• SOCIETY IN BRIEF 15/3

    14/03/2011 05:00

    Exhibition highlights Vietnam-Laos traditional relations A photographic exhibition praising the time-honoured relations between Vietnam and Laos was held recently in Vientiane by the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Laos. The event...

  • Social mores could reinforce domestic violence: experts 

    14/03/2011 05:00

    A female worker in Ho Chi Minh City. Tackling domestic violence remains an uphill task for Vietnam, experts say Gripping her legs heavily scarred with bruises, Trang recounts the latest...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 13/3

    12/03/2011 05:00

    Airport seizes daggers, swords from passenger A Vietnamese man was caught carrying four swords and two poniards in his baggage while he was checking in at the Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City Thursday. The man, named Son, 30, flied from Thailand’s Bangkok to...

  • Bad storm rising 

    12/03/2011 05:00

    Thanh Nien Weekly had an exclusive ride-along with Ho Chi Minh City police during a recent citywide raid on illegal street racing A man being detained by police for...

  • Headmaster gets nine years in jail for underage sex with students 

    12/03/2011 05:00

    (L, R) Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Thuy Hang and Sam Duc Xuong in the dock Thursday at a trial involving statutory rape in the northern province of Ha Giang A closed court in the northern province of Ha Giang Thursday handed a nine-year...

  • SOCIETY IN BRIEF 12/3

    11/03/2011 05:00

  • All 10,000 Vietnam workers leave Libya 

    11/03/2011 05:00

    All 10,000 Vietnamese workers have escaped from the political turmoil in Libya, official media reported Thursday (March 10). The last of 10 special flights by flag ship carrier Vietnam Airlines touched down in Hanoi on...

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