked in April....
...Also, don’t miss James’ hot take on the end of Tesla’s China honeymoon. Until next week!...
...Still, Goldman hasn’t exactly been a stock market darling, as colleagues on Lex pointed out....
...The city’s Tan Son Nhat International airport, in the midst of an upgrade, can be congested and unpleasant....
...If you haven’t heard of Vingroup, that will probably soon change....
...“I haven’t much time left,” a moist-eyed Mr Mahathir confessed to a young girl in a campaign video....
...The IPO didn’t go well, but that doesn’t alter the fact that Chinese consumers are still the biggest force in luxury, buying $115bn last year — one-third of the world’s total luxury sales....
...“We didn’t want to do it through a looking glass in New York or San Francisco — we wanted to be in a market where we can learn, and Asia was just right.”...
...Still, I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of her....
...“I don’t care,” she replied. “I just want to get paid.”...
...“Isn’t it beautiful?”...
...I really don’t have one. I haven’t been very well so I write in bed where I can sleep very regularly. Who are your literary influences?...
...Some things simply won’t prove as “satisfying to us in a non-immediate context: however many times you hear an author on a podcast, it’s still different to catch his or her eye – to engage them in person...
...Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has suggested an exercise to enhance our appreciation of the interdependence of things....
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