Fleeing debtors arrested in Ca Mau

Nguyen Thi Mai Thi, director of ATP Thuy An Company in southern Ca Mau City, who was alleged to have fraudulently appropriated property of more than VND100 billion (US$4.7 million) in total, was arrested last Saturday with her husband after being on the run for one year.

They borrowed money from dozens of people and credit institutions.

Two days before, their victims gathered at the company’s head office on Ly Thuong Kiet Street to demand reimbursment.

The couple opened the company to do business in real estate and pawnbroking.

Explosion at gas store kills two, injures three

A gas store in Tu Liem District’s Minh Khai Commune caught fire early yesterday morning, Dec 11, following an explosion, killing two people and injuring three others.

The fire was stamped out after nearly two hours.

A gas store in Tu Liem District’s Minh Khai Commune caught fire on Dec 11, killing two people and injuring three others. (Photo: GDVN)

The fire started at a Dragon Jet Company shop where about 1,000 workers were working, then spread to the storage room and the office, totally destroying the factory in just one hour.

Investigations are going on.

Forest ranger held after accident kills 10

Nguyen Kim Hung, a forest ranger at the Quy Hop Forest Management Center under Pu Huong reservation center in Nghe An central province, is being held for his involvement in smuggling wood products on a truck that was involved in an accident that killed 10 people and injured four others last Wednesday.

Earlier on December 10, the Police Department of Criminal Investigation in Social Order (coded PC45) also arrested the truck driver, Vuong Dinh Hanh, who was being treated at a hospital, and charged him with “violating traffic rules causing serious consequences”.

On the same day, police also summoned Dao Cong Thang, head of the Quy Hop Forest Management Center, and Phan Si Tuan, head of the Nga Mi Forest Management Center, for questioning over the deadly accident.

Both of them appeared at PC45 at 2:00pm on December 12.

Nguyen Kim Hung, the ranger, wrote in a report that Thang asked him to carry a load of wooden furniture on December 7, under the order of a “leader”, but he did not declare who this “leader” was.

Unlike Hung, Thang confessed to police that he was ordered to carry the furniture by Trinh Thanh Long, deputy director of the management board at the Pu Huong Natural Conservation Center and head of the Pu Huong Management Center.

According to an investigation by Tuoi Tre, the truck carried 12 columns of a house (each of which was 5m long) and six plank beds. All of the products were made of the Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans) tree, which belongs to a group that comprises valuable and rare kinds of wood and is banned from being exploited.

Early in the morning of December 7, a truck transporting the wood products overturned when it was halfway down Pu Uot mountain in Binh Chuan Commune, Con Cuong District, Nghe An.

As many as 14 porters sitting on top of the truck were unable to escape when the truck capsized and were crushed under the massive weight of the 12 cubic meters of wood that spilled out of it.

As the result of the accident, 10 porters were killed and four others were injured.

The porters had earlier loaded the wood products at Pieng O mountain village in Xieng Mi commune, the police said.

PC45 and prosecutors in Nghe An are still investigating.

Suspension of fixedine over safety issues

The drug Management Administration under the Ministry of Health has suspended the circulation of fixedine tablets which are taken for allergic rhinitis, coded 7211021 with expired date to June 2013, because they do not meet safe standards.

Fixedine tablets containing 120mg of fexofenadine hydrochlodire are produced by Strides Arcolab Limited Company from India and are imported by the Codupha Company in Viet Nam.

The Administration also requested Codupha to revoke the tablets and report to Administrator before January 1, 2012.

68 Laos, VN border markers to be set up

The erection of 68 markers on the Viet Nam - Laos border will be finished next June as planned, according to the central Quang Tri Province’s Border Marking Steering Committee.

The border markers will be erected in Quang Tri Province and the Laos’ provinces of Savanakhet and Salavan.

So far, 51 border markers have been erected.

Da Nang to be first digital city by 2020

Central Da Nang City is set to become a “digital city” by 2020 under a project approved by the provincial People’s Committee.

The first phase of the project involves the formation of an e-government model by 2015.

The second phase, from 2015-20, involves the setting up of infrastructure for information technology and communications for the city.

Gov’t e-documents plan to apply from Thursday

Paper documents will have to be accompanied by their electronic counterpart before being submitted to the Government from Thursday.

The regulation will apply to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, People’s Councils and People’s Committees in provinces and State-owned economic groups.

The Government Office will reject all documents not accompanied by electronic files.

HCMC driver falls asleep, kills three

Last Sunday morning Nguyen Vu Thong (30) from Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh district reported to police in District 1 that he had driven a car into a family of four, killing three of them, on Nguyen Huu Canh street, near the zoo.

At 10pm on Saturday, Thong was driving a 7-seater car from Binh Thanh to District 1. Exhausted, Thong fell asleep at the wheel. The car was running at high speed when it crossed a lane separator and hit two cars on going in the opposite direction.

The car of Tran Thi Bich Lien (40) from Hanoi was destroyed the crash. She, along with her father, Tran Van Phan (74) and two sons, Nguyen Tri Trung (16), Nguyen Tri Hieu (9), were hospitalized. At 2am in the morning, Lien, Phan and Trung died. Hieu is currently in a serious coma.

After hitting Lien’s car, Thong also crashed into a car driven by Dang Le Minh (55) from District 3, seriously damaging the vehicle.

Thong quickly fled from the scene of the accident but turned himself in to police the morning after.

At the police station, Thong confessed to his act, took an alcohol test, and went through investigative process.

Police and the People’s Procuracy in District 1 have inspected the scene and are cooperating with related departments to investigate the case.

Resettlement projects in Can Tho to be axed

The southern province of Can Tho’s Construction Department plans to ask the People’s Committee to halt 16 resettlement projects licensed in 2006 but have not yet been fully carried out.

Le Hong Phat, director of the department, attributed the delays to difficulties in land clearance which had caused nine out of the 16 projects to grind to a halt, and difficulties encountered by investors in accessing loans due to the Government’s tightened fiscal policy.

In the first quarter of next year, the department plans to withdraw the investor licences.

There are currently 88 ongoing resettlement projects in the city of which 30 have been carried out.

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