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20 Vietnamese crewmen return home
A Korean rescue ship carrying Vietnamese crewmen from the Jeong Woo2 ship that caught fire in the Ross Sea docked at New Zealand port on January 20.
The Department of Overseas Labour Management (DOLM) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) said the owner of the ship will bring them home soon after four Vietnamese crewmen who have suffered from burns are discharged from hospital.
There were 23 Vietnamese nationals on board the Jeong Woo2 ship when it caught fire on January 11, 2012. Seven sailors, including four Vietnamese got burned and three other Vietnamese were reported missing.
The search for the missing is still going. If they are found dead their bodies will be sent to Vietnam immediately and each victim’s family will get US$16,000 from the insurance company.
LOD and CIENCO1 are preparing insurance documents for their crewmen in distress.
In the initial period, they plan to pay VND2 million compensation for each crewman being treated for burns and VND10 million or VND20 million for each family of missing sailors, respectively.
VietinBank hands over 200 houses for the poor in Kon Tum
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Total construction costs of VND6 billion were supported by VietinBank. Local oragnisations and people contributed 3,000 workdays and more than 2,300 timber beams and hundreds of cubic metres of sand and stone.
VietinBank also provided each family with basic commodities such as water tanks, tables, chairs, bowls, blankets and mosquito nets worth VND2.5 million.
Harassing flight attendant, passenger handcuffed
Today morning (Friday), a passenger on a flight from Germany to Ho Chi Minh City was subdued and handcuffed after he harassed a flight attendant.
Four hours after the plane took off, Nguyen Ngoc Duc, of Vietnam Airlines' flight VN120, started to flirt some female attendants.
He even made advances towards a deputy head of the service team.
Security was called in. He was tied and had to sign a report of violations.
After the plane landed in Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, details of Duc’s violations were submitted to the Southern Airports Authority.
Recently, a passenger from Ho Chi Minh City was fined tens of millions of dong for similar harassing acts.
Vietnamese embassies in Cambodia and Malaysia celebrate Tet
The Vietnamese embassies in Cambodia and Malaysia have held meetings to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet).
Speaking in Phnom Penh on January 18, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Ngo Anh Dung said the people of Vietnam and Cambodia will witness a number of important events in 2012 while mark the Vietnam-Cambodia friendship year, the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries and Cambodia’s assumption of ASEAN presidency.
Ambassador Dung said the ties of traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries have been constantly consolidated and developed over the years, for the practical benefit for their people and also for the sake of peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world.
In her speech, the President of the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Association, Men Samon thanked the Vietnamese Party, Government and people for having assisted the country in the struggle against the Polpot genocidal regime to restore peace and unity and rebuild the country.
At a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Vietnamese ambassador to Malaysia, Nguyen Hong Thao conveyed New Year greetings and best wishes to the overseas Vietnamese community in Malaysia.
Court calls for further probe in reporter murder
One year after journalist Le Hoang Hung was burnt to death, the court has returned all case documents and called for further probe. According to the current investigation results, his wife is the sole murderer and there was no accomplice.
The Long An court has returned all documents related to the case to the local prosecutor’s office, said Le Quang Hung, spokesman for the court.
The case has so far not been brought to trial and the court will not bring Tran Thuy Lieu, 41 to the dock for the time being as the investigation results are not complete, the court official added.
The court in Long An province where Hung resided also asked police for further investigation to clarify some details.
But the official refused to reveal which details were in need of clarifications.
Lieu turned herself into police on February 20 last year and maintained she was the only person behind the murder of her husband by soaking him in petrol and setting him on fire.
She rejected rumors that she had an accomplice.
The editorial board of Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper where Hung worked as a reporter before his death kept calling for fresh investigations.
Evidence has been found that Lieu had a love affair with Nguyen Van Tam, former chief of the provincial Market Management Team No. 5, since 2005.
Tam was dismissed from his post on August 8 for gambling in Cambodia.
Local police first proposed charges of murder against Lieu on July 20, but prosecutors refused the proposal and ordered additional investigations into the case.
Police investigated further but still concluded Lieu was the only culprit.
According to case files, in mid 2010, Lieu and Hung had many arguments over money and the fact that Lieu often gambled in Cambodia and had an affair.
Lieu set her husband on fire on January 19 when he was sleeping in their house in Long An’s Tan An Town.
Lieu later pretended to extinguish the fire and rushed him to hospital.
Hung died 10 days later.
During his funeral, Lieu faked some tears.
Train kills motor cyclist at crossing
A 49-year-old man was killed by a train yesterday, Jan 19, in the northern province of Ninh Binh.
The man intentionally rode his motorbike across the tracks, despite warning sirens, a witness said.
There have been several accidents involving trains, due to a lack of barriers and signal poles, Nguyen Van Vung, a local resident said, adding that local people hoped authorities would install barriers and warning sirens soon to ensure safety.
Fatherland Front to visit Hai Phong
The Central Committee of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front will prepare a field trip to probe into the high-profile incident of farmers firing at local police over a forced land eviction in the northern city of Hai Phong's Tien Lang rural district.
On January 5, about 100 police took part in seizing land from Doan Van Vuon, whose lease on 50-ha swamp land that was said to have been expired.
Vuon and his relatives tried to stop the operation by laying home-made mines and firing at polices using sawed-off shotguns, leaving six police and army officers injured. All were later arrested.
Deputy chairman of the Front, Vu Trong Kim, said that the Front would act in a supervisory role but would provide necessary comments.
He said they wanted to paint a bigger picture of the relations between local authorities and farmers.
They also wanted to check on political and social organisations for labourers, how laws were enforced and how armed forces were engaged in land eviction.
Several committee members said that although the incident had received intensive media coverage, there were still a number of issues left unclear.
These included the whole process of land eviction, how farmers were compensated, and what was the role of local authorities and the Fatherland Front?
Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested the municipal People's Committee chairman to launch a full investigation to identify who was responsible for the eviction and report back to the Government.
The world listens to the Voice of Viet Nam
Radio The Voice of Viet Nam (VOV) has launched a new 12-language website of the Overseas Service (VOV5). It can be reached on http://vov-world.vn or http://vov5.vn.
The website features current affairs, discovery Viet Nam, rural Viet Nam and culture. Readers can listen to broadcasts in Vietnamese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, German, Indonesian, Laotian, Thai and Khmer.
No cash burned in Quang Binh’s scooter fire: police
There is no sign of Vietnamese cash burn in the recent fire of an Air Blade scooter in central Quang Binh Province’s Quang Trach District, said local police.
The technical department of criminal police in Quang Binh province did not detected any combustion products or the remaining of any Vietnamese currency including polymer- or cotton-based cash, according to Lieutenant Colonel Dinh Xuan Duc - deputy police chief of Quang Trach District.
The police said the self-ignition possibility has been excluded since there was no explosion causing distortion for the fuel tank explosions.
But since the exhaust pipe and the combustion chamber were burned out, so it is impossible to determine if there is gasoline or fuel gas leakage through the pipes or the cap respectively.
Though the fire has destroyed the cover of the power transmission system from the battery to other places in the vehicle, the police found that there were no cut, sticky electric wires and short-circuit track. The scooter car had stopped more than 30 minutes before the fire.
The Honda Vietnam-manufactured scooter exploded into flames on January 3 when it was parked in a house in Quang Long Commune, Quang Trach District.
The 25-year old owner Pham Trung Dung said he had earlier driven his child to school on the vehicle, and that the fire broke out shortly after he returned home after pumping up at a gas station in the town of Ba Don.
Dung said The VND210 million ($10,000), along with some important documents, that had been put in the boot of the motorbike was also consumed by the fire. The money was the payment he had collected from a debtor of his company, and he intended to submit the cash company that morning.
Dung said he had bought the bike for VND37.2 million from Thanh Ngan Shop in the province’s Dong Hoi City in December.
Nghe An ranked first in labourers overseas
Nghe An Provice ranked first out of 63 provinces and cities throughout the country in the number of labourers working overseas last year, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The number was reported at 10,000, followed by Bac Giang Province with 4,500, Thai Binh Province with 2,200 and Thai Nguyen Province 1,000 labourers.
Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces also experienced an increase in the number of labourers working overseas compared with 2010.
Female teacher arrested for threatening leaders
A 29-year-old female teacher in the central province of Nghe An was arrested Thursday for threatening local leaders and journalists after her mother was demoted following coverage of mom’s shady dealings.
Nguyen Thi Hong Minh was tourism lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City Electric Power University’s branch in Nghe An.
Since January 8, she had allegedly telephoned and sent SMS messages in the middle of the night to leaders of Vinh City (in Nghe An) and to a number of journalists with threatening, slandering and terrorizing contents.
Two days after receiving the information, local police identified Ms. Minh as the culprit.
The reason is that Minh was angry at his mother being disciplined and demoted from headmaster of Trung Do Primary School to deputy headmaster of Hung Loc School.
Earlier, some journalists (who later became Minh’s victims) reported that Xinh had some shady financial dealings while being headmaster.
Colonel Ho Xuan Hoa, head of the Vinh city police force, said he would try to finalize paperwork related to the case before the lunar New Year.
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