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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....
...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....
...Vo Van Thuong resigned as Vietnam’s president in March after only a year in office because of unspecified “violations” and “shortcomings”....
...Lan’s lawyers declined to comment....
...terms of scale and because it signals that the [Communist] party is willing to expand its anti-corruption campaign to the private sector despite potential risks that it might have on the economy,” said Nguyen...
...The national assembly elected Vo Van Thuong, 52, as president on Thursday with 98.38 per cent of the vote, according to the government’s official news portal....
...The National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...Long before his victory in 1975, Hanoi’s defence minister General Vo Nguyen Giap made this sinister prediction, with which every well-prepared Vietnam war correspondent, including myself, became familiar...
...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...
...“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....
...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....
...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...
...“When you go through with a lot of green policies, some people will always be against it,” said Lan Marie Nguyen Berg, a Green party member who is in charge of environment and transport for Oslo’s city council...
...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...
...Thu Lan Nguyen, an analyst at Commerzbank, said that following the data release, Commerzbank had revised its forecasts for the Central Bank’s policy rate....
...“Once the market starts weighing up the comments of US central bankers this carefully, one thing becomes clear: the uncertainty surrounding the US monetary policy outlook is quite high,” said Thu Lan Nguyen...
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Khac Giang in Hanoi...
...Thu Lan Nguyen at Commerzbank said markets were relieved a deal had been struck, with the downsides likely to take some time to filter through....
...Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank, reckons the measures may actually heap yet further pressure on the currency: “Renminbi softness is justified as the easing bias in monetary policy will ultimately...
...Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank, echoed that sentiment. She said market “euphoria” will slowly unwind, “not least as the tariff conflict between China and the US has merely been put on ice.”...
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...Former Uber customer Lan Huong said she loved the Uber app. “After Go-Viet launched, I tried [their app] and saw the company as a good alternative, as their fares are still cheap,” she said....
...Echoing that sentiment, Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank, said that the reaction to Mr Davis’s decision will probably “remain moderate, as the implications of Davis’ resignation are far from clear”...
...“If the situation were to escalate the main beneficiary would be the US dollar,” said Thu Lan Nguyen, analyst at Commerzbank....
...And Commerzbank’s Thu Lan Nguyen says: Yesterday’s episode illustrated once again how difficult the Brexit negotiations will remain....
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