January 11, 2012
Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]
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August 22, 2011
Vietnam has seven mobile network operators with more than 120 million subscribers The Ministry of Information and Communications is finalizing a plan to allow mobile phone users to switch to a different network without having to change their numbers, news website VnExpress reported Saturday. The plan has been created based on trends in other countries [...]
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June 1, 2011
Phone shops frequently recycle the personal information of one person to register multiple phone numbers Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications is drafting regulations that will ban the resale of registered sim cards, an official said. The new rule is an attempt to restore order on the telecom market and make sure all mobile phone numbers, especially [...]
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April 1, 2011
Adult elephants line up before starting their race, held for the first time in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak this month An old elephant waits, incomplete, in the shade of a big tamarind tree outside Yok Don National Park. The giant beast’s two tusks have been cut off by its owner to dissuade [...]
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May 18, 2009
People queue up at 3 a.m. outside the Medical University Hospital in HCMC to be able to take the small numbers for a check-up. Most patients coming for a check-up at hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have to arrive at night and wait until noon the next day unless they are willing to pay [...]
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