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...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Born in Vietnam and raised in America, Viet Thanh Nguyen interrogates his dual identity and the fallibility of memory in his latest book, A Man of Two Faces....
...In 2021, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy jumped at an offer by Vietnam’s Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) to invest in a new savings product offering high interest rates....
...“To maintain Vietnam’s attractiveness to FDI in the short term, [the government] needs to adjust its new alternative incentives to attract foreign investment,” said Nguyen Thanh Vinh, a partner at Baker...
...A person with knowledge of the new airport, dubbed Long Thanh, told Nikkei Asia that its biggest challenge would be linking it efficiently to downtown Ho Chi Minh City, 40km away, so that airlines will not...
...finds itself, said Nguyen....
...“That’s the fundamental, contradictory” choice for Vietnam, said Huong Le Thu, principal fellow at the think-tank Perth USAsia Centre, in an interview....
...Whereas, for instance, Viet Thanh Nguyen, another acclaimed and influential migrant novelist, has dismissed “craft” as a distraction from politics, Hamid revels in the “formal, structural and linguistic...
...With the release of his brainy, brawny second novel, The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen surpasses his most prominent American literary influence: Ralph Ellison never published a successor to his 1952 novel...
...While northern factories have space to isolate infected workers or separate crews, the south is more crowded, said Nguyen Thanh Binh, a director at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry....
...While Brussels has been seeking to insert “rule of law” conditions into the plan, Thu Nguyen, a policy fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre, said the commission should now reject the Polish plan outright....
...But Poland had “fundamentally rejected it in a blanket way”, said Thu Nguyen of the Jacques Delors Centre at Berlin’s Hertie School....
...The paper by Nils Redeker and Thu Nguyen says Brussels should trim back Semester recommendations that are not linked to recovery fund payments, to avoid making proposals that are “bound to be ignored”....
...“The restrictions are seriously constraining the manufacturing capacity in the country,” says Nguyen Phuong Linh, associate director at Control Risks....
...In remarks on Saturday quoted by state-controlled media, Nguyen Thanh Long, health minister, said genetic sequencing by Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology had detected at least four...
...Thu Lan Nguyen, foreign exchange analyst at Commerzbank, cautioned that while economic momentum was expected to accelerate as lockdown eased, the UK faced a significant challenge, having been more heavily...
...Nguyen Thanh Long, health minister, said the number of Covid-19 patients was expected to rise and that the ministry had ordered three field hospitals to be set up in Hai Duong....
...Manufacturing “eagles” are flocking to Vietnam, which must prepare accordingly, said Nguyen Thanh Binh, business information director at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry....
...The following month, Francis Spufford, best known for his award-winning 2016 novel Golden Hill, returns with Light Perpetual (Faber, February) and Viet Thanh Nguyen publishes The Committed (Corsair)....
...Nguyen Thi Thu Trang of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the deal will drive businesses to reignite their export activities after market demand declined owing to the pandemic....
...Here’s the Financial Times’s analysis of what lies ahead for chancellor Angela Merkel and a take from Thu Nguyen at the Delors Institute on the potential pitfalls she faces....
...Authors Lucas Guttenberg and Hoai-Thu Nguyen argue the commission’s vision for a recovery and resilience fund is unduly technocratic when it should be fundamentally political....
...“Until now, the coronavirus cases in Vietnam remain at a low rate with no deaths,” Le Thi Thu Hang said....
...“The market has never before expected such small fluctuations in the euro-dollar spot [price] over the coming months as it does now,” said Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank....
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
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