January 25, 2012
Two Vietnamese sailors on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean two years ago have called home saying the pirates had chopped off an arm of the captain. The pirates are demanding a US$2.8-million ransom. On January 20, Tran Van Hung, one of the 26 crew members of the [...]
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December 31, 2011
A file photo shows telecommunications equipment confiscated by Vietnamese police in raids of Chinese and Taiwanese gangs in Vietnam. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested one Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals on suspicion that they cheated people in several countries and territories via the Internet and international phone calls. A report on Tuoi Tre [...]
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December 20, 2011
Thanh Nien helps rescue a Vietnamese victim of domestic abuse in Taiwan  A wedding photo of 29-year-old Phan Thi Kim Thanh and her Taiwanese husband Chung Yung Hua. Thanh was rescued from her husband’s house in Taiwan’s Changhua County on December 13, where she was allegedly being battered and kept under home arrest [...]
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December 16, 2011
Eleven babies born to Vietnamese women who were tricked into surrogacy in Thailand were sent to Taiwan to their blood parents Sunday, An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) reported. The children, including two pairs of twins, had been brought up at the Vietnam Women’s Union’s welfare center in Hanoi before being returned to the Taiwanese [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen on a Taiwanese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates off the Indian Ocean last December are still in stable condition after spending about one year in the hands of the pirates, online newspaper VnExpress reported. On Dec. 30, 2010, the FV Shiuh Fu No. 1 was last seen being pursued by a [...]
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November 8, 2011
Taiwanese authorities said Monday that a Taiwanese-flagged fishing boat with five Vietnamese sailors onboard was freed from Somali pirates after some of its crew members fought back against the pirates in the Indian Ocean, The China Post reported. The long-line Chin Yi Wen was hijacked on November 4 by six armed Somali pirates near the [...]
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May 31, 2011
Taiwan and the Philippines have warned some sport drinks may have been contaminated with a chemical that could cause infertility and block boys’ sex organ development, officials said Tuesday. The Philippine Food and Drug Administration is monitoring some imported Taiwanese sport drinks, fruit juices and soft drinks that Taipei said may contain excessive amounts [...]
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May 31, 2011
Taiwanese health officials last Friday notified Vietnamese authorities that a batch of drinks contaminated with a toxic chemical is on its way to Vietnam. According to a message broadcast on Chinese television channel CCTV4 the same day, the Taiwanese officials have already apologized for the incident. Two days earlier, the Taiwanese Department of Health [...]
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May 16, 2011
Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa is searching for two Vietnamese sailors who went missing after a gas explosion onboard a Taiwanese fishing boat. The accident left two other Vietnamese sailors dead last month. The eight other Vietnamese sailors injured in the explosion returned home Saturday after medical treatment in South Africa. The bodies of the two dead sailors [...]
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March 11, 2011
Vietnamese women lured to be surrogate mothers in Thailand A Vietnamese surrogate mother taken from a hospital to the Kretrakarn Home, a center for trafficked returnees in Bangkok When an acquaintance told 19-year-old P. of Bac Lieu Province in the Mekong Delta last year that she could work as a housekeeper in Thailand for [...]
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