Reporter faces prosecution

The Ministry of Public Security indicated yesterday that Tuoi Tre health reporter Nguyen Thi Lan Anh may face prosecution for revealing state secrets in an article she wrote eight months ago. She is alleged to have quoted from an as yet unreleased dispatch from the Ministry of Health in an article about a pharmaceutical company that was dominating the imported medicine market. Tuoi Tre says the contents of the dispatch did not differ from what Health ministry officials had told the press earlier. (Thanhniennews.com, March 9).