MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Ma Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City @ AsiaTimesOnline, April 18
Nguyen Phuong Thao, Vietnam’s first woman US dollar billionaire, has risen to the top on a controversial corporate formula: bikini-wearing employees.
As chief executive officer of VietJet, the country’s fast rising budget airline, Thao has mixed aviation and sex appeal in a way that would make even the most casual Western low-cost carriers blush [....]