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...manufacturing activities reflects its ability to substitute some of the loss of production in China because of zero-Covid supply-chain disruptions, especially in electronics, textiles and footwear,” said Trinh Nguyen...
...It is massive – 334 pages plus a 556-page companion volume – and features portraits by Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts and Andy Warhol, among others, alongside interviews...
...These include tennis player Andy Murray, who has invested in Seedrs and advised its management....
...On Tuesday, a court in the capital Hanoi sentenced Pham Doan Trang, one of Vietnam’s most prominent activists, to nine years in prison — more than prosecutors requested — for spreading anti-state propaganda...
...The paper by Nils Redeker and Thu Nguyen says Brussels should trim back Semester recommendations that are not linked to recovery fund payments, to avoid making proposals that are “bound to be ignored”....
...Masan, founded and chaired by billionaire Nguyen Dang Quang, also said it was in advanced discussions on a further strategic investment of $300m-$400m from other investors, which it said it expected to close...
...Although most of the pieces here are very large, architectural in ambition, and many are full structures — one a whole chapel, another a traditional Vietnamese sacred space, Tia-Thuy Nguyen’s “Silver Room...
...Vietnam and Facebook have a symbiotic relationship, said Nguyen The Phuong, a research fellow at Vietnam National University’s Center for International Studies....
...The refusal forced Ms Nguyen to cancel plans to take Andy to visit relatives in Vietnam for the Lunar New Year holiday in February....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Khac Giang...
...The low-cost airline is headed by majority owner and founder Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, a property and banking tycoon....
...Funerary masks at Cahn International can be seen alongside Andy Warhol’s “The Scream (After Munch)” exhibited by Waterhouse & Dodd....
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...Doan Nguyen Trang, another Vietnamese teenager, prefers South Korea’s KakaoTalk app because it is promoted by a wildly popular Korean boy band....
...Doan Nguyen Trang, another Vietnamese teenager, prefers South Korea’s KakaoTalk app because it is promoted by a wildly popular Korean boy band. http://on.ft.com/14l0Ywo Thai tourists: luxury’s new big spenders...
...Last year, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung admitted that Haiphong local government had made some “mistakes” in handling Mr Vuon’s case and disciplined some leaders....
...That is why Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam’s prime minister and the leading light of the ruling troika, has moved quickly to draw a line under the most high-profile land dispute in recent years....
...When around 100 police and local officials came to seize their land outside the northern port city of Haiphong, the family of farmer Doan Van Vuon was ready and waiting, with shotguns in hand and improvised...
...Doan Nguyen Duc, chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), one of Vietnam’s biggest private sector companies, tells the Financial Times that his company faces a much higher cost of borrowing than its peers from...
...The company started life as a furniture manufacturer, but has been transformed into one of the country’s largest property developers by founder and majority owner Doan Nguyen Duc, one of Vietnam’s richest...
...“If Vinashin had been privatised four or five years ago, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today,” says Andy Ho, managing director of VinaCapital, a fund manager that has invested in privatised companies...
...Andy Brown, analyst at IDC, believes RIM’s technology and intellectual property leadership gives it about a four year head start on rivals....
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