Until this year, that is, when the university's new president, Hsieh Ruey-chi, decided to investigate.
Market commentary: New demand for offices in Ho Chi Minh City declined over the past year because of a contraction in the services industry.
Few other companies straddle the old and new worlds of Chinese medicine the way Chi-Med does.
Ho Chi Minh City's new airport terminal has only just opened but is already close to capacity.
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MacRumors reports on a new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today that details his estimates of the products Apple will launch this fall.
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, an international organization with 30 member countries, including the United States, recently released a report listing 10 cities that face the highest risk from flooding right now: Mumbai, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Miami, Ho Chi Minh City, Calcutta, greater New York City, Osaka-Kibe, Alexandria and New Orleans.
Last year senior Chi-An Wang spent a semester helping it design a new triathlon shoe.
In a more obscure image by Penn of Tai Chi master Da Liu instructing 80 year old Bertie Donnelly and New York City Ballet dancer Suki Schorer, author Joan Didion recalls coming of age as an assistant editor at Vogue.
Feng shui had to be considered: A new round window receives morning sun, and a wall was built to block the chi flowing in from the front door from going out the opposite windows.
"Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science, " study researcher Chi Ma, a senior scientist at Caltech, said in a statement.
The first of the new breed, the Vietnamese German University (VGU), opened in 2008 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Chi Lo, China economist for HSBC in Hong Kong, says consumer loans are still brand new to the cash-based Chinese culture and have not been embraced by either lenders or borrowers.
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