January 9, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested one Vietnamese and three Malaysian men for allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw money from local banks. They are believed to be members of a transnational crime ring. The first arrest, of Co Kim Thach, a 39-year-old resident of District 5, was made on December 30, [...]
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December 19, 2011
Koay Keng Chen, a 22-year-old Malaysian, at a trial in Hanoi on Friday where he received a three-year jail term for fraud. A Malaysian man was sentenced to three years in jail at a trial in Hanoi for cheating a mobile phone shop out of VND35 million (US$1,665) with fraudulent credit cards, Vietnam News Agency [...]
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July 15, 2011
“Semester in army“ – a popular training program for teenagers – has left several parents worried after a report in the Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper revealed teen campers could get more than they bargained for. The story, published July 8, quoted the mother of a 17-year-old girl as saying the one-week course she [...]
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July 4, 2011
Professor Bui Ngoc Chau introduces a project to produce Vietnam's first microchip plant in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday. The first microchip plant of Vietnam will be the first step in turning Ho Chi Minh City into a semiconductor hub in the country and the region, experts said at a recent conference. Â Officials [...]
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May 31, 2011
Hanoi police arrested a Malaysian suspected of using a fake credit card to buy a laptop and four iPhones at an electronic mart in Hanoi on Thursday. This is the second time this month that a Malaysian has been caught using fake credit cards. Choi Mingkian, who had rented a room in a hotel [...]
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May 9, 2011
Police in Hanoi Sunday arrested a Malaysian man for allegedly using fraudulent cards to buy iPhones. Â According to initial information, Koay Keng Chen, 22, was arrested when he was attempting to buy five units of iPhone 4 worth over VND85 million (US$4,126) from at a shop in Dong Da District along with another [...]
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March 12, 2011
Four people in Ho Chi Minh City will face charges of theft for hacking foreigners’ credit cards and stealing their money, the People’s Supreme Procuracy, Vietnam’s highest office of prosecutors, announced Monday (March 7).  All in their twenties, the four men stole information from hundreds of credit cards and then used them to buy air [...]
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January 31, 2010
Visitors look at rows of Chocolate Terracotta Warriors at a chocolate theme park in Beijing China’s online tourism market is booming as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels for pleasure and the use of credit cards and the Internet soars, analysts say. As millions of people pack their bags for Lunar New Year holidays, the [...]
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January 12, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Bank debt card holders are complaining they’ve been experiencing problems changing cards as requested by their banks. After hearing that his bank had begun issuing new Connect24 card with new bank identification number (BIN), Nguyen Xuan Toan, a customer of Vietcombank hurried along to change his card.Toan was concerned when he was told [...]
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January 12, 2010
The latest inspection by the Ministry of Information and Communication has found that 90 percent of prepaid mobile phone subscribers have registered SIM cards with incorrect personal information. Following the investigation, the ministry has fined agencies of mobile phone operators VND1 billion (US$54,156) for violations including registering cards in the names of their customers, or [...]
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