The Ha Noi police recently launched a campaign to crack down on all types of crimes and social evils to maintain political security and social order in the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival o [ … ]

The Ministry of Public Security said it would provide Ho Chi Minh City with one or two regiments of mobile police to help the city strengthen forces to fight crime.

Drivers and experts worry criminals will take advantage of a new policy allowing plainclothes police to pull over vehicles 

 Drug-related crimes have been escalating in many provinces and cities across Vietnam, participants were told at an international seminar in Hanoi on December 13 on combating drug traff [ … ]

The Ministry of Public Security admitted it has not fulfilled the target of reducing crimes in 2012, given that that the number of criminal cases so far this year is higher than 2011.

Measures to manage drug users after detoxification have proved ineffective in many localities. Many cities and provinces have seen a sharp increase in the number of drug addicts.

 A large amount of a drug used in general anaesthesia has been impounded by border guards in northern Quang Ninh Province on its way to China.

 What are the usual tricks of robbers and how should people do to avoid becoming a victim?

Lieutenant General Pham Quy Ngo, Deputy Minister of Public Security, said that HCM City police should learn from the model 141 taskforce of Hanoi to suppress crime.

I come from Ireland. I have lived and worked in Vietnam for six months. It would take me the whole day to list all the reasons why I love it here and have decided to live in this S-shaped co [ … ]