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 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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November 14, 2011
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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November 11, 2011
More agreements between related parities are needed to prevent conflicts in the East Sea, experts said at an international conference recently organized in Hanoi. According to a report published in Saigon Tiep Thi early this week, at the third international conference on the East Sea, Professor Leszek Buszynski from Australian National University said ASEAN [...]
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November 8, 2011
A newborn at the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where an infant went missing on November 3. The family of a newborn who went missing in a Hanoi-based hospital last week has proposed related agencies to press charges against the hospital’s health workers, VnExpress reported Monday. In his letter to the capital’s police [...]
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October 28, 2011
Vietnam foreign ministry’s spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi. Vietnam had denied claims made in the foreign media that it has withdrawn from the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) by recently agreeing with China on ground rules to resolve sea issues. At the foreign ministry’s periodical press briefing Thursday, spokesman Luong [...]
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October 14, 2011
Vietnam Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing Tuesday. Vietnam and China Tuesday signed an agreement setting out a basic legal framework for negotiating and solving sea disputes between the two countries, Vietnam News Agency reported. The two countries also signed cooperation agreements in five other areas [...]
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October 11, 2011
Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration is being drafted by the Ministry [...]
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September 22, 2011
Vietnamese and Chinese military officials meet in Beijing Thursday Vietnam and China once again agreed to solve the East Sea disputes with peaceful measures at the latest meeting between the two countries’ military officials in Beijing, Vietnam News Agency reported Friday. The two countries need to stay calm and be patient in the negotiations to [...]
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July 23, 2011
The Agent Orange issue is about much more than scientific evidence An Agent Orange victim carries food for lunch at a hospice in Vietnam’s central Da Nang City. The US and Vietnam launched the first concrete step toward cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange last month, in what the top US diplomat in the [...]
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