October 16, 2011
With paltry incomes hardly enough to scrape by on, poor and desperate workers are being brutalized by thieves, loan sharks, swindlers and other criminals Factory workers change shifts at an industrial park in Vietnam. Many workers at industrial parks in Binh Duong Province’s Ben Cat District have fallen victims to a variety of crimes [...]
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May 24, 2011
 (L-R) Four Filipinos, Estreuta M. Debelem, Aserdin Cadion Eduardo, Pineda Sevilla Regina, and Elizag Jovito Corpuz, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on May 3, 2010 in a gambling con investigation. They were released and not charged with the crime. Last May, Ho Chi Minh City police arrested four Filipino nationals as they [...]
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March 23, 2011
Police in Bavet, Cambodia, raided the Chateau Casino in January, freeing 10 Vietnamese gamblers who were being held against their will by loan sharks Last month, Vietnam was rocked by the shocking confession of Tran Thuy Lieu, 41. After nearly four weeks of media innuendo and heavy police interrogation, Lieu’s sisters convinced her to admit [...]
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December 12, 2010
Students unable to repay debts fear for their limbs Binh left his home in a nearby province and came to Ho Chi Minh City with dreams of a degree. Struggling with the high costs of living in the city, he failed to pay his university fees in October and ended up borrowing VND5 million [...]
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January 16, 2010
Nguyen Minh Tuan, a lecturer at Quy Nhon University, was attacked by an unidentified fish on January 9 Authorities in the central coastal town of Quy Nhon are offering a reward of VND10 million (US$541) for capture of an unidentified fish locals blame for attacking ten people since last July. The three latest victims of [...]
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December 6, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Predatory stock ‘sharks’ hunt in packs, grouping together to invest big money small-time companies to boost share prices and feast on profits. Big-time investment “teams” whose members are known as “sharks” have been fixing stock prices by investing via several different accounts to manipulate market sentiment, a Thanh Nien investigation has found. Though [...]
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December 5, 2009
Predatory stock âsharksâ hunt in packs, grouping together to invest big money small-time companies to boost share prices and feast on profits. Big-time investment âteamsâ whose members are known as âsharksâ have been fixing stock prices by investing via several different accounts to manipulate market sentiment, a Thanh Nien investigation has found.Though Vietnamese law only [...]
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July 20, 2009
In this undated image released by the Pew Environment Group, surfer Mike Coots rides a wave off Kuaui, Hawaii. Coots lost his leg to a shark while surfing when he was 18. They may have lost fingers, or perhaps even an arm or leg, but these former surfers and vacationers paced down the halls of [...]
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May 22, 2009
A black-tip reef shark (Carcharius Melanopterus) has produced five offspring for the first time in Vietnam in an aquarium at the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang Town, Khanh Hoa Province. Chu Anh Khanh of the institute said Thursday the baby sharks, 35 centimeter long, weighed 0.7kg each, and were in good health.The institute said [...]
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