Three jailed for smuggling 21 Chinese into HCMC amid Covid-19 campaign


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Three men in HCMC were jailed Tuesday for smuggling 21 Chinese into the city during Vietnam’s campaign to halt the spread of Covid-19 earlier this year. HCMC People's Court sentenced Tran Chi Hao, 34, to four and a half years in jail, while Nguyen Thanh Trung, 34, and Nguyen Quang Thang, 29, were sentenced to seven years for brokering illegal entry to Vietnam.From June to July, a group of Chinese asked Hao to help rent houses in HCMC. Hao helped four of them find accomodation in the city's Binh Tan District. Trung and Thang, cooperating with Hao, assisted 17 other...