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...Vo Van Thuong resigned as Vietnam’s president in March after only a year in office because of unspecified “violations” and “shortcomings”....
...Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor of politics at the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said that Trong “failed to get his protégé Tran Quoc Vuong approved as...
...Vietnam reported 2,154 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, of which 1,519 were detected in Ho Chi Minh City....
...Scarlet lettering on “for rent” signs is plastered on countless buildings across downtown Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as in beach towns from Da Nang to Phu Quoc....
...I travelled to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s two megacities, and south to Phu Quoc, formerly a sleepy backpackers’ island where Vinpearl has built thousands of hotel rooms and a safari park, complete...
...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...
...In Phu Quoc, the average price rose from $2,100 per sq metre to $2,400 per sq metre over the same period....
...In 1975, the year Vo was born, North Vietnamese forces over-ran Saigon and forcibly relocated the family close to Ho Chi Minh City....
...Speaking before the parliamentary vote, Vo Trong Viet, chairman of the Vietnamese parliament’s national security and defence committee, said that opening data storage centres in Vietnam would increase tech...
...He was born in Ho Chi Minh in 1988. His name was Vinh Quoc Vuong, but his mother renamed him Ocean after she divorced his father....
..., designed by Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia....
...“It’s a concrete jungle here,” says Vo, 39, waving his pen furiously at the street below his office in Ho Chi Minh....
...Other coastal regions on the rise include Nha Trang in the south, Da Nang, which is Vietnam’s third largest city, and Phu Quoc island....
...Tran Quoc Tuan, chief financial officer of Viet Uc Seafood, a food company with international ambitions, says he is more confident after a “really tough” couple of years when he first returned in 2009....
...Minh City....
...One intriguing emerging opportunity is the island of Phu Quoc, which the government is promoting as a tourist centre — “Vietnam’s Phuket”, as one agent describes it....
...Both attended Quoc Hoc private high school in Hue....
...“Reducing corruption is very hard because of [the] benefit to groups including state officials, provincial leaders and investors,” says Dang Hung Vo, one of many retired senior officials calling for more...
...Such sentiments provide scant comfort to Le Quoc Quan, a Hanoi-based dissident and one of 68 self-nominated candidates who were prevented from standing....
...But, in the five-star hotels and fancy restaurants of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the mood among the foreign money men is not good....
...Sitting underneath a portrait painted by her husband of General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam’s foremost military hero and a family friend, Ms Ha insisted that her spouse was guilty of nothing more than being...
...“If HAGL are successful, other companies will be more confident to list overseas,” said Vo Truong Son, deputy general director of HAGL....
...Nguyen Quoc Hung, a city government official, said that many reports had overstated the expense of the celebrations, which he put at 150bn-200bn dong ($7.7m-$10.3m)....
...The French command failed to account for the Viet Minh, under General Vo Nguyen Giap, possessing powerful artillery; and by early in the new year the 11,000-strong French force, pinned down in a valley,...
...Vo Truong Son should be a happy man....
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