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Vietnam's legislature has approved measures to accelerate judicial proceedings for juvenile drug rehabilitation, introducing electronic filing and compressing decision timelines from 15 to 10 days.
Vietnam has arrested Nguyen Thanh Nam, founder of telecom giant FPT, and influencer Tran Viet Anh over a biography of Ho Chi Minh that authorities say distorts revolutionary history. Both face anti-state charges.
Vietnamese authorities have charged seven people in connection with a large-scale movie piracy operation that hosted over 26,000 illegally copied films across more than 100 websites, generating roughly US$12.8 million in illicit revenue.
A Hanoi court has sentenced a 52-year-old truck driver to 20 years imprisonment for intentionally dragging a teenage girl to her death beneath his concrete mixer vehicle after initially striking her, fearing financial liability.
Vietnamese police in Ninh Binh province have dismantled a transnational online fraud network, arresting 12 suspects accused of swindling over RM39.2 million from approximately 500 victims since October 2024.
An estimated one million cats are slaughtered annually in Vietnam alone as part of a brutal underground trade driven by superstitions linking the meat to good fortune and medicinal benefits, despite overwhelming public opposition to the practice.
Ho Chi Minh City police have broken up multiple networks bringing foreign nationals into Vietnam to operate transnational online fraud schemes, arresting 26 suspects and seizing hundreds of computers and phones across eight cases.
A domestic violence incident in northern Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province has resulted in four deaths, including two children, with a fifth person injured. A man fatally attacked his girlfriend and her two young children before taking his own life.
Vietnamese authorities have charged two women for orchestrating a major smuggling operation involving 339 containers of frozen chicken feet worth US$13 million. The products were illegally distributed domestically rather than re-exported as required by law.
Vietnamese police have charged four individuals, including a Chinese national, over an alleged scheme to relocate an online scam operation from Cambodia to Vietnam. The plot was discovered and dismantled before operations could commence.
Vietnam has introduced Decree No. 208, requiring airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays exceeding 15 minutes, along with meal vouchers and rebooking options for longer delays.