Vietnam blackouts have the temperature rising

In Vietnamese, one way of signaling you don’t like someone is to refer to them as “Ong”, or Mister.
So it’s not a good sign for Electricity Vietnam (EVN), the national power monopoly, when people start calling the company “Ong Dien” — Mr Electric. And especially so when they’re complaining about the rolling blackouts this summer.
“We don’t know what the government and Mr Electric have been doing, but this year we have more blackouts than before,” says Vu Thi Sao, 32, a farmer in the province of Hai Duong, 60 kilometres southeast of Hanoi.

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