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...Gold is a major means of payment (especially) for the unofficial trading,” says Trung Khans Huynh, a Ho Chi Minh City gold expert. China limits gold exports to the equivalent of $50,000 per resident....
...Narrated by his chi, or guardian spirit, this rich, rewarding book was described in the FT as “an intricately wrought and powerful study of a man caught in the jaws of fate”....
...“We tried our best to shorten the time to market,” Mr Trung said of the phone project, which the company said it executed in just six months....
...The group based its findings on a survey of 300 consumers aged 30-55 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s two largest cities....
...In November, the US charged its director, former Hong Kong home secretary Patrick Ho Chi-ping, with corruption in Africa....
...TA Associates, a private equity firm, has appointed Jessica Cohen, who is rejoining, as a vice-president in Boston. The company also promoted Stefan Dandl and Jérémy Dréan as vice-presidents in London....
...Southeast Asian Nations (excluding Singapore) in 2015 found that Vietnam was the only country where Starbucks was not ranked as the most frequently visited chain thanks to prevalence of homegrown favourites Trung...
...The third fair, Art in the City Festival, was aimed squarely at the beginner collector and held in the chi K11 museum....
...Mr Ha says Nguyen Van Hai was sentenced to 12 years, Ta Phong Tan received 10 and Phan Thanh Hai four years....
...At the same time as Nestlé is raising its game, so are local competitors such as Trung Nguyen and Thai Hoa....
...Nguyen Cong Tuong, deputy head of sales at the Saigon Jewellery Company in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the slowdown was a reaction to the expected government restrictions....
...The first Trung Nguyên coffee shop opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 1998, and by 2010 there were more than 1,000 across Vietnam....
...Despite the sudden shutdown of the Hanoi black market, the unofficial trade in dollars appeared to be continuing as normal in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial capital....
...That has forced the Ho Chi Minh City-based company to cut its annual turnover and profit targets by 10 per cent....
...The company’s position is stable, helped by a good relationship with its lenders, said Nguyen Viet Trung, a manager at VKX’s factory in Hanoi....
...Nguyen Tien Trung, 26, and Le Thang Long, 42, were convicted of "activities aimed at subverting the people's administration”....
...The new electoral system applied in this election helped the KMT a lot,” said Liao Ta-chi, a political science professor at Chungshan University....
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