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...Nguyen Thang remembers the night in 1972, when he was 14, and Vietnamese artillery shot down a US B-52 bomber near his house in Hanoi....
...His brother Dinh Manh Thang was arrested the following day....
...Nguyen Trung Thang, one of the constellation of second-hand car dealers clustered around Hanoi’s Nguyen Van Cu street, complained of a plunge in sales this year as customers flocked to newly minted marques...
...Dinh La Thang, the ruling party’s chief in Ho Chi Minh City, has been dismissed over alleged “serious violations” between 2009 and 2011 during his chairmanship of PetroVietnam, the state energy company,...
...Other key appointments include that of Dinh La Thang, former transport minister, as party secretary for Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). He also takes a place on the politburo....
...Indeed, first and foremost, we believe Party Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong triumphed in his standoff against former prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung because he convinced officials that he was the best candidate...
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi...
...But persistently high inflation, today more than 20 per cent year on year, is taking its toll – in Thang Long and other industrial zones across Vietnam....
...Nguyen Xuan Thang, president of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, accepts that investments in the important development drivers of health and education have been both “inadequate” and “inefficient”...
...When Nguyen Quang Huan, a 47-year-old Hanoi businessman, told friends he wanted to stand for Vietnam’s Communist party dominated parliament, they told him he was “crazy”....
...“There is only one plan to reform EVN, and we, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, submitted it to the government,” said Pham Manh Thang, director of the ministry’s Electricity Regulatory Authority....
...Nguyen Tien Trung, 26, and Le Thang Long, 42, were convicted of "activities aimed at subverting the people's administration”....
...Henry Nguyen, managing general partner of IDG Ventures Vietnam, an IT venture capital fund, said an Intel investment would have a huge effect on the country’s technology industry....
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