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A former bank director in Hanoi was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for wrongfully allowing VND360 billion ($15.27 million) in loans to an incompetent Taiwanese firm. Do Quoc Hung, former director of the BIDV Thanh Do Branch, along with four other former BIDV employees, were charged with …

A former police officer and seven former employees of telecommunications firm VNPT have received prison terms for forging police documents and selling the personal data of 1,007 people. A court in Hanoi sentenced Tran Manh Quan, a former police officer, to six years in prison Wednesday for illegally using citizens’ …

Hanoi has the second worst air quality in Southeast Asia after Pasarkemis in Indonesia, according to a 2022 annual survey by IQAir, a Swiss maker of air purifiers. The Vietnamese capital city’s air quality worsened to 40.1 micrograms of PM2.5 particles per cubic meter in 2022 from 36.2 in 2021, …