December 30, 2011
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to provide US$3.8 million in non-refundable aid to a project to control drug-resistant bacteria in Vietnam. The project will be carried out from 2012 to 2017 in Hanoi, Thai Binh, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Under the project, JICA will transfer technologies to [...]
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December 20, 2011
Thanh Nien helps rescue a Vietnamese victim of domestic abuse in Taiwan  A wedding photo of 29-year-old Phan Thi Kim Thanh and her Taiwanese husband Chung Yung Hua. Thanh was rescued from her husband’s house in Taiwan’s Changhua County on December 13, where she was allegedly being battered and kept under home arrest [...]
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December 19, 2011
Hua Cam Tu, a 37-year-old woman who had both her kidneys removed by doctors without her permission, is being treated at the Can Tho General Hospital. A Mekong Delta hospital said Thursday it would provide free dialysis treatment to a patient whose health is getting worse after doctors removed both two kidneys without her consent, the Nguoi [...]
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October 16, 2011
Tobacco industry poised to deploy ‘dirty tricks’ to increase business in third-world nations despite evidence aplenty of the substance’s harmful effects Natalka Proszak uses a cigarette box to block the wind as she lights a cigarette in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now that smoking has declined in high-income nations, experts warn that the tobacco industry [...]
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October 12, 2011
Three workers were killed and two others injured at a southern Vietnam construction site Monday after a cable carrying them up a building snapped.  One of the workers, Nguyen Hoang Nhung, was thrown five meters away from the landing point and was killed on the spot as the cable broke outside the fifth storey [...]
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September 18, 2011
A German film festival is being held at different locations in Vietnam from September 16 to October 17, according to the Goethe Institute in Hanoi.  Ten new films by both famous directors and new successful young filmmakers from Germany that have captured audience interest and won prizes at international film festivals will be shown in Hanoi, Hai Phong, [...]
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August 26, 2011
Tran Van Dai, 21, from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, shows his scar after returning home from China to sell his kidney. People who illegally enter China to sell their kidneys may lose other internal organs without knowing it, a police official has warned. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Phu Thuong of Can Tho City [...]
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August 6, 2011
Increasing assaults on traffic cops indicate faults on both sides, senior official says  A still from a clip that shows Phuc (L), a mobile police officer, attacking Sergeant-Major Luan, a traffic cop who stopped the former for driving without a helmet It sounds too bad to be true, but hundreds of traffic police [...]
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July 30, 2011
Huynh Thanh Thang, deputy head of judicial office in Chau Thanh District, the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, at the police station in Can Tho City Tuesday A judicial official was taken into three-day custody Wednesday in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho for allegedly stealing the gun of a police officer the [...]
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July 17, 2011
A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.  Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes [...]
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