Vietnamese press striving to offer more variety-illustration photo, freepik.com Since the opening of a studio in March, Vietnam Investment Review has held at least one talk show on average each week with increasingly diverse and expanding topics. Going beyond the rigid thinking that economic newspapers should only cover the economy, a number of events conducted by VIR about blockchain, plastics, empowering women, and are not only reflecting hot topics of public interest but still demonstrating human values and integrated economic factors. VIR has already been known as one of the leading economic newspapers, producing a number of special articles and publications each year in order to remain at the top of the Vietnamese press industry. By capturing new trends as well as utilising the foresight of generations of leaders, VIR is also associated with the success of a series of major annual events. These include the M&A Forum, the largest merger and acquisition forum in … [Read more...] about Vietnamese press striving to offer more variety
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MHT at forefront of global megatrends
Craig Bradshaw, CEO of Masan High-Tech Materials Corporation (MHT). — Photo courtesy of the firm Craig Bradshaw, CEO of Masan High-Tech Materials Corporation (MHT), shared the company's vision to become a leading integrated supplier of advanced high-tech materials critical to global innovation, and his thoughts on being the operator of the firm with the biggest tungsten deposits, at Nui Phao Mining in Thai Nguyen, northern Viet Nam. In the most severe time of COVID last year, MHT saw its most successful business year in its history, with tungsten output and recycling rates both reaching record highs. What is the secret to this success, and can you tell us about the Nui Phao Mine? When we first came in 2011, Nui Phao appeared to be paddy fields and buffalos. Over three years, we brought in the construction director and built a team of people to take it from an idea or a concept to a commercial operation. At the time we did that, that was the first new tungsten mine to be … [Read more...] about MHT at forefront of global megatrends
Vietnamese eleventh grader builds VW Beetle-style electric car
Your browser does not support the audio element. A Vietnamese eleventh grader has completed creating an electric vehicle that has basic parts of an ordinary car and can carry two people at the maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour. The 400-kilogram automobile, which harks back to the vintage Volkswagen Beetle design, was made by Ngo Viet Cuong, a student at Tong Van Tran High School in Nam Dinh Province, near Hanoi. Cuong has been interested in playing with engines and mechanical equipment since he was a little kid. His father, Ngo Van Ngoc, said the son had fun with new toys only for a few days before taking them apart and putting them back together. The child also tried fitting machine parts into tools he found in his father’s automobile repair shop. When Cuong grew older, he learned the basic workings of automobile engines while helping his father with sundry jobs in the garage. In grade ten, the student told his parents that he wanted to make a car of his own but … [Read more...] about Vietnamese eleventh grader builds VW Beetle-style electric car