Posts Tagged ‘ The Court ’

Lie of the land 

January 18, 2012
Lie of the land 

  After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]

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7 arrested as 6 cops shot in northern Vietnam clash 

January 9, 2012
7 arrested as 6 cops shot in northern Vietnam clash 

Police deactivate mines set up at the entrance to the house of Doan Van Vuon in the northern city of Hai Phong. Six cops were shot in an encounter with Vuon's family on January 5. A man who allegedly shot six officers when his family was trying to stop police from revoking their land in [...]

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Read him his rights 

December 31, 2011
Read him his rights 

  New circular sets out in detail rights of arrestees to demand legal assistance, and for defense lawyers to ask for change of principal investigator A trial in Ho Chi Minh City. A new circular sets out detailed procedures to ensure an arrestee’s rights when criminal cases are being investigated. The Da Lat People’s Court [...]

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PM Dung: Vietnam will stake claim to East Sea islands peacefully 

December 5, 2011
PM Dung: Vietnam will stake claim to East Sea islands peacefully 

   Mai Phung Luu, a fisherman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai who said he has been to every nook and cranny of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, asserts that he will continue heading to the Hoang Sa seas without fearing anything. International experts have encouraged Vietnam to take further actions to reaffirm [...]

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Indochina Airlines license revoked 

December 5, 2011
Indochina Airlines license revoked 

Indochina Airlines has had its business license revoked after a year of being non-operational The Transport Ministry has revoked the business license of Indochina Airlines after the first private airline to operate flights in Vietnam showed no activity for the past year.   According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, who had proposed that [...]

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Lawyer accused of taking bribes in central Vietnam 

November 23, 2011

  A bar association in the central province of Khanh Hoa has asked local police to investigate accusations that a lawyer has accepted bribes to help a man escape a jail term for theft, a local judge said Monday. Nguyen Anh, judge of Nha Trang Town People’s Court, told the press that Khanh Hoa’s Bar [...]

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Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia 

November 21, 2011
Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia 

  A Cambodian looks at pictures of former Khmer Rouge leaders “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (L), ex-head of state Khieu Samphan (2nd L), ex-deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Ieng Sary (2nd R) and ex-social affairs minister Ieng Thirith (R) during their trial in Phnom Penh on November 21, 2011 Three top [...]

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Indochina Airlines chief banned from going abroad 

November 16, 2011
Indochina Airlines chief banned from going abroad 

An Indochina Airlines airplane. The company’s general director Ha Dung has been banned from going abroad due to the company’s US$1.3 million debt to a local bank. A songwriter who owns the first private airline to run flights in Vietnam has been prohibited from leaving the country because his beleaguered company owes more than US$1.3 [...]

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Vietnam loss-making shipbuilding giant sued in London 

November 12, 2011
Vietnam loss-making shipbuilding giant sued in London 

  A Dutch company has filed a lawsuit in a London court, against Vietnam state-owned shipping giant Vinashin, and 21 of its Vietnamese subsidiaries. According to a BBC report, the Commercial Court under the Court Queen’s Bench on November 1 received a lawsuit filed by Elliott VIN Netherlands BV, a source from the court confirmed [...]

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Provincial judge accused of committing adultery 

October 14, 2011
Provincial judge accused of committing adultery 

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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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...