October 16, 2011
The medical tourism market in South Korea is expected to grow around 30 percent during 2010-2012, according to a study from RNCOS, a global market research and information analysis company A robotic operation performed at the Wonkwang University Hospital on September 29, 2011 Clean, modern facilities, and a warm welcome greet patients at several [...]
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August 20, 2011
A farmer on the heavily-polluted Ba Cheo Canal in the southern province of Dong Nai. The Vietnamese public has been outraged again by another big environmental scandal. Last Friday the Ministry of Public Security’s environmental police found a waste treatment factory in the southern province of Dong Nai dumping thousands of cubic meters of untreated [...]
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July 23, 2011
The Agent Orange issue is about much more than scientific evidence An Agent Orange victim carries food for lunch at a hospice in Vietnam’s central Da Nang City. The US and Vietnam launched the first concrete step toward cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange last month, in what the top US diplomat in the [...]
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April 18, 2011
Vinalines Global, detained in a commercial dispute in China, has been released after the compensation of US$800,000 ordered by a Chinese court was paid Friday. A Vietnamese ship detained in China in a commercial dispute is expected to head back to Vietnam Sunday, after its owner, state-owned Vietnam Shipping Lines (Vinalines), paid US$800,000 in compensation.  [...]
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January 14, 2011
A farmer stands in front of his rice field along the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway in the southern province of Long An. Authorities in the southern province of Long An have officially proposed that a highway management board supports local farmers with VND1.8 billion (US$92,331) in compensation for their crop failure. Â Lieu [...]
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December 7, 2010
Scooters wade through flooded Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Binh Thanh District When we were young, we were taught that if we did something wrong, knowingly or otherwise, we must apologize, accept responsibility and make things right. There were no exceptions. No one was exempt from this common-sense rule. Authorities in particular would not be [...]
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November 16, 2010
Former Ethiopian born terror suspect Binyam Mohamed is pictured in London last year. Former Guantanamo Bay detainees who accused British security forces of colluding in their torture overseas are to receive millions of pounds in compensation, the government is set to announce Tuesday. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will make a statement to the House of [...]
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December 14, 2009
MSG manufacturer Vedan Viet Nam has agreed in principle to the findings of a technical report but continues to haggle over the extent of its responsibility . . . A report prepared for the Government by the Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (HCMC University) found that untreated wastewater discharged by Vedan caused 89 [...]
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December 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Agricultural organizations say authorities have allowed pollution from a Taiwanese-owned company to destroy a local river without forcing the firm to pay compensation to local farmers. Authorized agencies have taken too long to estimate the damages caused to farmland by Vedan Vietnam’s illegal waste water discharge into the Thi Vai River, said Tran [...]
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December 6, 2009
Agricultural organizations say authorities have allowed pollution from a Taiwanese-owned company to destroy a local river without forcing the firm to pay compensation to local farmers. Authorized agencies have taken too long to estimate the damages caused to farmland by Vedan Vietnamâs illegal waste water discharge into the Thi Vai River, said Tran Van Quang, [...]
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