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...Some government officials have been accused of receiving bribes from Lan to cover up the alleged fraud. Lan has denied the charges against her....
...In 2021, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy jumped at an offer by Vietnam’s Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) to invest in a new savings product offering high interest rates....
...This month, the trial began of Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan, who is accused of embezzling $12bn from a bank. Lan denies the charges....
...Despite a market rally this year, ETFs are largely shielded from capital gains, because of their “legal structure” and strong inflows this year, Lan Anh Tran, manager research analyst for Morningstar, wrote...
...That’s pretty much by design, since investors’ “potential upside is capped at the strike price plus the call premium,” said Morningstar analyst Lan Anh Tran....
...There will also be performances from London-based artists Emmanuel Awuni, Minh Lan Tran and Bones Tan Jones....
...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...“In my conversations, the drafters (of the law) are quite receptive to hearing what other countries are doing,” said Manh-Hung Tran, head of the Vietnam tech practice at consultancy Baker McKenzie....
...Nguyen Thi Hoa’s rice farmer parents thought their daughter could have a better life if she learned English to get a job. She chose Chinese instead and is now in her final year of college in Vietnam....
...We’ve changed the timing of this week’s Asia briefing to take into account Friday’s big news on China applying for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...The predecessor of the CPTPP was the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement signed in 2016 by the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and seven other countries....
...How well did you keep up with the news this week?...
...“This time it’s uncertain.”...
...Thu Lan Nguyen, foreign exchange analyst at Commerzbank, cautioned that while economic momentum was expected to accelerate as lockdown eased, the UK faced a significant challenge, having been more heavily...
...later this year....
...But this comes at a price....
...“This is a precious opportunity for Vietnam to enter a new era of innovation,” Nguyen Chi Dzung, minister of planning and investment, said this month in remarks carried on the national VTV station....
...Nguyen Thi Thu Trang of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the deal will drive businesses to reignite their export activities after market demand declined owing to the pandemic....
...“The market has never before expected such small fluctuations in the euro-dollar spot [price] over the coming months as it does now,” said Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank....
...“If an infected person is in the area, they will report this.”...
...Investors are also beginning to take a closer look at UK economic fundamentals with the election now out of the way, according to Thu Lan Nguyen, currencies analyst at Commerzbank....
...Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam’s prime minister, led the country’s delegation to a conference on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing this week....
...Since early July a Chinese survey vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, has been carrying out a survey off Vietnam’s southern coast near Lan Tay-Lan Do, a field under development by PetroVietnam and Russia’s Rosneft...
...Mr Hammon says the business will initially depend on the domestic market and possibly New Zealand, which may form a “trans-Tasman travel bubble” with Australia....
...Nguyen Huu Phuc, who runs a small textile marketing company in Ho Chi Minh City, recalls how “very upset” he was when Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in 2017...
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