Posts Tagged ‘ successful ’

Taking care of business 

October 23, 2011
Taking care of business 

  The owner of Vietnam’s first private company after doi moi says entrepreneurs need to know their society in and out – politically and historically – not just economically Nguyen Tran Bat, chairman and general director of Invest Consult Group. Nguyen Tran Bat says the best business decision he ever made had little to do [...]

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Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

June 4, 2011
Media ‘collision’ creates winners and losers, expert says 

Geof Heydon, vice president of Digital Economy at Alcatel-Lucent in Australia. Broadcasters, policy makers, regulators, and experts in media sector have met in Hanoi on May 24-25 for the 8th Asia Media Summit, which was viewed as a significant platform to address challenges and to identify opportunities in the new age of digital economy. The [...]

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Business is for the adventurous 

January 22, 2011
Business is for the adventurous 

Dang Thanh Tam, chairman of Saigon Invest Group and Kinh Bac City Development Share Holdings Corp., poses for a portrait in Hanoi. Businesspersons must be adventurous and explore new opportunities every day, says Dang Thanh Tam, Vietnam’s third richest businessman in the stock market in 2010. In an exclusive interview with Thanh Nien Weekly, Tam [...]

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Toilets are serious business

January 24, 2010
Toilets are serious business

A man enters a public toilet on Ham Nghi Street, Ho Chi Minh City. A talk with Jack Sim, the “Toilet King” Jack Sim is the founder of the World Toilet Organization (WTO), whose mission is to increase awareness of and accessibility to sanitation throughout the world.Jack accomplishes this mission by organizing social activities and [...]

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Foreign-adapted TV struggles to find foothold in Vietnam

January 16, 2010
Foreign-adapted TV struggles to find foothold in Vietnam

With the exception of a few standouts, Vietnamese versions of world-famous TV series have struggled with success. A scene from “Co nang bat dac di” (An unwilling girl), a Vietnamese remake of the Argentinian series “Lalola.” The series was forced to stop after 100 episodes instead of 150 as outlined in an original contract, due [...]

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Poverty reduction in Vietnam remains ‘a work in progress’

December 19, 2009
Poverty reduction in Vietnam remains ‘a work in progress’

Nick Freeman, Senior Advisor to the Vietnam Challenge Fund, tells Thanh Nien Weekly about the role a new US$3 million co-financing grant instrument will play in poverty alleviation. Challenge funds originated in the UK. Even though the model has been applied to other countries, how can we be sure it will work in Vietnam’s particular [...]

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Behind every successful singer is a savvy agency

September 15, 2009
Behind every successful singer is a savvy agency

LookAtVietnam – Ngo Kien Huy, who began his career as an unknown singer, has become a heartthrob among southern teenagers. Singer Cam Ly has cultivated a unique style with the help of her agency, Kim Loi Studios. Huy graduated from a prestigious music school two years ago but found it hard to make any impression [...]

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Being himself

July 7, 2009
Being himself

Creative director Dao Hong Long, better known as Long Kan After studying for years as an aspiring architect, Long Kan gave it all up to pursue his dreams of style and glamour in the advertising world. Successful ad-executive Long Kan says his job is not to make his subjects beautiful, but to bring out their [...]

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An uphill battle

July 2, 2009
An uphill battle

Singer Dam Vinh Hung (front, R) performs in his US concert last month Local musicians face daunting prospects these days in staging profitable overseas concerts. In the last few years, more and more local musicians have been performing abroad, introducing themselves and Vietnamese music to foreign audiences. Singers such as Le Quang, Dam Vinh Hung, [...]

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Airbus delivers 1st China-assembled A320 jet

June 23, 2009
Airbus delivers 1st China-assembled A320 jet

Airbus delivered its first China-assembled A320 jet on Tuesday in the northern port city of Tianjin, the base of the manufacturer’s only final assembly line outside Europe. Airbus President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Enders (3rd R) and Zhang Gaoli (4th R), chief of the Communist Party of China’s Tianjin Municipal Committee and other guests [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...