Just days before Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s meeting Friday (February 10) to discuss the attempted land seizure by Hai Phong authorities that ended in shooting, the city administration is finally moving.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has demanded that officials involved in what he said was an illegal land revocation that turned violent last month be punished severely.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed Hai Phong City to inspect procedures used in allotting and revoking farmland in a controversial case that led to a violent confrontation between farmers and local authorities.

» by Emily Nguyen Peter Doan Vuon and relatives oppose the seizure of land and activities, held since 1993. The government, in an arbitrary manner, ordered its seizure and sent in the military. In response, they mounted an armed defense - without killing or injuring anyone – of their property.

» by J.B. Vu Diocesan Caritas last year opened the ‘Thanh Xuân Warm Shelter’, now home to 20 children who contracted HIV/AIDS from their parents. The facility also helps people in remote, poor and mostly non-Catholic communities.

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When local police arrived in riot gear to evict the Vuon clan, family members were ready with homemade land mines and improvised shotguns. In a guerrilla-style ambush reminiscent of a Vietnam War battle, ...

A former government official has criticized authorities in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District for trying to justify revoking a farmer's land that prompted him to defend his home with shotguns and home-made mines.

Vietnam's premier on Friday weighed in on a high-profile land dispute in the north, criticising the forced eviction of a fish farmer who resisted with landmines and a shotgun, an official said.

HANOI, Vietnam -- When local police arrived in riot gear to evict the Vuon clan, family members were ready with homemade land mines and improvised shotguns. In a guerrilla-style ambush reminiscent of a Vietnam War battle, they wounded six officers.