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...“Efforts to subject those services to very harsh controls [send a] negative message,” said Vu Tu Thanh, Vietnam representative at the US-Asean Business Council, whose members include Google and Facebook...
...However, Tu Le, managing director at advisory firm Sino Auto Insights, said the US blacklisting, if fully implemented, would hamper Huawei’s prospects since much of the technology is from the US....
...Dang Trung Kien, chairman of Truong Thanh Vietnam Group, an industrial conglomerate, said his company decided against investing in the two provinces and was currently building three solar projects elsewhere...
...Do Thanh Huyen, a Hanoi professional, told me she was contacted by a Vingroup official after she posted a complaint on Facebook about a cement mixer at a Vinhomes development that was blocking the pavement...
...On the Vietnamese side, on the other hand, there are the works of Bao Ninh and Dang Thuy Tram — the former the author of a gloomy in-the-trenches novel, The Sorrow of War, the latter a tragic young North...
...“Korea is very strong in entertainment,” says Hana Dang, a Vietnamese media executive, who also cites the proliferation of South Korean soap operas and K-Pop music....
...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)....
...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...
...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...
...“Last year was the worst for 20 years,” says Dang Thanh Tam, one of the wealthiest of Vietnam’s first generation of tycoons and a member of Vietnam’s Communist party-controlled parliament since last year...
...Vietnam has taken a small step toward the Chinese model of co-opting business people into the Communist-ruled regime after Dang Thanh Tam, one of Vietnam’s richest men, was elected to the National Assembly...
...Mr Huan is one of more than a dozen business people standing for election to the national assembly on Sunday, including one of Vietnam’s richest men, Dang Thanh Tam, and his sister, Dang Thi Hoang Yen, also...
...Vu Thanh Tu Anh, director of research at the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City, said supermarkets were fast becoming a lifestyle choice for the middle class....
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