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Company chairman gets life for $24M fraud

A former Hanoi company chairman was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for swindling VND570 billion ($24.2 million) out of people by selling them phony “investments.” Pham Thanh Hai, 57, former chairman of the International Trade, Investment and Development Technology Company (IDT), was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hanoi …

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HCMC park gets land back from metro

An area in September 23rd Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City has been cleared from the metro line construction site after seven years. The cleared part of 8,000 sq.m is half of the park’s area that has been occupied since 2016 to serve the building of Ben Thanh underground …

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Vietnamese man caught shipping heroin to Australia

A man from the Mekong Delta’s Long An Province has been arrested for allegedly hiding heroin inside boxes of face masks he tried to ship to Australia. When Ho Chi Minh City customs officers searched a “suspicious” shipment of goods en-route to Australia on April 22 they found around a …

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