The U.S. space shuttle Discovery touched down on Saturday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending its 13-day mission to the International Space Station. The space shuttle Discovery has its drag parachute deployed as it rolls past the runway convoy after it returned to earth at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida …
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Thailand’s Phanuphan Koolrungruengket had a spectacular day yesterday to emerge victorious in the 98km sixth stage of the Binh Duong Television International Cycling Tour from Nha Trang to Phan Rang. Cyclists from 11 local and three foreign teams were confronted with strong winds over more than 30km of the race, but they pedalled fiercely. Phanuphan [...]
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More than 10,000 people participated in a walk in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29 to welcome the upcoming 3rd Asian Indoor Games (AIG) to be hosted by Vietnam this year for the first time. Walkers wearing headbands and carrying the AIG flag paraded along a 2.5km route, from the Municipal Theatre to Dong [...]
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Nguyen Van Sy doesn’t have a lot of experience in coach ing, apart for some matches last season as acting manager of Ninh Binh team. Now that he is officially the manager, his duty is to push the club to the V-League, the national premier league. Somehow the 38-year-old is confident he will achieve success, [...]
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Unhealthy competition prevails in Vietnam’s medicine market as distributors and producers shake hands and fix prices. Thus, medicine prices are unsustainable, according to a recent report on competition in the country’s drug distribution system conducted by the Vietnam Competition Administration Department, or VCAD. The foreign companies dominate the market with a huge supply chain and [...]
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Vietnam’s first National Drug Information and Monitoring Centre will be set up at the Hanoi University of Pharmacy. Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu on March 24 signed a decision approving the establishment of the centre to ensure the safe and effective use of drugs. The centre aims to develop a national database for pharmaceuticals, provide [...]
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The seventh conference of the Asian Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists (ASPA) opened at Pediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City on March 26. More than 200 pediatric anesthesiologists and pediatricians from Vietnam and other Asian countries discussed anaesthetisation in newborn and fetus surgery and heart surgery. The two-day conference also heard reports on anaesthetising premature babies [...]
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The prices for most types of vaccines, both imported and locally-manufactured, have soared in HCM City. Some preventive health and vaccination centers in the city have listed new prices. Some kinds of vaccines have their prices up by 10%. At the HCM City Pasteur Institute, note-boards announced “Due to the increase of base prices, the [...]
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Vietnam has the potential to become an extremely attractive tourist destination for Australians as many of the country’s tourist agencies are promoting low-cost tours. Australian tourism agencies are currently offering overseas package tours for les than AUD 1,000 (nearly VND 12 million). A promotion campaign is targeting at Australian households that have received between AUD [...]
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The Commercial Bureau at the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt has played down a report that was printed in Al Ahram, Egypt’s largest newspaper, which wrongly said that Vietnam’s tra catfish are being farmed in polluted and non-hygienic conditions and suggested that Egyptians boycott the products. In Egypt, Vietnam’s catfish products are tested by local quality [...]
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