Posts Tagged ‘ The Newswire ’

Vietnam ex-cops receive suspended sentences for torturing woman 

January 11, 2012
Vietnam ex-cops receive suspended sentences for torturing woman 

Tran Ba Tuan and Nguyen Dinh Quyet, both former investigators of Nha Trang’s police division, at a trial in the central province of Khanh Hoa on January 9. The duo received suspended sentences for torturing a theft suspect in 2010. Two former police officers in the central province of Khanh Hoa each has received a nine-month suspended [...]

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No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

December 9, 2011
No explosive found in northern Vietnam's deadly bike explosion 

A bike on fire after an explosion on December 1 that killed a woman and injured a child in the northern province of Bac Ninh. No traces of explosives were found in the motorbike explosion that killed a pregnant woman and critically injured her daughter in northern Vietnam last week, a news website quoted a local official [...]

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Vietnam vows to put traffic in strict order next year 

December 1, 2011
Vietnam vows to put traffic in strict order next year 

  From next year, the Vietnamese government will start re-setting order for traffic, which is currently in an emergency situation with the traffic accident death toll higher than the fatalities from wars in other countries, deputy prime minister said. Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the statement at the national conference on traffic safety Monday, VnExpress reported. According to the [...]

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Vietnam suspends taxi company for poor operation 

November 21, 2011
Vietnam suspends taxi company for poor operation 

  The transport ministry’s inspectorate on Friday suspended a taxi company whose driver was arrested in early November for overcharging two Singaporean guests of an Interpol meeting in Hanoi, VnExpress reported. Nguyen Xuan Hao, chief inspector from the Ministry of Transport, said in the newswire that the Hanoi-based Phu Gia Co. was found operating “messily” [...]

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Vietnam space center to cost $600 mln 

November 18, 2011
Vietnam space center to cost $600 mln 

  Works on Vietnam’s national space center will start at the end of this year, with the total investment of US$600 million, VnExpress quoted an official as saying Thursday. According to Doan Minh Quang, chief of the Vietnam Space Technology Center, the project will be conducted in cooperation with Japan and is scheduled to be [...]

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Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

November 17, 2011
Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

Nguyen Van Khai, who has used a chemical substance to treat hand-foot-mouth disease in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Vietnam health ministry has asked a hospital in Ninh Thuan Province to stop using a treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) initiated by a physicist until scientific assessments can be made, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The ministry made [...]

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Vietnam doctors use uncommon heart surgery technique 

November 16, 2011
Vietnam doctors use uncommon heart surgery technique 

  Doctors in Hanoi have successfully replaced a patient’s heart valve with his own pulmonary valve to treat his heart valve failing, instead of using an artificial valve as usual, VnExpress reported Saturday. According to the newswire, Vietnamese doctors have applied the technique, considered a difficult one, since 2003, but didn’t announce it until recently. [...]

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Monk found mistreating orphan in southern Vietnam 

November 12, 2011
Monk found mistreating orphan in southern Vietnam 

Tran Van Khoe, 7, found abused by the leader of a pagoda in the southern province of Bac Lieu Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu has asked local agencies to strictly punish the abbot a pagoda for abusing a seven-year-old orphan, VnExpress reported Friday. Duong Quoc Hiep, deputy chief of Dong Hai District’s Department [...]

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Health workers face charges in infant's dissapearance in Hanoi 

November 8, 2011
Health workers face charges in infant's dissapearance in Hanoi 

A newborn at the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where an infant went missing on November 3. The family of a newborn who went missing in a Hanoi-based hospital last week has proposed related agencies to press charges against the hospital’s health workers, VnExpress reported Monday. In his letter to the capital’s police [...]

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Two apprehended for allegedly cheating Japanese in Hanoi 

November 6, 2011
Two apprehended for allegedly cheating Japanese in Hanoi 

A Hanoi traffic policeman tries to hang on to a taxi as the taxi driver, who was caught violating traffic regulations, attemps to flee. File photo taken in Hanoi in 2010. Police in Hanoi have arrested two people, including a taxi driver, for allegedly cheating two Japanese out of more than VND8 million (US$380), VnExpress [...]

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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...