January 14, 2012
 People are seen mingling in front of a display of LG Electronics televisions during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, where LG unveiled their 55-inch OLED TV, said to be the world’s largest. The TV set was later crowned ‘best gadget’ of the CES. A razor-thin television from LG Electronics was [...]
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December 19, 2011
Women from rural Vietnam are being tricked and forced into prostitution in Singapore by a Vietnamese human trafficking gang, says one woman who managed to escape by paying off her “debt.” Thirty-five-year -old Tran Thi My Linh from the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh told her story to Thanh Nien on Wednesday (December [...]
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September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country. A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is [...]
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August 13, 2011
Toys for sale on a sidewalk in HCMC. The seller claimed they were made with real animal skins. The illegal animal skin trade is robust and thriving in Ho Chi Minh City and across Vietnam, according to a Tuoi Tre investigation. Nghia, an animal leather dealer from Dong Nai Province near HCMC, said that langour [...]
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August 6, 2011
At one point, the Ngo Dong River flows between two impressive bluffs An astonishing 1,300 manned rowing boats are used to take tourists up the Ngo Dong River to Tam Coc and back. From the village of Van Lam in Ninh Binh Province, it’s a two-hour trip along the river to the three limestone [...]
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July 15, 2011
“Semester in army“ – a popular training program for teenagers – has left several parents worried after a report in the Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper revealed teen campers could get more than they bargained for. The story, published July 8, quoted the mother of a 17-year-old girl as saying the one-week course she [...]
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July 5, 2011
Nguyen Trung Kien and his wife (R) negotiate with a person who needs a master degree in Ho Chi Minh City. There have been several scandals about officials and others obtaining degrees from dubious universities and an equal number about people being arrested for printing fake degrees in Vietnam, but the practice thrives, nevertheless. It [...]
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May 24, 2011
A British lawmaker defied a court ruling Monday by naming Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret, escalating a row over privacy laws and the Internet. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming named the Manchester United player using his centuries-old right to freedom of speech [...]
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March 30, 2011
A flyer, posted on the Hanoi Backpacker's Hostel bulletin board, advertising a daily tour to Le Mat Village Last Sunday, in Hanoi’s Old quarter, a young, blue-eyed Australian backpacker sat cradling his head in his hands and complaining of a hangover. He said he’d had a wild night and produced a small digital camera from [...]
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November 15, 2010
Diep Tuan Khoa, 6, (L) and Le Gia Huy, 5 say they ran away from Dong Nai Charity House because a teacher there beat and abused them Police in Ho Chi Minh City took in four children on Monday who said they had been beaten and tortured by the staff of an orphanage in neighboring [...]
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