December 12, 2011
There are lessons to be learned from America’s complex relationship with Vietnam. Should we perceive the continued involvement of Americans with Vietnam years after the unpopular war as a massive collective guilty conscience or simply as a fascination with the culture, or perhaps both? Any way we look at the situation, American interests are [...]
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September 4, 2011
Quiet 18-year-old youth confesses to killing three members of a family in failed gold heist Le Van Luyen (C), 18, is arrested on Wednesday (August 31) in the northern province of Lang Son for allegedly murdering three people at a Bac Giang gold shop on August 24 An 18-year-old youth, described as a quiet [...]
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July 16, 2011
Family Medical Practice Hanoi is offering a 6-8 hour first aid training course to help people manage and respond to different types of emergency situations effectively . A press release from the clinic says the course content includes basic child safety, first aid to persons with respiration obstruction (unconscious and conscious), decision making in [...]
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June 26, 2011
The United Nations praised the opening of the first methadone co-pay clinic in the northern city of Hai Phong, early this week. The clinic, which opened last Saturday, was created as part of the country’s ongoing campaign to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among intravenous drug users. On Tuesday, UN officials issued a statement [...]
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January 19, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Health inspectors in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday closed a traditional medicine clinic for selling drugs that allegedly caused women’s bellies to swell as if they were pregnant. The inspectors found many unlabeled pills in yellow, red and white colors at the clinic on Thich Quang Duc Street in Phu Nhuan District.Tran [...]
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January 18, 2010
Health inspectors in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday closed a traditional medicine clinic for selling drugs that allegedly caused womenâs bellies to swell as if they were pregnant. The inspectors found many unlabeled pills in yellow, red and white colors at the clinic on Thich Quang Duc Street in Phu Nhuan District.Tran Thi Hanh, [...]
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January 8, 2010
Three people have died and other twelve have been critically poisoned after drinking tea made from unidentified leaves and roots in a northern village. Hoang Van Van, head of Tan Phong No.1 Village, said the incident happened at Sunday night when 13 local people gathered at Lo Van Vanâs house to help him take care [...]
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January 1, 2010
A Timorese man is seen standing next to brochures about HIV/AIDS at a clinic in Dili. The tiny nation of East Timor could face a deadly AIDS epidemic, with promiscuity among youths, low condom use and general ignorance leading to a sharp increase in reported cases, doctors said. “Most likely it will be a disaster [...]
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November 14, 2009
This photo, taken on November 11, shows the front of An Khang Medical Practice in Ho Chi Minh Cityâ Dodgy practitioners of traditional medicine are preying on the vulnerable with outrageous prices and dangerous prescriptions. The Ministry of Health has ordered a nationwide inspection of traditional medicine clinics that employ Chinese or other foreign practitioners.Provincial [...]
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September 28, 2009
A store chock full of baby formula is located next door to a maternity clinic. Relentless marketing is a surefire formula for success, but children might pay the price for missing out on breastfeeding. Children are at the receiving end as aggressive marketing of formula milk drowns out voices calling for mothers to exclusively breastfeed [...]
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