Archive for September 6th, 2005
Avian flu likely cause of latest death
A 58-year-old Vietnamese has died of a probable case of avian influenza, the first such fatality in a month, news services reported today. The victim, a Hanoi resident who [...]
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Call for more international cooperation in healthcare
Vietnam is calling for more international cooperation to help further develop the country’s health care sector, a senior Vietnamese official said in Singapore last [...]
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Encouragement to buy voluntary health insurance
Businesses are encouraged to use the welfare fund to help relatives of employees who have bought compulsory health insurance also buy voluntary health insurance. These [...]
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Fitchburg celebrates 2006 Hmong New Year
Recent Hmong immigrants Sheng Vue and Pao Thao silently tossed a tennis ball back and forth Saturday afternoon at the 2006 Hmong New Year’s celebration in Fitchburg. [...]
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Jury selection to begin in hunter shootings trial
In the northwestern Wisconsin town that was home to six deer hunters killed during a confrontation over trespassing, many folks wonder why the murder trial for a Hmong [...]
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Oxiana’s added copper a sure crowd-stopper
Macquarie Research Equities (MRE) has maintained its Outperform recommendation on diversified Australian miner, Oxiana, following a proposed copper expansion at its flagship [...]
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Lao-Hmong fest this weekend
The Lao-Hmong National Summer Festival will be from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., today and Sunday at the Brown County Fairgrounds in De Pere. Activities on both days will include the [...]
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Vang Pobzeb dies suddenly
Civil rights champion for Hmong in Laos EAU CLAIRE, Wis. Ð Vang Pobzeb, Ph.D., 48, passed away on the evening of Tuesday, August 23, 2005 in Wisconsin after suffering from a [...]
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Govt adopts three draft laws
The government adopted three draft laws on enterprise, tourism and medical treatment at its August meeting. The draft laws will be submitted for approval at the upcoming [...]
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Methamphetamine Use On the Rise Among Lao Students
Drug use in Laos is on the rise among young people, especially students. A random urine test during the past year indicates an increase from the previous 12 months’ rate of [...]
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China gives Cambodia six naval patrol boats
China gave impoverished Cambodia, with whom it has been building stronger diplomatic and military ties, six naval patrol boats on Thursday to help combat drug and human [...]
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Cambodia to strength nuclear transport law
With the ratification of three draft laws, Cambodia will become a signatory to several international conventions, local media reported on Tuesday. Cambodia’s National [...]
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China Gives Navy Patrol Boats to Cambodia
China gave six navy patrol boats to Cambodia on Thursday to help combat piracy, transnational crime and smuggling in the kingdom’s waters, an official said. In a handover [...]
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Instead, I chose a river less traveled.
I journeyed from Vietnam into Cambodia on the Mekong. Via motorboat, dugout canoe, ferry and bus, I spent two days plying the main water highway of the Vietnam War. But the [...]
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Cambodia warns against instigation of illegal migrants
A Cambodia police officer last week warned local people of Oyador district not to instigate ethnic minority people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands to illegally cross the [...]
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