The border region between China and Vietnam is bustling with trade and people come from across the region to make a living. Luo Xianfeng, a college graduate majoring in chemicals and a native of east China's Jiangxi province, came to the Dongxing-Mong Cai border region between China and Vietnam to run its own garment business at the end of 2008. He moved to the smaller Chinese city of Dongxing from China's well-known boom town Shenzhen in Guangdong province, attracted by the huge business potential here. When asked about his wholesale business in Mong Cai city, the largest border trade zone in northern Vietnam, the young boy who graduated from college in 2006 said modestly that his business is okay, adding that he needs more experience to make his cross-border business more profitable. Luo is one of a group of people who came from other regions in China including Guangdong, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces to run business in the Dongxing-Mong Cai border region. Luo is a newcomer in the … [Read more...] about Working across Guangxi-Vietnam border
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Mobile Propaganda Contest “Vietnam Border and Island 2012”
(Cinet) - The contest will organize in some provinces Vinh Long, Khanh Hoa and Quang Ninh in May and June 2012. The content of the contest welcomes a love of land and people under a leadership of the Party. Affirming the sovereignty of border and island of Vietnam, the contest encourages overcoming disaster, storm to develop production and apply technology into production. The contest welcomes some relationships of some soldiers of Vietnamese army as well as some values of material and spirits in agriculture through some traditional villages. Forms for participation are some items of dancing and some folk songs with some titles of Vietnamese border and island. As planned, the contest will take place on three areas: the Northern from May 06-08, 2012, the Central and the Central Highland and the South East from May 19-21, 2012, the South west from June 08-10, 2012. As planned, Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in some provinces and cities in the Central builds and make a plan for … [Read more...] about Mobile Propaganda Contest “Vietnam Border and Island 2012”
Chinese police shoot dead two Uighurs at Vietnam border
Chinese police shot dead two ethnic Uighurs trying to cross the border with Vietnam, state media said on Monday, as the public security ministry accused a separatist group of orchestrating hundreds of cases of human smuggling. Hundreds of people have been killed around China in the past two years in violence between majority Han Chinese and Uighurs, a Muslim minority from China's western Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities say they worry that Uighurs go abroad to link up with Islamist militants, but human rights groups say Uighurs are fleeing persecution under harsh government policies. A "conflict" occurred when the Uighurs "violently resisted arrest" near a highway tollbooth on Sunday night in Pingxiang city in the southern region of Guangxi, the China News Service said. "Police ultimately shot dead two people, and one person fled toward a residential community," the news agency cited local authorities as saying. It gave few details of the incident, but said armed police had mounted … [Read more...] about Chinese police shoot dead two Uighurs at Vietnam border
Vietnam border guards shoot out tires to stop Lao drug traffickers
Border guards in the north-central province of Nghe An have seized 1.65 kilos of drugs from Laos after a hair-raising manhunt. The guards issued a statement Friday saying that three smugglers -- all Nghe An natives living in Laos -- had attempted to bring 1.32 kilograms of heroin and 330 grams of marijuana into Vietnam, news website VnExpress reported. Police are still tracking down a fourth suspect. The statement was issued the day after the smugglers admitted to ditching the drugs while fleeing into the jungle. They were arrested on July 7. Nghe An border guards said the four smugglers attempted to ram a checkpoint after police attempted to flag them down near the Nam Cam border gate in the afternoon of July 7. The officials managed to dive away from the vehicle and fire shots that blew out one of the car's tires. The vehicle continued to flee, stopping at a jungle entrance where the four disappeared on foot. The guards first arrested Cha Denh Ha, 42, and spent eight more hours … [Read more...] about Vietnam border guards shoot out tires to stop Lao drug traffickers
5 foreigners arrested with 30 kilos of heroin at Vietnam border
Four men from Laos and another from Thailand were arrested near central Vietnam Sunday when they were trying to smuggle more than 30 kilograms of heroin through the border. Border guards in Ha Tinh Province cooperated with Laos police to arrest the men at nearly 7 a.m. when they were heading to Vietnam in four cars carrying the heroin and more than 35,000 ecstasy pills. An officer said they have been watching the group's operation for some time and it was one of the biggest drug hauls ever busted in the province. Further investigation is going on. Vietnam has some of the world’s toughest drug laws. Those convicted of smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine face the death penalty. The production or sale of 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal narcotics is also punishable by death. … [Read more...] about 5 foreigners arrested with 30 kilos of heroin at Vietnam border