Word: thang
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While Barack and Hillary are duking it out in Texas and Ohio, Harvard students have had another campaign on their minds as well this week: the bitter race for the next hot thang in the class...
...Japanese real estate giant, first looked to the south when it was planning to build a Vietnamese industrial park in 1997. But after comparing Saigon's infrastructure and labor costs, the developers chose Hanoi instead, and the gamble paid off. The first two phases of Sumitomo's 300-hectare Thang Long industrial park in Hanoi sold out last year, two years ahead of company projections. "It was a surprise," admits Shigeo Fukuda, senior director of Thang Long industrial park. "We're rushing to build our third phase as quickly as possible...
...have placed factories in the north harbor big plans of sending their finished products, from bathroom fixtures to digital cameras, to the mainland. On a small scale, that's already happening. Canon's Vietnam general director, Sachio Kageyama, says the company last year started exporting printers produced in the Thang Long industrial park to China. In January, a new highway was completed from Hanoi to the Chinese border, cutting the travel time to the Chinese industrial city of Nanning from two days to seven hours. "Hanoi is one of the best locations if you want to sell to China," says...
...Authorities hailed it as Vietnam's biggest-ever tax-fraud bust?proof, they claim, that the country is serious about tackling fraud and corruption. But another factor has tongues wagging both in Vietnam's boardrooms and at its noodle-soup stands. Thieu and his older brother Nguyen Trong Thang were known not just for their wealth?their private company boasted estimated revenue of $60 million in 2002?but for who they are. Born in Vietnam but raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once...
Where to find you on a Saturday night: Bouncing between Daedalus, Redline and the River Houses shakin’ my thang...