http://www.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/159/all en http://www.saigonist.com/b/police-are-investigating <p>If you read much English-language Vietnamese news online, you'll often read this conclusion and chuckle silently: "Police are investigating."</p> <p>These are crime stories and you may imagine to yourself that police are investigating, how they're looking for clues (cue CSI: Saigon), and at what point they conclude their investigation conclusively. (There are far fewer followups in the papers.) </p> <p>There's a new Tumblr about this phenomena of police investigating things. A sample:</p> <p>[Sorry, the link went down.]</p> <p>Police are investigating all sorts of claims. Even children's arithmetic puzzles.</p> <p>Seriously, every quote from the police: "we are investigating". Here is a bunch of random samples from recent news articles at Tuoi Tre:</p> http://www.saigonist.com/b/police-are-investigating#comments Vietnam cong an media news police Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:53:58 +0000 tomo 243 at http://www.saigonist.com