January 25, 2012
Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
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January 9, 2012
Police deactivate mines set up at the entrance to the house of Doan Van Vuon in the northern city of Hai Phong. Six cops were shot in an encounter with Vuon's family on January 5. A man who allegedly shot six officers when his family was trying to stop police from revoking their land in [...]
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December 28, 2011
Two transport officials in southern Vietnam who were caught gambling billions of dong on Chinese chess games have been suspended from their posts and taken into for two months pending investigations. A VnExpress newswire report Tuesday said Nguyen Thanh Leo, deputy chief of the provincial Transport Department, and Tran Van Tan, director of Soc [...]
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December 19, 2011
Le Van Thuong, head of the family that owns the garden with five newly anointed National Heritage trees, poses in front of the hollowed trunks of one of them He was offered US$300,000 and more for his garden with old trees, but the owner was not tempted. Le Van Thuong is now the owner [...]
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October 14, 2011
A photo taken with a mobile phone showing judge Nguyen Thanh Mong leaving a guest house with a local's wife. A provincial judge in southern Vietnam has admitted going to a local guesthouse with a married woman, claiming he was offering her advice she sought on family problems. Nguyen Thanh Mong, deputy head of the [...]
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September 4, 2011
Quiet 18-year-old youth confesses to killing three members of a family in failed gold heist Le Van Luyen (C), 18, is arrested on Wednesday (August 31) in the northern province of Lang Son for allegedly murdering three people at a Bac Giang gold shop on August 24 An 18-year-old youth, described as a quiet [...]
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August 3, 2011
A police officer from the north central region’s Nghe An Province was found dead in a local river Monday, but the cause of death is unknown. The body of lieutenant Nguyen Thai Son was found in the Hoang Mai River two days after his family reported him missing. Son was wearing a T-shirt and [...]
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July 30, 2011
Nguyen Hong Cong, 60, has hunted a royal treasure over the past 30 years in the northern province of Quang Binh. Local authorities have said there is no treasure to be found. Authorities in the northern province of Quang Binh Wednesday officially dismissed the possibility of a royal treasure being found by a man who [...]
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July 16, 2011
Sacombank, Vietnam’s fifth largest partly private lender by assets, has rejected rampant rumors that the bank could be acquired by an investor. The rumors started circulating at the end of last month as more than 25 million STB shares changed hands on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange from June 29 to July 8. [...]
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May 26, 2011
Tran Dinh Quang, 13, at his family's funeral Sunday in the central province of Ha Tinh. Nine of his loved ones died in a boat accident in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday. Tears seem to be not enough to express the pain of a 70-year-old man and his family, as nine of [...]
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