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Trương Mỹ Lan ( Chinese: 張美蘭, born 13 October 1956) is a Vietnamese businesswoman and convicted criminal. She is the founder of Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, a real estate development group. In October 2022, she was arrested for using fake loan applications to embezzle more than US$12.5 billion from Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank ...
Nhất Hạnh was born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo on 11 October 1926, in the ancient capital of Huế in central Vietnam. [ 13][ 7][ 14] He is 15th generation Nguyễn Đình; the poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, author of Lục Vân Tiên, was his ancestor. [ 15] His father, Nguyễn Đình Phúc, from Thành Trung village in Thừa Thiên, Huế, was ...
A second attempt to auction the family home of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi failed on Thursday after no bidders showed up, likely deterred by the court-ordered asking price ...
The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy. [ 3] It is the 35th-largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 26th-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). It is a lower-middle income country with a low cost of living.
The Biden administration is taking a victory lap after federal officials inked deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare’s most popular and costliest drugs, but shared few ...
Sales of new U.S. single-family homes dropped to a six-month low in May as a jump in mortgage rates weighed on demand, offering more evidence that the housing market recovery was faltering. But ...
Events. 20 January – The country reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City. [1] 15 February – Vietnam lifts its COVID-19-related curbs on international passenger flights with no limitation on the number of flights in order to restore the travel to pre-pandemic level. [2]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), to 6-1/2 years in prison for spreading ...