January 20, 2012
Thirty people in Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the bacterium that causes meningitis, which could be fatal if left untreated, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday. The paper quoted Tran Phu Manh Sieu, director of the HCMC Center for Preventive Health, as saying that the cases were detected among workers of the Japanese-owned [...]
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January 10, 2012
Vietnam’s government may weaken the dong this year as gold buying puts downward pressure on the currency, according to economists who advise the prime minister. The country may adjust the dong-dollar reference rate by five percent to six percent in 2012, the National Financial Supervisory Commission wrote in a report released in Hanoi on [...]
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December 30, 2011
Cao Hong Son, a disabled athelete, has been fined US$950 for making a bomb threat at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat Airport. AÂ man was fined Thursday VND20 million (US$950) for making a bomb threat when he was taking a flight to a sporting event for athletes with physical disabilities in Indonesia. Cao [...]
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December 26, 2011
Still from a security camera shows Mark Zuckerberg (first, left) visiting a Verty luxury mobile phone shop in Hanoi on Thursday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girl friend Pricilla Chan spent Christmas Eve on a cruise ship on Ha Long Bay. Â They were spotted first at a cell phone shop in Hanoi’s Metropole [...]
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December 19, 2011
Residential apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City's District 2 The housing markets in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will continue to see price falls in 2012 as cities across Asia-Pacific are expected to have weaker sales volumes, according to global property consultant Knight Frank. Residential prices in the two Vietnamese cities will [...]
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December 19, 2011
A photo on AsianScientist showing a mother and her baby. A new mass media campaign in Vietnam asks mothers to feed their babies early and exclusively with breast milk for at least the first six months. A mass media campaign launched in Vietnam December 14 asks parents to ensure exclusive and continued breastfeeding during the early part of [...]
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December 16, 2011
Wim Deetman — the chairman of an independent Dutch inquiry probing sexual abuse allegedly committed by Roman Catholic clergy — unveils the report in The Hague. An independent Dutch inquiry probing sexual abuse allegedly committed by Roman Catholic clergy said Friday it found “tens of thousands” of victims since 1945, identifying 800 alleged perpetrators. Tens [...]
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December 14, 2011
This photo, provided by the WWF, shows a self-cloning lizard (Leiolepis ngovantrii), which reproduces via cloning without the need for males. Scientists identify a new species every two days in the Greater Mekong region, the WWF said on December 12, in a report detailing 2010’s more unusual finds such as a leaf warbler and [...]
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December 5, 2011
Slowing inflation and talk of financial reforms have not boosted market sentiment as expected, and analysts are predicting the worst will not be over any time soon. Phan Dung Khanh, research manager at Kim Eng Vietnam Securities Co., said the stock market may move sideways or only recover slightly next year. Macroeconomic measures taken [...]
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December 3, 2011
Real estate has regained the top spot as the most attractive sector for private equity investment, Grant Thornton says. Private equity investors’ optimism in the Vietnamese economy has dropped sharply as they continue to worry about inflation, high interest rates and a slowdown in domestic growth, according to Grant Thornton. Negative sentiment toward the economy [...]
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