December 6, 2011
Tran Thuy Lieu (L), the wife of reporter Le Hoang Hung, and her daughter, at his funeral. The newspaper Hung used to work for said it suspects Hung’s wife is not the only culprit in his death. A Vietnamese newspaper has asked the nation’s supreme court, prosecutors and police to launch fresh investigations into the murder [...]
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November 26, 2011
One area where the US indisputably leads the world is incarceration. There are 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every 100 Americans. The federal prison population has more than doubled over the past 15 years, and one in nine black children has a parent in jail. Proportionally, the US has four times [...]
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November 14, 2011
This undated photo, received from the Australian Federal Police, shows officers inspecting a yacht from which Australian police seized 300 kg of cocaine worth $80.3 mln. Australian police seized 300 kilograms (650 pounds) of cocaine from a luxury yacht and charged four Spaniards with drug trafficking in one of the country’s biggest ever busts, officials [...]
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July 30, 2011
NGOs can provide information if authorities are brave and willing to take action against well-known criminals An Indochinese tiger, Mi, carries a cub at the Hanoi Zoo. Experts say Vietnam continues to be a regional hub for illegal trade in tiger parts, pushing the creature close to extinction. Ten days before the world observes [...]
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July 17, 2011
Nguyen Tang Tien, member of a voluntary anti-crime club, in the southern province of Binh Duong, was attacked after he foiled an attempt to steal a motorbike. Police in the southern province of Binh Duong have arrested another man suspected of attacking a member of a volunteer anti-crime task force last month, the Tuoi Tre [...]
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July 1, 2011
Tran Thuy Lieu confesses to setting her husband, Le Hoang Hung, on fire while he was sleeping at home in Long An Province’s Tan An Town on January 19. Police have extended the detainment of a 40-year-old woman who allegedly set her husband on fire in January and turned herself in a month later. Tran [...]
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May 16, 2011
Foreign tourists cross a street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Reader response to “Expats clamor over crime” page 8, Issue 83 Jumping the gun? I have been meaning to talk about the latest crime warning from the US Consulate here in Saigon. I just remember reading their warning wondering which crime they were [...]
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May 7, 2011
A cryptic warning from the US consulate has left foreigners wondering how bad crime really is in Ho Chi Minh City Foreign tourists in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Police in HCMC’s District 1 reported seeing an increase in camera, computer and bag snatching in tourist hotspots around town, particularly in the early evening, [...]
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January 8, 2011
Interpol red alert subject found safe haven in Vietnam for five years  Bunty Pandey (right) was arrested in Vietnam last October. Police said Pandey had been living in Vietnam under a false identity â Vijay Subhash Sharma, 40, labor contractorâ- while running his operations in India Smuggling, kidnapping, extortion and murders galore – [...]
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December 19, 2009
A rhinoceros shot dead in Zimbabwe With Vietnamese believing rhino horns have magical medicinal properties and willing to pay big money for them, the giant animal is being driven to extinction. Nguyen Van Lam, a former deputy head of the Government Office, resigned in July 2006 after he was found to have accepted cash as [...]
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