The historical structures on Vietnam's VND50,000 banknote

Souvenir shops in HCMC are selling currency bills and coins with images of swine a month before the Year of the Pig begins.

In many countries, income inequality is growing. While movie stars and top bank executives are paid millions, back-breaking work is often poorly remunerated.

Vietnam's prosecutors have filed charges against six employees of Eximbank for abetting their absconding boss to steal VND264 billion ($11 million) from three customers' accounts.

By the time Thien Ngoc Minh Uy’s license was revoked in April 2017, the multilevel marketing company had signed up about 26,700 clients.

A former Eximbank employee will spend the rest of her life in prison for stealing over VND50 billion ($2.2 million) from six VIP customers.

Officials think high volatility and lack of safety make cryptocurrencies unsuitable for central bank backing.

The telecommunications giant has not repaid AVG investors.

But when it comes to spending, they like to spend big.

Want to make money? Property, aviation, steel and cars look like the way forward.

Eximbank says it cannot reimburse the customer until a court orders it to do so.

The dollar started the year well but has fallen back on doubts about Donald Trump's ability to push through those policies.

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The move wrought havoc on businesses in Asia's third-largest economy, causing growth to slump to levels not seen since Modi was elected.