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Vets provided bird flu training
Fifty Vietnamese veterinarians, working in regional and provincial government offices, will be trained this year under a new program to enhance their ability to effectively control, detect, and respond to outbreaks of avian influenza, it was announced on March 13. The Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training Program (AVET), which is supported by the U.S. government through [...]
8,000 people suffer kidney failure a year
Around 72,000 kidney-failure patients need blood filtering. VietNamNet Bridge – The number of people who suffer from kidney failure in Vietnam is on the rise, with around 8,000 new patients a year, according to a workshop held in Hanoi on March 12. Professor Nguyen Nguyen Khoi, the leading expert about kidney diseases at the Hanoi-based Bach [...]
Vietnamese film pockets VND1 billion for its oversea debut
Actress Hong Anh. VietNamNet Bridge – The film ‘Trang noi day gieng’ (‘Moon at the bottom of the well’) made VND1 billion (US$57,140) on its debut at oversea box-offices, it was announced Tuesday. The production company Giai Phong (‘Liberty’) decided to enter their film in the ‘2008 Golden Kite Awards’ and have it screened in [...]
Int’l stars through Vietnamese photographer’s lens
Photos of Natalie Portman, Penelope Cruz, and Angelina Jolie are just several of many in the collection of a thousand photos of international movie superstars of Trung Nghia, a senior journalist of Tuoi Tre Newspaper. Trung Nghia was the first Vietnamese journalist who held a card for photo journalists at the Cannes Film Festival 2008 [...]
Đã hiếp dâm còn “xơi” điện thoại
Đánh ghen ở “trình độ cao’”
Bush shoe-thrower sentenced for three years in prison
An Iraqi court sentenced on Thursday the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. ex-president George W. Bush to three years in prison. Relatives and friends of Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi wave to him as he is transported in an Iraqi military armoured vehicle, after the end of his trial session outside Iraq’s …
Gold trading floors now more favored than OTC
Nowadays, investors go to securities trading floors every afternoon not because they want to check accounts or make payments for deals, but because they want to make investment in gold. Purchasing and selling gold has become more attractive than injecting money in stocks. Gold has become an attractive investment channel as the price of the [...]
Trade fairs and exhibitions cannot lure customers
The number of visitors to the 2009 Tet trade fair decreased by 1/3 over the previous year, which has made trade fair organizers fear that trade fairs and exhibitions will have few visitors this year, as people try to cut down expenses. The Giang Vo Trade Fair Centre in Hanoi plans to have 31 trade [...]


