January 18, 2012
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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January 13, 2012
Rubble of a house that was alleged to be wrongly destroyed by authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong after a controversial land revocation on January 5. Questions remain unanswered at a Thursday press briefing regarding a controversial land revocation that led to a violent confrontation with farmers in the northern port city of Hai Phong. [...]
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January 9, 2012
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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December 19, 2011
Le Van Thuong, head of the family that owns the garden with five newly anointed National Heritage trees, poses in front of the hollowed trunks of one of them He was offered US$300,000 and more for his garden with old trees, but the owner was not tempted. Le Van Thuong is now the owner [...]
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November 13, 2011
Patrick Desir of Poussieres de Vie with Ba Na friends at a festival in Kon Tum The Ba Na people toiled all day in the fields yet had little to show for their efforts and often went hungry. The situation troubled and intrigued Patrick Desir, whose charity organization helps six orphanages in Gia Lai [...]
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November 12, 2011
Vietnamese and German officials visit the land lot given to German Embassy in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday. Vietnam on Tuesday granted the license of one of the most sought-after land lots in Ho Chi Minh City’s downtown to the German Embassy to build the base of all German organizations in the city. Located at the [...]
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July 21, 2011
Tran Kim Long leaving the courthouse after his conviction July 19, 2011. Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a former district official to 30 years in jail on Tuesday for his involvement in a major land scam. Tran Kim Long, 52, former chairman of the Go Vap District People’s Committee, was convicted of bribery [...]
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July 15, 2011
A boy on Long Son Island, off the coast of Vung Tau. The island's denizens follow a philosophy of simplicity and charity handed down by spiritual guru who founded the isle's first settlement. The people of Long Son Island follow a simple philosophy: no Gods, no temples, no books, no rules. Â Living with love, [...]
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July 1, 2011
The Ban Vat Waterfall Every one shook his or her head as we asked for direction to the Dai Yem Waterfall. We were in high spirits because the way from Hanoi to northwestern province of Son La had taken us through incredible scenery, and the wind and the fog on the hilly road added [...]
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May 9, 2011
Binh Duong police searched the residence-cum-office of Pham Tuan Thanh, the main suspect in the murder of a businessman last Friday. Police in the southern province of Binh Duong near Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday arrested six suspects in the fatal shooting of a company director last Friday evening. They did not reveal the detained suspects’ [...]
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