Archive for November, 2005
Suspected bird flu infected child retested in south
The Pasteur Institute in HCM City Monday November 28 took specimens from a 3-year-old child after an earlier test suggested the child had contracted a type-A virus, possibly [...]
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Meeting on bird flu measures
A meeting on urgent measures for the human-on-human flu prevention was held on November 26 by the Standing Committee of the government and leaders of different departments [...]
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Study: bird flu vaccine can stop spread
Vaccines can keep chickens from dying of bird flu, but can immunised birds still silently spread infection? It’s an important question, as China and Vietnam vaccinate [...]
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Lab tests find mutation of bird flu virus in China’s human cases
Studies show the H5N1 strain of virus separated from China’s human cases of bird flu has mutated compared with the strain found in Vietnam’s human cases, said the [...]
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Total destruction of 220m poultry mulled
The possibility of destructing the overall 220 million bird stocks nationwide in case of human-to-human flu was considered by the prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the [...]
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4b dong to prevent the bird flu in Bac Giang
The people’s committee of Bac Giang province decided to release four billion dong to support the bird flu prevention. 1.6 billion dong of the sum will be used for [...]
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Health services for Agent Orange victims
The fund for sponsoring Agent Orange victims under the Red Cross Vietnam held a conference on two days from 28 to 29 November to summarise achievements of the project on [...]
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Hanoi holds drill against mass bird flu outbreak in humans
Over 1,000 health officials, soldiers and police of Hanoi city, yesterday November 27, joined a drill against bird flu in humans launched by Ministry of Health and the city [...]
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HelpAge International funds Aids-affected elderly people
The HelpAge International Organisation (HAI) donated US$465,730 to Vietnamese elderly people affected by the global Aids pandemic. The four-year project has been implemented [...]
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Child infected with avian virus type A
A three-year-old boy in Cai Lay of Tien Giang province was sent to the Hospital for Children 1 in HCM City for being suspected of the bird flu infection. His medical sample [...]
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Bird-flu funding boosted to Vietnam
BIRD flu-hit Vietnam and neighbours Cambodia and Laos are to get a $US30 million ($40.6 million) grant from the Asian Development Bank (ABD) to contain the spread of the [...]
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Separate legal framework on tax administration
The Ministry of Finance has started building the Law on Tax Administration and set a target to soon submit this law to the government and National Assembly for consideration [...]
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MoF to set budget allocation schedule
The Ministry of Finance has issued a circular directing the allocation of state budget in 2006. Accordingly, based on the budget forecast assigned by the authority, [...]
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Manufacturer code registration for apparel exports to US
The Ministry of Trade has issued an official letter to guide garment and textile manufacturers that specialise in producing garment and textile commodities to export to the [...]
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Financial mechanism for credit institutions
The government on November 23 issued Decree 146/2005/ND-CP on governing a financial mechanism for credit institutions that are established, organised and operated according [...]
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