Charlie Liteky, with his wife Judy Liteky, was an Army chaplain in Vietnam who won the Medal of Honor for rescuing more than 20 wounded men but later gave it back in protest and became a peace activist. Mr. Liteky died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Francisco.
Category: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Charlie Liteky, who gave back his Medal of Honor, dies
Charlie Liteky, an Army chaplain in Vietnam who won the Medal of Honor for rescuing more than 20 wounded men but later gave it back in protest and became a peace activist, has died.
VietJet CEO says net profit to climb 30 pct in 2017
Jan 10 Private Vietnamese airline VietJet expects net profit to climb 30 percent in 2017, after its bottomline almost doubled over the past 12 months, founder and CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao said in an interview on Tuesday. Thao said the budget airline’s pre-tax profit rose 91.6 percent year-on-year in 2016 to 2.3 trillion dong .
Recruitment firm Robert Walters’ FY gross profit rises 9 pct
Jan 10 Robert Walters reported a 9 percent rise in full-year gross profit on a constant currency basis and said pretax profit for the year would be slightly ahead of market expectations. The company, which places people in finance, engineering, legal and marketing jobs, reported higher quarterly gross profit, driven by growth in all its regions and said UK gross profit rose 16 percent to 23.1 million pounds in the three months ended Dec. 31. Robert Walters, which makes nearly two-thirds of its gross profit outside the UK, said in a trading statement on Tuesday that it had entered two new countries with the opening of offices in Canada and Portugal.
VietJet Forecasts 30% Profit Rise Ahead of February Listing
VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. , the Vietnam carrier known for its bikini-clad flight attendants, expects profit to surge 30 percent this year on rising passengers as it prepares for its Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange listing debut in February.
Taichung-Ho Chi Minh flights launch this month
Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet Air will launch a new route later this month, linking Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam with Taichung in Taiwan, as the central Taiwan city seeks to promote itself as an operations base for low-cost carriers. The new route will be officially launched on Jan. 15, with four flights a week – Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday – and a flying time of more than three hours between the two cities, according to the airline.