Saturday, November 20, 2010

Overseas Vietnamese on drug charges

HCM CITY — HCM City's Drugs Crime Investigation Police Department recommended yesterday that the Supreme People's Procuracy prosecute two overseas Vietnamese for drugs trafficking.

Southern Tay Ninh Province border guards arrested To Van Nam, 46, a Vietnamese American and Le Van Buoc, 54, a Vietnamese Australian, for allegedly transporting one kilo of drugs through the Moc Bai Border Gate in June.

Police also alleged a Chinese suspect carried the drugs from Cambodia to HCM City before handing them to Buoc who was claimed of planning to take the drugs by sea to Australia.

Driver falls asleep at wheel killing student

HA TINH — A crane crashed into four female students, killing one on the spot and injuring the others on National Highway 1A in Cam Xuyen District in central Ha Tinh Province yesterday.

Police alleged the truck driver, Bui Van Cuong, 36, from Kien Xuong District in northern Thai Binh Province, felll asleep at the wheel.

Two arrested for chopping down tree

HA NOI — Ha Noi Police arrested two people for allegedly cutting down a sua (dalbergia tonkinensis) tree on Thursday in Ha Noi's Ba Dinh District.

Two others escaped.

Trinh Van Vinh, 33, from central Thanh Hoa Province, and Nguyen Van Thai, 17, of Dong Anh District in Ha Noi, are in detention. Police seized a tree trunk measuring 30cm in diameter and 4.5m in length.

Rare sua trees are listed in Viet Nam Red Book. -VNS

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