• Bird flu kills Thanh Hoa woman: official

    24/04/2009 05:00

    A 23-year-old woman from Thanh Hoa Province died of bird flu on Wednesday, Vietnam’s fourth fatality from the disease this year, an official from the Health Ministry confirmed Friday. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the ministry’s Bureau of...

  • City health sector gets record annual budget

    City health sector gets record annual budget

    23/04/2009 05:00

    The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has been allotted a record VND1.5 trillion (US$86.2 million) for its budget this year, the department announced Wednesday. It said this is the...

  • Illegal blowfish trade alive and well

    Illegal blowfish trade alive and well

    23/04/2009 05:00

    A woman cleans blowfish at Sa Huynh Port in the central province of Quang Ngai. Despite local bans in many areas, people still eat the fish, certain parts of which are poisonous. Police in the Mekong Delta...

  • HCMC to crack down on unclean food purveyors

    HCMC to crack down on unclean food purveyors

    15/04/2009 05:00

    cooking safety1-106-09.jpg" hspace="1" align="left" vspace="1" class=pix> Food stalls at a market in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City has set up teams of health inspectors to check as many food...

  • Doctors divided by new law on medical license, records disclosure

    Doctors divided by new law on medical license, records disclosure

    15/04/2009 05:00

    Medical staff treat a patient in Nguyen Trai Hospital in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City. Doctors at a Ho Chi Minh City conference Tuesday were divided over a draft law requiring practitioners to have medical...

  • Dust hazard threatens southern metro: experts

    Dust hazard threatens southern metro: experts

    14/04/2009 05:00

    An overabundance of low-quality motorbikes and inefficient infrastructure has pushed dust concentration levels in Ho Chi Minh City alarmingly high, say experts. At times, levels of dust...

  • US ophthalmologist to train doctors in Da Nang

    13/04/2009 05:00

    Dr. Timothy McCulley, director of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at California University, Monday began a training program for ophthalmologists at the Da Nang Eye Hospital. The training is part of a program sponsored by Orbis...

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