January 20, 2012
Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of the HCMC Center for Preventive Health, as saying that the cases were detected among workers of the Japanese-owned [...]
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January 19, 2012
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. Â Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China in late December reported its first fatality from the H5N1 virus in 18 months, but [...]
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January 15, 2012
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country’s nuclear program have escalated [...]
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December 31, 2011
(R) Nguyen Van Trung, 32, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Le Thi Hong Linh receive jail terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City for robbing a Japanese tourist. A couple was sentenced to a total of four years in jail on Wednesday for robbing a Japanese tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as travel [...]
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December 30, 2011
Two bullets were found in the body of a male elephant found dead last week in the southern province of Dong Na, Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday. One bullet was lodged in the animal’s head, while the other was in its front leg, according to an announcement made by the provincial police division and forest rangers’ agency Tuesday. The [...]
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December 29, 2011
Two bullets were found in the body of a male elephant found dead last week in the southern province of Dong Na, Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday. One bullet was lodged in the animal’s head, while the other was in its front leg, according to an announcement made by the provincial police division and forest rangers’ agency Tuesday. The [...]
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December 23, 2011
A Petrolimex gas station in Hanoi Economists suspect that Vietnam’s biggest fuel companies, particularly Petrolimex, may have deliberately reported huge losses and shifted profits to subsidiaries to evade tax. A recent inspection of major oil importers, including Petrolimex, found that they paid retailers, many of them its own subsidiaries, higher commissions than allowed and reported huge losses. [...]
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December 23, 2011
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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December 22, 2011
A Petrolimex gas station in Hanoi The Finance Ministry has found that major Vietnamese importers of oil products made smaller losses than they previously reported. Petrolimex, the largest fuel trader with a market share of around 60 percent, had reported losses of VND1.8 trillion (US$85.7 million) in the first six months. However, the actual loss [...]
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December 6, 2011
Vietnam’s aviation authorities have suspended at least four air traffic staffers at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for nearly causing a collision between an airplane and a truck on the runway, VnExpress reported Saturday. According to the latest decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), the staffers who [...]
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