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Tank truck drivers and transport service employees involved in the adulteration of gasoline recently exposed by Thanh Nien in Ho Chi Minh City will face criminal charges, a police official said Thursday. Major-Colonel Phan Anh Minh, vice director of HCMC’s police division, made the statement at a press conference on the city’s public security [...]
The violent fire that occurred at Quang Ngai Market in Quang Ngai Province on Feb. 9 destroyed most parts of the market and rendered many traders penniless. Thuy, who sold flowers in the market, recalled, “At 5:00am, I found a group of 5 to 7 security guards trying to extinguish a small fire. I felt [...]
An agency of the Ministry of Public Security detected websites set up specifically to trade in personal information of both individuals and organisations. A website owner caught trading in personal information The agency, dubbed A87, made a statement recently, that the information being sold included home and mobile phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses. Even [...]
Amid the worries about the low efficiency of outward investment and the foreign currency bleeding, the Ministry of Planning and Investment MPI plans to apply a series of drastic measures to manage the outward investment. Vietnam attempts to control foreign currency remittance abroad Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong said that in [...]
Three police officers from Vu Quang District, Ha Tinh Province drowned when their basket boat was sucked under the Ngan Sau River by a whirlpool yesterday. At 4 pm Thursday Lieutenant Nguyen Van Hung, 26, and Sergeant Vo Linh Thuan, 20, of the district police department, crossed the river in a canoe to Duc Lien [...]
Last Thursday, a monkey escaped from a cage in the house of Nguyen Ba Luu in Dong Xoai Town, Binh Phuoc Province and bit two people, seriously injuring them. The accident happened at 12.30 pm when the monkey, which is said to weigh tens of kg, struggled and broke free from the iron cage. It [...]
On Wednesday, a nurse at Quang Ngai General Hospital mixed up babies by handing a male newborn to a woman who had given birth to a girl. At 5:50 am, Tran Thi Hong Cam, 22, of Tu Nghia District, Quang Ngai Province, was very surprised when a nurse handed her a boy, since she knew [...]
Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan on Monday declared hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has reached epidemic proportions in the province. Ninh Thuan is the first province in Vietnam to declare the epidemic, which has killed 138 people across the country. According to the provincial Health Department, HFMD claimed three lives among [...]
Vietnam has enough airports to accommodate private aircraft, and the country will expand its major airports if necessary, a senior aviation official said. The growing number of aircraft flying to Vietnam is putting pressure on aviation infrastructure, especially on Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City, Lai [...]
Hanoi police have found an infant who was kidnapped at the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology last week. The child was kidnapped November 3 and found on Tuesday. According to Nguyen Duc Chung, vice director of the Hanoi police division, officers have also taken Nguyen Thi Le, 29, the kidnapping suspect, into custody [...]