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...Lilah RaptopoulosLike you all know I’m insulting you, right? Viet Thanh NguyenRight....
...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...“Vietnam’s semiconductor industry has a low localisation rate [and] research and development activities are not synchronised,” Vietnam’s science and technology minister Huynh Thanh Dat said in an interview...
...Thanh-Long Huynh, chief executive of data analytics firm QuantCube, said the sales to Sri Lanka underscored how Russian oil previously bound for Europe was finding new markets as the EU tried to restrict...
...“The subject that I’m really interested in is young men and violence,” Tim told World Press Photo after winning in 2008....
...When Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li asked Huynh Thanh Phong in 2013 to build a new kind of insurance platform across Asia, Phong had one request in return: patience....
...“I’m a product of a kind of late 20th-century movement,” he tells me over Zoom from his temporary base in Miami, “a thoroughly mongrelised person.”...
...The expansion strategy of Huynh Thanh Phong, FWD’s chief executive, has focused on pairing moves into new Asian markets with the use of technology to reduce the paperwork and complexity common to the industry...
...But Wendy Huynh, who was raised by Chinese parents who immigrated to France in the early 1970s from Vietnam, says she created this series of portraits to try to encourage open dialogue about east Asian racism...
...“The future for the Thai market will be exceptionally good, and we want to be part of this market,” said Huynh Thanh Phong, FWD’s chief executive....
...“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....
...“I’m happy, and many other ex-Uber drivers are also working for Go-Viet thanks to the company’s good driver policies,” which he said include a better commission....
...Huynh Thanh Phong, FWD’s chief executive, said the acquisition was a “strong foundation” for its entry into Japan. The business will maintain distribution agreements with AIG Japan....
...Foreign-led M&A in Vietnam increased an estimated 20 per cent year-on-year in 2015, with real estate accounting for 10 per cent of total M&A....
...But the movie Let Hoi Decide has made waves for another reason: it is co-produced by CJ E&M, the South Korean leisure group, which has burrowed its way to the heart of the Vietnamese market....
...Viet Thanh Nguyen Author of ‘The Sympathizer’ I try not to read thrillers because they tend to keep me up to all hours of the night, and I don’t have the time....
...“I’m sure if they could go back to the past, they would still do the same because that’s a question of react or die.”...
...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)....
...“I’m thinking of joining my mom working as a maid because I can’t find any better job.”...
...“I’m ready for that.” Her comments proved prescient....
...“I’m a risk-taker,” he says, leaning back on a sofa in his Silicon Valley-style open-plan office on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial capital. “You say: ‘Let’s just do this.’...
...Huynh Duc Tho, director of the planning and investment department of the Danang government, believes that other provincial governments will have to change their mindset if they want to replicate his city...
...Sev Vettivetpillai, chief executive of London-based Aureos Advisers, which provides advice to the group’s funds, said: “In the medium term, the next five years, the two places I’m hugely excited about are...
...The lanes we are interested in run off the southern flank of Le Thanh Ton....
...Over at Ben Thanh Market, the sheer quantity of stuff on sale is breathtaking....
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