December 2, 2011
For every five babies born in Ho Chi Minh City, four others were aborted, a city health official said Tuesday.  To Thi Kim Hoa, deputy director of the city Health Department, released the figures at a meeting with representatives from the Ministry of Health, the city government and hospitals, Saigon Tiep Thi reported.  [...]
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January 31, 2010
Visitors look at rows of Chocolate Terracotta Warriors at a chocolate theme park in Beijing China’s online tourism market is booming as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels for pleasure and the use of credit cards and the Internet soars, analysts say. As millions of people pack their bags for Lunar New Year holidays, the [...]
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January 27, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The rising number of newly established businesses year after year shows the strong vitality of the private economic sector and their high quality. This conclusion has not been shared by many experts. Tran Kim Hao, Editor in Chief of Quan Ly Kinh Te Journal (Economic Management), commented that ‘this is an overly optimistic assessment.” Dr [...]
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January 16, 2010
Vietnamese workers are expecting positive bonuses for the Lunar New Year. According to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), throughout the nation, Tet bonuses, also known as thirteenth-month salaries, for the coming holidays in February will rise almost 20 per cent from the previous year’s average of VND1.55 million ($83.7). Local workers [...]
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January 15, 2010
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Tuesday agreed that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City should be allowed to raise fines for traffic violations after they complained about worsening traffic problems. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City topped the list of traffic jams lasting more than one hour each in 2009, with Hanoi recording [...]
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December 31, 2009
Vietnamâs economy expanded at the fastest pace in more than a year in the fourth quarter as lending growth fueled construction and consumer sales. Gross domestic product grew 6.9 percent from a year earlier after a revised 6.04 percent gain in the third quarter, the General Statistics Office said in Hanoi Thursday. For 2009 overall, [...]
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November 12, 2009
Dengue fever patients at the Vietnam National Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. The Hanoi Health Department concealed five dengue fever deaths this year, hospital records reveal. A report by Hanoi Health Department to the Prime Minister on October 22 stated that âHanoi had recorded 7,813 dengue fever infections, but no deaths, as of October [...]
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October 17, 2009
Injecting drug users rehabilitation at Tien Lang-Hai Phong. There was cautious optimism in Vietnam last month when a trial HIV vaccine in Thailand appeared to provide some protection against the deadly virus. Vietnam country director of UNAIDS Eamonn Murphy said he and his Vietnamese colleagues were confident that a fully effective vaccine could be developed [...]
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September 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Mekong Delta villagers in flood regions have been trained to pre-empt flooding by recording water levels and reporting the figures to local weather agencies. LookAtVietnam – Mekong Delta villagers in flood plain regions have been trained to pre-empt flooding by recording water levels in remote areas and reporting the figures to local weather [...]
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September 21, 2009
Mekong Delta villagers in flood plain regions have been trained to pre-empt flooding by recording water levels in remote areas and reporting the figures to local weather agencies. The Mekong River Commission, an intergovernmental body aiming to develop the Mekong Basin, trained residents in seven An Giang and Dong Thap province villages to take wet-season [...]
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