• Hanoi’s policemen take kids to school while their parents busy paying fines

    Hanoi’s policemen take kids to school while their parents busy paying fines

    10/04/2013 04:46

    After a week of reminding people of wearing helmets for kids, on the morning of April 8 Hanoi’s traffic police began fining people for carrying children without a helmet on their motorcycles in the three inner districts of Ba Dinh, Cau Giay and Dong Da. At the intersection of Quan...

  • Food Safety Action Month launched

    Food Safety Action Month launched

    09/04/2013 02:33

    The 2013 action month aims to combat illegal poultry trading and transportation minimise outbreaks of cooking poisoning, disseminate food hygiene information, and strictly enforce the penalties for regulatory violations. At the launch ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen...

  • French tourists threaten to boycott Vietnam for dog meat

    French tourists threaten to boycott Vietnam for dog meat

    09/04/2013 02:20

    cooking " src="http://img.cdn2.vietnamnet.vn/Images/english/2013/04/09/13/20130409135421-1.jpg" alt="dog meat, foreign tourists, boycott, culture, vietnamese cuisines, vietnamemse food" /> Annie Peysson, a French resident at 14 RUE DE L'EGALITE 69330 PUSIGNAN said he was profoundly...

  • In Vietnam, functional foods advertised as panacea

    In Vietnam, functional foods advertised as panacea

    07/04/2013 03:48

    One would be stunned if they read the description of a functional cooking product named K, which can enhance men’s sexual ability, on the official website of the product provider and the public advertisement. The product is said to help “increase the penis size,”...

  • Vietnamese abortion rate fifth highest in the world

    Vietnamese abortion rate fifth highest in the world

    07/04/2013 03:46

    The information was released at a seminar on hormonal contraceptive methods in HCM City on April 2. It brought together more than 150 scientists, pharmacists, and gynaecologists representing 8 Asia-Pacific nations. The seminar aims to help population activists and medical workers practicing...

  • National park land used as collateral for forest protection project funding

    National park land used as collateral for forest protection project funding

    06/04/2013 02:55

    Luu Minh Thanh, the park’s director, admitted that he has handed over 11 land use right certificates of the park, which has been recognised as a world natural heritage site, to the Hanoi-based Forestry Development Limited Company to seek funds for forest protection for over two years....

  • Destroying forest to seek rare herbs

    Destroying forest to seek rare herbs

    06/04/2013 02:49

    SeekingAnoechilus roxburglihayata orchids in the forest. Seeking rare herbs has become a “fever” among in the Central Highlands. Equipping themselves with a bag of rice, a pot, some dried fish, a knife and several simple tools, thousands of people leave their homes and...

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