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...levels in the north at critical lows, the state-owned electricity company says it can't let go of much more; power demand is expected to break records as temperatures soar this month. Even with the small amount released, Nguyen Van Thang, director of the agriculture department in Vinh Phuc province, is not hopeful. High temperatures and evaporation are the enemy. "Even if farmers bail every single drop of water to nurture the rice," he says, he fears that a third of the rice crop in his province could be lost. (See TIME's photo-essay "China-Vietnam Border...
...manufacturing base. The country boasts one of the world's highest literacy rates, a young labor force that adds a million new workers each year and a growing internal market. "Vietnam is trying to position itself as 'If not China, then Vietnam,'" says Intel Vietnam's director Than Trong Phuc. "It's a pretty good strategy...
...year or next, garment exports are projected to double to $10 billion by 2010. Vietnam is already the world's largest pepper exporter, and the second largest exporter of rice, cashews and coffee. "Now that it's getting attention, Vietnam's job is not to disappoint investors," Intel's Phuc says...
...sign the disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam as early as last July, six months before the government officially acknowledged the emergence of avian flu. Giapfa Comfeed Vietnam Ltd., a poultry company in Vinh Phuc's Tam Duong district, told TIME that 20,000 of its chickens died with symptoms correlating with avian...
Since last spring, Murray worked with Phuc V. Truong '98, Wellie W. Chao '98 and Seth P. Sternglanz '98 to develop the new system. The three seniors have formed their own company, Crimson Solutions...