Vietnam tycoon appeals against $27 billion fraud death sentenceTruong My Lan, chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat, was found guilty this month of swindling cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) ove...
26 Apr, 2024, 09.24 PM IST
How Vietnam's real estate tycoon got caught in a 'Blazing Furnace' in country's biggest $12.5-billion corruption scamTruong My Lan, chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, has been sentenced to death for her role in a $12.5 billion financial fraud, th...
12 Apr, 2024, 02.28 PM IST
Curtain call: From 'Friends' star Matthew Perry to Lisa Marie Presley, influential people who passed away in '23A list of celebs who left us in 2023.
04 Dec, 2023, 11.35 PM IST
Facing Olympic corruption charges, Dentsu out as IOC broadcast partner in AsiaThe International Olympic Committee said Thursday it has awarded exclusive rights for four Olympics from 2026 to 2032 to the Switzerland-ba...
15 Jun, 2023, 11.18 PM IST
Vietnam: The China trade-war winner's economy is sufferingWhen tensions between Beijing and Washington escalated during Donald Trump's presidency, Vietnam became the toast of think tanks and invest...
07 Jun, 2023, 09.39 AM IST
Ukraine wants to become the cryptocurrency capital of the worldThe anything-goes ethos has dogged Ukraine for years, and now the government is hoping to bury it, with an assist from cryptocurrency.
16 Nov, 2021, 11.02 AM IST
Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93Mondale, the first major U.S. party presidential nominee to pick a woman running mate, believed in an activist government and worked for ci...
20 Apr, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
India offers a bargain to the world: Our consumers, your jobsIndia's biggest liberalisation of single-brand retail in seven years has elements of a very sensible bargain.
29 Aug, 2019, 05.53 PM IST
China building third aircraft carrier: reportsThe Xinhua article, which was intended to mark the sixth anniversary of the first take-off and landing by a Chinese fighter on the country'...
26 Nov, 2018, 02.00 PM IST
Indian billionaires are back on world dealmaking stage: ReportIt's hard to predict the timing, but bankers should be getting ready to say hello to big Indian billionaires. They're surely coming back.
05 Jan, 2018, 07.54 PM IST
View: Long-awaited 'Asian century' might not ever comeThe late-1990s Asian financial crisis only temporarily disrupted Western fascination with the East and the prospects for an “Asian century.”
01 Apr, 2017, 08.00 AM IST
No discussion yet on hosting 2019 Asian Games: Indian Olympic Association chiefThe IOA President, N Ramachandran categorically denied claims of Secretary General Rajeev Mehta that India would be bidding for the 2019 As...
07 Jun, 2014, 11.48 AM IST
Good time for companies to raise long-term debt: James B Quigley, BofA-ML"I feel it's a good time for Indian companies to raise long-term debt, say 10- to 30-year paper, for restructuring existing debt," says Jam...
14 May, 2013, 11.26 AM IST
How Siemens cracked down on corruption & what India Inc can learn from itWhile big-ticket measures are being strengthened, efforts to go down to the bottom rungs of bribery prevention are also on: gifts and hospi...
19 Apr, 2012, 10.14 AM IST
- India among the most corrupt nations surveyed by PERC
PERC rated India at 8.67 with high end being the worst case of corruption scenario and ahead of Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia.
29 Mar, 2011, 07.03 PM IST
- Vietnam trial for journalists who exposed state corruption
Vietnam on Tuesday put on trial two reporters who helped expose state corruption in a case seen as a test of media freedoms in the communis...
14 Oct, 2008, 09.33 AM IST
- Asian money talked in 2007
You would expect a year marking the 10th anniversary of the Asian crisis to be hectic, and 2007 didn’t disappoint.
25 Dec, 2007, 04.07 AM IST