January 22, 2012
Hoang Thi Tien at a police station. She has been charged with murder after allegedly poisoning her husband and two friends with "heartbreak grass". Police in the northeastern province of Ha Giang on Friday pressed murder charges against a woman who allegedly fatally poisoned her husband and his two friends with a toxic shrub known as [...]
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January 18, 2012
New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]
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January 16, 2012
A local woman is offering food, carps and clothing for the Kitchen Gods On the 23rd of the last lunar month every year, the large kitchen in Ms Ly Thi Phuong’s house in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District becomes extremely busy. The 56-year-old prepares for something important for most Vietnamese – a gala farewell party [...]
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January 9, 2012
A man (L) stands in front of an ATM while a homeless man sleeps in front of an advertisement on a street in Hanoi January 3. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has acknowledged the surging influence interest groups have on the policymaking process, calling for increased transparency to tackle the issue. Prime Minister Nguyen [...]
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January 7, 2012
Visitors read special editions of local magazines and newspaper at last year’s book street in Ho Chi Minh City. The annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street display during this year’s Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be once again accompanied by three book streets in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20-26. The event, which aims [...]
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January 6, 2012
Three students from Da Nang with the camera they used to make an award-winning film about HIV/AIDS discrimination Three teenagers from central Vietnam won top prize at the Asia Student Film Festival in Japan with a short film that sends a message against HIV/AIDS discrimination. Seventh graders Phan Thi Thuy Dung and Trinh Lan [...]
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January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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December 31, 2011
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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December 25, 2011
After years of sky-rocketing credit growth to finance development, Vietnam’s banking system is now weighed down by toxic loans that have forced the communist nation to launch tough reforms. The Southeast Asian country’s financial sector consists of about a hundred banks — either state-owned, private or foreign bank branches. But most have only limited [...]
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December 23, 2011
Grocer Raffaele Ferrara in his shop in Pignasecca square in Naples. In the gangster-ridden streets of Naples, any word against the Camorra mafia syndicate is dangerous. The rebellion by a group of shopkeepers against extortion is unprecedented. “The fear is huge because they threaten you, your shop, your family,” said Raffaele Ferrara, a grocer [...]
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