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...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Born in Vietnam and raised in America, Viet Thanh Nguyen interrogates his dual identity and the fallibility of memory in his latest book, A Man of Two Faces....
...In 2021, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy jumped at an offer by Vietnam’s Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) to invest in a new savings product offering high interest rates....
...“To maintain Vietnam’s attractiveness to FDI in the short term, [the government] needs to adjust its new alternative incentives to attract foreign investment,” said Nguyen Thanh Vinh, a partner at Baker...
...A person with knowledge of the new airport, dubbed Long Thanh, told Nikkei Asia that its biggest challenge would be linking it efficiently to downtown Ho Chi Minh City, 40km away, so that airlines will not...
...“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....
...Whereas, for instance, Viet Thanh Nguyen, another acclaimed and influential migrant novelist, has dismissed “craft” as a distraction from politics, Hamid revels in the “formal, structural and linguistic...
...“It’s unclear how that rule can be enforceable, because after a livestream then it’s a dead video,” said Baker McKenzie Vietnam tech practice head Manh-Hung Tran by phone....
...Le Trong Hung, another arrested dissident, is due to be sentenced on December 31. Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...With the release of his brainy, brawny second novel, The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen surpasses his most prominent American literary influence: Ralph Ellison never published a successor to his 1952 novel...
...While northern factories have space to isolate infected workers or separate crews, the south is more crowded, said Nguyen Thanh Binh, a director at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry....
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...In remarks on Saturday quoted by state-controlled media, Nguyen Thanh Long, health minister, said genetic sequencing by Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology had detected at least four...
...Nguyen Thanh Long, health minister, said the number of Covid-19 patients was expected to rise and that the ministry had ordered three field hospitals to be set up in Hai Duong....
...“The Xi administration pursued a zero-Covid policy early on in the pandemic and has hung its hat on achieving this goal at all costs,” she says....
...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...
...Manufacturing “eagles” are flocking to Vietnam, which must prepare accordingly, said Nguyen Thanh Binh, business information director at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry....
...YouTube won praise from Nguyen Manh Hung, Vietnam’s information minister, in October for its removal of what he described as “bad information propaganda against the party and the state”....
...The following month, Francis Spufford, best known for his award-winning 2016 novel Golden Hill, returns with Light Perpetual (Faber, February) and Viet Thanh Nguyen publishes The Committed (Corsair)....
...The two — Nguyen Huy Hung, a boy from Ha Tinh province, and Dinh Dinh Binh, from Hai Phong — were among 10 teenagers found dead in the early hours of October 23, near Grays in Essex....
...But while the over-65s were more likely to drink every day, with a small glass of table wine, the younger French generation also tended to drink less often but more when they did, Viet Nguyen Thanh, head...
...Therefore, it will take a certain amount of time to change consumer behaviour and reduce alcohol consumption levels,” said Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, a project officer at HealthBridge Canada in Vietnam....
...Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc effectively kick-started solar development in April 2017, offering an attractive 9.35 US cents per kWh feed-in-tariff, applicable for 20 years, for projects which begin operating...
...Nguyen Manh Hung, Vietnam’s minister of information, last week told the country’s rubber-stamp parliament that Vietnamese citizens should not create “cybertrash” and must “clean up after themselves online...
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Khac Giang in Hanoi...
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