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Accelerate My Business: Transforming Women-Led Small and Growing Businesses in Vietnam
Vietnam’s small and growing businesses (SGBs) comprise 98% of the national economy, accounting for 40% of the total gross domestic product and 50% of the total workforce. Of those growing […]
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Accelerate My Business: Transforming Women-Led SGBs in Vietnam
Vietnam’s small and growing businesses (SGBs) comprise 98% of the national economy, accounting for 40% of the total gross domestic product and 50% of the total workforce. Women own 17% […]
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The Asia Foundation Launches Accelerate My Business in Vietnam
Phunu Vietnam, the media agency of Vietnam’s Women Union, and Kenh VTC16 Channel, a major public broadcaster, highlighted the launch of the Accelerate My Business (AMB) program. AMB aims to […]
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NIC Launches Training Program with Asia Foundation Support to Foster Semiconductor Talent in Central Vietnam
With support from The Asia Foundation, the Vietnam National Innovation Center (NIC) launched the pilot training program, “Fundamentals of Microchip/Integrated Circuit Design and Fabrication,” to support young talents in central […]
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Vietnam
News from Vietnam Learn about our latest work and development approaches. View all news and insights What We Do Measuring impacts of climate change on business environment In 2020, the […]
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The Gioi Vietnam Highlights President Laurel Miller’s Meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Hang
The Gioi Vietnam, a news media site, covered The Asia Foundation’s President & CEO Laurel Miller’s Meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Hang. Their discussions included the value of […]
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Filip Graovac
Filip Graovac is The Asia Foundation’s deputy country representative in Vietnam. He has experience working in Vietnam and the Middle East, with a particular focus on humanitarian assistance, refugee issues, […]
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Nguyen Thu Hang
Nguyen Thu Hang is the senior program officer for The Asia Foundation’s Governance and Inclusive Growth team in Vietnam. She has fifteen years of experience designing and managing initiatives involving […]
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Pham Thi Thu Thuy
Pham Thu Thuy has worked as the Finance and Administration Manager for The Asia Foundation in Vietnam since 2004. She joined The Asia Foundation in June 2000 as an accountant […]
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Tran Giang Linh
Tran Giang Linh is responsible for assisting the country representative, deputy country representative, and program specialist for The Asia Foundation in Vietnam in developing, managing, and evaluating projects and programs […]
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Nguyen Hai Ha
Ha joined The Asia Foundation in 2018. She is responsible for all administrative tasks for the office and assists the senior management team based in Hanoi. She has more than […]
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Nguyen Van Nga
Nguyen Van Nga is a grants officer and accountant working for The Asia Foundation in Vietnam. Prior to this role, she served as office manager and administrative assistant, starting in […]
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Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh is responsible for gender and social development programming at The Asia Foundation Vietnam working on a wide range of issues from gender equality, labor rights, women’s […]
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Le Thu Hien
Le Thu Hien is currently the senior program specialist for The Asia Foundation in Vietnam overseeing the Foundation’s Governance for Inclusive Growth portfolio. Hien’s areas of technical expertise include good […]
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Dinh Thi Kieu Nhung
Dinh Thi Kieu Nhung is responsible for education programming at The Asia Foundation in Vietnam, managing scholarship programs for disadvantaged girls and young women, vocational training programs, and job-ready training […]
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Nguyen Tri Thanh
Nguyen Tri Thanh is the program specialist for the Environment and Climate Action in The Asia Foundation’s office in Vietnam. He has in-depth experience in managing environmental governance, environment policy […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Vietnam
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Nicola Nixon
Dr. Nicola Nixon is The Asia Foundation’s senior director of Governance, effective October 2018. With over 20 years of experience in international development and academia, Nicola leads the Foundation’s governance […]
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Michael R. DiGregorio
Dr. Michael R. DiGregorio is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Vietnam. He has directed the Foundation’s work in Vietnam since 2014, during which time he has led new projects […]
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The Asia Foundation and Visa Partner to Bridge the Gender Digital Skills Gap in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia Foundation, through its Future Skills Alliance, is collaborating with Visa to address the growing gender digital skills divide in Asia and the Pacific. The partnership aims to broaden […]
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The Future Forecast: Asia in 2023
At the end of each year, we ask our experts across Asia to reveal what the New Year has in store. Here’s what they told us about 2023.
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The Best of InAsia, 2022
“Fast away the olde year passes.” It’s time to take an appreciative look back at the abundant harvest of stories and conversations from our colleagues in the field.
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Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on America’s Astonishing Reconciliation with Vietnam
Former ambassador Ted Osius discusses the remarkable journey of America and Vietnam from bitter adversaries to friends and partners.
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Protecting Domestic Workers with the Blockchain
In Vietnam, rural women drawn to the booming cities for domestic work are often unprepared and undocumented. A technology that made its public debut with cryptocurrencies offers a solution.
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Deepening Ties: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the United States, and Vietnam
Despite differences in political ideology, relations between South Korea, the United States, and Vietnam have deepened and evolved since formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam were established more than a quarter-century […]
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Deepening Ties: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Korea, the United States, and Vietnam
Despite differences in political ideology, relations between South Korea, the United States, and Vietnam have deepened and evolved since formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam were established more than a quarter-century […]
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Go Digital ASEAN Develops Specialized Curricula for ASEAN Countries
Implemented by The Asia Foundation, with support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the initiative trained over 225,000 people from rural regions and underserved communities—including entrepreneurs, underemployed youth, and women. Launched […]
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Inequalities in Asian Cities: Focus on Internal Ethnic-Minority Migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam
Vietnamese version The Asia Foundation, in partnership with Kore Global, led an eight-city qualitative research project to explore the multidimensional impacts of Covid-19 on marginalized groups across five Asian countries. […]
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Lan Anh Lo
Lan Anh Lo is a producer and news anchor for Vietnam’s national broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV). She produces and hosts numerous primetime shows on VTV International and VTV News, including […]
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Peering into the Year Ahead in Asia
The year is still young, but our country representatives are looking ahead to the trends and developments that will affect the course of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific in 2022.
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InAsia’s Greatest Hits of 2021
As 2022 beckons, it’s time to take a fond look back at the best of InAsia from the year gone by.
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Virtual Event – Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam
Join The Asia Foundation for a discussion with Ambassador Ted Osius on his new book, Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam. After a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 […]
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Virtual Event – Flying Blind: Vietnam’s Decision to Join ASEAN
Please join The Asia Foundation for a discussion with Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tung on his new book, Flying Blind: Vietnam’s Decision to Join ASEAN. Amb. Nguyen’s book is a well-informed, […]
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Covid-19 in Vietnam: Holding Our Breath in Wave Four
Even as a fourth wave of Covid-19 gropes for a foothold, Vietnam’s well-managed pandemic response systems have kept death and infection rates among the lowest in the world. But vaccines are likely to remain in short supply.
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Vogue Paris Spotlights Lana Condor’s Vietnam Girls Scholarship
Vogue Paris features The Asia Foundation in a profile of actor and Lotus Leadership Award honoree Lana Condor. Since 2017, the Foundation has worked with Condor to support female scholars […]
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Our Predictions for 2021, Following a Year That Defied Prediction
From a pandemic that quickly swept the globe, to the storming of the U.S. capital, 2020 was a year that defied prediction. So, what can we say about 2021? After a year that derailed development trajectories across Asia, our experts look to the year ahead.
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The Best InAsia Podcasts and Posts of 2020
The year of the pandemic was a long, discontented winter that the glorious sun forgot. But it was a year we dug deep into the voices and ideas of our colleagues across Asia in our new InAsia Podcast.
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Asia Foundation and VWEC Organize ASEAN Women CEO Summit
On November 9, 2020, the Vietnam Women Entrepreneur Council (VWEC), focal point for the ASEAN Women Entrepreneur Network, organized the ASEAN Women CEO Summit themed “Making changes for stronger and […]
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Adapting to Succeed: Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Vietnamese Businesses
Vietnam is facing enormous challenges due to climate change, with an increase in a variety of extreme climate events. Countless international studies have shown that Vietnam is one of the […]
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Wall Street Journal Highlights Lana Condor’s Vietnam Girls Scholars Program
The Wall Street Journal features The Asia Foundation in a profile of 2019 Lotus Circle honoree Lana Condor. Since 2017, Condor has worked with the Foundation to support female scholars […]
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The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation Expands Partnership to Transform Girls’ Futures in Vietnam and Indonesia
The Asia Foundation and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation (ELCCF) have renewed their commitment to transforming the future of economically and socially disadvantaged adolescent girls in Vietnam and Indonesia […]
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Vietnam Insider features MEKONG 2030 Short Film Anthology
Vietnam Insider, a news media site, names The Asia Foundation in a feature of the Vietnamese film “The Unseen River.” The film is one of five short films in the […]
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Mobile Banking – Financial Inclusion and Economic Empowerment for the Low-Income Population and Women in Vietnam
This impact study highlights major benefits experienced by VBSP clients and group leader in the long run, impact case studies, and indicative cost benefit analysis. This exercise aims to conduct […]
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Vietnam: A Covid-19 Success Story
How has a country of 96 million that can barely get its citizens to obey the traffic laws managed the Covid-19 pandemic with less than 300 cases and no deaths?
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Asia Foundation’s Political Economy of Data Workshop at Global Digital Development Forum
The international development community is adapting to the new challenges and opportunities presented by a growing digital ecosystem and digital data. As part of the Global Digital Development Forum virtual […]
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Report on Needs Assessment of Women-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Vietnam
The objective of this study is to assess the need for support of women-owned SMEs in Vietnam. Specifically, the report explores the obstacles faced by women-owned SMEs, their need for […]
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Changing the Law to Protect Trafficking Victims in Vietnam
How Vietnamese attorney and anti-trafficking activist Van Ngoc Ta closed a loophole in the Vietnam Criminal Code and won crime victims the right to their own lawyer.
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The Asia Foundation, DFAT, Mastercard, VBSP Expand Digital Finance for Women Microenterprises in Vietnam
Through the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) Business Partnerships Platform (BPP), The Asia Foundation is collaborating with DFAT, Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) and Mastercard to […]
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Green Tea and Recycled Cardboard: Living on the Periphery of Urban Planning in Hanoi
When the garment factories arrived ten years ago, “Tien” had to leave her farm in northern Vietnam and move to Hanoi for work. Today, as she supports herself recycling cardboard and selling tea from a small street stall, she exemplifies the mixed consequences of Asia’s booming urban migration and the challenges for urban planners.
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Made in Vietnam Energy Plan 2.0
This Made in Vietnam Energy Plan (MVEP 2.0) updates the previous report and has been developed during a time of fast-paced transition in global and local energy markets. The sustainable […]
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Girls Can Do Anything
Michelle Obama came to December's Grassroots Leaders Roundtable in Vietnam to deliver an urgent message: some of the world’s best minds are going undeveloped because of our failure to educate girls.
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Nga Le
Nga Le was the deputy group CEO of XLE Group, a sports industry company she helped set up 10 years ago. Nga developed and led pioneering projects such as the […]
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Insider Briefing: Girls’ Scholarship Programs in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Featuring Meloney Lindberg, Country Representative, Cambodia, The Asia Foundation Todd Wassel, Country Representative, Laos, The Asia Foundation Michael DiGregorio, Country Representative, Vietnam, The Asia Foundation Nikita Desai, Associate Director of […]
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2020 in Asia: A 20/20 Look
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2020. To herald the new decade, our country representatives this week survey the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for a dynamic and rapidly changing Asia. Here, to kick off the new year, are perspectives from The Asia Foundation’s 18 country offices.
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The Asia Foundation Organizes US Indo-Pacific Study Tour
In partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, The Asia Foundation implemented a one-week U.S. Indo-Pacific study tour to Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines for 8 Korean broadcast journalists, accompanied […]
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Life-Changing Scholarship Programs for Girls and Young Women in Vietnam
Educating a girl transforms her life and the lives of those around her to catalyze economic, social, and health benefits with lifelong impact. Providing girls and young women in Vietnam […]
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Making Sense of the “Many Mekongs”
Political leaders are under constant pressure to introduce new initiatives, because new implies better, and that’s the nature of politics. Even clever repackaging of previous efforts is often not enough. […]
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Inspired by Father’s Wartime Experience, Meredith Ludlow and Marc Teillon Give Generously to Educate Young Women in Vietnam
A decade ago, Meredith Ludlow and her husband, Marc Teillon, journeyed to the coastal region of Núi Thành District, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, to the village of Chu Lai. Ludlow, a Lotus Circle advisor and member of The Asia Foundation's President's Leadership Council, was visiting the place where her father...
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Morning in Hanoi
One of the oldest cities in Southeast Asia, Hanoi is fast becoming a leading economic center as well as an important supplier of textiles and technology. The city’s recent growth […]
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South China Morning Post Spotlights Foundation’s Partnership with Mastercard
South China Morning Post spotlights the Foundation’s partnership with MasterCard and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to develop a mobile banking service that provides low-income populations in Vietnam access […]