some thái bình people are among the richest in vietnam, including vũ quang hội who is the founder of bitexco group (who owns bitexco financial tower in ho chi minh city, the manor luxury building in hanoi, etc.), vu van tien, founder of geleximco - the largest private company in hanoi and ab bank, a large private bank. quách tuấn ngọc, a native of đông hưng, while a professor of computer science in hanoi university of technology, authored the first successfully commercial domestic software: bked ("bach khoa editor") - a system for processing vietnamese text, in the 1980s.