January 16, 2012
Chimpanzees at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: Tuoi Tre). Two chimpanzees were placed on display at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The endangered primates came to Vietnam from from a Japanese zoo, with the male weighing 70 [...]
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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
Nguyen Duy Hai gives a thumbs up sign at the FV hospital in HCMC, where he had an 82-kg tumor removed. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre Newspaper. Two days after having a 82-kg tumor removed in a major surgery, the patient could breathe on his own and eat on Saturday, doctors of the FV Hospital [...]
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January 2, 2012
Nguyen Van Khuong, a Tuoi Tre journalist, has been arrested for allegedly giving bribes. Police in Ho Chi Minh City Monday arrested a journalist at Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on charges of “giving bribes.” Nguyen Van Khuong, 39, who is famous for his articles on traffic police corruption under the penname Hoang Khuong, was allegedly involved in the [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 31, 2011
A file photo shows telecommunications equipment confiscated by Vietnamese police in raids of Chinese and Taiwanese gangs in Vietnam. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested one Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals on suspicion that they cheated people in several countries and territories via the Internet and international phone calls. A report on Tuoi Tre [...]
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December 31, 2011
(R) Nguyen Van Trung, 32, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Le Thi Hong Linh receive jail terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City for robbing a Japanese tourist. A couple was sentenced to a total of four years in jail on Wednesday for robbing a Japanese tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as travel [...]
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December 30, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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December 28, 2011
A foreign language class at Nong Lam University in Ho Chi Minh City Education officers admitted at a Friday conference that foreign language teaching in Vietnam has been a “failure,” as many college students cannot use the languages. Experts at the conference over a national foreign language project said that incorrect understanding of the subject has [...]
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December 23, 2011
A Petrolimex gas station in Hanoi Economists suspect that Vietnam’s biggest fuel companies, particularly Petrolimex, may have deliberately reported huge losses and shifted profits to subsidiaries to evade tax. A recent inspection of major oil importers, including Petrolimex, found that they paid retailers, many of them its own subsidiaries, higher commissions than allowed and reported huge losses. [...]
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