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Nguyen Hoang Nhut, 39, who taught biology at Duong Minh Chau Secondary School, was charged with "engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual activities with a person aged 14 to under 16" and "molestation of a person under 16." Nhut was also required to pay VND10 million ($433.16) in damages to each of the three victims, with the fourth declining compensation. According to the indictment, the teacher had joined an LGBT social media community in June 2019, noticing one of his male students was also a member. He first approached the student by asking him to clean the school lab, where he engaged the victim in oral sex. A week later, Nhut called the student to his house where they engaged in sexual intercourse. Investigators identified three other male students whom Nhut had coerced into sexual misconduct. The incident came to light last year after one of the victims' family filed a police complaint. Recent reports of male teachers sexually assaulting school students have shocked the nation. In October 2019, a former principal of a boarding school in northern Phu Tho Province was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing nine male students for years. Official data shows more than 8,000 Vietnamese children have been sexually or physically assaulted since 2015. In most cases, perpetrators have been found to be those familiar with the children, such as teachers, relatives and neighbors. …

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In June last year, Ngo Dinh Vuong halted the operation of his garment factory in Quang Minh Industrial Park in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District due to the health crisis. The factory was opened in late 2018 and is the third to have been opened by Vuong in the northern region of the country since 2016. Then in July, the second factory, based in Hung Yen Province, faced the same plight, leaving the first factory operating moderately also in Hung Yen. The three factories are managed by Hoang Yen Garment and Trading JSC, established in 2016, where Vuong is the director. However, in early January, the two factories with halted operations began resuming operations as some big contracts have been landed with local and foreign experts. This would allow 800 workers to have incomes. “We are happy that all of our three factories are in full operations now,” Vuong told Nhan dan Online. Hoang Yen Company’s case is among more than 11,000 enterprises resuming operation in the first two months of this year nationwide. According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), also in the first two months of 2021, the economy saw 18,100 newly-established enterprises with total registered capital of VND334.8 trillion (US$14.55 billion), employing 172,800 new labourers – up 4% in the number of enterprises, 52.2% in capital, and 9.7% in the number of labourers as compared to those in the same period of last year. In particular, the average registered capital of each newly-established business in the two months of the year is VND18.5 billion (US$804,347), up 46.4% year-on-year. If an additional VND385.6 trillion (US$16.76 billion) registered by 6,500 operational enterprises is included, the total registered capital inserted into the economy in the first two months is VND720.4 trillion ($31.32 billion). In February, despite the Lunar New Year, the number of newly-established firms hit more than 8,000 registered at VND179.7 trillion (US$7.81 billion), down 20.3% in the number of enterprises …

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Authorities in Hanoi have allowed local restaurants and cafés to reopen as the latest wave of COVID-19 infections had subsided, but strict prevention and control measures will have to be taken at these venues. Vice-chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung announced at a meeting on Monday that all eateries and coffee shops with indoor services would be permitted to resume operations from 0:00 on Tuesday. Partitions must be installed or a minimum distance of one meter must be kept between each person. Other COVID-19 prevention and control measures will also have to be taken seriously. The municipal administration also encouraged these venues to focus on takeaway services as the safest option. Discos, bars, karaoke parlors, online game centers, and roadside eateries and cafés will remain shuttered until further notice, according to vice-chairman Dung. Due to the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hanoi authorities previously shut down all karaoke shops, bars, and discos from February 1. Eateries and coffee shops were closed from February 16. According to Tran Thi Nha Ha, director of the Hanoi Department of Health, the city has not documented any local infections since February 16. The pandemic situation in the capital has been put under control, Ha continued, adding that all 51,000 samples of people arriving from northern Hai Duong Province, the country’s current epicenter, have tested negative for the novel coronavirus. The risk of virus spread in the community is still high as all students and learners would resume their normal classes from Tuesday, she stated. All residents are advised to strictly comply with the five rules of COVID-19 prevention and control, namely wearing face masks, disinfecting, keeping safe distance, avoiding large gatherings, and filling out health declaration forms. Vietnam has logged 2,472 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday morning, with 1,892 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the …

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