LONDON (AFP): A graduate college at Oxford University could be renamed after a Vietnamese billionaire whose budget airline staffed its inaugural flights with bikini-clad air hostesses.
Linacre College said this week it would change its name to Thao College, after a "transformative donation" of £155 million (US$211mil) from the SOVICO group, headed by Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao (pic).
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