Posts Tagged ‘ Temperature ’

Eat veggies to clear acne and slim down 

March 12, 2011
Eat veggies to clear acne and slim down 

Bitter melon can be used to prepare soup that helps lower internal body temperature and treat acne A body full of greasy substances can cause the face to get hot and erupt in acne, warns herbalist Hoai Vu. He recommends eating certain vegetables to lower facial temperature and degrease the skin and thereby cure acne, [...]

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Cold weather sends children, elderly to hospital in Hanoi 

January 14, 2011
Cold weather sends children, elderly to hospital in Hanoi 

  As the weather turned bitterly cold, many children and elderly were hospitalized in Hanoi last week, news website Vietnamnet reported Thursday (January 6).   According to the news source, Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics admitted up to 1,500-2,000 children every day starting Monday last week, double the regular number.   Other major hospitals like [...]

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Is your laptop cooking your testicles? 

November 8, 2010
Is your laptop cooking your testicles? 

  Whoever invented the ‘laptop’ probably didn’t worry too much about male reproductive health. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality. And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study [...]

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Vietnam spends $55.5mil fighting A/H1N1 flu

January 18, 2010
Vietnam spends $55.5mil fighting A/H1N1 flu

The first case of swine flu was reported in Vietnam on May 31 2009 -  since then, the country has spent nearly 1 trillion dong (around $55.5 million) combating the epidemic. A health check-point at the Tan Son Nhat Airport, HCM City. By the end of October 2009, the Finance Ministry allocated more than 790 billion [...]

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Aeroponic farming speeds production

November 24, 2009
Aeroponic farming speeds production

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam has successfully used aeroponics in growing and propagating natural disease-free potatoes for the first time. Potato plants in Professor Thach’s aeroponics experiment. – File PhotoThis national project was carried out by Professor Nguyen Quang Thach, head of the Science Council, Institute of Biotechnology at Ha Noi University of Agriculture. The potatoes [...]

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Climate change scenarios will guide Government’s planners

August 24, 2009
Climate change scenarios will guide Government’s planners

MONRE has issued a set of scenarios for expected climate change events as a first step in ‘mainstreaming’ climate change assumptions into long-range Government planning. This MONRE map shows the impact of a 75 cm rise in average sea levels on the Mekong Delta region.  The bright red zones will only be inundated in the event [...]

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Vietnam temperatures, rainfall, seas to rise: study

August 20, 2009
Vietnam temperatures, rainfall, seas to rise: study

Cows graze in a dry field in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. More rain will fall and surface air temperatures in Vietnam are predicted to rise by 2.3 degrees Celsius from the average temperature during the 1980-1999 period, according to a government study. Tran Thuc, director of the Ministry of Natural Resources and [...]

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Chinese mainland confirms eighth A/H1N1 flu case

May 24, 2009
Chinese mainland confirms eighth A/H1N1 flu case

China’s Health Ministry confirmed Sunday that a two-year-old girl in eastern Fujian Province, who returned from the United States with her family via Hong Kong tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu. Photo taken on May 23, 2009 shows the hospital where the A/H1N1 influenza patient is hospitalized in Fuzhou, capital city of east China’s Fujian Province. [...]

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Beijing reports confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu

May 17, 2009
Beijing reports confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu

LookAtVietnam – One confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu was reported in Beijing, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday evening. A staff member casts away the exposure suit after disinfection work at Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China, May 17, 2009. One confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu was reported in Beijing, China’s Ministry of Health said [...]

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China confirms second case of A/H1N1 influenza on mainland

May 13, 2009
China confirms second case of A/H1N1 influenza on mainland

China’s Ministry of Health confirmed Wednesday a man who returned from Canada last week has tested positive for the A/H1N1 influenza. Photo taken on May 12, 2009 shows the Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital where a man surnamed Lu involved in a suspected case of A/H1N1 influenza receives treatment, in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong [...]

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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...