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Catholics rally at Vietnam police station, three detained

Catholics rally at Vietnam police station, three detained

AFP - 2 hours 52 minutes ago

HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnamese Catholics have rallied outside a Hanoi police station in an escalating row over disputed church land taken over by the communist state half a century ago, police and a priest said Friday. More »

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  • Vietnamese Catholics complain of police violence

    AP - Friday, August 29

    HANOI, Vietnam - Police used stun guns and beat parishioners protesting the arrest of fellow church members who have demanded the return of land they say was taken by Vietnam's communist government in the early 1960s, a Catholic priest said Thursday. More »

  • Vietnam to investigate Japanese corruption case

    AP - Friday, August 29

    HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has launched an investigation into a case of alleged bribery that led to the arrest of four former executives of a Tokyo consulting firm earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. More »

  • Vietnam to move thousands from Mekong flood zone

    Reuters - Thursday, August 28

    HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will spend nearly 2.4 trillion dong (79 million pounds) between now and 2010 to build dykes and relocate thousands of rice farmers because of heavy seasonal flooding in its fertile Mekong river delta, the government said. More »

  • Vietnamese police order Catholics to leave disputed site

    Reuters - Thursday, August 28

    HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police have ordered Catholics occupying a plot of disputed land in the capital to leave or face possible criminal charges, state media said on Thursday. More »

  • Vietnam police detain 200 for suspected drug use

    AP - Sunday, August 24

    HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese newspaper says hundreds of riot police have raided a nightclub in a northern city, detaining nearly 200 people for suspected drug use. More »

  • Vietnam punishes journalists over coverage of anti-corruption case

    Vietnam punishes journalists over coverage of anti-corruption case

    AFP - Saturday, August 23

    HANOI (AFP) - - The Vietnamese government said Saturday that four journalists had been stripped of their accreditation because they wrote and edited false information on an anti-corruption case and had defended colleagues arrested for their coverage of the case. More »

  • Thailand expels Gary Glitter to Britain

    Thailand expels Gary Glitter to Britain

    AFP - Friday, August 22

    LONDON (AFP) - - Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter left Thailand for his native Britain early Friday, three days after being released from a Vietnamese prison. More »

  • Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison

    AP - Wednesday, August 20

    BANGKOK, Thailand - British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, has been denied entry into Thailand after failing to board a flight in Bangkok to London, a senior immigration official said Wednesday. More »

  • Glitter fit to travel, still at Bangkok airport: Thai clinic

    AFP - Wednesday, August 20

    BANGKOK (AFP) - - Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter fell ill during the night, missing his flight to London from Bangkok after he left Vietnam on his release from prison, a medical official told AFP Wednesday. More »