Posts Tagged ‘ Prosecutors ’

Further probe ordered for Vietnam journalist murder again 

January 19, 2012
Further probe ordered for Vietnam journalist murder again 

  A court in southern Vietnam on Wednesday asked local police to investigate further the murder of a journalist which has drawn a great deal of public and media attention over the past year. Le Quang Hung, deputy chief of Long An Province’s People’s Court said in VnExpress that they would not hold a hearing to [...]

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Three in headline-grabbing rape case ordered back to jail 

January 18, 2012
Three in headline-grabbing rape case ordered back to jail 

Nguyen Dinh Loi (R) and Nguyen Dinh Kien. Three men from northern Vietnam, convicted of rape and robbery ten years ago and released early 2010 , will have to continue their jail terms, according to a Hanoi People’s Court decision sent to them on Monday. The decision, signed on January 12, noted that they would [...]

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Newspaper calls for fresh probe into journalist’s murder 

December 6, 2011
Newspaper calls for fresh probe into journalist’s murder 

Tran Thuy Lieu (L), the wife of reporter Le Hoang Hung, and her daughter, at his funeral. The newspaper Hung used to work for said it suspects Hung’s wife is not the only culprit in his death. A Vietnamese newspaper has asked the nation’s supreme court, prosecutors and police to launch fresh investigations into the murder [...]

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Ex-officials face charges in Vietnam shipbuilder’s massive loss 

November 19, 2011
Ex-officials face charges in Vietnam shipbuilder’s massive loss 

  Vietnam’s highest office of prosecutors on Thursday announced that it has pressed charges against nine former officials of the state-owned shipbuilding corporation Vinashin for causing the loss of more than VND910 billion (US$43.3 million). Prosecutors said the officials, including Pham Thanh Binh, former board chairman of the corporation that nearly went bankrupt last year after piling [...]

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Woman’s death at prosecutors' party an accident: local authorities 

September 3, 2011
Woman’s death at prosecutors' party an accident: local authorities 

The barge from which a woman fell into the river and drowned on August 20. Agencies in the southern province of Long An have concluded the death of a woman who drowned at a party attended by two top officials of the local prosecutors’ office was an accident, the Tuoi Tre reported Friday. The newspaper [...]

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Prosecutors delay charges in journalist murder trial 

September 1, 2011
Prosecutors delay charges in journalist murder trial 

Tran Thi Lieu, 40, faces charges of murdering her husband Le Hoang Hung on January 19 in the southern province of Long An. Prosecutors in the southern province of Long An Thursday said they have decided to delay charging a woman for murdering her husband, a former reporter, Tuoi Tre reported Friday. Cao Minh Tri, [...]

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Hotel maid in Strauss-Kahn case speaks out 

July 25, 2011
Hotel maid in Strauss-Kahn case speaks out 

ABC's Robin Roberts talks to the alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, Nafissatou Diallo in New York The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s website on Sunday that he appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her [...]

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Southern Vietnam’s prosecutors appeal acquittal of man's murder charge 

June 10, 2011
Southern Vietnam’s prosecutors appeal acquittal of man's murder charge 

Le Ba Mai, 29, (2nd, L) was acquitted of raping and killing a 11-year-old girl after standing four trials and seven years in custody, but now prosecutors want to reinstate charges. Prosecutors in the southern province of Binh Phuoc Tuesday asked the country’s highest court to hold an appeal to reinstate charges against a man acquitted of [...]

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Official jailed for five years in Vietnam e-gov’t scam

January 31, 2010
Official jailed for five years in Vietnam e-gov’t scam

Vu Dinh Thuan, former deputy head of the Government Office and head of Project 112 The former head of a government office was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for abuse of power in a failed e-government project. The Hanoi Prosecution Office had proposed a jail term of 7-8 years for Vu Dinh [...]

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Group to stand trial for trying to overthrow government

December 29, 2009
Group to stand trial for trying to overthrow government

The People’s Supreme Procuracy, Vietnam’s highest prosecutors’ office, will prosecute four people for attempting to overthrow the government, according to the indictment announced Tuesday. The charge carries a sentence of between 12 years and death, according to Vietnamese laws.The indictment said that Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, former general director of the HCMC-based One Connection Internet [...]

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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...