Viet Chien waves good bye to his colleagues as he is escorted to a police car
The Ministry of Public Security arrested Monday a reporter each from Thanh Nien and Tuoi Tre for writing about the PMU18 scandal that broke two years ago.
Thanh Nien’s Nguyen Viet Chien and Tuoi Tre’s Nguyen Van Hai were arrested in [...]
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HANOI, May 13 (Reuters) – Police arrested two Vietnamese journalists whose stories of bribery, corruption and gambling in a transport ministry scandal rocked the ruling Communist Party in 2006, their newspapers reported on Tuesday.
The report said the journalists from Tuoi Tre (Youth) and Thanh Nien (Young People) were indicted on Monday for “abuse of power” [...]
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The Associated Press
Published: May 13, 2008
HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnamese authorities have arrested two journalists who reported aggressively on a major gambling and bribery scandal that prompted the resignation of the transportation minister, state media reported Tuesday.
The two journalists were taken into police custody Monday and accused of reporting “false information” on the case, in which ministry [...]
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13 May 2008
HO CHI MINH CITY (AFP) — Three pro-democracy activists including an American were handed jail terms of up to nine months on “terrorism” charges in a trial held under tight security Tuesday.
The three, all linked to a US-based party banned in Vietnam, were accused of “inciting riots threatening the national security” of the [...]
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