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Vietnam to allow dual citizenship (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Vietnam will begin allowing dual citizenship next year, making it much easier for many of the 3.5 million ethnic Vietnamese living overseas to buy property or do business in their former homeland, an official said Monday.

Entrepreneur Brings Green Business to Vietnam (New America Media)
An Pham is more than an immigrant with an American dream. She brought green technology back to her homeland and in the process created educational exchanges between the two countries.

MGM Mirage taps new chief (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
MGM Mirage's newest joint venture agreement will put a Las Vegas-style casino in Vietnam. The company said Tuesday it was working with Asian Coast Development to place an MGM Grand-branded hotel-casino as part of a $4.2 billion complex.

AT HARVARD, IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL (The Globe and Mail)
BOSTON -- The red-brick Baker Library at Harvard Business School is a shrine of U.S. capitalism, a hushed sanctuary where young managers have, for eight decades, prepared for glittering careers on Wall Street and in Fortune 500 companies.

At Harvard, it's business as usual (The Globe and Mail)
Harvard business graduates have played central roles in the financial crisis. But don't look here for regrets

Crossing borders: Pan-Asian multiplex investment is on the rise (Film Journal)
Nearly 20 years ago, two enterprising companies, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong's Golden Harvest, decided to capitalize on the multiplex movement that was well-entrenched in more developed exhibition markets by building multi-screen movie theatres throughout Asia.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 19/11 (Vietnam Net)
The 15 th Asian Professional Security Association (APSA) international conference and the first International Security Show (VietSecurity) opened in Hanoi on November 18.

It took a daredevil to make NASCAR respectable (The Charlotte Observer)
They say Cale Yarborough wrestled alligators. They say he jumped from planes. They say he won a Golden Gloves boxing tournament in South Carolina. They say he was on the fourth floor of a hotel in Vietnam during the war when Viet Cong soldiers attacked and made it up to the second floor before being repelled. They say that once during the week of the Indianapolis 500, when Cale was trying a ...

Japanese agent taps rentals (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)
Strong Japanese demand for rental condominiums has prompted the Japanese property agent Siam Kotobuki Co Ltd to move into property development, with the launch of a 600-million-baht building in Soi Thong Lor 25, said managing director Seita Hagiwara.

Order T-Shirt Now! (Malaysia Today)
What Financial Crisis? It might have been triggered by a financial crisis, but taking a more critical look, it seems more of a crisis of overproduction in the era of super imperialism.
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