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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December 21, 2011
 The last stake at the Chieng Mung Execution Grounds in the northern province of Son La At least one senior Party official and several police officials feel Vietnam should eventually do away with the death penalty, but for now, would-be executioners are relieved that a new law has chosen what they call a more [...]
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November 12, 2011
Families in Ho Chi Minh City with children who have chronic kidney disease will meet to support each other for the first time next week, as a ‘Kidney Club’ is launched in the city’s two largest children hospitals.  The clubs will include approximately 300 families of children affected by Nephrotic Syndrome so that they can learn and support [...]
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November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
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August 28, 2011
An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]
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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 17, 2011
People serach for the remains of a war martyr in Nghe An Province Authorities in the north-central province of Nghe An have decreed that all soldiers’ remains found by mediums must be confirmed by DNA tests in order to be made official. Â Nghe An Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, provincial police and [...]
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August 2, 2011
Taking care of baby chickens has become a service as the chicken business in Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta boomed Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta’s Ben Tre Province has emerged in recent years as the premier destination for those looking to buy roosters for cockfights or chicken to raise as [...]
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July 30, 2011
Young people light candles at the Ho Chi Minh City Martyr's Cemetery Tuesday. Millions of candles were burned at martyrs’ cemeteries nationwide on Tuesday. The “Burning candles of gratitude” event was organized by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to celebrate Vietnam’s Invalids [...]
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July 24, 2011
Drunken workers die refusing to abide by safety standards; contractors flout regulations and pay off families and officials to stay quiet Two workers walk along a sky-scraping crane without a safety strap at a construction site in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 Bui Van Vinh is lucky to be alive. Last month, the [...]
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