• My Vietnam: Michael Brosowski, founder of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation

    My Vietnam: Michael Brosowski, founder of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation

    20/11/2009 05:00

    In the first in a weekly series we ask expats to describe their Vietnam. This week Michael Brosowski tells of a “complex country where hope and sorrow can co-exist”. Every expatriate living in Vietnam, and every tourist passing through, wants to mould...

  • Hanoi police nab printer of fake college degrees

    Hanoi police nab printer of fake college degrees

    20/11/2009 05:00

    A print shop owner in Hanoi has been detained after his shop was found to have produced around 20 fake university graduation certificates for VND13 million each. A print shop owner in Hanoi has been detained after his shop was found to have produced...

  • Road wrecks decrease despite corrupt traffic police

    20/11/2009 05:00

    Traffic accidents and related deaths are on the decline in Vietnam, but traffic police are as corrupt as ever, according to official reports released at a conference in Hanoi Friday. Reports by...

  • Prison sentence for labor hero unjust: former vice president

    20/11/2009 05:00

    Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh said an eight year jail sentence given Thursday to the former director of a major farm collective was too harsh a punishment for the Labor Hero...

  • First overseas Vietnamese conference to unite whole nation

    20/11/2009 05:00

    The first ever Overseas Vietnamese Conference opened in Hanoi today aimed at strengthening ties between Vietnamese living abroad and their home country. President Nguyen Minh Triet meets with overseas Vietnamese intellectuals and businessmen at the...

  • Company chief arrested for having whistleblower killed

    20/11/2009 05:00

    Ngo Quang Truong Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday arrested a company director who hired gangsters to kill a man who threatened to expose his corrupt dealings. Ngo Quang Truong, director of...

  • Driver crushed by 25-ton steel coil

    20/11/2009 05:00

    This vehicle’s driver died after an accident caused steel coils on the truck roll over his cab in Ho Chi Minh City A delivery truck driver was crushed to death by 25 tons steel in a Ho Chi Minh City traffic accident...

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