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Vietnam bureau chief, Bloomberg News; formerly @mercnews Retweet ≠ endorsement.
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"We put aside 70% of our rooms to serve Russian tourists." Still hurting from pandemic lockdowns, vacation spots in Vietnam were counting on the big-spending visitors from Russia. That is, until the Ukraine invasion stalled travel, reports @ngxuanquynh
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Filthy air: 46 of the 50 most polluted cities in the world are in Asia
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An analysis of real-time monitoring data shows wide disparities in deadly air pollution among nations as climate change makes the air dirtier.
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Happy returns are so last Christmas
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Merchants won customers’ hearts with lenient return policies. Now the strategy is backfiring, with dire financial and environmental consequences.
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An omicron outbreak in China is sending jitters through supply chains as manufacturers and shippers brace for disruption inside virus-hit China
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An omicron outbreak in China is sending jitters through supply chains as manufacturers and shippers brace for disruption inside the world’s-biggest trading nation if it can’t contain the fast-sprea...
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These are the best places to be during Covid: 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇪🇸 Spain 🇦🇪 UAE https://t.co/uOq2yGaOUv
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Bloomberg measured travel, vaccine coverage, lockdown disruption and mortality rates.
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China's exporters are hiking prices by as much as 20% — and are not afraid of losing customers
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Business is booming for Zhejiang Zhendong Leisure Products, which churns out about 1 million folding chairs a year from its factory in eastern China, many of which end up on American porches and...
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If you're hoping for a light at the end of the Covid tunnel, scientists have some bad news for you.
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Ireland is now the best place to be during Covid. See where your country ranks in Bloomberg’s latest Covid Resilience Ranking. https://t.co/4fTcUPglVd via @bbgvisualdata
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Bloomberg measured travel, vaccine coverage, lockdown disruption and mortality rates.
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NEW: Here's what scientists say the next six months of the pandemic will bring. If you're hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel, they've got some bad news. Read The Big Take ➡️
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The race between vaccinations and new variants won’t end until Covid-19 has touched almost everyone.
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Update from Singapore: The @VP's departure has been delayed for an unknown reason. We were supposed to take off for Hanoi at 4pm local and after holding in the motorcade for 40 minutes, were told to go back to our hotel rooms we no longer had room keys to.
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Vice President Kamala Harris departed Singapore more than three hours late on Tuesday because of concerns about “an anomalous health incident” in Hanoi, her next destination, the State Department...
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“The new leaders will also have to carefully position Vietnam between the U.S. and China.” Vietnam’s Communist Party nominated Pham Minh Chinh, an ex-security official to be the country’s next PM. @ngxuanquynh explains the new leadership. More: https://t.co/PjPMzfSVgp
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AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine has been marked by noble intentions, communication blunders, messy trials, manufacturing nightmares, and political and economic rivalry. How did everything go so wrong?
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A series of unforced errors by the British pharma company has turned hope into hesitancy.
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Vietnam’s economic growth below expectations in first quarter https://t.co/nYRGphc5hc via @markets
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Vietnam’s economy remains on track to meet the government’s goal for the year, with officials bracing for a resurgence of demand that could send inflation to its highest level in years.
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Fry’s Electronics says it is going out of business permanently // Consumer electronics icon blames coronavirus and online shopping for its demise #economy #jobs #retail #tech #layoffs #unemployment #FrysElectronics
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Vietnam, one of the world’s 5 remaining Communist states, is about to get new leadership. Bloomberg’s Quynh Nguyen reports from the 13th Party Congress in Hanoi, the secretive meeting where the country’s next leaders are selected. More: https://t.co/j3HsYyY6Fh
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Tran Dinh Long had no experience in steel when he decided to gatecrash the industry back in the mid-1990s, betting Vietnam was going to need a lot more of it as the country developed. https://t.co/DUFt6NAqgk
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Tran Dinh Long had no experience in steel when he decided to gatecrash the industry back in the mid-1990s, betting Vietnam was going to need a lot more of it as the country developed.
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Dog in Vietnam guards owner’s grave for three years https://t.co/LeeVXnq6ni via @SCMPNews
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Mino, a dog in southern Vietnam, has spent the past three years at the grave of her owner. Adopted by the family in Long An province, the dog grew particularly close to one of the young…
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VIDEO: Disney-themed Christmas lights dazzle in Taiwan. Crowds are flocking to Taipei's annual Christmas Land lights festival. Taiwan is one of the few places in the world that has not imposed lockdowns during the pandemic
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