former director of the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC Hanoi), to 10 years in prison for “violations of bidding regulations that cause serious consequences”. Also convicted of the same ...

Nghiem Quang Minh at a court in Hanoi, March 2025. Photo by VnExpress/Danh Lam Seven local officials were also handed jail terms from 30 months to seven years for "lack of responsibility causing ...

Nguyen Tuan Dung, who once donated a kidney to save a life, was sentenced to eight years in prison for defrauding a car ...

The men from the two prisons, 52 in all, were addressed by a man nicknamed "Rabbit," an indoctrinator from the Hanoi prison of Hoa Lo. He told the American soldiers they were about to "meet the ...

The facade of Hoa Lo Prison museum in downtown Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Tuan Trung History and significance Hoa Lo, commonly translated as "fiery furnace" or "Hell's hole," also means "stove." ...

a feature that earned the prison the name "Zoo." Dirty Bird (Power Plant) This Hanoi prison opened in October 1967 in the vicinity of the Yen Phu thermal power plant in northern Hanoi.

the owner of a mini apartment building on Khuong Ha Street in Hanoi, was sentenced to 12 years' jail for illegal construction, exceeding the permitted number of floors and failing to implement ...

Minh was ordered to pay a total of VND23.7 billion (US$900,000) to the victims' families and survivors. Nghiem Quang Minh at a court in Hanoi, March 2025. Photo by VnExpress/Danh Lam Seven local ...

I had read about the traffic, but nothing quite prepared me for the reality in this city of about 8.5 million – the motorbikes, the regular bikes, the cars, the pedestrians, all coming at me from ...

HANOI: A Vietnamese court jailed eight people ... Seven local officials were also handed jail terms, ranging from 30 months to seven years, for "lack of responsibility causing serious consequences ...

A Vietnamese court jailed eight people today over a fire that tore through a Hanoi apartment block in 2023 ... Seven local officials were also handed jail terms, ranging from 30 months to seven ...