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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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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November 12, 2011
A Dutch company has filed a lawsuit in a London court, against Vietnam state-owned shipping giant Vinashin, and 21 of its Vietnamese subsidiaries. According to a BBC report, the Commercial Court under the Court Queen’s Bench on November 1 received a lawsuit filed by Elliott VIN Netherlands BV, a source from the court confirmed [...]
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November 11, 2011
A man exits the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Long before the brokerage firm MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy and prompted a frantic search for missing customer money, the company had already established a checkered history. An analysis of [...]
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August 31, 2011
The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]
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May 7, 2011
This undated file photo provided by New Mark Communications shows Greg Mortenson of Roseville, Minn., who founded the Central Asia Institute, a Montana-based organization which builds schools for girls in remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” was sued for fraud on Friday in a [...]
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December 22, 2010
63-year-old An Van Chau sits on the steps at the People's Court in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City A 63-year-old man on a wheelchair had to drag himself upstairs at a court in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 4 to file a lawsuit that had been rejected twice. An Van Chau was asked to [...]
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December 7, 2010
Scooters wade through flooded Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Binh Thanh District When we were young, we were taught that if we did something wrong, knowingly or otherwise, we must apologize, accept responsibility and make things right. There were no exceptions. No one was exempt from this common-sense rule. Authorities in particular would not be [...]
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October 29, 2009
Vietnam Airlines said a court in Rome has rejected its appeal against a ruling in 2000 which ordered the carrier to pay 5.2 million euros (US$7.6 million) to an Italian lawyer. Although the airline has not received any official document, some sources confirmed the rejection of the appeal, spokesman Le Hoang Dung told Thoi Bao [...]
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August 21, 2009
People enter and leave the building of Swiss bank UBS in Midtown Manhattan in New York City on Wednesday The Swiss government is selling its 6 billion-Swiss franc investment in UBS AG, the countryâs biggest bank, a day after signing an agreement with the US on data on bank clients suspected of evading taxes. The [...]
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Risk, lax oversight riddle MF Global’s past
A man exits the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan New York, October 31, 2011. Long before the brokerage firm MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy and prompted a frantic search for missing customer money, the company had already established a checkered history. An analysis of [...]
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