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Sim Tze Wei

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Superior EMS’s factory in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park in Hai Duong province. It is using small modular machinery to automate its production lines.

Blocking China’s path: The rise of ‘Made In Vietnam’

In the last of a 7-part BT-Lianhe Zaobao series on China and Asean, Lianhe Zaobao travelled to Vietnam for a closer look...

Taiwan’s Wagon Group’s factory in Dong Nai is moving towards semi-automation.
THE CHINA CONNECTION

Talent shortage hampers Vietnam’s move up the value chain

AFTER taking a page out of China’s playbook with its own Doi Moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has ridden the globalisation wave...

A factory in Fuyang, in China's eastern Anhui province. One objective of China’s Go West campaign is to move some industries from eastern coastal regions to second and third tier cities in the less developed central western region.
THE CHINA CONNECTION

Vietnam’s rise strikes a blow to central western China

WHILE it seems like China will remain the world’s factory for now, despite the relocation of some low-end manufacturing to Vietnam and...

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