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Vietnam to produce lethal injections
Associated Press, Published on 16/05/2013
» HANOI - Vietnam has issued a new law allowing domestically produced chemicals to be used in lethal injections, a change that should enable it to resume the currently stalled executions of more than 530 people on death row.
Vietnam kills 1st prisoner by injection
Associated Press, Published on 06/08/2013
» Vietnam executed its first prisoner by lethal injection on Tuesday, ending a two-year pause in capital punishment caused by the country's struggle to obtain the needed chemicals, state media reported.
5 sentenced to death for drug trafficking
Associated Press, Published on 14/12/2013
» HANOI - A court in central Vietnam has sentenced five people, including four women, to death and another to life in prison for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos.
Isan villagers say gas drilling sickens them, ruins crops
Associated Press, Published on 14/09/2015
» More than 100 students and villagers crowded into a Northeast college forum to hear about American gas companies conducting drilling operations in their region. A lieutenant colonel and dozens of soldiers and police officers followed them in.
Big but empty hotel remains a mystery
Business, Associated Press, Published on 23/12/2016
» PYONGYANG: Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world's strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails. Intended to be the world's tallest hotel, it has yet to host a guest, even though it's nearly as old as leader Kim Jong-un.
Vietnam sentences 4 men to death for transporting heroin
Associated Press, Published on 22/08/2017
» HANOI -- A court in Hanoi has sentenced four men to death for transporting heroin.
Malaysia vaccinating for polio after first case in 27 years
Associated Press, Published on 09/12/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia began a vaccination campaign in a rural town on Borneo island after a 3-month-old boy was confirmed to have polio in the country's first case of the highly infectious virus in 27 years.