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Vietnam's government is desperately seeking funds to finance badly needed infrastructure, including roads, trains and ports to sustain its recent fast economic growth record. Picture: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAT Finance, Vietnam

Downside risks abound for Vietnam’s 2020 economy

by David Hutt January 2, 2020February 18, 2020

Vietnam’s Communist Party leaders could be excused if their 2020 outlook is overly politicized. Apparatchiks and their respective factions are expected to begin jockeying for position ahead of the Party’s quinquennial National Party Congress in early 2021, where key leadership posts and policies will be decided. The country will also serve in 2020 as rotating […]

Vietnam has ambitious designs for its fast-rising technology sector. Image: Getty Images/iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Vietnam reaches for a homegrown tech revolution

by David Hutt September 27, 2018February 18, 2020
President Xi Jinping's administration is facing a catalog of domestic problems. Photo: AFP
Posted inChina, Middle East, World

President Xi’s China Dream collides with the ‘Impossible Trinity’

by Chris Taylor August 14, 2018February 18, 2020
Vietnamese fruits seller on floating market - woman selling fruit from her boat in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Beijing’s grand economic strategy for the Mekong

by William Holland June 8, 2018June 8, 2018
China's manufacturing conveyor belt is still humming along. Photo: iStock
Posted inBeijing, China, Japan, Middle East, Northeast Asia, World

Rustbelts & reform: revitalizing industrial bases

by William Holland June 5, 2018June 6, 2018
Photo: iStock
Posted inChina, World

China can be a high-income country by 2023: economist

by Asia Times staff October 24, 2017February 18, 2020

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