A panel of judges hearing the appeals refuses to allow questioning in sensitive aspects of the case, and blocks one lawyer from conferring with his client.
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09/03/2021 10:09 GMT+7
No new COVID-19 infections logged on March 9 morning
Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on March 9, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The country recorded 1,586 domestically-transmitted infections, including 893 cases since the latest outbreak began on January 27.
As many as 45,219 people who came in close contact with COVID-19 patients or arrived from pandemic-hit areas are under quarantine nationwide, including 506 in hospitals, 14,266 in other quarantine sites, and 30,446 at home.
Among the patients under treatment, 65 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 57 twice, and 137 thrice.
Six defendants in the case of “murder” and “resisting on-duty officers” that happened in Hoanh village of Dong Tam commune in Hanoi’s My Duc district, asked for penalty reduction during an appeal trial held by the High-level People's Court in Hanoi on March 8.
RFA
An appellate court in Vietnam Tuesday upheld the sentences of six land-rights activists involved in a deadly clash with police last year at the Dong Tam commune outside the capital Hanoi, local media reported.
In the Jan. 9, 2020 early-morning raid on the village by 3,000 security officers intervening in a long-running dispute over a military construction site about 25 miles south of the capital, Hanoi, village elder Le Dinh Kinh, 84, and three officers were killed.
During the appellate trial the procuracy recommended that sentences conferred by the lower court in September be upheld, including two death sentences for Le Dinh Cong and Le Dinh Chuc, sons of Le Dinh Kinh.
Tunnel boring machines (TBM) have been assembled and tested for digging work (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Construction of a 4-km underground
section of the
underground stations from Station 9 in Kim Ma to Station
12 in Hanoi Station.
According to Le Trung Hieu, Vice Director of the Metropolitan
Railway Management Board (MRB), tunnel boring machines (TBM) have been
assembled and tested for digging work. The first TBM is to be handed over to
the investor soon.
Hieu said that 20-45 technicians from the Republic of Korea,
Italy and Fecon – a contractor of the project – will operate the machine.
With the scheduled progress of 10km per day, in optimal