December 12, 2011
More than 200,000 students quit school every year, threatening dire consequences for Vietnam’s human-resource base Two shoeshine boys in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh San had to quit secondary school and move to Ho Chi Minh City two years ago to wash dishes at his aunt’s eatery to earn money and support [...]
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November 19, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision to establish a national center in charge of coordinating the donation and transplants of tissues and human organs, the Vietnam News Agency reported. The center, to be under the authority of the Health Ministry, will be based in Hanoi. The center will be charged with receiving information [...]
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November 17, 2011
Vietnam will invest VND3 trillion (US$142.8 million) into human resources training for nuclear power as of 2020, VnExpress reported Monday. The investment was planned for a project to be conducted between Vietnam ministries of science and technology, and education in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the newswire. The project was [...]
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October 28, 2011
Vietnamese ministries will be provided with US$25 million to increase the effectiveness of public services in reducing health risks of avian flu (H5N1) to poultry and humans in 11 local provinces. The aid will be granted by the Avian and Human Influenza Facility (AHIF) and the World Bank — and it will include funds [...]
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September 20, 2011
Honda motorcycles are prepared for delivery to customers in downtown Hanoi. Honda is among the foreign investors who are continuing to increase investment in Vietnam. Job generation should not be focus of foreign direct investment (FDI), Nguyen Mai, former vice chairman of the State Commission for Cooperation and Investment, tells Thanh Nien Weekly in [...]
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September 20, 2011
A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]
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September 19, 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued a warning about illegal agrochemicals of Chinese origin, including feed additives and herbicides, that are harmful to human health and the environment. Â At a meeting held Friday to discuss on enforcement of measures to ensure food safety and monitor agricultural chemicals, agriculture minister Cao [...]
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September 13, 2011
Ducklings at an incubation farm outside Hanoi. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said a new strain of bird flu virus has yet to increase the risk to human health in Vietnam. A new bird flu virus strain is unlikely to increase the risk to human health in Vietnam despite a warning last week [...]
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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 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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