January 21, 2012
Nguyen Thi Thanh Ngoc is being treatd for severe burns at a Ho Chi Minh City after a man, believed to be a neighbor, threw acid on all members of her family. All four people in a family in Ho Chi Minh City were severely burned Wednesday by acid thrown on them, allegedly by a neighbor. [...]
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December 22, 2011
A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the [...]
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December 20, 2011
Children sit on rocking animal toys at a pop-up playground in Hanoi. Every evening, a sidewalk in Hanoi becomes a playground where parents pay a little money to give their children a good time sitting on toy animals, playing fishing or making sand paintings. The service providers said the corner of Tran Khac Chan and [...]
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November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
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October 30, 2011
Actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives) Vietnamese actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc has won the Favorite International Actress award at the China Golden Rooster Awards 2011 held Oct 18-23, for her role in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives). Director Nguyen Huu Phan was quoted by the Vietnamplus newswire [...]
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October 30, 2011
Child patients at HCMC Children’s Hospital 1 being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in Vietnam is still under control, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a press conference Tuesday (October 25), despite the rising number of new HFMD cases. The disease has killed 137 people, [...]
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October 29, 2011
Accidents of different kinds kill up to 20 children every day in Vietnam, according to a report released Thursday at a conference in Hai Phong City. At the conference titled “Preventing child injuries and accidents,” the Children Protection and Care Department said half of the daily child deaths in Vietnam are caused by drowning, followed by [...]
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October 28, 2011
The conjoined twins are put under special treatment at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) A “two-headed baby infant” who made headlines nationwide has died eleven days after being born to a 35-year-old woman in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on October 12. Doctors at the [...]
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October 21, 2011
The conjoined twins are put under special treatment at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) It is rather risky to conduct a surgery to separate the conjoined twins who were initially dubbed as “two-headed baby girl,” doctors of Ho Chi Minh City-based Children’s Hospital 1 told Thanh Nien. [...]
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August 7, 2011
Leslie Wiener with disadvantaged and HIV positive children from Smile Group After three decades of working in film and television in two of the most exciting cities in the world, Leslie Wiener came to Vietnam and decided to stay. What made her change direction and decide to stay in Ho Chi Minh City, where [...]
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