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...She said an air cargo terminal would be added in Hai Phong, for example, a northern city home to big factories for Apple suppliers and electric-car maker VinFast, as well as a massive seaport serving trade...
...Hermès worked with the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology to create a dial made from silicon wafer to capture the graphic style of artist Thanh-Phong Lê’s depiction of the sea at twilight....
...“That’s the fundamental, contradictory” choice for Vietnam, said Huong Le Thu, principal fellow at the think-tank Perth USAsia Centre, in an interview....
...One day, I went to a spatially distanced cinema to watch the 2019 French film Les Misérables, about a conflict between police and youths in a Parisian banlieue....
...An emergency care physician, Dr Du Le Thanh Xuan, was the first to be jabbed....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi and Clive Cookson in London Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...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....
...“Until now, the coronavirus cases in Vietnam remain at a low rate with no deaths,” Le Thi Thu Hang said....
...The oldest was Le Trong Thanh, a 44-year-old man from Dien Chau....
...john.reed@ft.com Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi contributed to this article * This article has been amended to show the index arbiter is MSCI...
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Companies such as Le Tran Plastics and Vinh Thanh Corporation successfully lobbied the government in January to revisit import regulations and permit plastic waste for processing in-country....
...My driver took me over a causeway to Cat Hai Island, where something big is taking shape: the building of Vietnam’s first “national car” brand, VinFast....
...“The concept is from the cradle to the grave,” Le Thi Thu Thuy, the senior group executive overseeing the Vinfast project, told the Financial Times....
...Mr Kerry was due to arrive in Hanoi late on Thursday and to meet Nguyen Xuan Phuc, prime minister, and Bui Thanh Son, acting foreign minister, on Friday....
...Meanwhile, Le Hai, a 39-year-old office worker in Hanoi, likes to celebrate her birthday at different places in Asia every year....
...Sales of imported cars rising About 60 per cent of Vietnam’s auto market is made up of locally assembled cars, including vehicles built by domestic heavyweight Truong Hai Auto (Thaco) – in which Jardine...
...Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research estimates the value of bad debts at around 180 to 300tn dong ($8.5bn to $14bn)....
...Mr Ha says Nguyen Van Hai was sentenced to 12 years, Ta Phong Tan received 10 and Phan Thanh Hai four years....
...“Then he said live on the air, ‘Tu hai le palle!’” (Which, for the purposes of editorial decorum, if not anatomical accuracy, shall be translated here as, “You’ve got guts”)....
...The first signs of change came with the 2010 arrest of Pham Thanh Binh, chairman of the bankrupt state owned shipbuilder, Vinashin....
...“The government never cares about us,” says Le Dinh Chien, a 51-year-old security guard who is forced to moonlight as a motorbike taxi driver to support his family....
...Le Xuan Ba, director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, a government think-tank, agrees that Vietnamese officials need to develop a radically different approach....
...Thanh Le, Shell’s general manager in Vietnam, told the Financial Times that, outside of China and India, Vietnam was one of the most attractive markets in Asia, with energy demand set to grow strongly as...
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