A Scottish national has been sentenced to two years in a Vietnamese jail after local police caught him with cannabis and ecstasy pills. The sentence was announced in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi by the People’s City Court yesterday (Monday). According to local newspaper vnexpress, the 26-year-old named as Andrew…
A British man who was working as an English teacher has been sentenced to six months in a Vietnamese prison for the opportunist theft of an iPhone that he spotted on a seat in a massage parlour. Adam Michael Nowicki, 36, was handed the sentence at a court in Ho…
A man dubbed the ‘Vietnamese Tarzan’ after being brought up in the jungle has decided to return to the wilderness after seven years living in a village. Ho Van Lang, 51, left his home in the jungle seven years ago when his father, who brought him there as a two-year-old,…
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by British and Vietnamese scientists has proved “successful” in a trial with 50 lab mice. Dr. Do Tuan Dat, the president of the Vaccine and Biological One Member Limited Company (Vabiotech) in the northern Vietnamese capital Hanoi, said: “This is an initial success in developing a…
Story By: Lee Bullen, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report This woman who risked her own life by quitting breast cancer treatment to protect her unborn child has given birth to a healthy baby boy. According to local media, 28-year-old Nguyen Thi L. from the northern Vietnamese capital Hanoi was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer two…
