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...But it was the sudden surge of tiny Thai restaurants and Thai menus in pubs that shook us awake....
...Lastly, on reading Eric Nam’s guide to Seoul, and having seen the film Past Lives last weekend, I am more determined than ever to visit Korea....
...Luang Prabang sits in the northern part of the country, at the point where the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers converge....
...The number of tourists — especially those from the US and Europe — has increased since June, said Nguyen Thi Nguyet, a 53-year-old café owner who has lived in the area for more than 30 years....
...Do Nam Trung, 40, was found guilty by a court in Nam Dinh province, northern Vietnam, of disseminating anti-state propaganda....
...When Nicolas confessed to his mum that he would prepare food with nam prik kapi — a Thai sauce made with chillies, fermented shrimp paste and lime juice that was always on the dinner table at home — she...
...He urged authorities to consider the Thai government’s recent “factory sandbox”, which coordinates vaccines, tests and quarantines so that companies can maintain production....
...Prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc this week flatly denied Vietnam was manipulating its currency....
...“You almost feel like you are chewing the air,” said the husband of a Thai-speaking expatriate couple, checking in to an almost empty property. The haze spreads across northern Thailand....
...Guitarist Nguyên Lê is the French-born son of Vietnamese parents. He recorded his first genre-crossing reflections on cultural migration and mutation, Tales from Viêt-nam, in 1996....
...Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone maker, produces nearly two-thirds of its phones, including its latest range, at plants in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces....
...Head-on competition with Thai sugar producers “is going to be very tough,” Nguyen Van Loc, secretary-general of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA), told scoutAsia Research....
...Nguyen Xuan Phuc, prime minister, has ordered the ministry of agriculture to draw up a directive banning wildlife trade “quickly” and present it to his government by April 1....
...“Climate change is gradual and adaptable,” says Nguyen Huu Thien, an environmentalist and consultant studying the delta....
...Lured by cheaper labour costs and huge tax breaks, Samsung built its first smartphone plant in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province in 2008 for $2.5bn and another in the country’s Thai Nguyen province in 2013 for...
...Therefore, it will take a certain amount of time to change consumer behaviour and reduce alcohol consumption levels,” said Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, a project officer at HealthBridge Canada in Vietnam....
...Kim Jong Nam, 91 Kim Jong Nam, president of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly since 1998, is nominally second in seniority in the hermit nation’s hierarchy, behind only supreme leader...
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...Malaysians continued to ratchet down expectations for their new government while Thais turned cautious about the political environment in the run-up to a long overdue election, our latest read of regional...
...Ngo Viet Nam Son, an architect who worked on Pudong’s development, thinks city planners erred by drawing up blueprints for Thu Thiem in isolation....
...Nguyen Dac Viet Dung, Sendo’s chairman, says he plans to raise more money to keep growing....
...“We are trying to make every effort to make sure the red card won’t happen,” Nguyen Hoai Nam, Vasep’s deputy general secretary, told the Financial Times....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Khac Giang Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...In a record-setting sell-off in December, a consortium led by Thailand’s Thai Beverage bid $4.8bn to acquire a controlling stake in Sabeco, the country’s largest brewer....
...The UN statement came after workers at Samsung’s Vietnamese plants raised concerns about long hours and unhealthy work conditions at the factories in Vietnam’s northern Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces...
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