1.   Peregrine Capital Vietnam Managing Director Nguyen Trung Truc said eight Vietnamese companies owned by members of his family will lose their business licenses.

2.   So, analysts suspect, Vietnamese companies systematically fudge their earnings.

3.   So Point Enterprises took on a Vietnamese company as a minority partner.

4.   Truc said in March said that eight Vietnamese companies owned by members of his family would lose their licenses as part of the investigation into his financial activities.

5.   Two Vietnamese companies will own the rest of the venture.

6.   Authorities have picked five Vietnamese companies to begin building a new Hanoi airport terminal, spurning foreign construction companies, the Vietnam Investment Review said Sunday.

7.   BHP is the lead participant in a consortium that also includes the Vietnamese company, Petronas Carigali of Malaysia, Total SA of France and Sumitomo of Japan.

8.   But he added that large Vietnamese companies, almost all of them owned by the government, could become potential customers.

9.   But some Vietnamese companies already have dropped out of the race.

10.   For Vietnamese companies, the deal is promising.