Police Face Challenges in Deaf, Dumb Suspect’s Case

The police in Dong Nai Province are finding it difficult to handle a deaf, dumb and illiterate man who allegedly hit a man with an iron bar on October 4. The victim died one day later from a severe brain injury. Read More »

34 Charged for Seeking Revenge for Young Girl’s Death

The police in Nam Can District, Ca Mau Province, have indicted 34 people for causing public disorder, resisting law enforcement officers, and destroying public assets to revenge for 16-year-old Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen who died at a local hospital last June. Read More »

Wanted Aussie Returns from HCMC to Face Murder Charge

A Sydney man who left Australia days after being wounded in a gunfight has returned two years later to be charged with the murder of his alleged attacker. Read More »

Desensitized Youth Post Parodies of Teen Triple-Murderer

Two months after the arrest of the gold shop murderer in Bac Giang province, Vietnamese netizens have turned the teenage killer of three people into a sort of celebrity, in various forms of parodies. Read More »

9 Yr Old Gold Shop Attack Survivor Released from Hospital

Nine-year-old Trinh Ngoc Bich, the only survivor of the jewelry shop carnage in which her parents and sister were killed in Bac Giang, will be discharged after more than a month’s treatment at Hanoi’s Viet Duc Hospital. Read More »

Missing Vietnamese Student’s Remains Found in California

Hayward police have announced that the human remains discovered Saturday near Pleasanton are those of nursing student Michelle Le, who went missing almost four months ago. Read More »

Criminals Younger and Increasingly Violent in Vietnam

A teenage boy who had dropped out of school after ninth grade killed three people and chopped off the hand of another to steal some gold in the northern province Bac Giang last month. Read More »

Online Communities Want Young Murderer Executed

Teenage murderer Le Van Luyen has become the hottest topic on online forums. Almost the entire online community says that “death must be paid by death” and Luyen must die. Read More »

Ethnic Newborn Saved from Live Burial Custom

A medical station worker in the central province of Quang Nam has saved an infant from being buried alive with his mother, who died giving birth to him, local newspapers reported Wednesday. Read More »

17 Year Old Confesses to Triple Jewelry Shop Murders

The teenager suspected of killing three people to rob a jewelry shop in Bac Giang last week, who was arrested in Lang Son Province yesterday, has confessed to the murders, police said. Read More »

Gold Shop Murder Suspect’s Parents Arrested

The Bac Giang Province police yesterday arrested the parents of an 18-year-old man suspected of killing three people and robbing a local jewelry shop last week, and another man thought to be harboring him. Read More »

Vietnamese Man Held for Gambler’s Death in Cambodia

Cambodian police Tuesday arrested Nguyen Thi Bich Lan, a member of the loan shark ring in Svay Rieng Province that allegedly caused the death of a Vietnamese gambler on August 9. Read More »

Young Vietnamese Mother Murdered in Korea Identified

The Vietnamese embassy in the South Korean capital Seoul yesterday identified the Vietnamese woman allegedly murdered by her Korean husband Monday as Hoang Thi Nam, 23, of Phan Thiet. Read More »

Vietnamese Mail Order Bride Murdered in South Korea

A South Korean man killed his Vietnamese bride Monday in South Korea’s Jeongto District of North Kyeongsang Province, according to South Korean police. Read More »

US Teacher Suspected in Girlfriend’s Murder in Nha Trang

A 45-year-old US teacher is suspected of brutally killing his girlfriend, a 24-year-old barber and hid her body for days inside a rented house in Vietnam’s Nha Trang city, a famous tourism site… Read More »

15-Year Old Boy Kills 11-Year Old Over Phone SIM

Suspecting a primary student told others that he found a SIM card, a 15-year-old boy murdered the student, then buried him to destroy the evidence. In Feb 2011, Huynh Vu Linh (15 years old, residing in Vinh Hoi Hamlet, An Phu Ward, An Giang Province… Read More »

Wife Hires Hitmen to Kill Husband for 50 million VND

The plot to murder a 46-year old man was apparently devised by the man’s wife and son-in-law, with the cost of the hit alleged to be 50 million VND (~$2,500 US)… Read More »

Wife Planned Journalist’s Murder for Insurance Money: Police

Police told Tuoi Tre that they have identified the mastermind behind the murder of Le Hoang Hung, 51, of Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper. However, they did not exactly point out who is the culprit but all the suspicion is now focused on the victim’s wife… Read More »

Police Investigate Wife of Vietnamese Journalist Burned to Death

Investigators from Long An provincial police are continuing to meet with Mrs. Tran Thuy Lieu, the wife of journalist Le Hoang Hung. Besides trying to clarify details in her husband’s murder… Read More »

Vietnamese Journalist Set on Fire has Passed Away

Yesterday (January 29), Vietnamese media reported that 50-year old journalist Le Hoang Hung had passed away. Le’s story made international news after he was badly burned when an intruder broke into his family’s home as they were sleeping, then doused a chemical on him before he was set on fire… Read More »