• Pollution blamed for spate of cancer deaths in northern city

    Pollution blamed for spate of cancer deaths in northern city

    03/10/2008 05:00

    Cancer patient Bui Ngoc Vo is being cared for by his wife at their home in Thuy Nguyen District in Hai Phong City’s Minh Duc Town. Bui Ngoc Vo left hospital recently to spend his last days battling throat...

  • Vietnam announces melamine-tainted products

    Vietnam announces melamine-tainted products

    02/10/2008 05:00

    Customers, apprehensive after the lid was blown of the melamine-tainted milk scandal in China, prefer fresh milk at a shop in Hanoi. The Health Ministry’s Food Administration Thursday officially announced 18...

  • State of new sports hospital shocks staff

    State of new sports hospital shocks staff

    01/10/2008 05:00

    The outside of the Vietnam Sports Hospital, a $3.25 million project which broke ground in 2001. A Hanoi hospital, considered the leading sports medicine facility in Southeast Asia when it opened last year, is...

  • Ministry to release list of melamine-contaminated milk

    Ministry to release list of melamine-contaminated milk

    01/10/2008 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City Health Department inspectors examine a non-dairy creamer shipment at the Lua Chon Dinh (Top Choice) International Food Company before sealing it. The Ministry of Health is expected today to...

  • Parents test children for kidney stones in milk scandal aftermath

    Parents test children for kidney stones in milk scandal aftermath

    29/09/2008 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City Health Department inspectors examine a non-dairy creamer shipment at the Lua Chon Dinh (Top Choice) International Food Company before sealing it. Many parents in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are...

  • Spurious liquor kills one, two critical

    29/09/2008 05:00

    One of three men admitted to the Gia Dinh People Hospital for alcohol poisoning has died, the city’s health department said Monday. Hoang Van Cong, 33, Nguyen Van Teo, 47 and Thai Van Tuan, 55, members of HCMC’s Binh Thanh District...

  • City raid nets illegal oriental medicine

    City raid nets illegal oriental medicine

    29/09/2008 05:00

    A large volume of China-made oriental medicine without invoices, labels and product quality registration was discovered and confiscated Monday from a shop in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District....

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