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...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Nguyen recalls seeing this verbalised in a sign: “ANOTHER AMERICAN DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS BY THE VIETNAMESE.”...
...He was the latest casualty in a years-long corruption crackdown led by Communist party secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong....
...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....
...“This causes hesitancy for foreign companies who want to make big investments in Vietnam,” he said....
...“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 version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 23. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Nguyen Khac Giang, a Vietnamese research fellow at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said he did not believe Vietnam’s economy would be significantly affected by the canal “given the relatively...
...Vietnam’s central bank this month cut interest rates by 50 basis points, its fourth reduction this year....
...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...
...Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded — exhibits Van...
...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....
...“From a technical point of view, I haven’t seen anything like this,” says Rachel Terry of Van Oord, a Dutch maritime engineering firm, which supplied two ships for the project....
...Which leads to my question for you, Rana: if Afghanistan collapses — and President Ashraf Ghani becomes Biden’s Nguyen Van Thieu, the former South Vietnam president — will this president pay any price, politically...
...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)....
...Others argue that this is still a necessary evil....
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
...Amsterdam, in van Tongeren’s name....
...The oldest was Le Trong Thanh, a 44-year-old man from Dien Chau....
...Head-on competition with Thai sugar producers “is going to be very tough,” Nguyen Van Loc, secretary-general of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA), told scoutAsia Research....
...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...
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