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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....
...“There are many countries around the world who would love to have [Vietnam’s] ability to do assembly, testing and packaging,” Fernandez said on a visit to Vietnam....
...Around the world, travellers check in at airport kiosks, drop off their bags and get through boarding gates, all without the help of staff, said Do Dieu Huyen....
...The draft decree threatens penalties if those blocks do not happen within 24 hours. It also would restrict activities on other platforms, such as video clips on TikTok and YouTube livestreams....
...Hamid does speak the language (many well-to-do Pakistanis don’t), since he relearnt it on returning to Lahore for high school....
...“We do see pressure on our short-term production capacity, and we do expect the financial impacts in July and August,” the company told Nikkei Asia....
...And he intended to do so from a position of greater strength....
...pride and withering self-deprecation, the Sympathizer compulsively reminds us “that the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of my divided brains remained joined in my head”, but for reasons that have more to do...
...They tend to evolve as businesses and they actually do it well,” said Mr Pham....
...Coronavirus did much to shape the book world in 2020 — and will continue to do so in the new year, whether in the form of titles postponed by the pandemic or as the subject of new ones....
...When they do drink, they are more likely to do it to excess than their parents and grandparents....
...“We do not want to outcompete AIA the AIA way or Prudential the Prudential way,” FWD chief executive Huynh Thanh Phong, said in an interview earlier this year. “Because it will take us forever....
...Mr Thanh said that “the airline and the management want to do this”, but added that the final decision would be made by the Vietnamese government....
...The amount of plastic waste that does get recycled is negligible, and mostly handled in villages that do not tend to abide by any regulatory or environmental standards....
...Pham Thanh Ha, director-general of the bank’s monetary policy department, said in an interview released on the SBV’s website on May 23 that in the first four months of 2019 “the SBV was able to purchase...
...Do Thanh Huyen, a Hanoi professional, told me she was contacted by a Vingroup official after she posted a complaint on Facebook about a cement mixer at a Vinhomes development that was blocking the pavement...
...“Travelling domestic is getting easier and easier,” said Do Tien Dat, vice-president of VNtrip, a start-up travel agency....
...His latest book, ‘The Refugees’, is published this month Photographs: AFP/Getty Images; Viet Thanh Nguyen...
...His novel, The Sympathizer, seemed at moments burdened by the writer’s attempts to show how much he could do, how far he could go....
...What did Kobe Steel do? How did it happen?...
...“Outside Japan, it is common for boards to include a number of outsiders who ask difficult questions; a board filled with insiders does not do that and nor, in Japan’s case, are they incentivised to probe...
...“We will do our best to keep up the schedule,” he told the Nikkei Asian Review in mid-November....
...No one understands why, but I do; it makes me feel sharp and audacious, on my toes.”...
...The billionaire investor said on Bloomberg television: “What you do is . . ....
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