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The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court convicted Nguyen Thanh Son, 52, for the murder of 55-year-old Nguyen Maria, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in jail under Vietnam’s Penal Code. Murders deemed heinous are punishable by death. The court explained its decision to award a commuted sentence to Son by saying he had shown remorse for his act, paid compensation to the victim’s family and contributed to the nation’s public security sector through his service. According to the indictment, Son met with the Australian woman in February last year on the social media. Three months later, she came to Vietnam and they began living together in a rented house in Binh Thanh District. They got married in August. On the night of September 2, the couple had an angry argument and Maria is said to have berated Son and insulted his family. Then, she took a pair of scissors and stabbed him in his belly before asking him to get out of the house. Enraged, Son strangled his wife to … [Read more...] about Former cop jailed for 9 years for killing Australian wife in Vietnam

LEICESTER, England, Oct 28 - Leicester City soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, a Thai tycoon, was killed along with four others when his helicopter crashed and then exploded after a Premier League match on Saturday, the soccer club and police said. Vichai bought the unheralded central England side in 2010 and went on to stun the soccer world by beating odds of 5,000/1 to win the Premier League title in 2016 in what amounted to a sporting fairy tale. The father of four and founder of duty-free King Power International was a huge favourite with the club's fans. "It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside King Power Stadium," a club statement said on Sunday. The aircraft came down in a car park near the King Power stadium shortly after 19:30 GMT, about an hour … [Read more...] about Leicester City soccer club owner, four others killed in helicopter crash

A total of 154 traffic accidents that caused 94 deaths and 98 injuries were recorded within six days of the Lunar New Year holiday, the biggest public holiday in the country, said Vietnam’s National Traffic Safety Committee on Monday. The tally, which counted traffic accidents that transpired between February 10 and 15, showed a 11.5 percent drop in cases, 18.9 percent decrease in deaths, and 34.7 percent fall in injuries compared to last year’s Lunar New Year break. The National Traffic Safety Committee also reported 31 traffic accidents with 19 deaths and 24 injuries within Monday. They noted that all cases mentioned were road crashes, as no railroad or waterway accident was documented. Among the Lunar New Year logs, a noteworthy case took place on February 14 on a section of the Ho Chi Minh Expressway that runs through Pei Dun Village in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, where the collision of two motorbikes killed four people and left another in a critical … [Read more...] about Traffic accidents kill 94 during Lunar New Year holiday

Saigon to release air and water pollution data for first time this month City noise linked to hearing loss - study A closer look reveals pollution at Hanoi’s iconic lake Such unsanitary and polluted environments can lead to fatal cases of diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday in a report, and kill 1.7 million children a year. "A polluted environment is a deadly one -– particularly for young children," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said in a statement. "Their developing organs and immune systems, and smaller bodies and airways, make them especially vulnerable to dirty air and water." In the report -- "Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children's health and the environment" -- the WHO said harmful exposure can start in the womb, and then continue if infants and toddlers are exposed to indoor and outdoor air pollution and second-hand smoke. This increases their childhood risk of pneumonia as … [Read more...] about Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children a year -WHO

Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested a man on Tuesday after he gave himself up for allegedly killing an American tourist during a drug deal that went wrong. The arrest comes two weeks after the news of the death of Stephen Marshall Pendeeton, 22, took expat forums in Vietnam by storm. Trinh Quoc Hung in a photo provided by HCMC police. Trinh Quoc Hung, the 20-year-old suspect, said Pendeeton and a foreign friend came to find him on Bui Vien Street on the night of June 21. They said the drugs he had sold them earlier were fake and demanded a refund. Hung said he tried to explain, in broken English, that he was not the one selling them the drugs. As the argument heated up, he grabbed an iron bar off the ground and allegedly stabbed the American in the back. The victim's friend and some locals rushed him to hospital, but he died soon after. Police said they are still clarifying the reason for the murder. Bui Vien is part of the city’s popular backpacker district, … [Read more...] about Vietnamese man detained for killing American tourist in Saigon