Tran Thi Hong Hanh, 49, director of HCMC-based realty firm Hoang Kim Land, has been detained for alleged asset misappropriation, reported the local media.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese merchants help Chinese businessmen swindle farmers in Vietnam, which is a reflection of the state’s poor management of the farm produce market. 

Chairman and CEO of the HCM City-based Forest Product and Handicraft Production, Import - Export Joint Stock Company (UPEXIM), was arrested on August 13 for acts of "fraudulent appropriation of assets."

In the last two weeks, in Hanoi, several cheating and overcharging incidents occurred against foreign visitors or people from other places to Hanoi. This situation has made many visitors worry.

"I myself was repeatedly cheated by taxi drivers. I was overcharged three times higher than the normal price," said the Deputy Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Seeing several foreigners walking on the street, a young man stopped his motorcycle to drop the woman who sat behind him. The woman approached the foreign visitors to show them her card and asked them to donate money for charity.

The country's referee circle has been shaken by the information that Mr. Dang Thanh Ha, a member of the referee committee of the Vietnam Professional Football JSC (VPF) is accused of embezzlement.