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...The EV producer, founded and run by Vietnam’s richest man Pham Nhat Vuong, said it intended to commit $500mn in the first phase of the project and would begin building the plant in Thoothukudi in the southern...
...Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has blamed the country’s finance ministry, securities regulator and central bank for their lack of oversight, according to state media....
...The company is the automotive unit of Vietnam’s largest private conglomerate, Vingroup, owned by billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong....
...VinFast’s billionaire founder Pham Nhat Vuong owns about 99 per cent of its shares, leaving only a small amount available for trading....
...“Vingroup and our chair will always support VinFast,” Le Thi Thu Thuy, the carmaker’s chief executive, told the Financial Times prior to its listing....
...Dang Tri Van, a water resources researcher at Vietnam’s Can Tho University....
...“We think that the EV market is wide open,” VinFast chief executive Le Thi Thu Thuy told the FT in her office in Hanoi....
...“That’s the fundamental, contradictory” choice for Vietnam, said Huong Le Thu, principal fellow at the think-tank Perth USAsia Centre, in an interview....
...“Vietnam is positioning itself in tech and [supply chains] quite successfully,” said Huong Le Thu, principal fellow at the think-tank Perth USAsia Center....
...The international push is a high-profile effort for Vingroup, which was founded by Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s richest man....
...Enjoy’s fleet of hundreds of mobile vans and thousands of service workers was a hint that it was a distinctly old-school business....
...Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, named in February in the communist party’s five-yearly leadership reshuffle, and his new government are hastening to secure and administer more vaccines and get the economy...
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi and Clive Cookson in London Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...“Until now, the coronavirus cases in Vietnam remain at a low rate with no deaths,” Le Thi Thu Hang said....
...Smart reads Rubbing elbows Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, Vinigroup’s Pham Nhat Vuong and ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming — these are just a few of Asia’s technology magnates that he US private equity shop KKR has...
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung and Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart...
...Le Thi Thu Thuy, Vingroup’s vice-chair, has described the company is a “cradle-to-grave” supplier of goods and services to a nation on the move....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Le Thu Hang, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, told the Financial Times that she “hoped that the Vietnamese side can share their experiences” in achieving “sustainable development goals”....
...“Of all the protesters, the government is most afraid of me,” declares Pham Thi Linh, who lives on rain-soaked land nearby with several cats....
...On Thursday evening, a court in the capital Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen, and Truong Minh Duc under charges of “activities aimed at overthrowing...
...Le Thu Ha, another human rights activist from the same group, was also released and exiled to Germany, the group said. Ms Ha is Mr Dai’s longtime assistant....
...“The area where we fish is Vietnamese water,” says Duong Van Rin, who manages 20 boats . “We aren’t violating any country’s waters.”...
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