• Power plant’s neighbors left to burn oil lamps

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Thau Village is next door to the Vietnam’s largest hydropower facility, but it has been without electricity for decades and is still dark more than three months after it was connected to the plant....

  • Court apologizes to girl for wrong verdict

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Truong Thi Kim Hoan ad been wrongly sentenced by the court of District 1 to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking A girl in Ho Chi Minh City received a public apology and compensation from a local court Wednesday after a...

  • Assaults on journalists must be punished severely: association

    08/01/2010 05:00

    Vo Minh Chau, a reporter of Tien Phong newspaper, at the hospital after being assaulted by two men using helmets and knives The Vietnam Journalists Association has called for severe punishments for those involved in the...

  • Café owner stabbed to death; police suspect hired killers

    07/01/2010 05:00

    Police in Ho Chi Minh City are looking for four men suspected of stabbing a woman to death Sunday in what investigators are saying was probably a contract kill. Nguyen Thi Le, a 33-year-old from the Mekong Delta’s An Giang Province, was attacked at...

  • Illegal logs seized in central Vietnam

    07/01/2010 05:00

    Forest wardens in the central-coast province of Khanh Hoa seized around 14 cubic meters of illegally logged timber in incidents Monday. Wardens and traffic police first seized more than 1.7...

  • Mobile subscribers given more time to register SIM cards

    07/01/2010 05:00

    Prepaid mobile phone subscribers who registered more SIM cards than regulated have been given an extra month to re-register an appropriate number of cards. The delay to January 31, from an...

  • Ministry-owned car hits motorbike, injures two

    07/01/2010 05:00

    A vehicle owned by the Ministry of Health crashed into a motorbike in Hanoi Wednesday night, injuring two people on the bike. The injured, whose names were not released, were rushed to the...

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