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Infrastructure as Strategy: How Vietnam Rewires Indochina through Ports and Roads Published Vietnam is often portrayed as losing influence in Laos and Cambodia to China. But the construction of key infrastructure gives Hanoi some measure of agency. [1]

AFP A typhoon that ripped roofs off homes has killed dozens of people across Vietnam and the Philippines, officials from both countries said on Monday, as a weakened storm Bualoi crossed into neighbouring Laos. [2]

HANOI — Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. [3]

TOKYO/HANOI -- The U.S.-China trade war is stoking fears of another steel glut, which has Vietnam's largest steelmaker thinking about putting plans for a third blast furnace on hold. [4]

The Nikkei Asian Review continues to track the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Follow the latest updates here. [5]

Thousands of people in central Vietnam demonstrated peacefully on Sunday against government plans to lease new economic zones to foreign investors, witnesses told Reuters, a few days after protesters in a nearby province clashed with police. [6]

NGHE AN, Vietnam—With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vi... [7]

Factory in Haiphong gets sister plant in Ha Tinh province as the company aims to dominate domestic and regional markets [8]

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[1] TH fulcrum.sg · 2026-02-13 · 65% match

Infrastructure as Strategy: How Vietnam Rewires Indochina through Ports and Roads

Infrastructure as Strategy: How Vietnam Rewires Indochina through Ports and Roads Published Vietnam is often portrayed as losing influence in Laos and Cambodia to China. But the construction of key infrastructure gives Hanoi some measure of agency.

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-09-30 · 71% match

Typhoon Bualoi kills dozens in Vietnam and Philippines

AFP A typhoon that ripped roofs off homes has killed dozens of people across Vietnam and the Philippines, officials from both countries said on Monday, as a weakened storm Bualoi crossed into neighbouring Laos.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-05-15 · 75% match

Vietnam Mobs Set Fire to Foreign Factories, 20 Killed in Anti-China Riots

HANOI — Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-06-24 · 75% match

Vietnam shivers as China's steel capacity glut returns

TOKYO/HANOI -- The U.S.-China trade war is stoking fears of another steel glut, which has Vietnam's largest steelmaker thinking about putting plans for a third blast furnace on hold.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-02-01 · 72% match

Coronavirus: How the outbreak unfolded from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1

The Nikkei Asian Review continues to track the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Follow the latest updates here.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-06-18 · 71% match

Thousands Protest in Vietnam Against Foreign Investment Plans

Thousands of people in central Vietnam demonstrated peacefully on Sunday against government plans to lease new economic zones to foreign investors, witnesses told Reuters, a few days after protesters in a nearby province clashed with police.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-11-28 · 71% match

Vietnam Receives First Group of Bodies Found in Truck in Britain

NGHE AN, Vietnam—With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vi

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-11-12 · 40% match

VinFast opens door to EV era in Vietnam

Factory in Haiphong gets sister plant in Ha Tinh province as the company aims to dominate domestic and regional markets

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-12-12 · 40% match

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[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-11-24 · 40% match

Vietnam

Prices tumble after collapse of crop's key export market as border remains closed Deloitte report shows shift to larger deals, number declines in Indonesia, Thailand Ministry rallies local companies in effort to foster domestic technology Chair notes

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