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Police in Hanoi have arrested four suspects and seized more than 62kg of synthetic drugs, cracking down on a ring that smuggled drugs disguised as food and home appliances from European countries into Vietnam. The kingpin, 27-year-old Hoang Tien Dung, hailing from northern Hung Yen Province, was arrested during a coordination between the police of Hanoi and their colleagues in Hung Yen from May 4 to 7. To create a screen to hide his illegal drug smuggling, Dung set up an agency providing purified water and a night eatery in Hung Yen but used these facilities as the places to receive and deliver drugs, Hanoi police reported on Tuesday. Also detained with Dung were his two accomplices, Tran Van Tuan, 19, and Dao Ngoc Long, 35, both from Hung Yen. Tuan directly aided Dung in the illegal sale of smuggled drugs in Vietnam while Long acted as a middleman for Dung to deal with a suspect living abroad to buy drugs from European countries. Earlier on March 23, Hanoi police in … [Read more...] about Hanoi police bust ring smuggling drugs from Europe to Vietnam

A woman and her 12-year-old son in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam have been hospitalized for food poisoning after eating fried cicada larvae with young fungi outside. N. N.T.T.N., a resident of Xuan Tho Commune, Xuan Loc District, Dong Nai Province, said she and his son, P.H.T., ate larvae measuring some three centimeters each at about 4:00 pm on Tuesday. The larvae were cicada larvae with many white and grey young fungi outside and one-centimeter red fungi on their heads, N. added N. ate two larvae and T. downed five. They developed the symptoms of dizziness, stomach pain, repeated vomiting, diarrhea, hand and leg tremors, and fatigue an hour after eating the larvae, so they were rushed to the Long Khanh General Hospital in Dong Nai for first aid. N. was later moved to the Thong Nhat General Hospital in Dong Nai for treatment. She is now in stable condition, Nguyen Thi Kim Loan, deputy director of the hospital, said on Thursday. Meanwhile, T. showed symptoms of … [Read more...] about Mother, son hospitalized after eating cicada larvae in Vietnam’s Dong Nai

Clients at a transaction office of BIDV. The bank's shares tumbled nearly 1.5 per cent on Thursday, leading the down trend. — Photo vietnamplus.vn Shares retreated from the morning trade on Thursday, weighed by strong selling activities after the VN-Index surpassed the key psychological level of 1,100 points. The market benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) ended the recent rallies to trade lower at 1,101.32 points, down 8.22 points, or 0.74 per cent. It had gained more than 34 points in the last five days. The breadth of the market switched to the negative zone, with 216 stocks slumping, while 127 ticker symbols finished higher. Liquidity, however, soared to the highest in the last six months. Particularly, the trading value on the southern bourse was nearly VND23.7 trillion (US$1 billion), equivalent to a trading volume of more than 1.3 billion shares. Many stocks in the VN30 basket, which tracks the 30 biggest ticker symbols in market … [Read more...] about Market corrects on profit-taking activities