HANOI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam on Thursday handed a life sentence to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan on financial fraud charges, after she was sentenced to death in April in a separate ...

Vietnam’s parliament on Wednesday voted to remove the death penalty for several offenses, including embezzlement, sparing the life of a tycoon whose $12 billion fraud conviction riveted the nation.

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case. The legal reforms in ...