Word: nguyens
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...with pressure mounting, investigators announced they had caught a Taiwanese-owned monosodium glutamate factory red-handed. Though it had taken three months of undercover work, inspectors discovered that Vedan Vietnam, a foreign-owned company, was illegally dumping untreated waste into the river. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Pham Khoi Nguyen called it "not just a violation but, in fact, treacherous behavior." An unprecedented crackdown followed: a Korean MSG manufacturer was nabbed dumping toxic waste. Several foreign-owned starch factories, which can release cyanide during processing, were shut down. On October 10, inspectors caught a Vietnamese leather tanning company pumping carcinogenic...
...that you I'm reading about?" asks Nguyen Van Dung's aunt, phoning from the U.S. Her nephew and I had just sat down in a Hanoi café to talk about Bong, a book about his life as a gay man in Vietnam, when she called his cell phone...
...Indian Industry. That problem has left some officials uncertain how to proceed, especially in countries such as Vietnam, which joined the World Trade Organization last year and has been opening up its economy to market forces. Vietnam suffers from the highest inflation in Asia; the country's Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, recently acknowledged during an interview with TIME that "promptly responding to adverse impacts of the global economy is a relatively new matter...
...When Nguyen Tan Dung became Prime Minister of Vietnam two years ago, the former central bank governor was widely viewed as a progressive who would continue to drive the communist country's remarkable transition from moribund planned economy to a booming capitalist one. But this year, Vietnam's outlook has dimmed. While GDP growth remains strong at more than 7%, the inflation rate has rocketed to 25%, there have been a large number of outbreaks of labor unrest and the stock market has plunged by nearly two-thirds since January, making it the worst-performing in the world...
With raunchy comedies becoming the latest Hollywood trend in the last couple of years, do you believe comedic cinema is regressing? -Sara Nguyen in HARRISBURG, PAI think it's all cyclical. I think things having to do with comedy just change, and it's so subjective. What makes one person laugh will definitely not make another laugh, and I don't think there's any one universally funny thing. That's why there are so many different veins of comedy. Slapstick has been around forever, gross out humor, stoner humor, drier stuff, romantic comedy, there are all sorts of different...