Posts Tagged ‘ The Southern Province ’

Farm owner hands over 14 bears to rescue center 

December 12, 2011
Farm owner hands over 14 bears to rescue center 

A moon bear in a cage at a bear bile farm in the southern province of Binh Duong in a handout photo taken November 29, 2011. The Hong Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation has transported 14 moon bears voluntarily handed over by the owner of a bear farm in the southern province of Binh Duong to [...]

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Family wants trial delayed in reporter’s murder 

November 19, 2011
Family wants trial delayed in reporter’s murder 

Tran Thuy Lieu, 40, is expected to stand trial this December in the southern province of Long An for killing her husband, a former reporter. The family of a journalist who was allegedly killed by his wife in the southern province of Long An has asked a local court to delay the wife’s trial and [...]

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Officials disciplined after deadly party in southern Vietnam 

September 20, 2011
Officials disciplined after deadly party in southern Vietnam 

The barge where two officials in the southern province of Long An had a drinking party with a dozen of people on August 20. A woman then drowned after falling into the river. The Party committee in the southern province of Long An has sent official warnings to two local officials who attended a get-together [...]

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Fresh investigation ordered for officials involved in deadly party 

September 12, 2011
Fresh investigation ordered for officials involved in deadly party 

The barge where two officials in the southern province of Long An had a drinking party with a dozen of people on August 20. A woman then drowned after falling into the river accidentally. The Communist Party Unit Committee in the southern province of Long An have ordered a fresh investigation into two officials’ involvement [...]

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Prosecutors delay charges in journalist murder trial 

September 1, 2011
Prosecutors delay charges in journalist murder trial 

Tran Thi Lieu, 40, faces charges of murdering her husband Le Hoang Hung on January 19 in the southern province of Long An. Prosecutors in the southern province of Long An Thursday said they have decided to delay charging a woman for murdering her husband, a former reporter, Tuoi Tre reported Friday. Cao Minh Tri, [...]

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Our rivers are in mortal danger 

August 20, 2011
Our rivers are in mortal danger 

A farmer on the heavily-polluted Ba Cheo Canal in the southern province of Dong Nai. The Vietnamese public has been outraged again by another big environmental scandal. Last Friday the Ministry of Public Security’s environmental police found a waste treatment factory in the southern province of Dong Nai dumping thousands of cubic meters of untreated [...]

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Vietnam to build Southeast Asia’s major transit airport 

August 15, 2011
Vietnam to build Southeast Asia’s major transit airport 

A model of Long Thanh International Airport, to be built in the southern province of Dong Nai. The southern province of Dong Nai plans to open Southeast Asia’s new main transit airport in 2020, local authorities announced Friday. According to the plan, work on Long Thanh International Airport will start in 2015 with an initial [...]

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Health official censured over 50 childrens’ medication shocks 

August 5, 2011
Health official censured over 50 childrens’ medication shocks 

One of the 50 children hospitalized last Friday after having porridge that was mistakenly mixed with an aseptic substance in the southern province of Binh Duong. A health official in the southern province of Binh Duong was censured Tuesday for mistakenly instructing a nursery teacher to put an aseptic substance into porridge, leading to the [...]

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Second suspect arrested in assault on crime fighter 

July 17, 2011
Second suspect arrested in assault on crime fighter 

Nguyen Tang Tien, member of a voluntary anti-crime club, in the southern province of Binh Duong, was attacked after he foiled an attempt to steal a motorbike. Police in the southern province of Binh Duong have arrested another man suspected of attacking a member of a volunteer anti-crime task force last month, the Tuoi Tre [...]

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Vietnam oldest woman dies at 119 

June 23, 2011
Vietnam oldest woman dies at 119 

Tran Thi Viet, Vietnam oldest woman, died Saturday in the southern province of Long An. She was 119. Vietnam oldest woman, 119-year-old Tran Thi Viet, died in the southern province of Long An Saturday, a local official said.   Viet, who received the recognition as the nation’s oldest person from the Vietnam Records Book Center [...]

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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...