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  • WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak

    WHO warns that world not ready for flu outbreak GENEVA (VNS)-- The world is unprepared for a massive virus outbreak, the deputy chief of the World Health Organisation has warned, amid fears that H7N9 bird flu striking China could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. Keiji Fukuda told delegates at a WHO meeting that despite efforts since an outbreak of another form of avian ...

  • Spread of hand-foot-mouth disease concerns hospitals

    A doctor examines a child infected with Hand-Foot-Mouth disease in Paediatrics Hospital 2 in HCM City. HFMD is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year. -- VNA/VNS Photo Phuong ...

  • Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors

    Japan fund grants $2.5m to help poor vendors HA NOI (VNS)-- About 600 poor street vendors in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are set to benefit from financial loans from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, announced the Asian Development Bank yesterday. The total funds for the micro-finance loans offered to household businesses by 2017 amount to US$2.5 million, and beneficiaries will also ...

  • Crane accident leads to major power cut

    Crane accident leads to major power cut HCM CITY (VNS)-- A two-hour power failure caused by an incident on the 500kV north-south transmission line hindered road traffic in many southern provinces and HCM City yesterday afternoon. Power supply failed when an operating crane hit the Di Linh-Tan Dinh transmission line at 2.20pm in the new urban area in southern Binh Duong Province, the ...

  • MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes

    MARD allocates funds to shore up crumbling dykes HA NOI (VNS)-- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a plan to reinforce the inter-provincial dyke system at a cost of VND420 billion (US$20 million) to prepare for floods. Tran Thi Lan Phuong, an expert at the ministry's Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control, said the dykes include the Duong River dyke ...

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Deep Impact

Last year it was the battle of the dueling volcano movies, "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano." This year, history repeats itself, except volcanoes have been replaced with giant meteors on collision courses for Earth. Michael Bay's "Armageddon" isn't due until July, but for those who just can't wait to see Earth destroyed by fire from the heavens, the Steven Spielberg-produced "Deep Impact" has arrived. ... ...

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  • City plans five waste treatment plants

    City plans five waste treatment plants HCM CITY (VNS)-- The HCM City People's Committee is now preparing for the implementation of five waste treatment projects. Of these, two plants each with a daily capacity to process 2,000-2,500cu.m of mud will be located in the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex in Binh Chanh District. They will cover 40ha in total. Another project, which will be ...

  • Rail project held up by land clearance

    Rail project held up by land clearance HA NOI (VNS)-- Construction of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated urban railway project is behind schedule due to land clearance difficulties, said a project official. The project is scheduled for completion late next year and open for trains in 2015. However, director of the project management board Tran Van Luc said at a press briefing on Tuesday that the ...

  • German Red Cross to help VN

    German Red Cross to help VN HA NOI (VNS)-- Red Cross societies of Viet Nam and Germany will co-operate on humanitarian work in the areas of safe water and environmental sanitation, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. As part of a co-operation programme for the 2013-15 period, an agreement was signed yesterday between Viet Nam Red Cross Deputy Chairman and General Secretary ...

  • Samchem sees Vietnam driving growth

    Industrial chemical distributor Samchem Holdings Bhd sees its business in Vietnam driving the group's revenue growth from this year onward, with its Indonesia operations joining the fray in two years. Its chairman and CEO Ng Thin ...

  • Parking chaos returns to capital

    The pavement in front of the National Paediatrics Hospital has been appropriated for parking motorbikes in Dong Da District, Ha Noi. A year after the imposition of a ban on vehicle parking in 262 streets in nine districts in the capital, many locations have returned to their initial chaos. -- VNA/VNS Photo Duong ...

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