Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI - A Vietnamese local government official was jailed for two and a half years on Wednesday for the destruction of the home of a farmer who became a national hero for resisting eviction, state media said.

Doan Van Vuon, pisciculteur vietnamien est un héros national. En janvier 2012, lui et sa famille avait repoussé à l'aide d'armes artisanales des forces de l'ordre venues les déloger illégalement de leur ferme. Grâce à l'opinion publique, les juges ont été plutôt cléments. Après trois jours de procès, Doan Van Vuon a été condamné ce vendredi à 5 ans de prison pour tentatives de meurtre.

HAIPHONG — A Vietnamese court has begun hearing the trial of four fish farmers charged with attempted murder for fighting back against police and army officers seeking to evict them from their land last year.

Grievances mount over land tenure laws and little has been resolved

HANOI - Vingt-deux militants, membres d'un obscur groupuscule décrit comme réactionnaire, ont été condamnés lundi au Vietnam à des peines allant jusqu'à l'emprisonnement à vie pour tentative de renversement du gouvernement communiste, a indiqué l'un de leurs avocats.

Les administrations vietnamiennes ont décidé d'expulser du Vietnam le ressortissant américain Nguyen Quoc Quan, né le 20 novembre 1953, a annoncé le Service de la Sécurité et des Investigations, ministère vietnamien de la Sécurité publique mercredi.

Vietnam will begin producing its own chemical for executing prisoners after factories in the EU stopped shipments because of objections to the death penalty.

Un tribunal du Vietnam a confirmé le gain de plus de 55 millions de dollars enregistré dans un casino de Ho Chi Minh-Ville, qui refusait de payer.

HANOI - A Vietnamese court Thursday upheld a four-year jail sentence for an anti-corruption journalist, rejecting an appeal against his conviction for bribing police during an undercover investigation.

The majority age in Vietnam, the age at which people can fully be responsible for their acts as adults, should be lowered from 18 to 16, said Major General Ho Trong Ngu, deputy chairman of the NA’s Committee for Defense and Security.

The Justice Ministry has presented to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee a draft law on civil status registry, under which every citizen will be granted one single identification number to be used on all licenses. This number will remain the same throughout a holder’s life.

HANOI — A Vietnamese journalist who bribed a police officer as part of an undercover investigation into corruption was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, while the officer who accepted the money got a five-year sentence, state-controlled media reported.

A Vietnamese court sentenced the former chief executive of debt-plagued state shipbuilder Vinashin on Friday to 20 years in prison, underscoring the growing urgency of the government's efforts to stabilize the country's bloated and frequently mismanaged state-owned enterprises.

HANOI - Un procureur a requis jeudi une peine de 19 à 20 ans de prison contre l'ancien PDG du groupe de construction navale vietnamien Vinashin, dont la quasi-faillite a entaché la réputation financière du Vietnam, a indiqué la presse officielle.

Two former police officers in the central province of Khanh Hoa each has received a nine-month suspended sentence for beating up a theft suspect when interrogating her, Dan Tri reported.