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The Việt Á scandal was a bribery and corruption scandal that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. In 2020 and 2021, Việt Á Technology Corporation [ vi ] bribed Vietnamese government officials to sell COVID-19 RT-PCR tests , at a heavy mark-up to provincial health departments and hospitals.
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.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
The American presence in Long Tieng declined. In April 1975, the United States rapidly began airlifting Americans and Vietnamese employees out of South Vietnam prior to the fall of Saigon to Communist forces. In Laos at the same time, communist forces were poised to capture Long Tieng.
Trương Mỹ Lan (born 13 October 1956) is a Vietnamese businesswoman who founded the real estate development group Vạn Thịnh Phát Group , of which she is on the board of directors. A key figure in Vietnam's largest, multi-billion-dollar financial fraud , Lan was sentenced to death for embezzlement , bribery, and violations of banking ...
The scandal triggered public debates, with the younger generation advocating for sympathetic tolerance toward Thùy Linh. In contrast, adults, especially parents, criticized her heavily. There were informal demands for an official apology due to the perceived indirect impact on an education-oriented TV program for Vietnam's youth.
The incident was heavily protested by Vietnamese Community in the US due to viewing Đàm Vĩnh Hưng as someone who propagandizes the Government of Vietnam. He was previously honored by the Government of Vietnam for performing multiple political songs while waving Vietnam's national flag which Vietnamese-Americans bristle at.
A scandal is a widely publicized incident that involves allegations of official misconduct, disgrace, or moral outrage. A scandal may be based on reality, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both. Inclusion in this category does not imply guilt, but rather that a scandal (whether justified or not) has taken place.