• Vinafood caught storing hundreds of tons of expired foodstuffs

    17/07/2009 05:00

    Government inspectors found hundreds of tons of expired processed cooking s at Vinafood Corporation warehouses in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. More than 900 cartons of goods and 17 tons of pork chops and pig’s feet inspected at...

  • Entrance exam candidate among 18 new H1N1 cases

    16/07/2009 05:00

    Health authorities Thursday recorded 18 additional cases of influenza A (H1N1), raising the total in Vietnam to 338. Of the afflicted, 279 have already been discharged from the hospital and there have been no fatalities so far. Fourteen of...

  • Vietnam’s CO2 emission increase highest in the world

    Vietnam’s CO2 emission increase highest in the world

    16/07/2009 05:00

    Vietnam’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased from about 6.7 percent in 1995-2000 to 10.6 percent in 2000-2005, the highest in the world, a conference on energy consumption in Ho Chi Minh City heard...

  • Goat penis bacteria adds to food safety scare

    Goat penis bacteria adds to food safety scare

    15/07/2009 05:00

    Ho Chi Minh City destroyed nearly 1.5 tons of goat penis contaminated with bacteria Wednesday in the latest chapter of Vietnam’s cooking safety saga, which has seen putrid pork and rotten beef flood...

  • Ban on revealing fetus sex observed widely in the breach

    Ban on revealing fetus sex observed widely in the breach

    15/07/2009 05:00

    Pregnant women at a maternity ward in a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. Doctors in both public and private health sectors continue to reveal fetal gender to parents although the Ministry of Health recently warned it...

  • International maxillofacial congress opens in HCMC

    15/07/2009 05:00

    Nearly 40 foreign and domestic experts will present scientific talks and perform live surgeries at the 13th International Maxillo Facial Congress which opens today in Ho Chi Minh City, heard a briefing Wednesday. This year’s two-day...

  • Indigenous ethnic minority knowledge yields potent medicine

    Indigenous ethnic minority knowledge yields potent medicine

    14/07/2009 05:00

    Locals in Kon Tum Province check ginseng plants they are growing on the Ngoc Linh Mountain. Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands plans to grow more than 11 million ginseng plants for propagation purposes...

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