January 16, 2012
Experts at a HCMC university's petrochemistry center check a motorbike as part of ongoing investigations into recent vehicular fires. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday ordered related agencies to take urgent steps including checking fuel quality in the market to determine the cause of mysterious vehicular fires. Dodgy fuel is the latest suspect in [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 15, 2011
Relatives of victims weep at the Diamond Harbour hospital in eastern India, after dozens died and many were injured drinking boot-leg liquor in several villages south of Kolkata, on December 15. A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people in eastern India, [...]
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February 6, 2010
Rice wine with excessive chemical substances added to it killed five people and sent 23 to hospital between Saturday and Monday in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local health official said on Wednesday. Ninh Thuan Health Department Director Le Minh Dinh said tests showed that two-third of the liquorâs samples taken from shops [...]
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September 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – 86% of Vietnamese spirit (ruou) samples collected from 96 home-distilleries in 12 localities in Dong Thap have been found to contain levels of toxic alcohol. Authorities in the southern province of Bac Lieu incinerate illicit alcohol. Home-distillers in the Mekong Delta are using industrial alcohol to boost home-made spirits, although this is forbidden.LookAtVietnam [...]
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August 19, 2009
The Environmental Police Agency on August 17 seized two container trucks transporting over 30.2 tonnes of a liquid suspected of being used lubricant in Binh Duong province. A police officer opened a drum. The owner of the chemical liquid, a private company named Dai Dong in Di An district, Binh Duong province, declared that these drums [...]
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July 8, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Alcohol poisoning was a serious problem and had resulted in an increasing number of deaths, said Dr Lam Quoc Hung, Head of the Food Poisoning Control Department at the Viet Nam Food Administration. People drinking alcohol at a restaurant in Ha Noi. Alcohol poisoning results in an increasing number of deaths.Alcohol poisoning killed [...]
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October 15, 2008
VietNamNet Bridge – Nine people have died of methanol poisoning found in alcohol, and another 18 cases were admitted to hospital during two weeks, said the Director of Ho Chi Minh City Health Department. Inspection team to collect alcohols for checking methanol degree. (Photo: Huong Cat)Doctors said the symptoms of methanol poisoning are identical to [...]
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