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Former police officer jailed for raping three girls

A former police officer in southern Dong Nai Province has received 21 years in jail for raping three underage girls at a police station. Nguyen Duy Linh, a former senior lieutenant, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for raping a person under 16, and three years for molesting a …

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Thousands of factory workers in Vietnam are drug addicts

Vietnam currently has more than 260,000 drug addicts aged 18-35, and thousands of them are workers at industrial parks and export-processing zones. Ngo Duy Hieu, deputy chairman of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, shared the information at a conference Tuesday on protecting workers from using drugs, saying most of …

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PM Chinh wants high-speed railway connecting Vietnam-China

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wants to look into the possibility of developing a standard, high-speed railway that connects Vietnam and China. At a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in China’s Beijing on Tuesday, Chinh requested China to bolster the progress of …

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Two die in Saigon house fire

Two people in HCMC died in a house fire in Binh Thanh District on Tuesday. Flames and smokes came out from the first floor of a house in an alley of Nguyen Cuu Van Street at around 6:30 p.m. People tried to extinguish the fire but failed. The fire soon …

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