Posts Tagged ‘ Southern Provinces ’

Distance treatment to save more lives in Vietnam 

July 4, 2011
Distance treatment to save more lives in Vietnam 

  Patients with critical conditions from southern provinces are going to be cured from afar by doctors in Ho Chi Minh City instead of waiting for hours to reach the city hospitals, local news website VnExpress said Wednesday.   Doctors at the patients’ area will get support and instructions from those in HCMC via the [...]

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VN to import 260,000 tonnes of salt in 2010

February 5, 2010
VN to import 260,000 tonnes of salt in 2010

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam will import 260,000 tomes of salt in 2010, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The price in northern and central provinces is higher, at around VND1 million ($55) per tonne.“This is the commitment of Viet Nam when the country became member of the World Trade Organisation,” affirmed Ngo Chi [...]

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TRAVEL IN BRIEF 4/12

December 5, 2009
TRAVEL IN BRIEF 4/12

Japanese flower arranger decorates Ha Noi; Costa Classica brings 2,000 cruise tourists; Southern provinces put on Cambodian road show Flower arrangements by Eikou Sumara, one of Japan’s top artisans, will be on display alongside works of 10 local artists at the second Ikebana Festival that will open at Ha Noi’s Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam [...]

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Vietnam H1N1 testing institute stretched thin

September 19, 2009
Vietnam H1N1 testing institute stretched thin

With the only H1N1 testing facility in South Viet Nam badly overloaded, test results and treatment are being delayed. HCMC’s Pasteur Institute is receiving up to 1,000 samples a figure revealed to be way above the testing capacity of around 300 by Director General Tran Ngoc Huu at a meeting on Thursday 17th of September. The [...]

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IFC initiative to improve working conditions at apparel firms

August 2, 2009
IFC initiative to improve working conditions at apparel firms

Work in progress at a textile and garments factory in Ho Chi Minh City. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) this month began offering its Better Work Vietnam services to help apparel firms in southern provinces improve working conditions for their staff. The services include assessment against international labor standards and national labor law, customized advisory [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 30/6

June 30, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 30/6

Largest commercial complex under construction; More eight projects in Ninh Binh province licensed; Contract for providing gas compressor module signed; Bumper crop of winter-spring rice The country has finished harvesting the 2009 winter-spring rice with an output of 18.6 million tonnes, up 312,000 tonnes compared to the last crop, according to the Ministry of Agriculture [...]

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19 provinces discuss pollution

June 25, 2009
19 provinces discuss pollution

LookAtVietnam – About 100 delegates from 19 southern provinces gathered on Tuesday in southern Vung Tau city to review the State’s management of resources and the environment from 2006 through 2009. Workers collect waste from the seaside in Quy Nhon in Binh Dinh province. A goal has been set to control water pollution and rehabilitate [...]

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Four million USD to control southern dengue outbreak

May 27, 2009
Four million USD to control southern dengue outbreak

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam health authorities will spend VND70 billion (US$3.94 million) on tackling the early outbreak of dengue fever this year that has killed 17 people and continues to spread in the southern provinces. LookAtVietnam – Vietnam health authorities will spend VND70 billion (US$3.94 million) on tackling the early outbreak of dengue fever this year [...]

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Vietnam announces $4 mln to control southern dengue outbreak

May 26, 2009

Vietnam health authorities will spend VND70 billion (US$3.94 million) on tackling the early outbreak of dengue fever this year that has killed 17 people and continues to spread in the southern provinces. The Health Ministry’s Bureau of Preventive Health and Environment reported at a conference on dengue fever Monday in Can Tho that a total [...]

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35 on flight with A/H1N1-infected woman enter Vietnam

May 22, 2009
35 on flight with A/H1N1-infected woman enter Vietnam

The Health Ministry of May 21 announced that 35 passengers on the same flight as the Vietnamese-American woman being isolated in Seoul, South Korea for A/H1N1 have entered Vietnam. A health quarantine check-point at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, HCM City. These people are staying in 12 provinces and cities: 18 in HCM City, 3 in [...]

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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...