January 18, 2012
New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]
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October 30, 2011
Gay community wants to end discrimination that pushes them to margins of society Members of www.gioihan.net, a forum for gay men, during a charity mission in HCMC. Gay men in Vietnam complain they face heavy discrimination, much at the hands of their own families. Le Son, 25, keeps his old skirt as though it [...]
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October 11, 2011
 Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]
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September 8, 2011
The baby saved from a live burial is fed by a local medical station worker in the central province of Quang Nam A medical station worker in the central province of Quang Nam has saved an infant from being buried alive with his mother, who died giving birth to him, local newspapers reported Wednesday.  Ho Thi Hieu, a [...]
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August 4, 2011
Public health experts argue that criminalizing prostitution has only lead to violence A male sex worker soliciting a client on a street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Vietnam has been hailed for its “friendlier” approach to mitigating the harmful consequences of prostitution but experts argue that legalizing the practice could help bring [...]
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May 26, 2011
Tran Dinh Quang, 13, at his family's funeral Sunday in the central province of Ha Tinh. Nine of his loved ones died in a boat accident in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday. Tears seem to be not enough to express the pain of a 70-year-old man and his family, as nine of [...]
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April 16, 2011
Engineer who exposed flaws in cars produced by the Toyota Vietnam says he would do it again, if needed A Toyota Innova, a popular model in the country used widely by many taxi companies, runs on a street in Ho Chi Minh City. Toyota Motor Vietnam announced last week that it plans to recall [...]
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April 9, 2011
Trôi and chay cakes, two special snacks made for the Tet Han Thuc, or the Cold Food Festival, have transcended the festival and become popular everyday food in Hanoi Apart from Tet, or Lunar New Year festival, Vietnam celebrates several other Tets. And there are special dishes specific to each one of them. There [...]
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December 17, 2010
The Thanh Phu Commune health center in Cai Nuoc District, the southernmost province of Ca Mau. Police in the southern Vietnamese province of Ca Mau are investigating the death of a baby who died in front of a local health center after she was born on Tuesday. Initial information shows that at around 10.30 pm. [...]
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December 12, 2009
Hoang Giang, the ten year old boy survived “miraculously” a traffic accident that killed his mother A ten year old boy survived a traffic accident in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday night that killed his mother and seriously injured his father. At around 7 p.m. Nguyen Thai Hoang Ngoc was driving his wife and [...]
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