A court in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho on Tuesday handed down a 15-month jail term to a former justice official for assaulting traffic cops in July, Tuoi Tre reported. According to the indictment issued by Cai Rang District’s People’s Court, on July 26, two Can Tho police traffic officers stopped Huynh Thanh Thang, then deputy head of Judicial Affairs Office in Chau Thanh District, Hau Giang Province, for speeding. However, Thang, 49, [...]

Four people on Tuesday received jail terms totaling 22 years at a hearing in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho for sending young men to China to sell their kidneys. However, due to the absence of regulated punishments for organ trade, the ring, which sent 19 young men to China, instead was convicted of “illegally sending people overseas,” Nguyen Thu Ha, deputy chief of Can Tho People’s Court told Thanh Nien. According to the [...]

A pregnant woman drowned after a ferry boat sank in the central province of Quang Nam on Monday. At around 6:30 a.m., a ferry boat carrying 40 people, several dozens of motorbikes, bicycles and a two-ton truck sank on a river from Tam Hai to Tam Giang Commune in Nui Thanh District. Thirty-nine passengers were rescued, local authorities said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered the government inspectorate to investigate allegations that deputy health minister Cao Minh Quang has slanded a local drug company. According to a letter sent to Dung, the Ho Chi Minh City-based BV Pharma Joint-Venture Co. claimed that Quang has falsely accused the company of illegally selling Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride. The substance is used to produce common flu and allergy remedies, but can also be used to make illegal methamphetamine. [...]

The Ministry of Construction has asked the Government Office to clarify a Ministry of National Defense proposal to build a golf course on a 176-hectare plot of land currently being used as a shooting range, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.