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Starbucks to open its first store in Vietnam

The Seattle-based company plans to open its first cafe in Ho Chi Minh City next month as part of a push into fast-growing Asian markets.

India: Rosy unemployment data belies grim reality

Staff work behind the counter of India's first newly-inaugurated Starbucks outlet in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, launched its first Indian outlet on October 19 in an upscale part of Mumbai, becoming the latest global firm to tap the urban youth's growing taste for caffeine.

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