Posts Tagged ‘ Five Year Old ’

World’s 2nd bone marrow transplant for rare disease done in Vietnam 

January 18, 2012
World’s 2nd bone marrow transplant for rare disease done in Vietnam 

  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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Canine avengers 

July 16, 2011
Canine avengers 

  Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]

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Compulsory preschooling threatens to abandon under-aged kids 

December 11, 2010
Compulsory preschooling threatens to abandon under-aged kids 

Students of Xuan La Kindergarten in Tu Liem District, Hanoi Without proper preparation, a recently-launched project to make pre-school education compulsory at the age of five may leave younger kids in the lurch.   The VND14.6 trillion (US$748.91 million) project, launched in August, will require all public kindergartens to admit five-year-old children.   The schools are only allowed to admit students under [...]

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No desperate housewives

November 23, 2009
No desperate housewives

Mrs Côte d’Ivoire, Marie Carine Davison (R, 3rd) won the Mrs Ao Dai crown .LookAtVietnam – Contestants at the Mrs World pageant have successfully married their professional and family lives. Five-year-old Tereza easily hogs the limelight even when she is surrounded by a bevy of beauty queens. As a natural interpreter for Slovakia’s Mrs World [...]

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No desperate housewives

November 22, 2009
No desperate housewives

Mrs Côte d’Ivoire, Marie Carine Davison (R, 3rd) won the Mrs Ao Dai crown on Monday. Contestants at the Mrs World pageant have successfully married their professional and family lives. Five-year-old Tereza easily hogs the limelight even when she is surrounded by a bevy of beauty queens.As a natural interpreter for Slovakia’s Mrs World contestant, [...]

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New smiles, new lives

November 14, 2009
New smiles, new lives

Five-year-old Tran Ngoc Bao Tran is examined by a doctor in Ho Chi Minh City. An American charity organization gives accident victims and children with cleft lips the opportunity for acceptance. She has no nose and her face is covered completely by burns. Her nostrils are two small holes, surrounded by brown, wrinkled skin. She [...]

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Children with cancer paint with hope

November 2, 2009
Children with cancer paint with hope

A special picture, completed by famous painter Tran Nhat Thang and children suffering from cancer in the National Paediatrics Hospital, will be sold at an auction for charity on November 1. LookAtVietnam – A special picture, completed by famous painter Tran Nhat Thang and various children suffering from cancer in the Tumour Department of the [...]

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Child hawkers increasingly vulnerable to abuse

July 2, 2009
Child hawkers increasingly vulnerable to abuse

A five-year-old child hands money to a woman after selling a pack of chewing gum at a nearby eatery in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. On a sidewalk in Ho Chi Minh City’s Phu Nhuan District, a young mother hits her six-year-old daughter for failing to sell chewing gum to late-night drinkers at a nearby [...]

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Surgeons work wonders on wounded elephant

May 25, 2009
Surgeons work wonders on wounded elephant

Veterinarians and surgeons earlier last week conducted emergency surgery on the wounded foot of a five-year-old circus elephant Kham Bun. The five-year-old circus elephant Kham Bun.LookAtVietnam – Veterinarians and surgeons earlier last week conducted emergency surgery on the wounded foot of a five-year-old circus elephant Kham Bun.The elephant’s fate made newspaper headlines recently, following rumours [...]

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It’s illegal to teach children before they go to 1st class

April 10, 2009
It’s illegal to teach children before they go to 1st class

Le Tien Thanh, Director of the Primary Education Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) talked about the wave of teaching children to prepare them for the 1st class. The Education Law stipulates that children can go to 1st class only when they are six years old. In order to prepare them for [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...