Vietnam: Yen Bai province’s daily battle with rabies
The number of rabies exposures in the northern mountain province of Yen Bai in Vietnam is reporting 5-6 human rabies exposures per day, according to a recent VietnamNet report. Since the beginning of 2014, almost More...
Vietnam measles death toll up to 127, pneumonia a major complication
As the death toll from measles in the current outbreak in Vietnam continues to rise, doctors are noting that a common complication to the viral disease being seen in pneumonia, according to a Thanh Nien news report More...
Horse blood pudding linked to food poisoning outbreak in Vietnam
Nearly two dozen participating in a party in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai were sickened food poisoning after consuming horse blood pudding, according to a Saigon Giai Phong report Tuesday. Image/CIA Samples More...
New report: Christian persecution increasing and spreading
In a recently-released summary report called “Persecuted and Forgotten?” Aid to the Church in Need has revealed a worldwide growth in discrimination against Christians in scope and frequency. The persecution More...
H5N1 bird flu reported in 21 Vietnam provinces as H7N9 bird flu knocks on the door
The most recent number of Vietnamese provinces and cities affected by the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak is now 21, according to a Bernama report today. Image/CIA To date, some 64,000 birds have been culled due More...
Vietnam: Man dies from Streptococcus suis after eating tiet canh
Health officials and doctors in Vietnam’s Thai Binh Province issued many warnings against the danger posed by tiet canh after a man died from a Streptococcus suis infection, according to a Thanh Nien News More...
H5N1 bird flu outbreaks reported in Vietnam
Two provinces in Vietnam are reporting H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in poultry, affecting hundreds of birds, according to a Xinhua report today. photo wattpublishing www.WATTAgNet.com. via Flickr The report states that More...
Vietnam on alert over measles, H7N9 avian influenza
With increases in travel, favorable weather and hundreds of cases already reported this year, the Vietnamese Health Ministry is telling provincial health departments to beef up measles prevention and quarantine More...
Vietnam: Dong Thap woman is second H5N1 avian influenza fatality for 2014
A 60-year-old woman from Binh Thanh District, Dong Thap province, Vietnam has died from a confirmed case of influenza A/H5N1 infection, according to a Tuoi Tre report today (computer translated). H5N1 avian influenzaImage/CDC The More...
Vietnam announces human H5N1 avian influenza fatality
For the first time since April 2013, Vietnam is reporting a death due to infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus, according to a Xinhua report Monday. According to the report, the patient was a 52-year-old More...
Vietnam government warns against eating tiet canh; H7N9 bird flu detected in goose meat sold in Guangzhou
Two Asian countries reported on different strains of avian influenza being a potential danger in food this weekend–Vietnam advised against eating tiet canh, or raw duck or goose blood soup during the Lunar More...
John Kerry’s Asia trip is costing us millions
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been doing his Asia stint in recent days with stops in a place where he has a history, Vietnam, and today in Manila, Philippines. photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com This More...
Top 5 Alternative Cities in Asia for Outsourcing
Ever since the financial recession hit the US and the EU, Asia has emerged as the world’s most influential economic powerhouse, with China leading the way and India not too far behind. Southeast Asia is also supporting More...
Vietnam: Foot-and-mouth disease affects 1,300 animals in five provinces
The serious viral animal disease, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has reared its ugly head in central Vietnam as officials with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are reporting that more than 1,000 More...
Typhoon Yolanda makes it way through the Philippines, expected to leave PAR Saturday morning
The most powerful storm of the year made landfall Friday morning on the island of Samar with pounding rain and wind gusts up to 275 kph will soon be out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and headed More...
Remains of soldier killed in Vietnam, Staff Sgt Lawrence Woods, discovered nearly 50 years later
A family in Ft Meyers Florida received some shocking news this week as the remains of their loved one has been identified. Staff Sgt Lawrence Woods photo supplied Lisa Szynamski confirmed that officials from the More...
Sharing news on social media banned in Vietnam
In their continuing stranglehold on online freedom, the Vietnamese government will ban bloggers and users of Facebook and Twitter from sharing news stories according to a new decree signed by Prime Minister Nguyen More...
Obama hails Vietnam communist Ho Chi Minh saying he was ‘inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson’
President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh Friday as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders. President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President Truong More...
New virus, cyclovirus-Vietnam, found in patients with severe brain infections
A team from Oxford University have discovered a novel virus found in some patients with severe infections in Vietnam, tentatively naming it cyclovirus-Vietnam [CyCV-VN]. The findings of the study, “Identification More...
Vietnamese blogger, Truong Duy Nhat, arrested for anti-state views and dissent
Vietnamese police have detained a former journalist who ran a blog containing anti-state views, authorities said on Monday, part of a widening crackdown on dissent in the Communist-run country, according to a Voices More...
