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...But the partnership with IAM Healthcare is a first step in the difficult, years-long process of forming a union in the US....
...The long-planned change, which comes into effect in January, could hurt the country’s appeal to foreign investors, said some companies....
...The dismissals mark an escalation of a years-long anti-corruption drive by general secretary Trong, who is in his third term as party leader....
...Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said this week that 3.5m migrants were working in Ho Chi Minh City and the adjoining Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Long An provinces, of which 2.1m people wanted to return...
...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....
...It enacted a long-awaited deal with the European Union in August, followed by a separate agreement in December with the UK, one of its first after Brexit....
...They went outside to watch a 30-metre-long chunk of the highway that runs alongside their houses collapse into the river as the asphalt gave way....
...In 1979 the couple also took in a young Vietnamese boat person, Duong Anh Dao. Born on November 29, 1932, Chirac came from a comfortable bourgeois background....
...The country’s low labour costs have long been a draw for manufacturers and buyers who are put off by an increasingly expensive China....
...Vietnam plans to open three special economic zones in the country’s north, centre, and southern Phu Quoc island where foreign investors will be offered generous incentives and be allowed to lease land for...
...The investment is part of a long-term effort to cement the school’s credentials in the wine world....
...Singapore has long been a popular destination for first-time travellers, thanks to its accessibility, English-speaking population and mix of different cultures....
...beverage heavyweight Vinamilk; jewellery company Phu Nhuan Jewelry; port company Gemadept — a beneficiary of the FDI boom; and Superdong Fast Ferry Kien Giang, a ferry company with a monopoly service to Phu Quoc...
...Ha Long Bay, a Unesco world heritage site with a dramatic seascape of limestone pillars, is up and coming for second homes....
...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...
...Late last year, US-based consumer goods company Procter & Gamble announced plans to establish a new $100m Gillette razor plant in Binh Duong, while UK-based Unilever said it would invest $40m in a factory...
...These are defiant acts in a country with a long record of jailing political opponents, including online activists....
...The long-time co-host of Paris By Night, a variety show devised for homesick expatriate Vietnamese in France and the US but also popular inside the country, fled Saigon as a girl just before the city’s fall...
...The Binh Duong provincial authority could not be reached for comment. Vietnamese officials in Binh Duong and elsewhere have promised to protect foreign investors....
...China has long been engaged in disputes with regional countries, among them the Philippines and Vietnam, over the South China Sea....
...The director of a furniture exporter in Binh Duong province told beyondbrics: “Last year I submitted loan applications to four banks. All I got was the head shake....
...I had already met Diane, walking in her show, but the wrap dress was a discovery as I had worn something very different on the catwalk: long trousers and a blouse....
...For safety reasons, in the long term, people should stay calm and keep their money in banks.” Vietnam’s GDP grew by only 5 per cent last year, the lowest since 1999....
...But with the highest annual inflation rate in Asia – even after price increases slowed to 16.4 per cent in February – Vietnam’s low-cost advantage will not last long....
...Le Thi Thuy Duong, 32, an office worker in Hanoi, told beyondbrics: “Last month when the SBV cut the rate to 11 per cent, friends and relatives asked me to lend them money at a slightly higher rate but I...
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