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Photo by STR/AFP via Getty ImagesThey couldn’t even wait for the show trial to reach its scheduled conclusion. In a shock early verdict, a Vietnamese court sentenced one of the world’s wealthiest women to be executed after the country’s biggest ever fraud trial.The lifestyle of Vietnam’s nouveau riche elite was exposed during a devastating trial in Ho Chi Minh City that convicted Truong My La Lan of stripping the country’s biggest bank huge sums of money in a s...

Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiographhy With the New Information Order debate occupying centre stage many global NGOs of both left and right ideological backgrounds entered the field of research and training in mass media. The most influential and well-funded of these was the Asian Mass Media and Information Centre [AMIC] which […]