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Tran Dinh Truong (1932-2012) is considered the world's richest Vietnamese with assets of about US$1.2 billion.
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Truong started hotel business in New York City, with Opera and Carter hotels (near Times Square and Lafayette Hotel in Buffalo, New York.)
Currently, Tran Group Management LLC of Truong’s family is managing and leasing a network of hotels in the northeastern United States, as the Quality Inn Downtown, Best Western (Baltimore) and Lafayette Buffalo NY. This group is building the 250-room Crown hotel in Baltimore and a 200-room hotel on Market Street in Philadelphia.
In addition, the group also promotes investment in Vietnam and manages the Vietnam Trade Center (VBC) in Baltimore "to support, encourage and help Vietnamese businesses establish presence on America, while expanding the market to provide goods and products of Vietnam to the United States."
He was a positive patron for activities of the Vietnamese community in the United States.
Trung Dung – A legend of tech billionaire in the U.S.
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Dr. Trung Dung, born in 1967, is a developer, Vietnamese American billionaire with total assets of about $1 billion.
Coming to the US in 1985, Trung Dung had only $2 dollars in his pocket but 15 years later, he transferred his OnDisplay for Vignette Corp. for approximately $ 1.8 billion.
The story of his success has become a "legend" in the high-tech world and was written in many popular magazines like Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal as well as in the book “The American Dream” by CBS’s editor Dan Rather.
Dung got a bachelor degree of computer science and applied mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1988. After taking an MA degree, he pursued a doctoral diploma but he had to leave it undone because of his mother’s illness. Later, in 1992 he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences at the University of Boston. His wife is a doctor, who graduated from Stanford University with major cancer.
He founded the company On Display Inc. in 1996. The company is considered one of the 10 most successful IPO in the US in 1999.
In 2005, he founded and was the CEO of V-Home Group, including the successful Vietnamese American entrepreneurs seeking investment opportunities in Vietnam.
Nguyen Van Hien - The richest Vietnamese in Germany
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Nguyen Van Hien owns a very large fortune, including the Dong Xuan Trade Center in Berlin. It is a center of business of the Vietnamese community in Germany. Many German companies wanted to buy it but Hien was determined not to sell.
Hien is building a Eur30 million cultural and economic center in the district of Lichtenberg, Berlin, to promote the culture, cuisine and people of Vietnam to German friends
Darunee - The most successful Vietnamese in Thailand
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Graduated with distinction in accounting from the Chulalongkorn University, one of the most prestigious universities in Thailand, she is married to a Chinese Thai descent. Then, the couple embarked on building the business.
Starting with a capital of only a few thousand baht, standing out as an agent of U.S. air conditioner brand York in Bangkok, after nearly seven years the couple set up their own company - The Senator air conditioner company, when Darunee was 30.
After a few year, Senator has become a familiar brand in Thailand, with up to 500 million baht in revenue each year and thousands of employees. Darunee also has stakes in several other large electronics companies in Thailand. She is said the most successful Vietnamese in Thailand today.
Darunee said during the Vietnam War and the period when Vietnam and Thailand did not establish diplomatic relations yet, most Vietnamese in Thailand were afraid to identify themselves as Vietnamese origin for fear of trouble. Darunee is praised to be a "brave Vietnamese" because she boldly claimed herself as a Vietnamese, "I am a Vietnamese, I'm proud to be Vietnamese," she said.
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