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Pham Khanh Linh seemed to be all set on a rewarding career, finding a job at global financial firm Goldman Sachs after graduating from the Cambridge University. But she quit the job in less than a year. Instead of pursuing a corporate employee path, the 25-year-old decided to return to Vietnam and start her own business, which she did last year. She said her ambition is to make a difference in her country. "I didn’t feel like I could make a difference with a corporate job. I wanted to influence more people," she told VnExpress International. Linh is the founder and CEO of Logivan, a logistics service which optimizes trucks’ routes and reduces their empty load return rates. She came up with the idea after observing that about 60-70 percent of truck drivers in Vietnam go back to their base with empty trunks, because they cannot be connected with potential customers. "I saw a big problem for the logistics sector in Vietnam, but also an opportunity to make an impact." Linh is … [Read more...] about Young Vietnamese think big, content with starting small

For many years, as a Ph.D. student in economics, I lived in Paris. This is a city everybody loves for its beauty and its charm, and I am not an exception. I have remained enamored of the city for my entire life, and keep returning to “her” on a regular basis. Interestingly, Paris is a city without a single skyscraper in its urban core. Most buildings are six-stories high, pleasantly “rhythmed” by balconies on the second to the fifth floors, and by unmistakably French mansards on the top floor. The low-rise beauty and charm of Paris made me feel encouraged when I read that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc instructed authorities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in April to stop approving the construction of high-rise buildings in the urban core of both cities. The urban cores of Hanoi and HCMC have much in common with Paris. Important parts of their street layout were designed in the 1930s by Ernest Hébrard, a talented architect who mastered the urbanization … [Read more...] about Looking high and low in Hanoi and HCMC

A driver plowed his white Ryder rental van into a crowd in Toronto on Monday, killing nine people and injuring 16 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with lunch-hour pedestrians, police said. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identified the suspect as Alek Minassian, 25, without identifying its source for that information. Citing government officials, it said Minassian was not associated with any organized militant group. Officials declined to answer questions about what motivated the driver to steer his vehicle toward people just before 1:30 p.m. (1730 GMT) in the northern section of Canada’s biggest city. They said the driver was in custody and officials stopped short of calling it a deliberate act. But at least one witness described the driver as appearing to deliberately target victims, according to media reports. “This is going to be a long investigation,” Toronto Deputy Chief Peter Yuen told reporters after disclosing the death … [Read more...] about Driver kills nine, injures 16 plowing van into Toronto sidewalk crowd