Photo by STR/AFP via Getty ImagesThey couldn’t even wait for the show trial to reach its scheduled conclusion. In a shock early verdict, a Vietnamese court sentenced one of the world’s wealthiest women to be executed after the country’s biggest ever fraud trial.The lifestyle of Vietnam’s nouveau riche elite was exposed during a devastating trial in Ho Chi Minh City that convicted Truong My La Lan of stripping the country’s biggest bank huge sums of money in a scam worth $27 billion.The trial cre
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“I’m always homesick for Vietnam. To write is to return home. That s why I had to bring Vietnam alive onto the pages. I had to hear the people speak, I had to listen to the music, to the language; I had to smell the food, see the landscape that s my way of returning home. Whenever I’m homesick, I just return home via my writing.”