Posts Tagged ‘ documents ’

Vietnam Airlines violating rules on hiring pilots 

December 20, 2011
Vietnam Airlines violating rules on hiring pilots 

  No disciplinary measures taken after civil aviation authority finds national carrier breached its own procedures and regulations A Vietnam Airlines aircraft taxiing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. The national flag carrier has broken its own rules in hiring foreign pilots, an inquiry has found. National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has been breaking its [...]

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Old’s gold 

November 16, 2011
Old’s gold 

  A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]

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Trouble in the sky 

November 13, 2011
Trouble in the sky 

  Accusations and denials as Vietnam Airlines co-pilot suspected of using bogus certification Passengers alight from a Vietnam Airlines plane at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. The national flag carrier is trying to verify if it recruited a South Korean pilot with bogus flight records. The Civil Aviation Authority [...]

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Law firm documents add to heat on James Murdoch 

November 2, 2011
Law firm documents add to heat on James Murdoch 

  A law firm which represented Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloids has turned over to the British parliament documents which could embarrass his son James when he returns to testify before a committee investigating a phone-hacking scandal. Parliamentary and company sources told Reuters that Farrer & Co, a London law firm which until recently represented Murdoch’s [...]

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Funereal weddings 

July 2, 2011
Funereal weddings 

  Slick, illegal brokering machine ensures steady supply of poor young Vietnamese brides for South Korean men, a Thanh Nien investigation finds T., a 19-year-old woman from Kien Giang Province, at her wedding ceremony last month with a South Korean man One day in early June, Phuong gets a call informing her that two men [...]

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Notary public, bank official arrested in $310,000 fraud 

May 1, 2011

  Police in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday arrested a notary public and a bank official for their alleged involvement in the swindling of nearly VND6.4 billion (US$310,227).   Phan Thanh Van from the Notary Public’s Office No.2 under the city’s Department of Justice, and Le Tan Phu, who was in charge of credit at [...]

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349 red-listed tortoises seized in central Vietnam 

April 23, 2011

  Forest rangers and police in the central province of Nghe An Wednesday confiscated 349 law-protected tortoises which were being transported illegally.   The reptiles, including the yellow-headed Temple Turtle (Hieremys annandalei), were found in a freezer truck on the National Way 1A, police said.   Driver Nguyen Quoc Toan, 37, said he was hired [...]

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On shaky ground 

April 10, 2011
On shaky ground 

  Vietnam lacks solid seismic standards for high-rise construction and few guarantees for apartment buyers Residents stand outside an apartment building in Hanoi’s Linh Dam residential area after an earthquake on March 24. The quake has raised questions about the quality of apartment towers in the country. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake erupted along the border [...]

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WikiLeaks’ Assange ‘would face denial of justice’ 

February 7, 2011
WikiLeaks’ Assange ‘would face denial of justice’ 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrives at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court, in southeast London, on February 7. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be tried behind closed doors in a “flagrant denial of justice” if extradited to Sweden over sex crime allegations, his lawyer told a British court on Monday. The 39-year-old Australian appeared at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court [...]

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Deputies bemoan loss of historic documents 

November 15, 2010

  Vietnam is losing precious historical and cultural documents to the poor and rigid management of archives, deputies said at a National Assembly session on Friday. “Things of today are invaluable for tomorrow,” Le Doan Hop, Minister of Information and Communication and deputy from Hung Yen Province, said at the session to discuss the creation [...]

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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...