VietJet sale set to create SEA's first self-made female billionaire

VietJet sale set to create SEA's first self-made female billionaire

Image courtesy VietJet's official website

Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao made her first million at 21, trading fax machines and latex rubber. Almost a quarter of a century later, she’s poised to become Southeast Asia’s first self-made woman billionaire known for putting bikini-clad models on her VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. planes and calendars.

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