Ten former Nam Việt Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank) officials, who were indicted for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences”, were sentenced to seven to 13 years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình Province has released charges against three accused for the death of eight persons after undergoing kidney dialysis at the provincial General Hospital.

The Quảng Nam Province authorities and a local gold mining company are probing if a rupture in the wastewater dam triggered the massive fish deaths in two rivers some days ago.

Receiving billions of đồng in compensation, several residents in Nước Trong water reservoir project area, Tây Trà District’s Trà Thọ Commune, thought they’d be able to escape debts they had accrued through high interest loans.

HCM City will increase automobile parking fees on some sidewalks and roadsides in the city centre to VNĐ20,000-40,000 (US$0.9-1.8) per hour from June 1.

Kim Thái, 37, a Khmer man living in the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng, wears a broad-brim hat to walk the streets of Long Phú Town, selling lottery tickets to earn a living as he has for the past 13 years.

A concert last Saturday in southern Cần Thơ Province was abruptly interrupted when a woman and several of her friends jumped on the stage claiming her gold bar (37.5gr which is worth approximately US$1,500) was stolen.

A local business in HCM City attempted and succeeded in overturning a decision made by a district tax office. According to the business’ owner, he was wrongly taxed $15,000 in VAT and made to pay a fine of more than $2,000 for failing to declare income from his sales of rice husks.

With the desire to help minority children gain a brighter future, teachers have volunteered to leave their families for the remote Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Province of Kon Tum to work at the Măng Ri Boarding School, reported the Lao Động (Labour) Newspaper.