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Court annuls statutory rape case verdicts

February 8, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Court annuls statutory rape case verdicts

Sam Duc Xuong (1st, L), former principal of Viet Vinh High School in Ha Giang Province An appeal court in northern Vietnam has annulled the earlier verdict against a school principal found guilty of having sex with underage students and ordered a fresh investigation into the case. At the end of a four-day trial... Read more

Senior Vietnamese bank official detained in bribe probe

February 6, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Senior Vietnamese bank official detained in bribe probe

Doan Tien Dung, deputy general director of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Hanoi police on Thursday launched an investigation into bribery charges against the deputy general director of a major bank, and arrested another bank official for involvement in the case. Initial investigations showed Doan... Read more

Vietnam tackles US at WTO over shrimp imports

February 5, 2010  . Filed under Business, News

Vietnam tackles US at WTO over shrimp imports

Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organization with a case against US anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp. The country only joined the global trade arbiter three years ago, and its economy like China’s has benefited strongly from membership in the world trading system... Read more

Central anti-corruption agency keeping an eye out for banker’s bribes

February 4, 2010  . Filed under News, Politics

Central anti-corruption agency keeping an eye out for banker’s bribes

A Central Steering Board for Corruption Combating senior official said that the board will keep an eye on the bribery case of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam’s deputy general director. Mr. Vu Tien Chien.VietNamNet Bridge – A Central Steering Board for Corruption Combating senior official said that the board will keep an eye on the... Read more

BIDV deputy caught for taking bribes

February 3, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

BIDV deputy caught for taking bribes

The deputy general director of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam was detained Tuesday for allegedly receiving bribes from a business. Doan Tien Dung was escorted by Hanoi police from BIDV headquarters on Ba Trieu Street at around 3p.m. after his office was checked for nearly two hours. His house... Read more

Online communities follows tragic missing daughter story

January 28, 2010  . Filed under In depth, Reports

Online communities follows tragic missing daughter story

LookAtVietnam – The Vietnam online community is closely following story of a father who set up a website (nguyenminhchau.com) to look for his daughter who has been missing for 15 years.   A photo of the missing girl on the website. Website nguyenminhchau.com includes the information that the girl Nguyen Truong An, born in 1990, the daughter of... Read more

Investor sues gold trading floor, claiming 1.7 billion dong

January 26, 2010  . Filed under Business, News

Investor sues gold trading floor, claiming 1.7 billion dong

LookAtVietnam – Making a profit of 1.7 billion dong from 33 transactions on Vang The Gioi gold trading floor, Nhi, a gold investor, could not withdraw the sum of money. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Nhi, a gold investor of Vang The Gioi gold trading floor, took legal action against the trading floor, claiming 1.7 billion dong.The District 1 Court in HCM City on January... Read more

Mekong delta police bust counterfeit money ring

January 23, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

A group of six people were caught trying to use counterfeit money in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap this week. Ta Van Tu, Nguyen Thi Thang, Nguyen Duc Tinh, Vu Ngoc Hung, Vu Kieu Hau and Nguyen Van Tam, all hailing from the northern province of Vinh Phuc, were all taken in for using fake VND500,000 (US$27) notes in Dong Thap’s Lap... Read more

Electric wire kills another city boy; blame unassigned

January 21, 2010  . Filed under News

Electric wire kills another city boy; blame unassigned

A teenage school boy was electrocuted to death in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday when he touched a live wire as he walked past a construction site in the rain. The incident was the city’s third such death in 5 months.Local residents in Thu Duc District found Huynh Minh Khanh 15 minutes after he was electrocuted by... Read more

Khanh Hoa official: 20,000 tonnes of nix pollutants “not much”

January 6, 2010  . Filed under In depth, Reports

Khanh Hoa official: 20,000 tonnes of nix pollutants “not much”

In an interview with Tuoi Tre Daily about Hyundai Vinashin’s import of 20,000 tonnes of copper slag, Khanh Hoa’s Vice-Chairperson said that that volume is small compared to past imports. Nix grains transported from the Atlantic Star to HVS’ warehouses on December 30. Did the Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) ask for permission to import copper... Read more

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