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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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 19, 2011
A number of middle school students in Ho Chi Minh City have been found using a cough suppressant in the belief that the drugs can boost their spirit and improve performance. At around 8 a.m. on Friday, November 25, teachers at Khanh Hoi A Secondary School in District 4 saw a lot of students [...]
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November 16, 2011
Asia Development Bank on Thursday signed a contract to fund US$190 million to develop a university in Hanoi that follows an international model. Â The project to build a state-of-the-art Hanoi University of Science and Technology is scheduled to be implemented between the beginning of 2012 until the end of 2017. Â Tomoyuki Kimura, [...]
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September 10, 2011
A young woman (C) reads exam materials as she leaves with others after taking part in a college admission test in Hanoi on July 5, 2011. In Vietnam, it is the mother of all battles that is fought year after year: more than close to a million or more students sit for their university entrance [...]
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September 5, 2011
Police in the central province of Binh Thuan are investigating a construction company’s workers for suspected negligence in the death of a six-year-old boy who drowned in a construction site pit three days earlier. On August 31, Nguyen Gia Huy, a first grader in the Bac Phan Thiet Primary School in Phan Thiet City, [...]
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August 5, 2011
One of the 50 children hospitalized last Friday after having porridge that was mistakenly mixed with an aseptic substance in the southern province of Binh Duong. A health official in the southern province of Binh Duong was censured Tuesday for mistakenly instructing a nursery teacher to put an aseptic substance into porridge, leading to the [...]
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July 17, 2011
A mother looks at a closure notice in front of Vang Anh kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday. Several kindergartens have been shut down across Ho Chi Minh City this week as a hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare sweeps the country.  Vang Anh nursery school in District 8 closed its summer classes [...]
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June 23, 2011
The front yard of a campus of Saigon College of Economics and Technology in Tan Phu District. A college in Ho Chi Minh City over many years has been over-enrolling and opening classes without permission. Â Officials at Saigon College of Economics and Technology (SAIMETE) said the school in 2008 enrolled more than twice the [...]
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June 5, 2011
During his fourth visit to Vietnam, Phillip Noyce encouraged young filmmakers to expand their boundaries and reconsider the importance of marketing. Noyce spent ten days in Vietnam speaking with film students and promoting his biography “Backroads to Hollywood” authored by Ingo Petzkeâa German film professor. Dressed in casuals, the 61-year-old director managed to beat [...]
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