Dengue fever likely to rise in next few months in Vietnam News Desk Viet Nam News Publication Date : 16-08-2012 At a meeting yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thanh Duong, deputy head of Department of Preventive Medicine at Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, said the number of cases nationwide in the first seven months [Read on …]
Vietnam ranks ‘worst’ in wildlife crime Tiger farms and its citizens’ high demand for rhino horn as a supposed cure-all helped put it at the top of a WWF list Last Modified: 23 Jul 2012 06:05 Vietnam is the worst country for wildlife crime, says a report on how well 23 Asian and African countries [Read on …]
Vietnam cop arrested for stealing illegally logged timber Last Updated: Thursday, June 07, 2012 04:20:00 A police officer in central Vietnam has been arrested for leading a group of armed bandits who stole timber after it was illegally cut down by criminal loggers in a national park. Nguyen Van Hieu will be detained for four months, [Read on …]
Vietnam craves rhino horn; costs more than cocaine By Mike Ives Associated Press / April 4, 2012 HANOI, Vietnam—Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate. Her father gave her the 4-inch (10-centimeter) [Read on …]
Last Updated: Saturday, March 10, 2012 05:10:00 Two of every five Vietnamese citizens in recent survey were found infected with latent tuberculosis that could emerge into the disease once the immune system becomes weak, according to Vietnam’s National Tuberculosis Program. Dinh Ngoc Sy, the program’s chairman and director of the Hanoi-based National Lung Diseases [Read on …]
Vietnam in top 10 for worst air pollution By News Desk in Ha Noi/Viet Nam News | Asia News Network – Wed, Feb 8, 2012 Ha Noi (Viet Nam News/ANN) – Vietnam is listed amongst the top ten countries with the worst air pollution in the world, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) released during [Read on …]
A friend of mine living in California is planning a trip to Saigon next month. She asked me whether she should worry about taking Malaria medication. I thought it might be useful to share my response to her with readers of Eating Saigon!: Hi Laurie ~ My advice – Don’t worry about taking malaria medications. [Read on …]
Patrick WinnFebruary 26, 2012 22:53 Vietnam’s exploding vehicle problem As if Vietnam’s urban traffic weren’t bad enough, motorists now must contend with a mysterious epidemic of exploding vehicles. More than 100 spontaneous vehicle fires have drivers fearing “their vehicle could turn into a firebomb at any time,” according [Read on …]