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Hong Kong Customs seized about 10.2 million suspected illicit cigarettes with an estimated market value of about $28 million at the Tsing Yi Customs Cargo Examination Compound on Thursday. Customs officers found the consignment inside a 40-foot transshipment container, declared to be carrying plastic bins. It had arrived from Vietnam…

Pham Doan Trang was sentenced to nine years in prison for “anti-state propaganda” in December. Photo: Paul Mooney This week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced jailed Vietnamese dissident journalist Pham Doan Trang as a winner of the International Women of Courage prize—an annual award given by the Department of…

Baked Lime Pork Spring Rolls By: Georgia Harding These are like a traditional Vietnamese spring roll — wrapped in a lettuce cup with a zesty sauce. I think it’s the best way to enjoy spring rolls. Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 500g pork mince 1 bunch spring onions, thinly sliced…

Experiential retail, which integrates shopping with engaging and interactive entertainment, can be a game changer for businesses and direct-to-consumer merchants. According to a 2021 report by market research firm GWI, one-third of consumers say it’s important for them to be entertained when they shop. In another report by property consultancy…

An international team of researchers has described a new species of the tree frog genus Theloderma from northeastern Vietnam. Theloderma khoii, holotype, male, in life. Image credit: Ninh et al., doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.794.1655. The genus Theloderma is a poorly known group of tree frogs due to their cryptic habits and because…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comHANOI, March 15 (Reuters) - A consortium of South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp (028260.KS) and Vietnam's Lilama Corp has won a $940 million contract to build Vietnam's first LNG-fired power plants, Lilama said in a statement on Tuesday Under the engineering, procurement and…

‘Shocking’ spike in deaths coincides with vaccine mandates, booster shots Art Moore WND News Center CDC data shows the Millennial generation suffered a “Vietnam War event,” with more than 61,000 excess deaths in that age group in the second half of 2021, according to an analysis by a former Wall…

Nguyen Thi Hoa’s rice farmer parents thought their daughter could have a better life if she learned English to get a job. She chose Chinese instead and is now in her final year of college in Vietnam. Her timing could hardly have been better. From Apple suppliers Foxconn and GoerTek…

That’s the view of Isabelle Decitre and Vandana Dhaul from investment and advisory firm ID Capital, the organisers of the Future Food Asia Awards​. Indian insights​Dhaul told us there was a groundswell of start-up activity in India, but much of it was stemming from the public sector, mentioning one initiative…

Nguyen Thai Hai Van joined the super app in November 2019 after spending 17 years at Unilever Vietnam...Read More