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...village reportedly tied up and beat a local official. Witnesses say some shouted for the Kinh to leave. In a country where open opposition is rare and dealt with harshly, the riots amounted to Vietnam's worst unrest since 1997 when thousands of villagers in northeastern Thai Binh province protested against land distribution by corrupt officials...
...could. Analysts around Asia are watching to see if Heinecke, the man who built Pizza Hut into the stomach-share king of the nascent Thai pizza market, can mount an Oedipal (and edible) challenge to his former employer with his new enterprise. They've doubted him before. In 1980, when the young American expatriate opened the region's first Pizza Hut in the Thai beach town of Pattaya, even his friends were sure he would fail. Thais don't eat cheese. Thais don't eat bread. And so Thais certainly won't eat pizza, they reasoned. More than 100 pizza...
...Pizza Hut split in January in a dispute over franchising rights. But Heinecke would not give up any slice of the pizza pie without a fight. On March 17, after a $10 million, 45-day operation, he reopened and rebranded his 116 stores as the Pizza Company, the first Thai-based pizza chain. Tricon International, the multinational conglomerate that owns Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, has deployed its heavy artillery to quash the rebellion, opening 68 brand-new Pizza Huts throughout Thailand. "It's a battle between market experience versus brand loyalty,'' says Christopher Bruton, managing director...
...went from zero to 70% market share in our first weekend,'' he says. His new company even set a record for pizza deliveries in a single day. But a weekend skirmish doesn't decide a war. Heinecke contends that Tricon's head office in Dallas has given its Thai unit an unlimited budget to drive him into the ground. "They're out to kill us,'' he says...
...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...