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Vietnam's party chief welcomes new trade deal with U.S.
The Malaysian Star
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July 2, 2025
HANOI, July 2 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam on Wednesday welcomed a new trade agreement with the United States during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, Vietnam News Agency...
Why Are Big Tech Oligarchs Getting Away With Playing God With Our Weather?
Canada Free Press
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When Will Blaming ‘Global Warming’ End & Blaming Big Tech Oligarchs Begin? If only some elected official, authority or bureaucrat had read and paid heed to Canada Free Press senior columnist Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh on June 11—one month before the...
Turning Point: The Vietnam War – A poignant reminder
South Asia Times
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July 8, 2025
MELBOURNE, 2025: As a graduate student at the University of Delhi in the early 1970s, I witnessed the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Vietnam War dominate the vibrant political discourse at the campus Coffee House. The 20-month-long internal...
Swiss firms hopeful about Vietnam’s int’l financial center
People's Army Newspaper
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The plan, enshrined in a resolution passed by the Vietnamese National Assembly on June 27, will create regulatory sandboxes for financial technology. As part of a push to drag Vietnam’s financial system into the modern age while slashing red tape,...
Quynh Pham On Two Decades of Galerie Quynh and Vietnam’s Evolving Art Scene
The New York Observer
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July 7, 2025
Sue Hajdu, MAGMA | we’re not counting sheep, 2006/2025; site-specific installation and performance; dimensions variable. Courtesy of Galerie Quynh Vietnam is not yet a global art destination, but the country’s art scene is vibrant and rapidly...
Nautitech Targets Global Mining Growth with India Expansion Amid Safety Tech Push | All Ordinaries
Kalkine Media
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July 8, 2025
Highlights Nautitech introduces its Methane Master system to India's mining sector Austrade facilitates local engagement and strategic industry links Global efforts continue with product showcases across key mining regions Nautitech Mining...
Tetra Pak expands packaging plant in Vietnam with EUR217 million investment
ScandAsia
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July 6, 2025
Swedish packaging giant Tetra Pak has inaugurated a major expansion of its aseptic packaging plant in Ho Chi Minh City, increasing total investment in the facility to EUR217 million. The second-phase expansion, worth EUR97 million, adds advanced...
Vietnam inaugurates first paper-based food packaging line
People's Army Newspaper
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The line will begin full operation this month at Doveco’s Son La factory, a key agro-processing hub in the northwest region. The Tetra Recart® packaging solution allows food to be sterilized and preserved without the need for refrigeration or...
Bankers hope to mimic Vietnam deal
Bangkok Post
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July 8, 2025
PUBLISHED : 9 Jul 2025 at 04:52 The US's proposed 36% tariff on Thai goods is likely to severely undermine Thailand's export competitiveness, warn economists in the banking sector. The best outcome Thailand can likely secure in trade negotiations...
Vietnam issues urgent nationwidec warning as online scams surge
The Nation Thailand
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July 1, 2025
Vietnamese authorities have issued a nationwide alert over a surge in online scams, warning that cybercrime is becoming a serious and fast-growing threat across the country. Addressing a recent anti-fraud awareness event, Colonel Nguyen Huy Luc,...
Vietnam, Italy’s Lombardy region step up cooperative ties
VietnamPlus
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July 2, 2025
Rome (VNA) – Vietnam has attached much importance to its Strategic Partnership with Italy and wants to deepen the bilateral relations in a substantive and effective manner across all areas, including cooperation between its localities and Lombardy...
What Vietnam’s Scarred Lands Reveal About Modern Warfare
SAPIENS - New York
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July 8, 2025
“Rome Plows,” massive bulldozers with an armor-fortified cutting blade, could clear 1,000 acres a day. Enormous concussive bombs, known as “daisy cutters,” flattened forests and set off shock waves killing everything within a 3,000-foot radius,...
Vietnam, Italy hold 5th defence policy dialogue
Azertag
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July 2, 2025
Baku, July 2, AZERTAC Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien and Italian Undersecretary of State for Defence Matteo Perego di Cremnago co-chaired the 5th Vietnam – Italy Defence Policy Dialogue in...
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China overtakes US to become world’s R&D research leader on the back Trump’s academic research cuts
BNE Intellinews
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China’s lead over the United States in global scientific output has leapt, as new data shows that the gap between the two powers has more than quadrupled in the space of a year, according to Nature’s 2025 index of research papers published in the...
30 Years of Vietnam-US Relations: From Confrontation to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Vietnam Pictorial
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July 7, 2025
08/07/2025 Fifty years since the war's end and marking 30 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United states (July 12, 1995 - July 12, 2025), the two nations' relationship has made remarkable strides. This progress aligns with the...
Beyond FDI: Vietnam’s Moment for Tech Upgrading
Fulcrum
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July 8, 2025
To move up the technology value chain, Vietnam needs to think beyond foreign direct investment and focus on upgrading domestic capacity. As an emerging and dynamic economy in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been rapidly integrating itself into global...
Rethinking Stability: Why Young Vietnamese Are Opting Out of Pensions, Parenthood, and Property
The Vietnamese Magazine
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July 8, 2025
Lê Hướng Dương wrote this article in Vietnamese, published in Luat Khoa Magazine on February 13, 2025. For generations, stability was the ultimate goal in Việt Nam: a steady job, a secure home, and a family to grow old with. But for many young...
Top legislator’s trip to promote parliamentary diplomacy in fostering peace, cooperation: Deputy FM
Vietnam Pictorial
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July 19, 2025
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man. Photo: VNA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Hoang Giang has laid stress on the significance of National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man’s attendance at the sixth World Conference of Speakers...
Vietnam as BRICS partner strengthens Southeast Asian, Global South voices
China Daily Global
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A young couple from Vietnam sell fruit pastries and Vietnamese coffee in Dongxing, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in April. Cross-border trade has thrived in the small city, which borders Vietnam's Mang Cai. ZHAI LIQIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE...
Is China Dodging US Tariffs? Direct Exports To America Plunge 43% As Vietnam And Indonesia See Big Spurts: Report
Benzinga
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China’s exports to the United States have plunged over 43% year-over-year in May, representing a $15 billion drop in trade value, yet at the same time, China’s total exports have increased 4.8%, according to official figures, despite the trade and...