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Cancer patients duped by dietary supplements 

July 30, 2011
Cancer patients duped by dietary supplements 

A pharmacy near the a cancer hospital in Hanoi with posters promoting cancer-curing food supplements made from lingzhi mushroom, noni and ginseng Hundreds of pharmacists, doctors and drug makers are pushing anti-cancer supplements on naïve cancer patients. Vietnamese consumers have been willing to pay for these expensive products in the hopes of curing their illnesses, [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 12/9

September 12, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 12/9

Hanoi police bust contraband cigarette racket; World Bank provides $160 mil for Vietnam urban upgrade; Eye doctor arrested for intentionally transmitting HIV; Police seize tonnes of illegal books  Hanoi police bust contraband cigarette racket Police in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District raided a large unlicensed tobacco shop situated on Hang Hanh and Bao Khanh Streets on [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 29/8

August 29, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 29/8

Vietnam stepping up flight-safety monitoring project; Vung Tau extortionist arrested for robbing sixth-grader; City suspends three mineral water producers; Market watchdogs sentenced for selling smuggled tobacco     Vietnam stepping up flight-safety monitoring project      The second and third stages of a US-sponsored project to enhance Vietnam’s capacity to monitor flight safety are slated to start simultaneously [...]

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The mobile blood banks that never close

June 24, 2009
The mobile blood banks that never close

Some of the unstinting blood donors of Song Cau District, Phu Yen Province. Formed barely a decade ago, the informal club of blood donors in Song Cau District, Phu Yen Province has grown to more than 2,000 members who will drop whatever they are doing in an instant to save the otherwise doomed. They come [...]

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Police seize 49,000 packs of cigarettes

September 22, 2008
Police seize 49,000 packs of cigarettes

Smuggled cigarettes are destroyed in Ho Chi Minh City. Police seized a truck containing 49,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes in the largest smuggling bust the central province of Quang Nam has ever seen. Tran Van Hiep, the truck’s driver, said he had been hired by a woman in Ho Chi Minh City to transport the [...]

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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...