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...Calling it a “monster buyback” that “market participants were not expecting”, Jefferies analyst Thanh Ha Pham added that the company “has another ¥500bn excess cash that it could return to shareholders”....
...Calling it a “monster buyback” that “market participants were not expecting”, Jefferies analyst Thanh Ha Pham said the company had “another ¥500bn excess cash that it could return to shareholders”....
...“If US, French and other military assistance gets cut off or restricted, that will certainly be a blow to operations right across the Sahel,” Pham said....
...After a 2021 coup in Mali, some US officials, including Peter Pham, former US special envoy to the Sahel, blamed Washington for driving the new regime towards Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group by refusing...
...Asked if Paris might again contemplate an intervention, this time to restore democracy in Niger, Pham said: “Even for the French, those days are gone.”...
...Chief financial officer David Mansfield said profits were “very achievable within a few years”....
...The company is also looking at “cost-cutting measures,” said chief financial officer David Mansfield....
...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....
...VinFast, controlled by billionaire founder Pham Nhat Vuong, merged with a special purpose acquisition company to secure the US listing....
...“Russia has been spectacularly successful,” says Peter Pham, US special envoy to the Sahel in the Trump administration and now at the Atlantic Council....
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...The US, Pham added, must have clear objectives and a thorough plan to meet them....
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...not a smooth transition or if this rebellion gets serious and Chad is distracted and taken out of the equation, the security implications for Sahel and even for Nigeria are relatively dire,” said J Peter Pham...
...“We have excellent people in a number of businesses that need to be paid when people perform,” explained David Solomon, Goldman Sachs chief, during Wednesday's third-quarter earnings call....
...Mr Pham said the administration of former president Barack Obama had taken four years to unveil its Africa policy....
...Peter Pham, US special envoy for the African Great Lakes region, said: “There is an old dictum that posits that the voice of the people is the voice of God; here rather we have a case where the ‘vox Dei’...
...Smart data Here’s one — perhaps — for those who were traumatised by the footage of walruses tumbling down the cliff in David Attenborough’s recent “Our Planet”....
...David Shearer, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for South Sudan, said: “The signing of the revitalised peace agreement by all parties to the conflict three days ago heralded a time of optimism...
...Mr Pham accepted that the new government had made progress but said he was not convinced that corruption had been brought under control....
...Peter Pham, head of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington, said that, although it might seem like “chump change”, it was “a fairly significant sum to the regime given the overall squeeze on...
...Peter Pham, head of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington, said the real backdrop to the drama was Zimbabwe’s disintegrating economy....
...David Cameron, the prime minister, also announced greater powers to tackle British jihadis, including cancellation of their passports and temporary exclusion orders that could last more than two years....
...And enhanced screening for Ebola will begin at Britain’s biggest airport on Tuesday as prime minister David Cameron insisted “vigorous steps” were being taken to prevent the deadly virus reaching the UK....
...President Barack Obama invited Nina Pham, a nurse who had contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Duncan in Dallas, to the White House after she was declared “virus-free” and discharged from the National...
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