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...billion of the total $6.2 billion. Saigon's share was $738 million. In the past five years, numerous foreign manufacturers have set up shop in the capital, among them Fujitsu, LG Electronics and Daewoo. "People used to say the south was the best place to do business," says Nguyen Anh Tuan, deputy director of Vietnam's Foreign Investment Agency. "But now, that point of view is no longer correct." Tuan may be biased-his office is in Hanoi-but even Luong Van Ly, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's planning and investment department, is forced to grudgingly admit...
Many countries would crow about the arrest of their most wanted terrorist, but that hasn't been the case with Vietnam's Nguyen Huu Chanh. The former refugee and onetime leader of the California-based Government of Free Vietnam was reportedly detained in South Korea on April 5. Yet it was nearly a week before the news was made public?and then only by Chanh's U.S. supporters, who accuse Seoul of bowing to pressure from Hanoi to seize a man they say is a prominent pro-democracy activist. Last week, some 200 Vietnamese-Americans marched on the South Korean...
...with a nothing-to-lose attitude, and put on a display of its best tennis of the year, defeating powerhouse Penn Friday and Princeton Saturday to improve its Ivy record to 2-2.“After those two losses, it was devastating,” said sophomore Dan Nguyen, who won both of his matches this weekend, including winning the decisive point against the Tigers (6-12, 1-4 Ivy). “It was a shock because we lost to two teams that are not usually considered the powerhouses in the Ivy League,” he added...
...failing to prevent corruption amid a scandal in which ministry officials stand accused of embezzling up to $7 million in government funds to bet on soccer matches; in Hanoi. Binh, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing himself, resigned last Tuesday, hours before the arrest of his deputy, Nguyen Viet Tien, charged with violating government rules on fiscal responsibility. The scandal erupted in January when Bui Tien Dung, the head of a ministry road-building unit, was arrested on suspicion of corruption...
...give the Crimson a chance of securing the doubles point. The most frustrating match of the day, however, happened at the doubles third position, where Harvard essentially lost the game on its own. Jared Drucker and Dan Urban of the Lions edged out junior Shantanu Dhaka and sophomore Dan Nguyen, 9-8 (2), as the Crimson continued to struggle in close matches, picking up the crucial doubles point that would make the difference in the game. “The other [doubles] team had more energy and picked it up towards the end,” Kumar said...