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...Vietnam has been plagued by corruption for decades, but the “scale of the case is shocking”, said Linh Nguyen, associate director at consultancy Control Risks....
...Linh’s movie, Em va Trinh, a biopic about Trinh Cong Son, who is sometimes called his country’s Bob Dylan, is No. 1 at the Vietnamese box office today....
...“It’s a dilemma for manufacturing company owners,” said Linh Nguyen, lead analyst for south-east Asia with Control Risks....
...“The restrictions are seriously constraining the manufacturing capacity in the country,” says Nguyen Phuong Linh, associate director at Control Risks....
...“Investors can take comfort from the fact that whoever the new leaders are, Vietnam will continue supporting foreign investment,” said Nguyen Phuong Linh, associate director with Control Risks, “because...
...Authorities sealed off Chi Linh, her home city, and began conducting mass testing and contact tracing in the areas where she lived and worked....
...“When companies move to Vietnam, many of them still have to rely on a supply chain from China,” said Nguyen Phuong Linh, associate director with Control Risks, a consultancy....
...“I have no doubt the leaders will use the result of their success in managing the pandemic to help them get more votes in the [party] central committee,” said Nguyen Phuong Linh, associate director in Singapore...
...Nguyen Dieu Linh, chairwoman of Vinhomes, said the KKR-led investment reflected international investors’ confidence in the company and the Vietnamese market....
...“You are going to need billion-dollar companies to make venture economics work,” said Monk Hill’s Mr Nguyen....
...“Of all the protesters, the government is most afraid of me,” declares Pham Thi Linh, who lives on rain-soaked land nearby with several cats....
...“This will worry investors,” said Nguyen Phuong Linh, a Singapore-based analyst with Control Risks, the consultancy....
...Tanja Bogumil and Linh Nguyen direct me to the Berlin office of Kisura, their personal clothes-shopping service, by saying they are just down the road from Checkpoint Charlie....
...“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....
...“The most important factor to guarantee success for a company in Vietnam is government connections and it’s clear that they have backing from the highest levels of government,” said Linh Nguyen of Veracity...
Changes are part of broader effort to revive economy in populous Southeast Asian country
...Doan Nguyen Trang, another Vietnamese teenager, prefers South Korea’s KakaoTalk app because it is promoted by a wildly popular Korean boy band....
...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)....
...Last year, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung admitted that Haiphong local government had made some “mistakes” in handling Mr Vuon’s case and disciplined some leaders....
...Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a master plan to overhaul the economy and set up a steering committee to restructure banks by 2015....
...“If I quit, I will lose the six months’ salary that they owe me and also become unemployed,” says Mr Nguyen....
...By Jake Maxwell Watts and Nguyen Phuong Linh Just when Vietnam’s weary investors were breathing a little easier amid improved economic data and an unexpected upturn in its stock markets, a long-simmering...
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh...
...By Jake Maxwell Watts and Nguyen Phuong Linh Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, is arguably a better Communist than he is a match-maker, judging by a recent spate of enforced bank mergers....
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