October 7, 2011
Doctors have yet to identify what prompted a rapid-aging process in 23-year-old woman who now looks 70 Nguyen Thi Phuong (L), 26, looks about 50 years her senior due to a strange rapid-aging affliction that began in 2008 Nguyen Thanh Tuyen’s love for his wife never faded as he watched her youthful beauty crumble [...]
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July 30, 2011
Farmers harvest dragon fruit for export in the central province of Binh Thuan. The US decided to import more varieties of Vietnamese fruit, creating further opportunities for the nation’s fruit industry. The market often pays high prices for imported fruit, but maintains strict quality standards. At the moment, it requires imported fruit to meet VietGap [...]
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March 9, 2011
Swine flu has hit 224 people in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre over the last week, the provincial Department of Health reported Monday. Â The A/H1N1influenza virus mainly attacked schools and residential areas in Giao Thanh District, but so far it is still under control, said Dr. Nguyen Van Thang, vice director [...]
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February 28, 2011
A primary school in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre reported seven confirmed cases of H1N1 on Saturday. The province’s Department of Health announced that these are the first swine flu cases to have been reported in the province since the beginning of this year. Ngo Van Tan, the department’s director, said that more [...]
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November 14, 2010
A century-old governor’s palace in Long An Province, before being demolished (left) by the provincial government, who then constructed a new structure, roughly modeled on the same design (right). Vietnamese history only goes back about 300 years in the southern delta, the first hundred of which was spent clearing and settling much of the [...]
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January 29, 2010
Doctors in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are treating two babies who suffered shock after being given three different vaccines on Monday, the director of a local hospital said. The babies, two and half months and three months old respectively, were hospitalized after being injected with the DPT vaccine â“ a combination of [...]
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January 7, 2010
The 50th anniversary of the Ben Tre Uprising will coincide with the second annual Coconut Festival from January 15-19 in Ben Tre province. The first Coconut Festival held in Ben Tre Province last year.LookAtVietnam – The 50th anniversary of the Ben Tre Uprising (January 17) will coincide with the second annual Coconut Festival from January [...]
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December 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – When the sunset comes, young people gather at Le Thi Rieng Park in HCMC’s District 10 to meet, to talk and to enjoy coconut wine. Ben Tre coconut wine.Coconut wine is made from dried coconut fruit when the coconut shell becomes hard and the inner soft part becomes thin and hard too. Makers [...]
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December 7, 2009
Mekong Delta Provinces have joined the “race” to develop industrial zones (IZs). However, most IZ’s are empty or poorly tenanted, and the costs to the environment are becoming evident. The My Tho IZ in Tien Giang province lies on the bank of the Mekong’s upper branch. For nearly ten years, factories in this IZ have discharged [...]
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November 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Several ministers faced deputies on November 18, as the National Assembly questioned top Government officials for a second day on many issues. Workers toil at the site of the Son La Hydro-electric Plant. The proliferation of hydro-power projects was one of the concerns raised by deputies at yesterday’s National Assembly meeting.Subjects addressed yesterday [...]
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