HCM City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen said the city has a bad reputation for robbery and he has asked relevant bodies to deal with this.

Police in HCM City have arrested two Pakistani men for being accused of robbing a local shop last month.

Robberies have become more frequent in the suburbs of HCM City in recent months, worrying local residents.

Toilet rolls have become hot property in the city due to a shortage from coronavirus panic-buying.

A British man has been taken into custody for allegedly robbing a convenience store on Bui Vien pedestrian street in HCM City, city police have announced. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam (DRVN) has announced a toll station that was robbed three weeks ago had the appropriate amount of cash on-site.

 Police yesterday arrested a suspect in a robbery at a branch of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam (BIDV) in Hue City earlier this month.

VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court of the southern province of Binh Phuoc yesterday (Dec 17) sentenced Nguyen Hai Duong and Vu Van Tien, both 24, to death on charges of murdering six family members in their home and robbing VND50 million

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang asked all police forces to help investigate the murder of six members of a family in Binh Phuoc Province and quickly find the killers. 

Mr. Nguyen Van Cung, 86 years old--a beggar in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, saved each penny to buy gold for decades and always took the gold with him. But all of his gold was robbed on the evening of December 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not having money to buy alcohol, two young men became robbers. They robbed VND12,000 ($0.7) from a couple and were sentenced 6-7 years in jail.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was good news for Mr. Hau, the driver in the beer looting case in Dong Nai province, that the beer company did not ask him to pay compensation for the beer.

 Thieves stole a horde of exotic reptiles from an Australian zoo, including a baby alligator, leaving their keepers fearing they could be destined for the black market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Pakistani wrote a letter to express his appreciation for the timely help of the traffic police team No. 5 and the police of Gia Thuy Ward in Long Bien District, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the way home from his gold shop, a man in Thua Thien-Hue Province was robbed. The total assets are up to VND1.3 billion or $70,000.

As the leader of a robbery gang and being wanted on charges of robbery in 2004, just over one year later, Tran Huu Nam was recruited as a service policeman and gradually promoted as a lieutenant.

VietNamNet Bridge – While the foreign passenger was busy at the ATM, a taxi driver of Hoang Long Taxi ran away with the passenger’s luggage in his car.

VietNamNet Bridge – A young woman from Dong Da District, Hanoi, has been fined with VND750,000 ($35) for making a false report to the police.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In the two months of suppression of crime, 34 groups of mobile police of HCM City handled 166 cases, including possession of illegal weapons, intentionally causing injury, traffic violations ... but no robbery.