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...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...“In my conversations, the drafters (of the law) are quite receptive to hearing what other countries are doing,” said Manh-Hung Tran, head of the Vietnam tech practice at consultancy Baker McKenzie....
...Nguyen Thi Hoa’s rice farmer parents thought their daughter could have a better life if she learned English to get a job. She chose Chinese instead and is now in her final year of college in Vietnam....
...We’ve changed the timing of this week’s Asia briefing to take into account Friday’s big news on China applying for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...The predecessor of the CPTPP was the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement signed in 2016 by the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and seven other countries....
...How well did you keep up with the news this week?...
...“This time it’s uncertain.”...
...later this year....
...But this comes at a price....
...“This is a precious opportunity for Vietnam to enter a new era of innovation,” Nguyen Chi Dzung, minister of planning and investment, said this month in remarks carried on the national VTV station....
...Nguyen Thi Thu Trang of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the deal will drive businesses to reignite their export activities after market demand declined owing to the pandemic....
...“If an infected person is in the area, they will report this.”...
...Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam’s prime minister, led the country’s delegation to a conference on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing this week....
...Mr Hammon says the business will initially depend on the domestic market and possibly New Zealand, which may form a “trans-Tasman travel bubble” with Australia....
...Mr Trump invited Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s president and communist party general secretary, to pay an official visit to the US when he was in Hanoi in February....
...Nguyen Huu Phuc, who runs a small textile marketing company in Ho Chi Minh City, recalls how “very upset” he was when Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in 2017...
...The job became vacant last month after Tran Dai Quang, 61, died following a serious illness. Mr Trong was unanimously nominated earlier this month for the position by the party’s Central Committee....
...Political certainty was strengthened by the smooth transition to the state presidency by secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong after the death of Tran Dai Quang, whose whereabouts and health status had been...
...This is a temporary reprieve for the industry....
...There’s little doubt that this is a journey prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wishes to take....
...Tran Minh Trung, chief executive of VinSmart, the group’s telecom’s unit, told the Financial Times that the brand wanted to capture 30 per cent market share “by 2020 at the latest”....
...In “The Trans-National” — part of Tancons’ performance strand — satin drapes transform a flat-tyred Soviet airliner into an emblematic portal of hope and disillusionment....
...“Farmers are switching to other crops like pepper, durian and avocado,” said Tran Duc Tho, director of the trading company Duc Nguyen Cofexim, whose clients include Nestlé....
...Nguyen Xuan Phuc also said that Vietnam, bolstered by new trade agreements and improved conditions for businesses, was set to surpass its GDP growth rate of nearly 7 per cent last year, and maintain this...
...Under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, signed in March, these companies will eventually be able to expand without further government screening....
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