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...Some potential investors are worried the corruption crackdown — known as “blazing furnace” — could pick up pace, especially closer to 2026, when the Communist party leader Nguyen Phu Trong, who has spearheaded...
...The founder of Dell Technologies has agreed to seed a new firm launched by Tom Connolly and Mike Koester, investing both in the new asset manager — known as 5C Investment Partners — as well as providing...
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Researchers say the increased length is a result of companies talking to officials for longer during an informal period known as pre-filing to iron out any potential difficulties during the formal process...
...Next is The Gioi Di Dong, also known as Mobile World, which had 29m monthly visits during the same period....
...They need to use instant coffee,” Ms Nguyen said. Investors also see Vietnam as one of the few prospects right now....
...Fashion pieces by Viktor & Rolf, Hussein Chalayan, Iris van Herpen and others have also been given by the foundation to the Boijmans on long-term loan....
...(FT) US drops 2016 election charges The US has dropped election meddling charges brought by Robert Mueller in 2018 against two companies controlled by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Russian national known as “Putin...
...The government has spent years fighting an informal credit market of loan sharks, known as tín dụng đen or “black credit”....
...His administration also made it easier for e-commerce companies to receive low-rate bank loans and provided simplified tax procedures for those with annual turnover below 4.8bn rupiah....
...In July, for example, the former chairman of state oil giant PetroVietnam, Nguyen Xuan Son, was arrested over the mismanagement of Vnd800bn at Dai Duong Commercial Bank – known as Ocean Bank – which is part-owned...
...To discipline this process, Lord King suggests that the central bank should set the terms on which it would make loans in advance, acting as a “pawnbroker for all seasons”....
...The Associated Press’s Eddie Adams always regretted his indelible 1968 shot, “Police Commander Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Viet Cong operative Nguyen Van Lem”....
...The bank’s chairman, Nguyen Ngoc Bao told local reporters in December that the bank’s bad debt had fallen to around 4 per cent of loans, from 6.1 per cent at the beginning of 2012 – the highest figure of...
...Western Bank, also known as Phuong Tay Bank, is partly privatised and is Vietnam’s 29th largest lender by assets....
...But their vulnerabilities became apparent in the near-collapse of Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, known as Vinashin....
...He is also said to be a close ally of the prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung....
...Vinashin, officially known as Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, defaulted on repayments of $600m of foreign loans in late 2010 after accumulating $4.4bn in debt....
...Vietnam’s stock market fell nearly 5 per cent on Tuesday on the arrest of banking millionaire Nguyen Duc Kien, one of the best-known men in the country’s business elite....
...as lesser-known natural wonders such as Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes and the Masurian lake district in Poland....
...Vinashin’s chairman Nguyen Ngoc Su told the local press last week that the debt-ridden company would not be able to meet the repayment deadline due to a lack of funds....
...But a suggestion on Friday by Nguyen Ngoc Su, Vinashin’s chairman, that the company will try to delay a $60m foreign loan repayment due on December 22 caused renewed worry among foreign debt holders....
...monetary and fiscal tightening and anti-dollarisation measures, known as Resolution 11....
...As well as selling shares to the public, some large, part-privatised SOEs such as insurer Bao Viet Holdings and lender Vietinbank have also benefited from bringing in strategic foreign investors....
...When the floods come, Le Thi Lap grabs her war medals, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tram her school books....
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