Category: Vietnam

The One Country That Can Replace China as the World’s Factory

Commentary For far too long, China has been the “world’s factory.” That sweater you’re wearing, check the tag. Does it say “Made in China”? Everything, it seems, is made in China—the Walmart of the World. Last year, as other countries were crippled by the pandemic, China’s manufacturing output, according to a Time report, was $3.854 trillion, “accounting for nearly a third…


Supply Chain Disorder Forces Fashion Manufacturing Exodus from Asia

Fashion businesses are shifting production away from low-cost manufacturing hubs in Asia, and toward their markets in the United States and Europe. This follows a spike in pandemic outbreaks of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus’s Delta variant in Vietnam and China earlier this year, according to Reuters. Spanish apparel retailer Mango told Reuters that…


Man Who Lived in Jungle 40 Years With ‘Superhuman’ Survival Skills Sees Big City, Ocean for First Time

Movies have been made, books written, and urban legends told of humans living deep in the jungle—like Tarzan—having little or no contact with other humans, nor modern society, for decades. Few will ever have a chance to meet a real-life Tarzan—though one emerged from the jungles of Vietnam relatively recently. And he shared his survival…


US and Foreign Companies Leaving China

News Analysis China is no longer the world’s manufacturer as U.S. and foreign companies are leaving in large numbers for a variety of reasons. Some of the factors that have caused companies to move their production facilities out of China include the following: the U.S.-China trade war and tariffs, intellectual property (IP) theft, sanctions imposed…


Vietnamese American Entrepreneur Donates 1,000 Oxygenators to Vietnam

SAN FRANCISCO—CEO of California Waste Solutions, David Duong, donated 1,000 oxygenators to help people impacted by COVID-19 in Vietnam. This total includes 500 units donated in September, 250 units donated in August, and numerous smaller portable units. The gift is the largest private donation of its kind. Duong says back in 2020, he asked the…


‘We Were Them:’ Vietnamese Americans Help Afghan Refugees

WESTMINSTER, Calif.—In the faces of Afghans desperate to leave their country after U.S. forces withdrew, Thuy Do sees her own family, decades earlier and thousands of miles away. A 39-year-old doctor in Seattle, Washington, Do remembers hearing how her parents sought to leave Saigon after Vietnam fell to communist rule in 1975 and the American…


Japan Seeks More Military Allies Over China’s Assertions In Indo-Pacific

On Sept. 11, Japan and Vietnam signed a deal, enabling exports of Japanese defense equipment, vessels, and technologies to Vietnam. The deal aims to strengthen cooperation in defending against China’s expanding military presence in the Southeast Asia regional waters. The deal was signed in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, during Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi’s…


Japan Seeks More Military Allies Amid China’s Assertive Actions In Indo-Pacific

On Sept. 11, Japan and Vietnam signed a deal, enabling exports of Japanese defense equipment, vessels, and technologies to Vietnam. The deal aims to strengthen cooperation in defending against China’s expanding military presence in the Southeast Asia regional waters. The deal was signed in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, during Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi’s…


Japan, Vietnam Sign Defense Transfer Deal Amid China Worries

TOKYO—Japan can now give defense equipment and technology to Vietnam under an agreement signed on Saturday, as the two sides step up their military cooperation amid worries about the Chinese communist regime’s growing military influence. Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the deal elevates their defense partnership “to a new level” and that Japan and…


Vietnamese Man Jailed for 5 Years, Convicted of Spreading CCP Virus

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail after a local court convicted him of breaking quarantine instructions and spreading the CCP virus to others. Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases” at a one-day trial on Sept. 6 at the people’s court of the southern province of Ca Mau,…