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...canal could disrupt natural flooding, increase salinity and alter water flows in the agricultural and economic engine of the Mekong Delta, which already faces severe environmental challenges, said Pham Dang...
...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...“Hanoi’s GDP growth target of 6.5 per cent certainly cannot be reached in 2021,” Le Dang Doanh, an independent Hanoi-based economist, told Nikkei Asia....
...Masan, founded and chaired by billionaire Nguyen Dang Quang, also said it was in advanced discussions on a further strategic investment of $300m-$400m from other investors, which it said it expected to close...
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...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 Dang Quang, chairman and chief executive of the Vietnamese food group Masan, studied nuclear physics in Minsk and Moscow....
...“It’s our culture,” says Nguyen Long, 40, the owner of a skincare business, hoisting a mug of draft Hanoi Beer, made by local brewer Hanoi Alcohol Beer and Beverages Corporation, or Habeco....
...Nguyen Dang Quang, Masan Group’s chairman, said: In a country where daily essentials such as packaged food and beverage, fresh food (meat), and financial services take up half of the average person’s wallet...
...Nguyen Khoa Hong Thanh, operations director for Isobar Vietnam, a digital advertising agency that is part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, said YouTube and Facebook accounted for about 70 per cent of digital...
...Additional reporting by Khac Giang Nguyen...
...Additional reporting by Xuan Nguyen in Hanoi...
...On the Vietnamese side, on the other hand, there are the works of Bao Ninh and Dang Thuy Tram — the former the author of a gloomy in-the-trenches novel, The Sorrow of War, the latter a tragic young North...
...Bang Dang Nguyen of Cambridge’s Judge Business School studied Fortune 500 chief executives from 1992 to 2002 and found that the more media coverage they gained, the better their companies’ shares performed...
...Bang Dang Nguyen, a university lecturer based at Judge, and Kasper Meisner Nielsen of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology argued that this showed three in five top executives were not overpaid...
...“Korea is very strong in entertainment,” says Hana Dang, a Vietnamese media executive, who also cites the proliferation of South Korean soap operas and K-Pop music....
...Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research estimates the value of bad debts at around 180 to 300tn dong ($8.5bn to $14bn)....
...Le Dang Doanh, an outspoken party reformist, argues that the leadership has lost its way and has been captured by vested interests....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi...
...She may have succeeded in building one of Vietnam’s richest families but businesswoman Dang Thi Hoang Yen always knew that entering the murky world of high-level politics in this authoritarian, one-party...
...The arrest of Mr Kien comes just several months after Dang Thi Hoang Yen, one of Vietnam’s richest businesswomen, was ousted from Vietnam’s parliament....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh, Ho Chi Minh City...
...Dang Huy Dong, vice-minister of investment and planning, told beyondbrics that the government was “doing everything possible to make it happen”....
...While Tam and his sister were nominated through official channels, like the vast majority of successful candidates, a number of other businessmen nominated themselves, including Nguyen Quang Huan, a development...
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