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Trương Văn Cam, known by the sobriquet Năm Cam (April 22, 1947 – June 3, 2004) was a notorious Vietnamese mobster who is often called the "Godfather" of Vietnam. Known for building and running a criminal enterprise revolving around gambling dens, hotels, racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and restaurants that fronted for brothels, during his heyday, Năm Cam was considered one of the ...
The 60s and the era of the "Four Great Kings". Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, has had a long history of organized crime that often ran lucrative illegal activities within the city. During the 1960s period to before 1975, Saigon's underworld at that time was characterized by the era known as the "Four Great Kings", which referred to the ...
Home Credit Vietnam was founded in 2008. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Over the past 15 years, Home Credit has expanded its network throughout the country, serving over 15 million customers. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] According to the 2022 financial report, Home Credit Vietnam's revenue reached VND 1,189 trillion, nearly double that of 2021.
Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank or Saigon Commercial Bank, abbreviated as SCB ( Vietnamese: Ngân hàng Thương mại cổ phần Sài Gòn ), [ 3] is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam by assets, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. [ 4][ 5][ 6] It was founded by the fusion of 3 small banks and was controlled by ...
Vietnamese criminal underworld. Vietnamese gangsters in the 1990s with gang bosses such as Dung Hà (2nd from left), Năm Cam (5th from left), and Hải Bánh (3rd from right). Xã hội đen, (chữ Nôm: 社會顛, literally means "black societies"), is a Vietnamese term used to describe criminal underworld. The term is believed to have ...
A forensic autopsy report of a murder victim killed in the year Bảo Đại 5 (1930). Among the first organised crime group to emerge in Vietnam were the Bình Xuyên, which during the 1920s acted mainly as river pirates led by Dương Văn Dương. [ 2] Bình Xuyên later became a legitimate military organization that controlled nearly the ...
Banking in Vietnam started in 1976 with the State Bank Vietnam, which became the central bank of the country. Vietnam's banks suffer from low public confidence, regulatory and managerial weakness, high levels of non-performing loans (NPL), non-compliance with the Basel capital standards, and the absence of international auditing.
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was born on 17 November 1949 in Cà Mau in southern Vietnam. He purportedly volunteered on his 12th birthday to join the Vietcong, doing first-aid, and communication tasks; he also worked as a paramedic, and a physician. He was wounded four times during the Vietnam War, and was later ranked as a level 2/4 wounded veteran.