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Trương Mỹ Lan ( Chinese: 張美蘭, born 13 October 1956) is a Vietnamese businesswoman and convicted criminal. She is the founder of Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, a real estate development group. In October 2022, she was arrested for using fake loan applications to embezzle more than US$12.5 billion from Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank ...
Chợ Lớn ( listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸 ), usually anglicized as " Cholon " in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market. Chợ Lớn consists of the western half of District 5 as well as several adjoining neighborhoods in District 6 ...
Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank or Saigon Commercial Bank, abbreviated as SCB ( Vietnamese: Ngân hàng Thương mại cổ phần Sài Gòn ), [ 3] is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam by assets, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. [ 4][ 5][ 6] It was founded by the fusion of 3 small banks and was controlled by ...
District 2 is a former urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 140,621 and a total area of 50 km². [1] District 2 was merged with District 9 and Thủ Đức district to become Thu Duc City on December 9, 2020, by Standing Committee of the National Assembly 's approval. [2]
Creator. Chinese community of Cholon. Completed. c. 1760. The Thien Hau Temple ( Vietnamese: Miếu Thiên Hậu ), officially the Tue Thanh Guildhall ( Hội quán Tuệ Thành ), [ 1] is a Chinese-style temple of the Chinese Goddess of Sea, Mazu on Nguyễn Trãi Street in the Cholon ("Chinatown") of District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [ 2]
Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-93721-5. Reid, Anthony; Tran, Nhung Tuyet (2006). Viet Nam: Borderless Histories. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-1-316-44504-4
Battle of Saigon (1968) Black smoke covers areas of the capital city and fire trucks rush to the scenes of fires set during attacks by the Viet Cong during the festive Tet holiday period. Saigon, 1968. The First Battle of Saigon, fought during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, was the coordinated attack by communist forces, including both ...
The Empire of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國[ a]; Modern Japanese: ベトナム帝国, Betonamu Teikoku) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan [ 1] governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945.