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Business Matters: Vietnam Energy Executives Stand Trial on Corruption Charges

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Vietnam Energy Executives Stand Trial on Corruption Charges

09/01/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Vietnam Energy Executives Stand Trial on Corruption Charges

This is part of a crackdown on corruption in the country's energy and banking sectors.

Senior executives from Vietnam's state oil company are standing trial in Hanoi in a crackdown on corruption in the country's energy and banking sectors.

Its the biggest, most important trial in Vietnam's recent history - 22 defendants, the elite of the country's commercial and banking management are facing charges of  violating State regulations on economic management, and misappropriating property. The trial got under way Monday morning, but not completely in public, as we hear from Bill Hayton, former BBC Vietnam reporter and fellow of the Chatham House Asia Programme.

Some of Mexico's towns and cities are pulling away from state - and drug cartel - control, feeling safer on their own. Max Fisher went to investigate for the New York Times and gives us a picture of what he found.

The World's biggest annual consumer electronics show opens in Las Vegas in a few hours' time  Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is there and has been getting a preview of many of the latest gadgets.

(Photo: Trinh Xuan Thank, who German say was kidnapped by Vietnamese spies in Berlin last year. Credit: AFP.)

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