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The rights and obligations of defendant as legal entity are made through the legal

representative of the legal entity according to provisions of the Criminal
Procedure Law.

The number of people receiving legal aid is an indicator reflecting the
development level of the judiciary with aim of serving people. The number of
legal aid recipients is the number of times that the legal aid beneficiaries are
provided with free legal services according to provisions of the legal aid law.
Persons who are provided with free legal services belong to the following

categories: National devotees, poor households, children, ethnic minority
population residing in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions,
accused persons aged between full 16 and under 18 years of age, accused people
from near-poverty household, persons having one of the following financial
difficulties such as fathers, mothers, spouses, children of revolutionary martyrsand
those who have brought up martyrs when they were young; people poisoned by
Agent Orange; the ederly; disable people; persons aged between full 16 and under
18 years of age who are victims of criminal case; domestic violence; human
trafficking in accordance with the Law on Prevention and Suppression of
Trafficking person; HIV infected people.

The indicator counts on number of people receiving legal aid
(corresponding to number of legal aid cases completed in the reference time). In
thereference time, a person is provided with free legal services
in one case, counted as 01 turn; in 02 cases, counted as two turns. If a person is
providedwith 02 free legal services in one case, counted as 01 legal aid
beneficiary.

NATURAL DISASTER DAMAGE AND ENVIRONMENT

Natural disasters are caused by nature, including: Storms, sea level rise;
strong winds on the sea; tropical low pressure; heavy rain, flood; cyclone, lighting,
hail; mist, white frost, damaging cold; salt-water intrusion; drought, heat;
earthquake; tsunami; land subsidence; other disasters.

Damage caused by natural disasters is destruction or damage at different
levels in term of human and materials, and at the same time adversely affects
ecological environment which occurred during or immediately after natural

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