After more than five years of litigation, a government foreign service official has been sentenced to more than eight years in jail for corruption in a student visa bribery scandal at Taiwan’s representative office in Vietnam, as the High Court rejected his final appeal on Tuesday.
The court upheld Hsiao Yu-wen’s (蕭裕文) convictions on multiple charges in a second retrial, handing him eight years and eight months in prison, confiscating all illegal profits pertaining to the case and rescinding his civil rights for four years. The sentence was reduced by two months from the verdict in the first retrial.
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Passengers check in at Noi Bai international airport (Photo: VNA) From April 24 to May 4, the group will focus on increasing the load on eight key tourist routes including: Hanoi and Hue, Da Nang, Cam Ranh, Da Lat, Phu Quoc; and between Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, Cam Ranh and Phu Quoc. A representative of Vietnam Airlines said that the strongest increase can be seen on the Ho Chi Minh City - Da Nang route with the addition of 46 flights, followed by the Hanoi - Da Nang with 40, and the Hanoi - Nha Trang with 38. With this load increase, the group has added more than 255 flights, equivalent to over 50,000 seats, bringing the total supply of its entire domestic and international networks to nearly 2,700 flights and more than 524,000 seats in the above-mentioned period. Earlier on March 29, Vietnam Airlines Group announced it will provide about 450,000 seats within seven days from April 28 to May 4. Of the amount, more than 395,000 seats, up 10 percent from 2019, on 2,000 flights wi