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THE POWER OF DANCE
Dancers perform Doll Story: The Sequel for the hip hop large group (age 15) category at Dance Power. The regional dance competition was held Feb. 28 through March 5 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby. Dance Power is an Edmontonbased company that’s celebrating its 25th anniversary season this year. For more about the competitions, see www. dancepower. com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
GETS THREE-MONTHS HOUSE ARREST
City MD pleads guilty to defrauding gov’t His defence lawyer says:‘He came from a deprived background and made something of himself for the public’s benefit’ By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
The rags-to-riches story of a Burnaby doctor unravelled in a B.C. Provincial Court room last Friday after he pled guilty to defrauding the public health-care system of more than $20,000. Dr.Vu Ngoc Truong
was handed a nine-month conditional sentence and will spend the next three months under house arrest. After that, he faces an 11 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew for another three months and 80 hours of community service to be completed by Oct. 20. He’s not allowed to con-
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sume alcohol or any other intoxicating substance; he has had to quit coaching his son’s soccer team; he has a criminal record. In a coup de grâce Monday, Fraser Health suspended his hospital privileges, and he faces a further investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
B.C. that could see him lose his licence to practise medicine. Truong wept as his lawyer Terry Robertson laid out the local urologist’s rise in the medical profession: first-class honours at UBC, medical student, specialist, mentor to UBC medical students and urology resi-
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dents. The 43-year-old father of three came to Canada with his parents as a baby in 1975 – a refugee from the Vietnam War. His father was a dishwasher at the Georgia Hotel and his mother a housekeeper at St. Paul’s Hospital.
After his brother was born, the family of four lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver’s West End, with the boys sleeping in the bedroom, while their parents slept on the couch in the living room. Continued on page 5
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