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...He uses the term “vibe dining” to describe venues such as their client, Italian restaurant/after-hours lounge Bambino in Ho Chi Minh City, where music is used to add “edge”....
...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Australia reports fourth-quarter GDP figures, while South Korea publishes consumer price index inflation rate data for February....
...In Ho Chi Minh City, computer shops that Nikkei Asia visited said RTX 4090 supplies in Vietnam had been depleted in the wake of the US curbs....
...Marc FilippinoI’m Marc Filippino and here’s the news you need to start your day. [MUSIC PLAYING] More people downloaded Instagram than TikTok in 2023....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a Vietnamese trunk I found at an antique bazaar in Ho Chi Minh City almost 40 years ago....
...I’m writing this newsletter on my way back from Foxconn’s year-end festival for employees and their families....
...“The subject that I’m really interested in is young men and violence,” Tim told World Press Photo after winning in 2008....
...“I’m sure if I had been a nice, proper housewife, I would not have bumped into all of these ideas.” 10....
...[LAUGHTER] But Bombay is-- I'm happy to hear you say Bombay and not Mumbai. It's the difference between Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City. I still say about Bombay, but that's a generational thing, maybe....
...Still reeling, he told an FT reporter: “I’m finished.” Yet Crastes was not totally done....
...The deal now is: if I’m an honourable company, I need to set a science-based target; I need to have a trajectory for how I’m going to lower my own carbon emissions: Scope 1, 2, and 3 [from the supply chain...
...“I’m comfortable with risks, I like making fast decisions.” Coin flips often help decide the trickier ones....
...Just inside the entrance, there is a photo of Ho Chi Minh and a swath of plastic chairs filled with people waiting for the train to Ho Chi Minh City....
...I still think this is the continent to watch, but I’m also acutely aware that too many listed African investments have come unstuck....
...Throughout the 1970s, all the big names came to stay: Boney M, Abba, Colonel Gaddafi....
...Ho Chi Minh allegedly worked here in the 1930s. Special occasions call for Giacomo Arengario, right in front of the Duomo....
...“I’m a working girl. I don’t want to just stay home and do nothing,” she said, weaving her sedan through Bangkok’s gridlock....
...“Because if you buy an asset and make it shiny and sell that right away, I’m not the right guy....
...We can’t restrain him when he is angry — and he has his hand on the nuclear button’ and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”...
...“I’m not wholly comfortable with the message that this action sends about what might be for sale at Oxford.”...
...Vietnam is loosening a strict, nearly three-month lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City after a stark warning from business and a record quarterly drop in gross domestic product....
...South Korea’s second-biggest retailer opened its first hypermarket in Ho Chi Minh City in 2015 and was looking to branch into more stores....
...But Wendy Huynh, who was raised by Chinese parents who immigrated to France in the early 1970s from Vietnam, says she created this series of portraits to try to encourage open dialogue about east Asian racism...
...“I’m very surprised,” she told Nikkei at a business forum, surrounded by 100-plus maskless investors and entrepreneurs in a windowless conference hall....
...You might recall that the Office of Strategic Services (later CIA) had been friendly to the Viet Minh (in the second world war), and then later its sworn adversary....
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