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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
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
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
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
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
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
06/04/2013 02:49
Seeking�Anoechilus 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...