A Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday for her role in a fraud case that has caused damages worth $27 billion, a sentence almost unheard of for graft convictions, CBS News reported. A court in Ho Chi Minh City found Truong My Lan,...
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Although the president of Vietnam, Vo Van Thuong, resigned on March 20 for undisclosed reasons, he allegedly ran afoul of corruption laws. He is Vietnam’s second president to leave office early in two years. Former President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned from the presidency in 2023...
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The Vietnamese Communist Party said on Wednesday it had accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, amid an intense anti-graft campaign and growing political instability that could harm the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors, the Associated Press reported. Thuong stepped down after a little over...
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Vietnamese conservationists and wildlife officials are working on a project to create unique “elephant ID cards” for the country’s pachyderm population in an effort to ensure their survival, and promote harmony between the animals and local communities, Al Jazeera reported. The Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve in...
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Vietnamese lawmakers elected Vo Van Thuong as the Southeast Asian country’s new president in early March, almost two months after his predecessor, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, was ousted due to a string of corruption scandals stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Officials allegedly bilked expatriate Vietnamese citizens seeking...
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Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party nominated Vo Van Thuong as the country’s new president Wednesday, following the forced resignation of his predecessor as part of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign, Reuters reported. The 52-year-old official is one of the youngest members of the party’s Politburo – Vietnam’s top decision-making...
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