Duyệt theo August, 2008

Brokerages start to resume lending against shares

The recent rally in the stock market has prompted local brokerages to resume lending against shares.

Private firm cares for elderly and sick

– Nhan Ai Co. Ltd is the first private company in HCM City licensed by Department of Planning and Investment to offer care to elderly and the ill by trained non-professionals.. The director, Huynh …

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Nation works out measures for climate change

Photo: ecc-hcm.gov.vn.- Vietnam, one of the five countries possibly hardest hit by climate change, has set itself to raise sea and river dykes levels by 50 cm by 2020 and grow an addit…

VN must make more drugs: minister

Viet Nam needs to manufacture more phamarceuticals – particularly antibiotics – to make the country more self-sufficient, said health minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu. .- Viet Nam needs to m…

IT personnel to get trained on international standards basis

– The Vietnam Training Centre (VITEC) and the Hanoi University of Technology are preparing for an examination of IT students based on Japanese equivalent standards scheduled for October. …

Quang Nam hospitals lack materials

Many general hospitals in the northern and northern mountainous regions in Quang Nam Province lack the neccesary medicines and materials to treat patients..- Many general hospitals in …

Murderer gets death penalty

– A gangleader in HCM City was found guilty of robbery and attempted murder at a HCM City Peoples Court in Tan Binh District, yesterday.. Dang Quoc Dat (photo), a 25-year-old residen…

Healthcare and haircuts:pets live the high life

– Nguyen My Dung, the owner of two Spanish dogs, was recently taken into HCM Citys Cho Ray Hospital with terrible abdominal pains. . Shed been writhing in discomfort for nearly a …

SOCIAL IN BRIEF 31/8

. Roads in Lao Cai are yet to be opened to traffic after floods. . Eight remote and mountainous communes of the northern province of Lao Cai have still been isolated after heavy fl…

Uneducated and unprotected

– The rate of abortion and teenage pregnancy is rising in Vietnam because teenagers are poorly informed about the importance of having safe sex