Word: vietnamization
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...Vinh may have no fear, but the government is getting nervous. Vietnam recently passed new securities rules aimed at improving corporate transparency and curbing market excesses. Among other measures, the law requires all unlisted companies with shares available for purchase to be audited, to post annual financial reports with the State Securities Commission, and to register stock transfers. But Vu Bang, the commission chairman, acknowledges that he lacks the staff to enforce the rules. The commission has only 10 inspection officers to oversee a total of 198 corporations listed on the two official bourses and thousands more that are unlisted...
...many countries, the publication of lists of ultra-rich citizens is an annual business ritual that stirs few emotions beyond pride and envy (depending on whether you made it onto the list or not). But in Vietnam, a communist country in the midst of a capitalist makeover, personal wealth remains a touchy subject. After online news site VNExpress recently produced the country's first-ever ranking of the 100 Richest People in Vietnam, several moguls complained. "I wish they would have asked us before publishing," groused Nguyen Duy Hung, CEO of a Ho Chi Minh City brokerage firm...
...Then again, Truong is hardly a disinterested observer. Not only did he rank 20th on the VNExpress list (his stock is worth $35 million), but FPT is the parent company of the news site that published the list. And who is Vietnam's richest person, according to VNExpress? Truong's cousin, FPT Corp. CEO Truong Gia Binh, pictured, whose shares in the tech conglomerate are worth nearly $200 million. Call it the Vietnamese Dream...
...father’s niece (who was also his father’s wife)—the source of this peculiar genital problem, according to Mailer. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mailer, who was famously arrested in 1967 for his role in demonstrations against the Vietnam War, answered many questions on the Iraq war. He had harsh words for members of the Bush administration such as Karl Rove and the commander-in-chief, himself. “George Bush is a small man,” Mailer said. INVITATION TO CONTROVERSY The theology that appears...
There's no less likely a hero to liberals than Nebraska's Republican Senator, who toes the party line 90% of the time. But Chuck Hagel, 60, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, has become one of the most vocal critics in Congress of the Iraq war. He spoke with TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about opposing President Bush's plan to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq, about whether Iraq will become another Vietnam and about presidential "wannabes...