VietNamNet Bridge – A young woman from Dong Da District, Hanoi, has been fined with VND750,000 ($35) for making a false report to the police.  On February 25, police of Dong Da district, Hanoi, said they imposed administrative fine of VND750,000 on Ms. Vu Hoang Diep, 32, for making a false report on the theft that occurred at a shop on Xa Dan Street on February 18. The police said the fine is small because Diep’s behavior is not so serious; she herself later regretted; and she had good records. The VND750,000 fine is for the act of making false statements. On February 18, Diep went to the police headquarters of Nam Dong Ward, Dong Da District reporting that she was "hypnotized" and robbed.
According to Diep, on the afternoon of the same day, a woman walked into the store, pretend to ask about goods, then suddenly she untied her hair, then Diep was in a coma.
Ms. Diep at the police station.
When she woke up, she detected to lose Eur35,000, US$1,900, VND48 million, two iPhone and an ATM card, totaling around VND1.5 billion ($70,000).
Realizing the severity of the incident, Dong Da district police investigated. Many newspapers reported the case with thrilling headlines about the new form of robbery, using hypnotization.
However, on February 22, Diep told the police that she made false reports. Actually, she lost only a handbag, with two cell phones and some money inside. Diep said she declared the huge assets in the hope that the police would found the case serious to quickly investigate it. She also admitted that she invented the detail that the woman untied her hair and she fainted.
Shortly thereafter, the police also arrested the culprit, a woman named Le Thi Hong Thiep, 46, form Phuong Liet ward, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi.
Taking advantage of Diep’s lack of vigilance, Thiep stole her handbag, with two iPhone inside. She sold an iPhone for $400 and presented the another to her daughter.
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 VietNamNet Bridge – A teacher in the mountainous region bluntly stated "I am an HIV positive teacher” after many times of unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide.
Now all the people in Chiem Hoa district in Tuyen Quang province know that teacher Luong Thi Dung of the Nhan Ly Primary and Secondary School, "has HIV.” However, they don’t discriminate against her, because they admire her energy. The teacher still has been struggling to live and go teaching everyday.
It is not difficult to find Dung’s house, a small house lying near the grandiose mountains. This is the place where Dung and her two daughters have been experiencing the darkest days in their lives. This was the house where teacher Dung enjoyed the happy days with her husband.
Dung was born in Hoai Duc district of the former Ha Tay province. When she was six years old, she moved to the mountainous region together with parents and became a mountainous girl with brilliant beauty.
Then Dung met and married Tran Van Thanh, a man from Hai Phong. Thanh was the son of a family among the richest ones in the sea city of Hai Phong.
"There were not many flowers and friends at my wedding. But this was the happiest moments in my life,” the teacher recalled the wedding day.
The two daughters Tran Minh Anh and Tran Phuong Anh were the fruit of the love of the young couple. They are both very good and obedient students.
However, Dung could enjoy the happiness for two years only. Her husband fell seriously ill and passed away, when Dung was pregnant.
The husband’s family became the only moral support for the young teacher, who gave birth to another daughter just some months later. She was informed that her husband died of cancer.
Though Dung was a very beautiful girl, she never thought of marrying another man, though many men proposed to her. The tumulus of the husband was always covered with fruits, flowers and frankincense.
One day, Dung fell seriously ill and lost 20 kilos within a short time. She was informed that she was infected with HIV. "The notice from the hospital that I have HIV came to me like a life sentence. Meanwhile, I was so young and I needed to be strong to grow my children,” she said.
"I thought that I would die in shame,” she said.
And Dung got even more surprised when hearing from her husband’s family that Thanh himself died of AIDS.
Thanh was a playboy and a heroin addict in the sea city of Hai Phong. He later successfully detoxified, but he still had to pay a heavy price for his previous days.
Dung then began a succession of terrible days with the thought that she would die one day. However, she said that the discrimination against her was even a much bigger terror. In the thoughts of people in the mountainous region, HIV is something more terrible than leprosy.
She could not go to school, because the students ran away when they saw her. The parents also asked the school to keep the teacher away from school.
"Many times I tried to commit suicide. However, I loved my students, my children, and I changed my mind,” she said.
Dung decided to stand up, raise her head up and march forward, with the support of the good friends and colleagues. Now she can go working everyday, show the students how to write letters, and take care for the children every day, which she calls the biggest happiness in her life.
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VietNamNet Bridge – The homes of students of the Thuan Mang junior secondary school in Ngan Son district, Bac Kan province, are far from the school so their parents built tents near the school to facilitate the studies. The damp and dark tents are the temporary home of more than 70 out of 110 students in Thuan Mang school. The healthcare room, the guardhouse and the storage for experimental tools are
dilapidated wooden and bamboo houses. The tents of students are about 1.5 m high, 4 m2 wide, surrounded by luxuriant weeds. This tent is home to two brothers, a seventh grader and a fourth grader.  The courtyard between the tents. On rainy days, this is a muddy area with puddles. The children play tops and tag during the break… ... or group up to talk. Going to school is their biggest dream. Therefore, though they have to live far from their parents, they are very hard to learn.  The kitchen with simple things, less than 1 m from the bed.  Cooking utensils and spices of kids. On rainy days, when wood is wet, they cannot cook so they have to find something to eat.
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VietNamNet Bridge – The two ways of educating children with corporal punishment in Hai Phong City and Soc Trang province have made people indignant. Corporal punishments will help?  A thin boy at the age of 10, naked in the cold, was seen being tied to an electricity poll on the way crossing the Xuan Uc hamlet of Thuan Thien commune in Hai Phong City. Though the boy was crying bitterly in the temperature of 15oC, he did not get any help. The people, who bypassed the way, only glanced at him for a while and then continued their way. The boy was only released when the officers of the traffic inspectors’ team No. 3 found him. At that time, a man running from a house nearby appeared and untied the boy. The traffic inspectors advised the man not to apply corporal punishments when educating children, asking the man to allow the boy enter the home and put on clothes. The man, who introduced himself as the father of the boy, said he stripped the boy naked to deter him. "I tried to frighten him and make him feel ashamed, so that he does not continue spending time on playing games,” he explained. Pham Minh Chau, the Head of the inspectors’ team said he found the boy in black and blue, and he could not understand why a father could torture his son in such a cold. The Chief of the Thuan Thien commune’s Police Station Nguyen Van Sinh said the father is Vu Van Hieu, 54, while the boy was his youngest son Vu Van D, 13, a 7th grader of the Thuan Thien Secondary School. Students drop out because they’re afraid of teacher A lot of students of 9A2 class of Trung Binh Secondary School in Soc Trang province decided not to come back to school after Tet, because they feared they would be beaten by teacher Ho Thi Huynh Nhu. Some others dropped out before Tet already, for the same reason. 32 out of the 33 students of the class were hit by the teacher. The luckiest students got two lashes, while some received more than 100 lashes. The rod the teacher used to "educate” the students was a wooden bar, about 0.5 meters in length. The teacher set up the rule that all students who make mistakes must be punished. She also decides how many lashes students need to receive. The students who are late to school, stand off the line, don’t fulfill homework will receive 2-10 lashes for every mistake. However, the teacher decides that students only bear the punishment at the end of every week. The punishment would be executed by the teacher, and she would ask another do this for her, if she wants. T, a student, for example, once received 70 lashes at the same time, including 68 lashes from the teacher and the other two from the monitor. After that, T decided not to go to school any more. The school’s headmaster Quach Thanh Huy said Nhu has admitted her wrong behavior and promised not to repeat the same mistake. However, her behavior has raised high wave of indignation from parents, who want to punish her more heavily. A parent said she does not send her child to school to receive such heavy corporal punishments from the teacher. Tien Phong
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