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...These reporters spent weeks visiting local DIY shops and electronics markets in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore and Seoul, and they all found the RTX 4090 graphic cards in short...
...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....
...If there is enough demand, “we will reclaim the land from the sea”, said Dung Bui Thi Thuy, a marketing executive....
...Many Amerasians grew up destitute and were dismissed as “bụi đời” (“the dust of life”)....
...A third woman, Kim Trang Thi Bui Cheung, who worked in Grail’s sales department, is suing the company for harassment and discrimination in relation to its handling of racist comments....
...This limits investors’ ability to exit or sell their investments, as does the difficulty of transferring cash overseas, said Hong-jin Kim, managing director of South Korea-based Stic Investments....
...“HBM chips are a critical component for AI servers,” said Daniel Kim, an analyst at Macquarie. “You can’t make large language models without them.”...
...Additional reporting by Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Yuji Kuronuma in Tokyo A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 6 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc....
...Additional reporting by Bobby Nugroho in Jakarta, Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Cissy Zhou in Hong Kong....
...Most filmmakers don’t know,” Nguyen said during a meeting with Nikkei in a new part of Ho Chi Minh City where cookie-cutter villas and artificial ponds look straight out of a studio backlot....
...Additional reporting by Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Grace Li in Tokyo. A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 19 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...GS25, another Korean minimart, has a joint venture with Vietnam’s Son Kim Retail....
...Kim Young-woo, an analyst at SK Securities, expects Dram prices to rise 12-15 per cent in the second half while Nand prices are forecast to increase 7-11 per cent....
...Ho Chi Minh City-based SSI Securities Corporation forecast Vietnam’s beer consumption could rise 20 per cent in 2021, in contrast to a drop of 12.7 per cent in the first half of 2020 from the year-earlier...
...PM2.5 levels around Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City reached particularly high levels in November and December....
...“People are losing their homes, their land, their gardens,” says Bui Hong Nam, a reporter for local TV and radio who has reported on erosion in the area....
...that top political jobs are divvied out regionally: Nguyen Phu Trong, the president and communist party secretary, comes from the north; Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc from the centre; and Nguyen Thi Kim...
...“We are proud of what we have done,” said Bui The Giang, a veteran communist party member and former Vietnamese ambassador to the UN....
...The Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Nam — the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — has pleaded guilty to reduced charges offered by prosecutors in Kuala Lumpur....
...Malaysia’s attorney-general has rejected an appeal to free a Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Nam — the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — days after the woman accused...
...The North Korean leader is expected to meet with Vietnam’s communist leadership and pay respects at the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh, its independence leader....
...It hosted Mr Trump at February’s nuclear summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. Last month Vietnam escaped being designated by the US Treasury as a currency manipulator....
...Vinamilk, the largest company on the Ho Chi Minh City stock exchange with no foreign ownership limit, is now nearly 60 per cent owned overseas....
...“If Vingroup or others take a significant proportion of Vietnam’s production or employment, the government will have no choice but to rely on them when setting up economic policy,” Woochan Kim, a Korea University...
...Hana says minimum monthly wages for factory workers there in 2014 were just $63.8, lower than the $95.8 in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and $194 in China (Qingdao)....
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