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...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi and Clive Cookson in London Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Sean van Dort, logistics chair of the trade body Joint Apparel Association Forum Sri Lanka, echoes those concerns....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung and Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart...
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...My driver took me over a causeway to Cat Hai Island, where something big is taking shape: the building of Vietnam’s first “national car” brand, VinFast....
...Mr Berruga joins from Jefferies while Mr Lynch was previously chief compliance officer for Van Eck, a rival ETF manager....
...Excluding state-controlled groups, G4S is the third largest listed private-sector employer in the world, behind only Walmart, with 2.2 million staff, and Hon Hai (which trades as Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer...
...Mr Ha says Nguyen Van Hai was sentenced to 12 years, Ta Phong Tan received 10 and Phan Thanh Hai four years....
...(Wall Street Journal) Hon Hai acknowledges hiring underage staff: A Foxconn factory did indeed hire workers as young as 14, says the Hon Hai Precision group....
...(Financial Times) A last minute round of shuttle diplomacy is underway ahead of Mario Draghi’s announcement on Thursday, with EU president Herman Van Rompuy traveling to Berlin for talks with Angela Merkel...
...campus in groups of 12 and the car park of mdo – an upmarket shopping mall across the street from the south-west corner of the factory campus – was blocked off and filled with more than 30 lorries, 15 vans...
...On Tuesday afternoon, 72-year-old retiree Trinh Van Yen rode his bicycle to the bank through a heavy Hanoi rainstorm....
...Stanislas de Quercize, chief executive of jewellery group Van Cleef & Arpels, says a brand such as Shang Xia has a good chance of success. “I see in China an excellent eye for design,” he says....
...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...
...Intel, the US chipmaker, recently opened a $1bn plant in Vietnam, and Hon Hai and Compal, the Taiwanese equipment manufacturers, have also set up assembly plants there....
...In his 20 years as a Hanoi taxi driver, Pham Van Vinh has learnt to negotiate the chaotic streets of Vietnam’s capital and the demands of its avaricious traffic police....
...Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tram, aged eight, with her school bag Tram kept her books safe when the last big floods struck Phu Kinh village, Hai Hoa commune....
...Another journalist, Nguyen Van Hai, who admitted some errors, was given a two-year suspended sentence....
...TransNeomatic, by Estudio Campana, is made from a reused scooter tyre and natural wicker handcrafted by Hai Tai rattan weavers from rural Vietnam. ………………………....
...Last October a van with a fake licence plate ran him over, leaving him with serious brain injuries....
...Bui Quang Anh, director of the government’s Department of Animal Health, said Hanoi was worried about bird flu in China, and the uncontrolled cross-border poultry trade....
...In these activities output per person might be expected to be high, says Bert van Ark, a productivity expert at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands....
...For months a small Chinese boat, the Bin Hai 517, has been travelling at a steady 8 knots off the north-west coast of Madagascar....
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