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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...
...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...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....
...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...
...Alexander L Vuving, professor at the Daniel K Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, said that since the 1979 conflict, the relationship reached its recent “high point” in the late...
...“Usually they are able to settle on a party chief about a month before the formal congress,” said Alexander Vuving of the Daniel K Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu....
...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)....
...Domestic travel has resumed, schools and workplaces have reopened, and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is now reportedly preparing to declare the pandemic “over” in Vietnam....
...The oldest was Le Trong Thanh, a 44-year-old man from Dien Chau....
...But while the over-65s were more likely to drink every day, with a small glass of table wine, the younger French generation also tended to drink less often but more when they did, Viet Nguyen Thanh, head...
...Therefore, it will take a certain amount of time to change consumer behaviour and reduce alcohol consumption levels,” said Nguyen Hanh Nguyen, a project officer at HealthBridge Canada in Vietnam....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Khac Giang in Hanoi...
...Its decision was made on environmental grounds — Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he did not want Vietnam to be a “dumping site” for global waste....
...Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc effectively kick-started solar development in April 2017, offering an attractive 9.35 US cents per kWh feed-in-tariff, applicable for 20 years, for projects which begin operating...
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...Thanh Hung, who used to be an Uber driver in Ho Chi Minh City, said he originally tried working with Grab following Uber’s departure, but was turned off by the working style....
...Among the other officials standing trial is Trinh Xuan Thanh, a former head of PetroVietnam’s construction arm....
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