CNN — Property tycoon Truong My Lan was one of Vietnam’s richest businesswomen. She had been put on death row by a Ho Chi Minh City court in April for embezzling more than $12 billion – an amount equivalent to roughly 3% of Vietnam’s entire economy. Humble beginnings Born to a modest Sino-Vietnamese family in 1956, Lan started out selling …
HANOI, Vietnam — More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said. State media VNExpress cited a caretaker at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien Hoa city saying the animals were fed with raw chicken bought from nearby farms. CORRECTS NAME OF ZOO- Animal health workers spray disinfectant after …
HANOI, Vietnam — Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said. The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly …
Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media outlet Vietnam Net said. The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat had been charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of …
