As a successful businessman, whose products sell well in the US and China, Dr Tu Trung Chan plans to bring the technology of producing semi-conductor parts and lighting chips to Vietnam. A US$9.5 million factory is now under construction in Vietnam to facilitate the process.

The technology that Dr Chan plans to bring to Vietnam is some of the leading technology in the world. It enables the production of semi-conductor parts and lighting chips which are widely applied in communications, lighting, medical and military technology.

Mr Chan explains: "To produce semi-conductor parts, we need wafer - a material extracted from pure sand. We also use Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) mixed with Indium Phosphite (InP)."

These semi-conductor parts will be used for producing traffic lights, signaling lights and advertisement boards.

Meanwhile, the dust-sized lighting chips are widely used in communications, laser printers, DVD and VCD players, fax, telephones, computers and TVs. In particular, lighting chips are successfully applied in medical treatment to find DNA mutations, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and treating cells which cause cancer.

The world-leading technology has reaped significant benefits for producers in the US, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. If the technology is produced domestically, Vietnam can sell cheaper lighting chips directly to world markets, which would be a breakthrough for Vietnam’s science sector and the economy in general.

Dr Chan is planning to move his factory that produces Semco Laser Technology semi-conductor parts in Guang Zhou, China to Vietnam. Before that happens, however, the training of pilot staff at Ho Chi Minh City University of Polytechnics must be completed.

Having settled in the US in 1981, Dr Chan began his university studies when he was 26. Experiencing financial difficulty, he frankly asked his professors which subjects would earn the most money after graduation. They told him photo-electricity, adding that this subject is difficult.

Dr Chan agreed, enrolled in the course and soon became interest in the subject. Though he experienced difficulties in the first days, Dr Chan was lucky to meet Professor Harold Manasevit, a leading scientist who invented semi-conductor parts that could be used to study the field more practically.

Thanks to Professor Harold’s recommendation, he worked for a leading institute that used the technology. This group had researched more than 100 subjects about semi-conductors. Dr Chan himself released a subject on short-cutting the procedure of producing wafer – the basic material required to produce chips. This experience helped Dr Chan successfully wrote his doctorate thesis on quantum physics in 1991. He then became member of the Institute’s scientific board.

Later on, Dr Chan gave lectures at Pasadena University, California. In 1996, he made his dream come true by building a US$5 million factory in China. The Semco Laser Technology factory can produce 240,000 chips per day.

Talking about the plan to move the factory to Vietnam, Dr Chan said "I did not build a factory in Vietnam at that time because of some unfavourable conditions. Now that the country is facilitating the integration process, offering more investment incentives and cheap labour costs, I think it is the right time to build a factory in Vietnam. And one other thing, I’m a Vietnamese too and serving the homeland is always the desire of all Vietnamese."
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I wish to see more people like him returning home to rebuild the country. At the moment I think the government has to relax its political policies a bit. If they want more investments from oversea Vietnamese.

Why does he call himself Vietnamese? Look at his last name.

Many Vietnamese have Chinese heritage. NQSH for example, yet they're Vietnamese.

May be he's an ethnic Chinese who was borned in VN?

Chan is his first name ...

Who cares, according to the article he said that VN is his homeland.

his fullname is Từ Trung Chấn ! Từ as in the lastname

Dr Tu Trung Chan

Nope, it's his last name. But his first and middle name sounds Vietnamese. Either way, I suspect it's more about making money than any patriotic notion of "bringing the technology back to my homeland." He went to China first, afterall.

We don't know, it could be Cha^n, as in Cha^n tha^.t , but Chan is his first name.

Tu+` is usually a last name.

Only girl first name can be Chân
For boy first name, Chấn is most like than Chân ...well unless his parents think otherwise

Uh isn't Chan his last name?

Dr Tu Trung Chan has been eating too much nước nắm, and he's Việt-hóa, therefore he considered himself as a Viet. Good for you doctor.

His name is obviously Vietnamese, the "TR" consonant only appears in Portugese-Vietnamese alphabet.

"I did not build a factory in Vietnam at that time because of some unfavourable conditions. Now that the country is facilitating the integration process, offering more investment incentives and cheap labour costs, I think it is the right time to build a factory in Vietnam."

I agree that it's part money (since he cited cheap labour costs as a reason), but give him the benefit of the doubt - he did specify that he didn't star the business in VN because of some initial problems.


[QUOTE=supernovasp,Jul 23 2004, 02:44 PM] [QUOTE] Dr Tu Trung Chan has been eating too much nước nắm, and he's Việt-hóa, therefore he considered himself as a Viet. Good for you doctor.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. No one should be having a problem with non-ethnic Viets expressing pride in being Vietnamese.

1°) was he Cantonese or Vietnamese when his factory was in Guangdong? Kulong can check this...

2°) probably that costed him too much more money to fly to Vietnam every time for diner if he didn't like Cantonese food.

@TDscorpion: where did you get this article from ?

His surname is Chan.

He might be an ethnic Chinese (hoa), but i think he considers himself to be a Vietnamese.

http://www.vov.org.vn/2004_07_23/english/b...he%20motherland

I would love to see VN to create a new sector such as semi conductor. Why?
It could contribute significant to the country GDP. Some of the Asian countries get rich (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore...) doing this, Imagine Vietnamese farmers worked in rice fields to produce tonnes of rice but the return is not that great. A few millions Chips will do.

If so, that it would be weirder, since his first name is Trung-Tu which is totally Vietnamese. I have never heard anyone who has a Chinese last name with Vietnamese name. IT should be Tran Trung-Tu not Chan Trung-Tu.

Tu+` is a Vietnamese last name.

Also "khe" is not a Vietnamese last name. Khe can be a viet first name though

lol, you're probably right, but it doesn't matter anyway.

It's about him moving his factories to Vietnam, which will lead to a bigger semi-conductor market and (of course) a better economy.

First of thanks for the link TDscorpion!
Secondly, the main reason that I wanted to know where you got this article is to see if it comes from the Vietnam (as in native Vietnam) as opposed to Vietnamese websites created outside of Vietnam. Why?
As I read most articles in written by Vietnam site, what do you notice when the writer referred a third person or address people by fullname, then BOOM! it hit me that my culture awareness came back like a long lost friend.
Here's the scoup....

1. You notice that Vietnamese write: (if using the title (or no title) with fullname:
<title> <surname> <middle if any> <given name>
2. If address using title with only 1 name:
<title> <given name>

You can go to any website or perhaps books written in Vietnam and figure this out:
An example:

Court jails seven-member drug ring

The Hanoi People’s Court on Wednesday issued sentences ranging from 12 months to 18 years in prison to a seven-member drug trafficking syndicate operating between Vietnam and Laos.

Dao Anh Tuyet received the longest sentence of 18 years and Lao national Kham Khuang Unmanoa was given a 15-year sentence. Van Thi Yen has to serve 14 years, Tran Le Hoai Nguyen, seven years and Do Cao Quyen, two years.

Ms Tuyet and Ms Yen were caught red-handed on June 27, 2003, carrying 50 boxes. Each box contained 30 Lexomil-Bormazepam pills, a pharmaceutical drug illegally used for recreation. The city’s police also found another 3,119 boxes, US$5,900, 1.1 million Lao kip and other incriminating documents at Ms Tuyet’s temporary home in Hanoi.

The police reported that Ms Tuyet had successfully transported 3,700 boxes through Ha Tinh province’s Cau Treo border gate.


See!?
It's the opposite way American/Westerners use to addressed names.
Interesting huh?

it dont matter either way it good for vn and it good for him right
doesnt matter what the reason is, he is gonna invest in vn and that would make vn richer

Not that interesting since the order is the same in Korean, Chinese, and Japanese names

Although Vietnamese people tend to use first name to converse since many unrelated people share the same last names, while CJK use last name because there are a wide ranges of last names espcially Japanese.

Yeah, I kinda realize that too. Most if not all Asians address the name that way since it's a cultural things. Family honor goes first before an individual. Your family preceded your existence. make sense

EDIT:

I know what you mean. Can you imagine someone would use the same formality as the Westerners.
"is there Mr. Nguyen here?" *shake head* not good not good

He is most likely a Vietnamese of Cantonese descent. Many Viets here who are of Chinese descent have Cantonese translated last names (purely because some try to act Honky and some just do to revert it back to their origins). Most boat people who came here could claim anything they wanted...no official docs, so when customs asked what their name was you could say David Hughes for all they care. SOme Vietnamese of Chinese origins who couldnt speak Vietnamese simply just answered in Cantonese and the Australians just scribed down what roman letters of what they could make of the sound.

I still have a Vietnamese surname and name (Ta is my last name), but I also adopted an English name. I had a Vietnamese firned of Chinese descent who had the surname Mayer (simply because his father couldnt speak Viet therefore didnt know the Viet surname for Ma in Chinese so the AUssies just gave them that). Another friend's surname was Lam but on her passport it's Dam....

Yeah right, a factory means quite a few jobs to quite a few people.

I think I read these articles last year (this one + the one I posted in the other thread about Dr Nguyen Chanh Khe).

Here is what they've been doing lately:

http://www.nguoivienxu.vietnamnet.vn/doiso...2004/07/219000/

This article dates of today 23th July 2004. Together with a group of other Vietnamese who had returned home, they are now helping to promote the idea of "returning and helping the motherland"

That's cool. There are a few of us here plan to go back too xD

I have. However, I've never heard of a Jose Nguyen or a Duy Rameriz.

What is extraordinary about being in Vietnam, is that all people seem to have been longing for you, they seems to understand you've been missing home for a very long time. They all treat you warmly and gently...