Tag: #Veitnam
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5 soldiers dead, 17 missing in Vietnam after second big landslide in days
Hanoi, Oct 18 (AFP/APP):Five soldiers are dead and a frantic search is under way for 18 others after a huge landslide hit central Vietnam on Sunday, as the country battles its worst flooding in years. Heavy rain has pounded the region for more than a week and at least 64 people have been killed in…
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Vietnam ex-minister gets life sentence in bribery case
Hanoi, Dec 28 (AFP/APP): A court in Vietnam sentenced a former communications minister to life in prison Saturday for receiving millions of dollars in bribes, as the hardline administration presses its anti-graft drive against once-powerful figures in the communist state. Nguyen Bac Son was charged alongside his then-deputy Truong Minh Tuan with receiving $3.2 million…
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Vietnam families to bury victims of UK truck tragedy
Can Loc, Vietnam, Nov 28 (AFP/APP): The families of some of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain prepared for emotional burials for their children Thursday after an agonising weeks-long wait to bring their bodies home. The first of the remains arrived in Vietnam Wednesday morning before being quickly shuttled to…
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Vietnam arrests eight over UK truck deaths
Hanoi, Nov 4 (AFP/APP): Vietnam has arrested eight more suspects in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in Britain who are believed to be Vietnamese, police said Monday. The bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in a refrigerated lorry in an industrial park in Essex, east of…
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Vietnam arrests two in UK truck death investigation
Hanoi, Nov 1 (AFP/APP): Vietnam police have arrested two people for trafficking in connection with the death of 39 migrants whose bodies were found in a truck in Britain, many of them feared to be Vietnamese. The move comes after British police arrested four people over the tragedy and are now seeking to question two…
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Who are the Vietnamese feared dead in UK truck tragedy?
Hanoi, Oct 31 (AFP/APP): AFP has spoken to several families of Vietnamese nationals missing in Britain, feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Essex last week. DNA has been collected from relatives as officials in Vietnam and the UK work to officially identify the victims. Here are the profiles…
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Romania, Hungary recruit in Asia to fill labour shortage
Bucharest, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Sporting yellow safety helmets, about 30 men are busy at work on a construction site south of Bucharest, exchanging a few words in Vietnamese. Faced with a growing labour shortage which threatens their economies, Romania and Hungary are courting Asian workers, going against Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s anti-immigration rhetoric.…
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Dread builds in Vietnam over fate of missing UK migrants
Nghe An, Vietnam, Oct 27 (AFP/APP): Dread mounted across Vietnam on Sunday as relatives of migrants feared to be among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain revealed new heart-wrenching details of their last contact with their loved ones. The driver of the refrigerated trailer discovered in an industrial park on Wednesday has…