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...Data restrictions would “breach” Vietnam’s obligations under the CPTPP trade deal, the successor to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to the Asia Internet Coalition....
...“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....
...Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor of politics at the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said that Trong “failed to get his protégé Tran Quoc Vuong approved as...
...The US-China tariff war was a more recent driver of businesses migrating south, but before that it was the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...Hanoi agreed to scrap the test in a trade deal with the European Union as well as in the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...The campaigns to report critics to Facebook allow the government to censor without official takedown orders, said Legal Initiatives for Vietnam co-director Vi Tran....
...“I share the concerns regarding the feasibility and sensibility of this requirement, especially when this rule applies to the cross-border platform,” Baker McKenzie partner Tran Manh Hung told Nikkei Asia...
...“Vietnam will actively and selectively attract foreign investments, taking high quality, efficiency, modern technology and environmental protection as the key benchmarks,” Tran Quoc Phuong, deputy minister...
...State-controlled media quoted Hoang Thi Thuy, head of the agency’s customs control and supervision department, as saying that authorities had identified “dozens of cases” where this happened....
...Vu Huy Hoang, Vietnam’s trade and industry minister, told a press conference on Monday that Hanoi was prepared to meet the standards....
...“If you use it for a fever, you might as well use Panadol,” snorts Hong Hoang, a campaigner....
...Mr Kien is the second of Vietnam’s new generation of tycoons to fall foul of the Communist authorities in recent months, following the ousting of businesswoman Dang Thi Hoang Yen from Vietnam’s Communist...
...And Hoang Anh Gia Lai, a large Vietnamese property group, has already announced plans to build a $300m shopping, office and residential complex in Yangon....
...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...
...Tran Hong Son, vice-chairman of T&T, denies the allegation. “The guards are bored so they play music loudly and I can’t control them,” he says....
...“The shortage of electricity will last forever unless EVN is reformed,” said Hoang Van Dung, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry....
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