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...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...
...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....
...Ta Thi Thanh Tan, who works for a foreign manufacturing company and tutors in her spare time, will be heading to Angkor Wat in Cambodia for Tet — her first foreign trip and the first new year “that I am...
...When Tran Qui Thanh launched his first business in 1977, he accepted only gold in exchange for the yeast he processed in a small room in war-ravaged southern Vietnam....
...Instead I went to the Long Thanh Golf Club, which is some 40 minutes east of the city centre....
...They include Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s eldest son, Nguyen Thanh Nghi, 39, who was recently elected as Communist party chief in Kien Gang province....
...He is also married to Nguyen Thanh Phuong, a financier who is the daughter of the country’s prime minister....
...Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research, said the plans lacked detailed goals....
...Mr Ha says Nguyen Van Hai was sentenced to 12 years, Ta Phong Tan received 10 and Phan Thanh Hai four years....
...Vietnam’s minister of public security announced on Wednesday that Pham Thanh Tan (pictured left), ex-chief of the state-owned Agribank, had been arrested for “irresponsibly causing serious consequences.”...
...Vu Thanh Tu Anh, the director of research at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City, says that from 2006 to 2010, state-owned companies absorbed 45 per cent of investment in Vietnam...
...He is also said to be a close ally of the prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung....
...Not long after Ms Yen and her brother Dang Thanh Tam became the first tycoons to be elected to the country’s Communist party-controlled parliament, or National Assembly, last year, they came under personal...
...The fallout from the scandal has spread far and wide, with Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime minister, having to fend off a serious challenge to his leadership....
...“These are brazen steps,” says one person close to the Communist Party’s old guard, disquieted by the way that under Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime minister, patronage politics is displacing the previous, more...
...Like most border areas, Tan Thanh has an “anything goes”, Wild West feel. But it is testament to the ingenuity of Vietnamese traders....
...Phan Thu Ha, a 40-year-old housewife who bought an apartment in the Botanic Towers complex in Phu Nhuan district in 2010, is one of many small investors sitting on substantial paper losses....
...His wife is Nguyen Thanh Phuong, daughter of Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, and a rising star in the financial sector. The entrepreneurs also worry about the pace of change....
...“It’s like magic,” says Minh’s wife Phan Ngoc Thanh Van, speaking through a high metal security fence as hundreds of the lucrative birds fly back into the house at sunset....
...“Mr Thanh is very bold and, once he has worked out whether you are serious, he gives investors a sense of commitment and delivery,” says Mr Tan, who runs a chain of international schools across Vietnam....
...Many say the company was handicapped by Pham Thanh Binh, the founding chief executive whose vow to make Vietnam the world’s fourth-largest shipbuilder turned into expansionist hubris....
...Phan Thanh Vinh, aged 44, with a hammer....
...Over at Ben Thanh Market, the sheer quantity of stuff on sale is breathtaking....
...Nam Phan offers French food in a carefully restored French villa....
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