Posts Tagged ‘ In The Central ’

Vietnam ex-cops receive suspended sentences for torturing woman 

January 11, 2012
Vietnam ex-cops receive suspended sentences for torturing woman 

Tran Ba Tuan and Nguyen Dinh Quyet, both former investigators of Nha Trang’s police division, at a trial in the central province of Khanh Hoa on January 9. The duo received suspended sentences for torturing a theft suspect in 2010. Two former police officers in the central province of Khanh Hoa each has received a nine-month suspended [...]

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Hue royal citadel to offer free admission during Tet holiday 

January 9, 2012
Hue royal citadel to offer free admission during Tet holiday 

The royal citadel of Hue in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue Several tourist spots in the former imperial capital of Hue in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue will offer free admission to both local and foreign tourists from January 23-25 (1st to 3rd day of first lunar month). Phan [...]

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Two die, five missing as boat sinks in central Vietnam 

December 26, 2011
Two die, five missing as boat sinks in central Vietnam 

  Two women were killed and five soldiers are missing when a boat carrying 34 people sank in the central province of Quang Nam Sunday. According to Hoi An Town’s People’s Committee, the boat from Tan Hiep Commune island was sunk by waves when it was less than one kilometer from the town’s coast. People on [...]

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Forest rangers rescue rare bear in central Vietnam 

December 21, 2011
Forest rangers rescue rare bear in central Vietnam 

  Forest rangers in the central province of Quang Ngai on Monday rescued a rare Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) illegally kept by a local, Vietnamnet reported. The newswire quoted Nguyen Van Han, chief of Quang Ngai Forest Ranger Agency, as saying that the 65-kilogram bear lost its leg when it was trapped by poachers before [...]

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Former officer faces torture charges in central Vietnam 

December 1, 2011
Former officer faces torture charges in central Vietnam 

A file photo of Nguyen Truong Vu with injures on his face at Khanh Hoa General Hospital in the central province of the same name. Vu was allegedly beaten up by a former officer. Investigators from the Vietnamese prosecutor’s office Monday proposed to charge a former police officer in the central province of Khanh Hoa with [...]

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DNA testing center opens in central Vietnam 

November 26, 2011
DNA testing center opens in central Vietnam 

The DNA testing center opens in the central city of Da Nang on Thursday Vietnam’s Anti-crime Police General Department on Thursday opened its third center for testing DNA in the central city of Da Nang, VnExpress reported. With equipment imported from the UK and the US, the center aims to provide support to police, prosecutors [...]

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Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

November 17, 2011
Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

Nguyen Van Khai, who has used a chemical substance to treat hand-foot-mouth disease in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Vietnam health ministry has asked a hospital in Ninh Thuan Province to stop using a treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) initiated by a physicist until scientific assessments can be made, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The ministry made [...]

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Rare monkey rescued in central Vietnam 

November 7, 2011
Rare monkey rescued in central Vietnam 

  Forest rangers in the central province of Quy Nhon on November 2 said they are treating an endangered, injured gray-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) monkey, which was kept by a local. According to Tran Duy An, chief of the Forest Ranger Division in Tuy Phuoc District, the local whose identity was not revealed bought the douc in the nearby [...]

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Floods kill six in central Vietnam 

November 6, 2011
Floods kill six in central Vietnam 

  Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least six people in the central region in the past two days. On November 4, floods swept away four people who were driving their motorbikes on a bridge in Nong Son District, Quang Nam Province. The bodies of Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy, 43, and her six-year-old [...]

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Rhino’s gone. Who’s next? 

October 31, 2011
Rhino’s gone. Who’s next? 

  If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]

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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...