• Southern hub invests $4.8 mln in blood bank

    Southern hub invests $4.8 mln in blood bank

    05/02/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday opened a VND89.6 billion (US$4.8 million) blood bank said to be the first in Vietnam to meet international standards. The blood bank is equipped with...

  • Delta workers hospitalized after mass hysteria attack

    Delta workers hospitalized after mass hysteria attack

    05/02/2010 05:00

    Bag garment workers in Long An treated at Ho Chi Minh City hospital. More than 40 female workers were hospitalized in the Mekong Delta’s Long An Province Thursday in what appears to be a strange case of...

  • City to teach yoga with Indian instructors

    City to teach yoga with Indian instructors

    04/02/2010 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City residents will be able to learn yoga with qualified Indian instructors and use imported US equipment at a new fitness center that has just opened. The BeYou center run...

  • Chili powder maker suspended for Rhodamine B contamination

    01/02/2010 05:00

    A chili powder factory in Ho Chi Minh City has been suspended after its products were found to be contaminated with industrial dye Rhodamine B, which is a carcinogenic substance, health officials said Friday. Officials from the city’s...

  • Seven people found with cholera in Mekong Delta province

    Seven people found with cholera in Mekong Delta province

    01/02/2010 05:00

    Seven of 45 people with acute diarrhea who were admitted to local hospitals in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang between January 19 and 28, were found to have cholera, a health ministry agency reported on...

  • Rice wine sends 22 to hospital, follows five earlier deaths

    01/02/2010 05:00

    Twenty two people were hospitalized Monday noon after drinking rice wine in the central province of Ninh Thuan, where another five had recently died of suspected alcohol poisoning, a local official said. The victims, all belonging to the Raglai...

  • Vietnam state hospitals ‘overuse’ costly foreign drugs

    Vietnam state hospitals ‘overuse’ costly foreign drugs

    31/01/2010 05:00

    Hospitals under central government management have been wasting money on imported medicine, the Vietnam Insurance Agency said at a conference on Friday. The agency said that foreign...

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