VOV.VN - The State President has decided to reduce prison terms on five convicted prisoners from death penalty to life imprisonment.

VOV.VN - The State President has signed a decision to commute prison terms from death sentence to life imprisonment for convicted prisoners who have submitted petitions for clemency.

VOV.VN - A court of appeal in Hanoi on December 27 upheld the verdict of the first instance court for three former State officials who had took bribes in the repatriation flight case during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The 41st Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators (APCCA 41) opened in Hanoi on November 13, bringing together more than 200 directors of prison administrations from 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

An exhibition, named “The Roar of the Red River”, is underway at the Hoa Lo Prison relic site, reviving memories of the atmosphere of the Hanoi Liberation Day on October 10, 69 years ago.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Department of Tourism is in the process of launching a string of activities aimed at developing night-time tourism products in the capital, heard a seminar held on August 2 in Hanoi.

A man residing in Mo Lao ward, Hanoi’s Ha Dong district has been sentenced to six years in prison for “making, storing, distributing, or disseminating information, documents, and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”

The People’s Committee of central Quang Nam province on May 29 hosted a reception for a delegation of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) led by Chairman of its Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Committee Grant Townsend Coates.

Various activities were held in many places around the world to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh, who is hailed as a brilliant leader, a national liberation hero of Vietnam, a world cultural figure, an exemplary international communist soldier, and a close friend of peace-loving and socially progressive nations worldwide.

President of the National Association of Former Prisoners of Indochina (ANAPI) Gen. Philippe de Maleissye has showed the clumps of soil and rocks he had brought back from his recent trip to Vietnam, which were taken from Hill A1, the site of some of the fiercest fights in the Dien Bien Phu campaign, while talking with Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Paris.