January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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December 21, 2011
A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington, December 15, 2011. Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Amazon hired an investment bank this summer to review [...]
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September 20, 2011
Honda motorcycles are prepared for delivery to customers in downtown Hanoi. Honda is among the foreign investors who are continuing to increase investment in Vietnam. Job generation should not be focus of foreign direct investment (FDI), Nguyen Mai, former vice chairman of the State Commission for Cooperation and Investment, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in [...]
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June 13, 2011
Models pose with Samsung Electronics’ new smartphone Galaxy S II at the company’s headquarters in Seoul in this April 28, 2011 file photo. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will become the world’s largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura said on Monday. In the next quarter [...]
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May 27, 2011
Models pose with Samsung Electronics' new smartphone Galaxy S II at the company's headquarters in Seoul April 28, 2011. The proliferation of smartphones in South Korea is transforming this former "walled garden" ruled by local players into one of Asia’s most promising destinations for global Internet and social networking firms. A solid, wireless broadband infrastructure, [...]
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December 14, 2009
Even though they face low-priced competitors and imitations, brand name smart phones still sell well thanks to discounts, nice designs, modern technologies and the arrival of 3G in Vietnam. Recent studies by GfK Retail and Technology showed that the smart phone revenues have been on the rise, accounting for 13.4 percent of the market in [...]
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November 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The fact that big groups chose Vietnam as their production base is viewed as an opportunity for Vietnam to develop supporting industries. At the inauguration ceremony for the $670 million mobile phone production factory of Samsung Electronics Vietnam in late October 2009, Chairman Choi Gee Sung expressed thanks to representatives of the South [...]
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October 30, 2009
Samsung opens $700 mln cellphone plant in Bac Ninh; Vietnam fourth most confident country; WB helps develop agriculture in Central Highlands South Korea’s Samsung Electronics opened a US$700-million plant in Vietnam on Wednesday to make mobile handsets for both the local market and for export. The plant, located at Yen Phong Industrial Park in the [...]
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October 29, 2009
South Koreaâs Samsung Electronics opened a US$700-million plant in Vietnam on Wednesday to make mobile handsets for both the local market and for export. The plant, located at Yen Phong Industrial Park in the northern province of Bac Ninh, is the first cellphone plant in Vietnam and the seventh of Samsung in the world. The [...]
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October 29, 2009
Garments machinery, accessories on show in HCM City; Sacombank Securities prepares for IPO; Vietnam, France entrepreneurs boost cooperation Over 60 companies from 14 countries and territories worldwide are displaying their machinery and accessories that are used in the garments and textiles industry at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. The exhibition, known as AAMA-TEX [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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