Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

The death sentence has been removed from eight criminal offences and replaced with life imprisonment for offenders.

A Vietnam court sentenced 11 people to death on Wednesday, including two police officers, after finding them guilty of ...

The call for judicial reforms got louder after Vietnam sentenced 11 people to death, about a week after the parliament voted ...

A court sentenced 11 people to death, including two police officers, after finding them guilty of trafficking drugs over the Laos border, state media reported.

The unusually harsh death sentence given to a real estate tycoon in Vietnam was a pivotal moment in the decadelong "Blazing Furnace" anti-corruption campaign as the Vietnamese business community ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, second left, attends trial in an appeal she filed against her death sentence in a financial fraud case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Associated Press reporter Aniruddha Ghosal about the largest-ever fraud case in Vietnam. The real estate tycoon at the center of it has received a death sentence.

Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, second left, attends trial in an appeal she filed against her death sentence in a financial fraud case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in Vietnam on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan but said it could be commuted to life if she reimburses some $11 billion, or ...

HANOI – A court in Vietnam on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan but said it could be commuted to life if she reimburses some $11 billion, or three-fourths of ...