January 18, 2012
Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant to treat Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an inherited connective tissue disease [...]
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January 17, 2012
A US professor and an honored advocate for increased healthcare services for Vietnam’s rural communities died from a stroke Friday at 74. Before she died, Judith Ladinsky expressed her wish that her ashes be spread in Vietnam, the country she supported unceasingly since 1980. As a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University [...]
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September 10, 2011
An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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June 27, 2011
Julia Shaw appears to be just another tourist on Mui Ne’s golden beach. Her open smile, lush blond hair and tan lines do nothing to belie your suspicions. Sailing instructors train students in waters off the coast of Mui Ne Until you find out she’s the brains behind Mui Ne’s first sailing school. The [...]
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January 24, 2011
Vietnam’s animation industry has not quite lifted off the ground, but eager young animators are determined to make a cartoon for Vietnamese, by Vietnamese Foreign and local staff at animation production studio of Con Meo Pictures Co., Ltd., which was established in HCMC in 2006 In 1960, a studio in Hanoi released the country’s [...]
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December 20, 2010
Cao Dinh Hung and the trees he propagated using his new method A Vietnamese student in Australia has made a breakthrough in propagating tropical wooden trees that are valued both for industrial production as well as environmental protection.  “I want to complete my PhD on enhancing hardwood trees for use in plantations in Australia and [...]
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February 1, 2010
Vietnamese Ngo Bao Chau has been hired as a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago Ngo Bao Chau, whose groundbreaking mathematical proof was honored by TIME Magazine as one of the top-10 scientific discoveries of 2009, has been hired as a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. According to the universityâs [...]
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December 6, 2009
Astrophysicist and astronomy professor at the University of Virginia Trinh Xuan Thuan in Paris last August A world-renowned Vietnamese-American astrophysicist says traditional Vietnamese values were never separated from his scientific work. Each time Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan returns to Vietnam, he always makes sure to make time for a leisurely stroll around Hanoi and a [...]
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September 30, 2009
U.S. researchers found a depressing, socially isolated environment can alter the biology of a disease and speed up the growth of breast cancer, according to media report Wednesday. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, showed that social isolation can actually change the expression of genes important in the growth of mammary gland [...]
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