November 16, 2011
A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]
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November 15, 2011
A southern Vietnamese provincial court worked with the local Communist Party unit Tuesday over accusations that a local senior judge had illicit relations with his subordinate, who is another man’s wife. Â Huynh Hong Thang, vice presiding judge of the People’s Court of Soc Trang town in Soc Trang Province, was accused of sharing [...]
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October 14, 2011
A photo taken with a mobile phone showing judge Nguyen Thanh Mong leaving a guest house with a local's wife. A provincial judge in southern Vietnam has admitted going to a local guesthouse with a married woman, claiming he was offering her advice she sought on family problems. Nguyen Thanh Mong, deputy head of the [...]
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September 9, 2011
Vietnam has to get very tough or the flood of illegal Chinese workers will continue Chinese workers at a construction site in the south-central province of Phu Yen. Thousands of illegal workers will continue taking jobs from Vietnamese workers if the Vietnamese government does not take action now, analysts say. There will be no [...]
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August 17, 2011
People serach for the remains of a war martyr in Nghe An Province Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An have decreed that all soldiers’ remains found by mediums must be confirmed by DNA tests in order to be made official. Â Nghe An Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, provincial police and [...]
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August 1, 2011
Tran Van Tiep (R), 97, has been allowed to explore a mountain in central Vietnam for treasure. Authorities in the central province of Binh Thuan have allowed a man to continue exploring a local mountain for treasure believed to be worth some US$100 billion after terminating the project in February.  Tran Van Tiep, a 97-year-old citizen from Ho [...]
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July 12, 2011
A sixty-year-old man has spent half his life and all his money chasing the legend of Emperor Ham Nghi’s buried treasure Nguyen Hong Cong (pictured lower left) now lives in a remote cottage in the Hoa Son Forest where he has hunted an elusive treasure trove for the past 30 years. In the summer [...]
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July 7, 2011
Police in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have summoned a provincial department’s IT officer who hacked a number of websites and published pornographic content. Phan Ngoc Quan, an IT officer of Tra Vinh Province Department of Information and Communications, is accused of hacking websites of provincial departments and replacing the content with [...]
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June 26, 2011
Chinese workers at a construction site of Quang Ninh Thermo-electricity Plant. Fines against violations involving illegal foreign workers in Vietnam should be increased and violating companies should be publicly announced on the media, a labor official said. Le Quang Trung, deputy director of the Employment Department under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social [...]
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June 23, 2011
Students check the results of their high school graduation exams at the Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Saturday issued a statement expressly banning any instructions than the ones that it has issued for marking the recently held high school graduation exams. Â [...]
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