November 22, 2011
A US-supported network to promote Vietnam’s response to animal diseases that could affect human health launched its first meeting at a Hanoi school on Tuesday.  Vietnam One Health University Network, which met at the Hanoi School of Public Health, was supported by a pandemic threat project of the US Agency for International Development, the US [...]
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June 12, 2011
A GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc. employee bottles Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, on the packaging line at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 13, 2010. By Francoise Barré-Sinoussi (*) Thirty years ago, US scientists identified the first case of an immune system failure that we (Luc Montagnier, myself and colleagues) found [...]
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April 1, 2011
Construction on the Tan Son Nhat – Binh Loi – Outer Ring Road project in Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for strict punishment of any misconduct relating to the roadway’s construction. The central government has ordered officials in Ho Chi Minh City to quickly resolve the irregularities discovered during [...]
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March 26, 2011
 Morning commuters wait in line for a bus outside an East Japan Railways Co. train station after Tokyo Electric Co. announced the power outages in Urayasu city, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011 As the horrific power of nature’s shock and awe operation was unleashed on Japan last week, captured graphically by amateur [...]
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January 17, 2010
Vietnam has asked the WHO for a response to allegations it had exaggerated the swine flu pandemic under pressure from pharmaceutical lobbies. Pharmaceutical companies have made huge profits from vaccine contracts in the wake of the crisis that critics say was overblown for that purpose.âAt the moment the Vietnam Ministry of Health is consulting various [...]
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December 9, 2009
President Triet begins visit to Italy; PM urges increasing high-quality lawyers for integration; Vietnam supports reconstruction process in Cote d’Ivoire; President meets with Amway Corp. chairman President Triet begins visit to ItalyPresident Nguyen Minh Triet left Hanoi on December 9, beginning his four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.During his [...]
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October 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – International experts have called for Vietnam to establish a national platform for disaster risk reduction within the next year. Residents navigate by boats on a flooded street after typhoon Ketsana struck the tourist town of Hoi An Margareta Wahlstrom, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, said a “nationally owned [...]
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October 10, 2009
Residents navigate by boats on a flooded street after typhoon Ketsana struck the tourist town of Hoi An International experts have called for Vietnam to establish a national platform for disaster risk reduction within the next year as the effect of climate change loom ever larger on the horizon. Margareta Wahlstrom, the UN Secretary Generalâs [...]
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September 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Two studies published Thursday confirmed that a single dose of swine flu vaccine can protect people from the pandemic H1N1 virus. A technician works at a product line of the Inactivated H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a Chinese vaccine making company, in Beijing, September 3, 2009.LookAtVietnam – Two studies published Thursday [...]
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September 11, 2009
A technician works at a product line of the Inactivated H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a Chinese vaccine making company, in Beijing, September 3, 2009 Two studies published Thursday confirmed that a single dose of swine flu vaccine can protect people from the pandemic H1N1 virus – welcome news to global health officials [...]
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