General News
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The World Bank (WB) has approved the Vietnam Climate Change Development Policy Operation in a move to help the country tackle the negative impacts of climate change next years, foreign media reported. This is the first of a series of three...
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As many as 14 food poisoning cases were reported in the southern province of Binh Duong during the Lunar New Year holiday, an increase of seven cases compared with last year. Wine poisoning killed three people and left one other in critical...
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Vietnam recorded three food poisoning cases in the first month of 2012, involving 156 people, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said Feb 2. The victims in collective poisoning cases came from the southern provinces of Ben Tre, An...
Monday, 6th February, 2012 -
Market regulators in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi found 117 cases violating the regulations on food hygiene and safety on the occasion of Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday. They imposed a total fine of more than VND329 million ($15,600) on...
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Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have urged to speed up medical waste treatment projects in a bid to protect the degrading environment. The projects will benefit 16 public hospitals in a move to ease the environment pollution caused...
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Vietnam spent $95 million on importing pharmaceuticals in Jan 2012, falling 17.4% from a year earlier, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said Feb 2. The figure also showed a decrease of 33.1% from the previous month, the office...
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Vietnam disbursed VND52 billion ($2.47 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first month of this year, fulfilling 4.7% of the whole year’s set target. The figure represented an on-year slight decrease of 1.9%, the government’s...
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Vietnam has recorded one more person died of influenza A/H5N1, the second case in the country in 2012, the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department said. This is also the 2nd case having succumbed to H5N1 virus in the Mekong Delta region...
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Health authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Thap have started building a general hospital worth over VND534 billion ($25.3 million), state media reported. Located on a 39,000-sq.m site in Sa Dec town, the 450-bed hospital will...
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PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the State President to ratify credit agreements for the establishment of Hanoi Science and Technology University – a state-of-the-art institution which will support research, technical innovation, and skills...
Monday, 6th February, 2012
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