December 25, 2011
Two more former officials were placed under investigation Friday, as the Ministry of Public Security’s investigators expanded their probe into the huge losses of state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin. A report in Tuoi Tre quoted the investigators as saying Saturday that Nguyen Van Tuyen, 49, former director of Hoang Anh Ship Building Joint-stock Company, a member company [...]
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September 18, 2011
Deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang Vietnam’s deputy health minister Wednesday denied accusations that he abused power to force a pharmaceutical company to lend him VND1 billion (US$48,000). Cao Minh Quang, deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, made the denial in an interview with the Tuoi Tre newspaper after several news sources reported that [...]
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June 27, 2011
Bui Tien Dung, former director of the Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18), is to stand trial in Hanoi for embezzlement. A former senior transport official currently serving jail terms totaling 16 years for gambling and others crimes will stand trial Monday in Hanoi on embezzlement charges related to a Japanese-funded bridge project. [...]
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February 28, 2011
Red tape and a lack of funding have reduced Vietnam’s first national heritage village to a decaying tourist trap while officials near Hue argue that stalled preservation plans should be abandoned in two villages Harvest day in Duong Lam Village Six years ago, the people of Duong Lam Village had the esteemed honor of [...]
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December 1, 2010
Bui Tien Dung (R), Former Director of the Ministry of Transport's Project Management Unit 18, at a trial in August. Dung will stand trial for embezzlement this month. Vietnam’s supreme prosecutor’s office is charging eight former officials with embezzlement for allegedly pocketing over VND3.4 billion (US$174,403) in public funds, a source told Thanh Nien Friday. [...]
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January 31, 2010
Vu Dinh Thuan, former deputy head of the Government Office and head of Project 112 The former head of a government office was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for abuse of power in a failed e-government project. The Hanoi Prosecution Office had proposed a jail term of 7-8 years for Vu Dinh [...]
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January 24, 2010
Vu Dinh Thuan, former head of the Government Ofice, stands in the dock The Hanoi Prosecution Office has proposed jail terms of up to eight years for a former deputy minister and others for pocketing kickbacks from dubious contracts awarded as part of a failed e-government project. Vu Dinh Thuan, former head of the Government [...]
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January 20, 2010
Vu Dinh Thuan, former director of the 112 Project, could receive seven to eight years jail time for “abusing his position and power while executing duties.” Defendant Vu Dinh Thuan.LookAtVietnam – Vu Dinh Thuan, former director of the 112 Project, an information technology modernization project for government agencies, could receive seven to eight years jail time [...]
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January 18, 2010
Ships dock at Saigon Port in Ho Chi Minh City. Experts generally agree that the immense and natural potential that Vietnam has to develop a strong sea transport industry has not been tapped, leaving it in a state of continued latency. Economist Nguyen Tuan Hoa of Ho Chi Minh City Development Learning Center said Vietnam [...]
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December 1, 2009
Tran Quang Chieu, former director of Camimex Company, is found guilty of two counts Former senior officials at a major Mekong Delta major state-run seafood exporter and their partners on Monday received jail sentences of up to 12 years for tax fraud. As the five-day hearing at Ca Mau Province Peopleâs Court closed, Tran Quang [...]
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