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The Star
10-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
World Police Music Festival 2025 opens in Hanoi
The Japanese drum troupe plays an important part at the festival. - Vietnam News/ANN HANOI: The World Police Music Festival 2025 began on Saturday (Aug 9) at the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi. The event was held by the Ministry of Pubic Security of Vietnam to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the People's Public Security Forces Traditional Day and the 20th anniversary of All People's Day for National Security Protection. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security, along with a number of representatives from different embassies in Vietnam attended the festival. - Vietnam News/ANN
ABC News
26-06-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Truong My Lan likely spared death penalty after Vietnam ends the punishment for eight crimes
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned for the country's largest financial fraud case. The legal reforms in Vietnam ended the death penalty for eight crimes, including trying to overthrow the government, damaging state infrastructure, making and selling fake medicine, starting wars, spying, drug trafficking, embezzlement, and taking bribes. State media reported that Vietnamese lawmakers passed the reforms on Wednesday, local time. Minister of Public Security, Luong Tam Quang, said "the current structure of capital punishment was problematic and, in some cases, misaligned with evolving socio-economic conditions and the realities of crime prevention." Truong My Lan was sentenced to death for her involvement in Vietnam's largest financial fraud case, which was said to have caused $US27 billion ($41 billion) in total damages. The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was facing execution for her involvement in fraud amounting to $12.5 billion ($19b) — nearly 3 per cent of the country's 2022 GDP. However she will now be "eligible for the exemption for the death penalty" according to the new rules, her lawyer Phan Minh Hoang told The Associated Press. "We are still waiting for the official instructions of implementing the law amendment for next steps in her case," Mr Hoang said. The new rules also say that anyone already sentenced to death for these crimes but not yet executed by July 1 will have their sentence changed to life in prison after a final decision by Vietnam's highest court. After the legal changes, the maximum punishment for Lan's crimes will be life imprisonment without parole. Hoang said that they were continuing to work on repaying the damages to get her sentence further reduced. The law change will likely impact other ongoing trials such as the one that started earlier this week involving the real estate and infrastructure development company Phuc Son Group, whose chairman, Nguyen Van Hau, is accused of paying over $US5 million ($7.65m) in bribes to win contracts for major infrastructure projects across three provinces. Ten offences will remain subject to capital punishment in Vietnam, including murder, treason, terrorism and the sexual abuse of children, according to the report. Drug trafficking will also remain a capital offence. Capital punishment data is a state secret in Vietnam and it is not known how many people are currently on death row in the country. Lethal injection is the only method of execution after firing squads were abolished in 2011. ABC/wires
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Vietnam abolishes death penalty for spying, anti-state activities
Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government, state media said Wednesday. The number of offences facing capital punishment will be almost halved from an original 18 to 10 from July, according to the penal code approved by the National Assembly, the official Bao Chinh Phu news portal reported. According to the amended law, the crimes no longer punishable by death include attempting to overthrow the administration, sabotaging state facilities, production and trade of counterfeit medicine, illegal transportation of narcotics, sabotaging peace and waging war, espionage, property embezzlement and bribe-taking. Convicts would instead be given the maximum sentence of life in prison. Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang said "the current structure of capital punishment was problematic and, in some cases, misaligned with evolving socio-economic conditions and the realities of crime prevention." One of the reasons for the move given by Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh was that in most cases people sentenced to death for the above crimes were not actually executed. "The abolishment of capital publishment for several crimes will also serve international cooperation work, especially when Vietnam is promoting closer relations on the basis of mutual trust," Ninh was reported as saying. Vietnam has carried out death sentences by lethal injection since 2013 when it replaced execution by firing squad. The number of executions has not been made public, but Amnesty International estimates more than 1,200 people were on death row in Vietnam by the end of 2023. Under Vietnamese law, those sentenced to death for the above eight crimes before July 1 will have their sentences converted to life imprisonment by the chief judge of the Supreme People's Court. tmh/sjc/mtp
Malay Mail
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Malay Mail
No more executions for spies, saboteurs as Vietnam slashes death penalty list
HANOI, June 25 — Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government, state media said Wednesday. The number of offences facing capital punishment will be almost halved from an original 18 to 10 from July, according to the penal code approved by the National Assembly, the official Bao Chinh Phu news portal reported. According to the amended law, the crimes no longer punishable by death include attempting to overthrow the administration, sabotaging state facilities, production and trade of counterfeit medicine, illegal transportation of narcotics, sabotaging peace and waging war, espionage, property embezzlement and bribe-taking. Convicts would instead be given the maximum sentence of life in prison. Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang said 'the current structure of capital punishment was problematic and, in some cases, misaligned with evolving socio-economic conditions and the realities of crime prevention.' One of the reasons for the move given by Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh was that in most cases people sentenced to death for the above crimes were not actually executed. 'The abolishment of capital publishment for several crimes will also serve international cooperation work, especially when Vietnam is promoting closer relations on the basis of mutual trust,' Ninh was reported as saying. Vietnam has carried out death sentences by lethal injection since 2013 when it replaced execution by firing squad. The number of executions has not been made public, but Amnesty International estimates more than 1,200 people were on death row in Vietnam by the end of 2023. Under Vietnamese law, those sentenced to death for the above eight crimes before July 1 will have their sentences converted to life imprisonment by the chief judge of the Supreme People's Court. — AFP
New Indian Express
25-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Vietnam government abolishes death penalty for spying, anti-state activities
HANOI: Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government, state media said Wednesday. The number of offences facing capital punishment will be almost halved from an original 18 to 10 from July, according to the penal code approved by the National Assembly, the official Bao Chinh Phu news portal reported. According to the amended law, the crimes no longer punishable by death include attempting to overthrow the administration, sabotaging state facilities, production and trade of counterfeit medicine, illegal transportation of narcotics, sabotaging peace and waging war, espionage, property embezzlement and bribe-taking. Convicts would instead be given the maximum sentence of life in prison. Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang said "the current structure of capital punishment was problematic and, in some cases, misaligned with evolving socio-economic conditions and the realities of crime prevention." One of the reasons for the move given by Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh was that in most cases people sentenced to death for the above crimes were not actually executed. "The abolishment of capital publishment for several crimes will also serve international cooperation work, especially when Vietnam is promoting closer relations on the basis of mutual trust," Ninh was reported as saying. Vietnam has carried out death sentences by lethal injection since 2013 when it replaced execution by firing squad. The number of executions has not been made public, but Amnesty International estimates more than 1,200 people were on death row in Vietnam by the end of 2023. Under Vietnamese law, those sentenced to death for the above eight crimes before July 1 will have their sentences converted to life imprisonment by the chief judge of the Supreme People's Court.
