January 22, 2012
Police in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have arrested a woman for organizing gambling chess games for local officials, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted police as saying Ngo Hue Phan let Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy director of Soc Trang Province Transport Department, and Dinh Van Muoi, former deputy chief [...]
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January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
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January 15, 2012
A handout from the Italian Guardia de Finanza shows the Costa Concordia, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Two South Korean honeymooners were rescued Sunday from a cruise ship that hit rocks and keeled over off the west coast of Italy, but three were confirmed dead [...]
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January 13, 2012
Chinese workers in southern Vietnam Lax regulations are allowing more than 31,330 foreigners to work illegally in Vietnam, labor officials said at a conference this week. Officials from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs suggested the government quickly establish an Employment Law to better manage foreign workers, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper said. The illegal number [...]
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January 6, 2012
Warns the lack of rectitude among Party members threatens political system Pedestrians and traffic pass down a street which is decorated with national flags and banners celebrating the Party Congress in Hanoi last January. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has admitted that morality is eroding among Party members. Vietnam’s top leader has admitted [...]
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January 3, 2012
A dried part of the Ba Ha River below a hydropower dam in Phu Yen Province An inspection by officials in Phu Yen Province in south central Vietnam on Tuesday found rivers are dying and locals’ lives are lagging as a result of hydropower dams. The three hydropower plants in the province, put on the Ba [...]
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December 30, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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December 30, 2011
Workers lay asphalt on a section of the National Way 1A in the central province of Quang Ngai Tuesday, although the street is wet with stagnant water. Last week newly-appointed Transport Minister Dinh La Thang made the headlines with bold statements about dealing with traffic jams in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi – the [...]
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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 25, 2011
A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]
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