Hanoi, Aug. 18 -- The Hanoi People's Court on August 18 opened the first-instance trial of former Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA - now part of Ministry of Home Affairs) Nguyen Ba Hoan and 27 other defendants in a case involving "receiving bribes", "brokering bribes" and "violating accounting regulations, causing serious consequences" at Hoang Long Investment, Construction and Manpower Supply JSC, MoLISA, and related agencies and businesses. Among the 28 defendants, Hoan, born in 1967; Le Thanh Ha, born in 1978, former head of the Vietnamese workers management board at the Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea; and seven former personnel of the MoLISA Department of Overseas Labour are charged with rece...