Posts Tagged ‘ Ninh Thuan ’

Vietnam determined to obtain nuclear energy: PM 

January 15, 2012
Vietnam determined to obtain nuclear energy: PM 

The location in Ninh Thuan Province's Ninh Phuoc District chosen for Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in 2014. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has reaffirmed Vietnam’s determination to build a nuclear power plant because the country is due to experience serious power shortages in the next decade. “We are determined to develop [...]

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Ninh Thuan announces end to pandemic hand, foot, mouth disease 

December 23, 2011
Ninh Thuan announces end to pandemic hand, foot, mouth disease 

  The first and only province to declare the epidemic of the hand, foot, and mouth disease in Vietnam this week said the dangerous period has ended. Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan made the announcement after its Health Department on December 12 said the province has gotten the disease under control. The number of [...]

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Russia to lend Vietnam $9 billion for first nuclear plant 

November 25, 2011
Russia to lend Vietnam $9 billion for first nuclear plant 

  Russia agreed to lend Vietnam as much as $9 billion to fund the construction of the Southeast Asian nation’s first nuclear power plant as the countries deepen their economic ties. “The total loan value will be between $8 billion and $9 billion, depending on prices of materials at the time we start construction,” Phan [...]

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Vietnam health minister visits HFMD-affected province 

November 22, 2011
Vietnam health minister visits HFMD-affected province 

A child being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam’s Health Minister on Saturday visited areas in central Vietnam affected with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). During her visit at Ninh Thuan, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien called for washing hands clean with soap and inspected HFMD treatments at [...]

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Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

November 17, 2011
Vietnam halts physicist’s treatment for HFMD 

Nguyen Van Khai, who has used a chemical substance to treat hand-foot-mouth disease in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Vietnam health ministry has asked a hospital in Ninh Thuan Province to stop using a treatment for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) initiated by a physicist until scientific assessments can be made, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The ministry made [...]

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Vietnam urged to improve midwifery services 

November 14, 2011
Vietnam urged to improve midwifery services 

  Up to 1,000 women die every day as a result of pregnancy-related complications globally, and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life because of a lack of adequate medical care A midwife examines a pregnant woman in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. The United Nations has called on Vietnam to invest [...]

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First Vietnam province announces hand-foot-mouth epidemic 

November 8, 2011
First Vietnam province announces hand-foot-mouth epidemic 

  Authorities in the central province of Ninh Thuan on Monday declared hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has reached epidemic proportions in the province. Ninh Thuan is the first province in Vietnam to declare the epidemic, which has killed 138 people across the country. According to the provincial Health Department, HFMD claimed three lives among more than [...]

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Flooding death toll rises to 36 in south, central Vietnam 

October 14, 2011
Flooding death toll rises to 36 in south, central Vietnam 

  The death toll from seasonal flooding in the Mekong Delta and the central region has risen to 36, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control announced Wednesday. Mekong Delta provinces have reported 34 deaths, most of them of children who drowned in the worst seasonal flooding since 2000. Dong Thap Province has posted the highest toll [...]

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The more things change… 

September 10, 2011
The more things change… 

An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]

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Seismic study finds fault with Vietnam nuclear plants 

September 1, 2011
Seismic study finds fault with Vietnam nuclear plants 

Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred on safety considerations. Serious [...]

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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...