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Police in Vietnam have arrested an anti-drug police officer and stripped him of his rank over his alleged involvement in drug trafficking. The officer in question was identified to be Nguyen Hai Long, 33, former member of the counter-narcotics police task force of Le Chan District, Hai Phong City. He was found complicit in a drug racket involving Hoang Xuan Vu, 30, and Le Danh Hoang, 24, both of whom were captured by local police on September 1. During subsequent inspections, the suspects claimed that Long was the one who provided money for Vu to procure narcotics. Vu and Hoang were indicted for drug trafficking on Tuesday, while Long was nabbed and stripped of his police rank for his alleged drug sales one day later. Hai Phong police are expanding their probe to clear the case. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam! …

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Police in Bac Tu Liem District, Hanoi have apprehended a 43-year-old local man to facilitate their investigation into the unusual death of his 6-year-old daughter. At the police station, the man, Le Thanh Cong, said he had used a chopstick to hit his daughter, L.H.A., at around 11:00 am on Thursday, the district's police told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Friday evening. A.’s mother fed her congee and medicine at around 4:00 pm on Thursday, but the girl suffered heavy vomiting later and was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. However, doctors of the hospital confirmed that the child had been dead before arriving there. As there were signs of abuse on A.’s body, they reported the case to the police. Police officers completed an autopsy on A.’s body on Friday afternoon. Previously, A.’s teacher contacted the girl’s family for her absence from an online class on Thursday evening and was informed that she had passed away. Local authorities and representatives from …

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Police in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam are investigating a man after discovering the body of a dead tiger and unidentified animal bones in a freezer at his house. Police officers on Saturday said they had seized a tiger carcass weighing 160 kilograms and 34 kilograms of unknown animal bones stored in a freezer at the residence of Nguyen Van Chung in Huong Son District two days before. A criminal investigation has been launched to clarify Chung’s “violation of regulations on the protection of endangered, precious, and rare wildlife species,” police said. Chung, 42, told investigators that in December 2020 he met a man named Viet, a truck driver, at local eatery and then invited him home. Viet asked Chung to keep for him a freezer containing animal carcasses that would be processed into bone glue. The driver promised to pay him some amount after the glue was sold. Ten days later, Viet carried a freezer to Chung’s house. Chung initially refused it upon finding a tiger carcass …

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Police in Vietnam have smashed an online football betting ring with transactions worth more than VND200 billion (US$8.7 million). Officers under the provincial Department of Public Security in northern Ha Giang Province confirmed on Monday they had arrested 14 gang members, aged 26 to 39, for gambling and organizing gambling. Two of the suspects reside in northern Tuyen Quang Province while the rest live in Ha Giang. The arrests were made after Ha Giang police, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Security, raided the suspects’ houses on Sunday evening. Officers also confiscated four automobiles, 24 mobile phones, and three flash drives with transaction data from football betting accounts. Preliminary investigation showed that the ring members had created many accounts on bongda88.com and distributed them to gamblers. The racket had operated since July 1 and the total transactions amounted to more than VND200 billion. Further investigation is ongoing. Like us …

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A man from Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been arrested after nearly 143 kilograms of wild animal corpses were found inside several freezers at his house. The Department of Public Security in Lam Dong Province confirmed on Friday morning that officers had appended Trinh Ngoc Dong, 40, who resides in Di Linh District. A team of police officers caught Dong red-handed hiding a live pangolin weighing three kilograms in the trunk of his motorbike on Thursday. The man claimed he had just hunted the wild animal and was about to slaughter it after taking it to his house. Carcasses of wild animals are found at Trinh Ngoc Dong’s house in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, September 9, 2021. Photo: Duc Huy / Tuoi Tre Officers searched Dong’s home and discovered that he was keeping an iguana and 20 bamboo rats, which weigh a total of 20 kilograms, in captivity. They also found 59 carcasses of wild animals, namely hedgehogs, weasels, mouse-deers, bamboo rats, and chamois …

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HCMC’s government agencies create work plan for new normal state The head offices of the People’s Committees of wards in Go Vap and District 8 that were requisitioned as gathering places of food and essential goods for social welfare activities have been cleaned and disinfected to give back the premises to the local administrative agencies before September 15. Residents who come to the People’s Committees of wards for notarization services are required to provide medical declaration, wear mask, measure body temperature while local state officials will wear personal protective equipment to protect against the virus and comply with the health ministry's 5K message, including facemask, disinfection, social distancing, no gathering and health declaration. Digital transformation of public administration has created favorable condition for State cadres to work and solve all documents submitted by residents online during the social distancing measures. This process of using digital …

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Netherlands donates ventilators and medical equipment to Vietnam The government and business community of the Netherlands will donate ventilators and medical equipment worth VND43 billion to help Vietnam combat COVID-19, Ambassador Elsbeth Akkerman told her host Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on September 10. She affirmed that the Dutch government attaches great importance to the comprehensive partnership and the strategic partnership on climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and water management with Vietnam. The relationship between the two governments and their business communities continues to develop effectively for the sake of the economy, people and planet, she said. The Ambassador thanked the Vietnamese Government and the Prime Minister personally for caring about the EU business community, including Dutch businesses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and noted the two countries are having many opportunities and prospects to strengthen …

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Police of Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday arrested a man in District 4 over allegations of printing and trafficking fake paperwork that helped users pass movement monitoring at COVID-19 checkpoints. The suspect was identified to be Tang Minh Hieu, 36, who was caught red-handed selling forged travel passes on Ton Duc Thang Street in District 4 on Friday. Upon searching Hieu’s house, police found six driver's licenses, three ID cards, four folders of driver's license applications, two color printers, one ID printer, three driver's license blanks, two blank ID cards, as well as other items for paperwork forging. Officers also found 664 pieces of evidence of Hieu’s forging activities in his computer and USB drive. Hieu later admitted that he advertised his service on Facebook, offering fake paperwork that helped people get through scrutiny at COVID-19 checkpoints during the ongoing social distancing bout in Ho Chi Minh City. Under the current social distancing rules, only …

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