Posts Tagged ‘ cases ’

Fuel to the fire 

January 15, 2012
Fuel to the fire 

  Siphoned gasoline replaced by other liquids by unscrupulous tank truck drivers may be the cause of car and motorbike fires Two men pumping liquid into a tank truck after spiriting hundreds of liters of gasoline. Low quality fuel is now considered the prime suspect responsible for the many car and motorbike fires over the [...]

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Wall Street justice system is a kangaroo court 

January 14, 2012
Wall Street justice system is a kangaroo court 

  There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its hundreds of thousands of customers, an advantage that will [...]

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France vows probe into breast implant failures 

January 3, 2012
France vows probe into breast implant failures 

France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a [...]

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Read him his rights 

December 31, 2011
Read him his rights 

  New circular sets out in detail rights of arrestees to demand legal assistance, and for defense lawyers to ask for change of principal investigator A trial in Ho Chi Minh City. A new circular sets out detailed procedures to ensure an arrestee’s rights when criminal cases are being investigated. The Da Lat People’s Court [...]

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Rash of vehicular fires remains a mystery: ministry 

December 25, 2011
Rash of vehicular fires remains a mystery: ministry 

  Police are struggling to pinpoint what has caused the explosive fires that have recently plagued cars and motorbikes in Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said. In a letter responding to Thanh Nien’s questioning the ministry’s delay in resolving the cases, Pham Van Sinh, deputy chief of the ministry’s office, said in many cases, vehicle owners did not report incidents to police [...]

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Vietnam state bank to scrutinize lending activities 

December 2, 2011
Vietnam state bank to scrutinize lending activities 

  The State Bank of Vietnam will sign a joint-circular with the Ministry of Public Security to improve anti-crime efforts in banking and lending activities, according to a banking conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. Central bank governor Nguyen Van Binh made the announcement at the conference, where officials pointed out that the [...]

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Violence prone 

November 21, 2011
Violence prone 

  Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]

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Vietnam dengue fever toll rises to 46 

November 13, 2011
Vietnam dengue fever toll rises to 46 

  Dengue fever has so far this year claimed 46 lives among 49,011 Vietnamese people who have been infected, according to the Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine. Most of the dengue fever cases have been found in the central and southern regions, the administration said. It said the epidemic is under control because the number [...]

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‘Black credit’ a serious danger amid economic slowdown 

October 30, 2011
‘Black credit’ a serious danger amid economic slowdown 

Lawyer Pham Thanh Binh, deputy head of Hong Ha Law Firm in Hanoi. A series of loan insolvencies totaling hundreds of billion Vietnamese dong have been detected in Hanoi. This is partly due to the impacts of the economic slowdown, which has savers shying away from legal investment channels because of low profits. They instead [...]

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Vietnam minister downplays seriousness of hand-foot-mouth outbreak 

October 30, 2011
Vietnam minister downplays seriousness of hand-foot-mouth outbreak 

Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137 people, [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...