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...Allegations of a massive fraud by real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, who is standing trial on charges of embezzling $12bn, have added to concerns....
...Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City for embezzling more than $12bn in the country’s largest financial fraud, state media reported....
...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....
...Truong My Lan faces a death sentence or imprisonment if found guilty in the fraud case, which has rocked the property and corporate bond markets of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies....
...But unbeknown to Thuy, her money was invested in bonds that Vietnamese authorities said were illegally channelling money to property tycoon Truong My Lan in what they said was the biggest fraud the country...
...The warehouse manager at Truong Thanh Furniture near Ho Chi Minh City did her best to avoid the virus....
...“We never thought of such a large loss in Ho Chi Minh City,” said Nguyen Truong Son, deputy health minister, acknowledging the government had been unprepared to deal with the deadly outbreak....
...“Vietnam is the only market where you can do deals,” Truong Quang, YKVN managing partner, said in an interview at his law office, overlooking the colonial French cathedral and post office in Ho Chi Minh...
...When most of Vietnam’s 96m citizens were celebrating the Tet lunar new year holiday, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was at a government meeting declaring war on coronavirus....
...Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc effectively kick-started solar development in April 2017, offering an attractive 9.35 US cents per kWh feed-in-tariff, applicable for 20 years, for projects which begin operating...
...On Thursday evening, a court in the capital Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen, and Truong Minh Duc under charges of “activities aimed at overthrowing...
...Vietnam has one major car, truck and bus manufacturer, Truong Hai Automobile Co (Thaco), but it produces for foreign brands....
...Truong Gia Binh is chairman of FPT, the country’s largest technology company....
...Sales of imported cars rising About 60 per cent of Vietnam’s auto market is made up of locally assembled cars, including vehicles built by domestic heavyweight Truong Hai Auto (Thaco) – in which Jardine...
...The third key figure is President Truong Tan Sang. However it plays out, there is little sign of a large injection of the youth that might better mirror the country’s populace....
...He lost his power struggle with his arch rival, President Truong Tan San, who supported incumbent party secretary Nguyen Phu Trong....
...It is expected that Nguyen Xuan Phu, one of the five former deputy prime ministers, will become prime minister....
...But the high-profile arrests have re-focused attention on Vietnam’s heavily indebted banking sector and the ongoing political battle between Truong Tan Sang, the president, and Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime...
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi...
...She is widely seen as being close to Truong Tan Sang, who holds the largely ceremonial post of president but lost out last year in an attempt to unseat the country’s most senior leader, Nguyen Tan Dung,...
...Their target was Truong Tan Sang, the Vietnamese president, who was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Honolulu....
...In a joint statement issued on Saturday at the conclusion of a high-profile visit to China by Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party, Beijing and Hanoi said they would “actively boost...
...The party selected Nguyen Phu Trong, chairman of the country’s increasingly vocal national assembly, as its next leader and re-appointed Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime minister, to the all-important politburo...
...“If HAGL are successful, other companies will be more confident to list overseas,” said Vo Truong Son, deputy general director of HAGL....
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