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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November 18, 2011
Vietnam agencies are investigating Japan’s claim that it has found genetically modified organisms (GMO) in pho (rice noodles) exported by a local company, the news website of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union reported on Thursday. According to Dan Viet, on November 11, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development asked Bich Chi Food Joint-stock Co. [...]
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October 26, 2011
Nguyen Thi Phuong (L) has recently grabbed headlines for her strange condition. Her face aged more than 30 years in about 3 years. Vietnamese doctors have sent skin samples of a 26-year-old woman who looks 70 to an American hospital to find out the root cause for her strange condition. Nguyen Thi Phuong from the Mekong Delta province of [...]
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May 3, 2011
People have samples taken for DNA tests Monday with hopes that they will help find their children that were evacuated under a US operation, dubbed Operation Babylift Vietnamese people whose children were evacuated on flights by the US in April 1975 when the Vietnam War was coming to an end had samples taken for DNA tests [...]
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April 16, 2011
A health worker holds doses of influenza A (H1N1) vaccines in a jail in Ciudad Juarez March 29, 2011. Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu pandemic, diplomats at the World Health Organization said Saturday. Negotiators ended an all-night [...]
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April 9, 2011
A girl waits to collect drinking water from a water tanker in New Delhi, March 21, 2007. A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM [...]
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January 19, 2011
The latest test on spice samples in Ho Chi Minh City has showed that some of them carried a carcinogenic substance, the Department of Health announced at press conference Thursday.  According to the department’s Food Safety and Hygiene Division, samples of 26 products like dried chili, watermelon seeds, chili sauce and curry powder. They were taken [...]
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January 22, 2010
At least 80 percent of melon seeds and chili powder samples taken across Vietnam have tested positive for Rhodamine B, a harmful dye suspected of being carcinogenic, an food analysis expert said Monday. Tests on 50 food samples taken by the Central Food Testing Institute over last month and those sent by Hue, Hanoi and [...]
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January 20, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Of 50 samples of dried watermelon seeds and powdered red pepper tested by the National Food Testing Institute, 80 percent contain toxic chemical Rhodamine B, announced the institute’s vice chief Le Thi Hong Hao. These samples were collected from the northern provinces of Hai Phong, Hanoi, Bac Ninh and Hue. Dr. Hao noted that Rhodamine [...]
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January 17, 2010
Disease experts in Southeast Asia will map out key poultry smuggling routes, especially along Cambodia’s long border with Thailand and Vietnam, in a move to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the region. Researchers from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam met in the Chinese city of Kunming to discuss ways [...]
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