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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January 2, 2012
Despite the tough economic climate, many foreign companies are continuing to expand operations in Vietnam in hope that their strategy will pay off when the recovery happens. BlueScope Buildings Vietnam, formerly known as BlueScope Lysaght Vietnam, inaugurated a US$4 million steel plant in Hanoi two weeks ago. The plant, located in the Quang Minh [...]
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December 28, 2011
Five people have been arrested in the northern Vietnamese city of Hai Phong for allegedly circulating counterfeit money, newswire Phap Luat TPHCM (HCMC Law) reported Tuesday. The city police and the Ministry of Public Security caught Le Thi Huong and Ngo Thi Mai red-handed with forged bills, it said. Huong reportedly confessed to officers that [...]
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December 21, 2011
 The last stake at the Chieng Mung Execution Grounds in the northern province of Son La At least one senior Party official and several police officials feel Vietnam should eventually do away with the death penalty, but for now, would-be executioners are relieved that a new law has chosen what they call a more [...]
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December 15, 2011
Nguyen Khanh Van, 4, succumbs to multiple injuries in a bike explosion in the northern province of Bac Ninh Tuesday. The four-year-old girl who was critically injured in the explosion of a motorbike in the northern province of Bac Ninh died Tuesday, Dan Tri quoted the Hanoi-based National Institute of Burns as saying. Nguyen Khanh [...]
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December 14, 2011
Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2011 Trieu Thi Ha of Nung ethnic community from the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang. Trieu Thi Ha of the Nung ethnic community from the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang defeated 59 other contestants to win the Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2011 crown on Saturday. Ha, a 19-year-old student of Thai Nguyen University [...]
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December 3, 2011
Green Vietnam’s ecolodge tour of the northern province of Tuyen Quang A great discovery weekend of Green Vietnam’s ecolodge tour of the northern province of Tuyen Quang for nature and food lovers will be held on Dec 2-4. The tour will depart from Hanoi at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 2 at 23, alley 203, Hong Ha, [...]
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November 28, 2011
The truck damaged in two explosions in the northern province of Bac Giang Local agencies in the northern province of Bac Giang are investigating two continuous explosions that went off on a truck Friday, the VnExpress newswire reported. The blasts happened early Friday morning after 29-year-old Tran Thanh Nghi had parked the truck in front of [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam lawmakers on Tuesday opposed draft adjustments to the current labor law, saying that an increase in regulated overtime is not what laborers want. The proposal being discussed at the National Assembly aims to increase the maximum annual overtime from 200 hours to 360 hours. Cu Thi Hau, a lawmaker from the northern province of Hung [...]
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