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Vietnam: Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in massive $12 billion fraud case
World | Apr 11, 2024, 03:22 PM ISTLan, 67, was accused of controlling the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank to illegally siphon off funds and paying bribes to government officials. Vietnam has launched a crackdown on corruption that has seen hundreds of officials and executives prosecuted or forced to step down.
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Kabul's Saigon moment - Rerun of 1975 in 2021
News | Aug 18, 2021, 07:29 PM ISTPhotos of the US forces evacuating Americans from Kabul on a helicopter were a strikingly similar to the US's exit from Saigon in 1975. What happened in Vietnam 46 years ago?
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Pranab Mukherjee: India-Vietnam ties are infinite
World | Sep 17, 2014, 08:01 AM ISTHo Chi Minh City: In the backdrop of India signing seven pacts with Vietnam, President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday said the scale of mutual cooperation between the two countries is "infinite"."Today, India and Vietnam are two
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Pranab Mukherjee arrives in historic Ho Chi Minh City
World | Sep 16, 2014, 01:37 PM ISTHo Chi Minh City: President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in this historic Vietnamese city today as part of his four-day state visit to the country.The tour of the city, formerly called Saigon, is the second and