Hanoi seizes ‘tiger snacks’ made from Chinese additives

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 3 day(s) ago

Hanoi seizes ‘tiger snacks’ made from Chinese additives

Hanoi police seized 400 cartons of a snack sold under the label of ‘tiger meat’ and a number of Chinese food additives with dubious origins after raiding a facility on Tuesday.

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Voluntary classes for lottery vendors, scrap pickers

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 2 week(s) ago

Voluntary classes for lottery vendors, scrap pickers

Amid an urban residential area in Thu Duc district, Ho Chi Minh City, illiterate street children frequently earn their living by selling lottery tickets or picking scrap iron thrown away in dumps.

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Tuyen Lam Lake at risk

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago 2 duplicate news

Tuyen Lam Lake at risk

Blue-green algae, a type of bacteria, has been detected for the first time in Tuyen Lam Lake, an attraction in Da Lat, a popular tourism destination in the Central Highlands, raising worries of water contamination.

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Steel, cement makers fear power cuts

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SaigonTimes English 2 month(s) ago

HCMC – Steel and cement producers are concerned about the impact of power cuts on their operations as Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) is seeking to reduce supply for those consuming too much power.

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Banks see gold bar trading unprofitable

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Báo Đầu Tư English 4 month(s) ago 1 related news

Banks see gold bar trading unprofitable

Local banks licensed for gold bar trading have yet to make gains from this business, with some even having incurred losses due to stringent trading regulations of the State Bank of Vietnam.

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Vietnam targets 7.2 million international visitors in 2013

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SaiGon GP English 4 month(s) ago

Vietnam targets 7.2 million international visitors in 2013

Hoang Thi Diep, deputy director of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, said on January 5 that the tourism industry is targeting 7.2 million international tourists this year, an increase of 5.15 percent from last year.

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Virus publicity to save lives

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VietNam News English 6 month(s) ago

Professor Harald zur Hausen, awarded the 2008 Nobel Laureate for Medicine for his discovery that human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer, spoke to Viet Nam News about the issue.

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Chinese ‘tiger meat’ sold as snack in Hanoi

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 6 month(s) ago

Chinese ‘tiger meat’ sold as snack in Hanoi

Dried beef is commonly sold in Vietnam, but selling tiger meat is unprecedented, as tigers belong to a group of wildlife that is strictly banned from being exploited or used for commercial purposes. This “meat” is allegedly imported from China and sold at dirt cheap prices.

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Directive on after-school classes ‘criminalizes’ teachers

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 7 month(s) ago

Directive on after-school classes ‘criminalizes’ teachers

“It was a shame when I was required to sign a document they presented in front of my students,” T., a literature teacher in Hanoi, complained. School officials, local education board inspectors, and even police officers had ‘caught’ her in the act of running an after-school class at home without a license.

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Misuse of pedestrian subways, flyovers in HCMC

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SaiGon GP English 7 month(s) ago

Misuse of pedestrian subways, flyovers in HCMC

Ho Chi Minh City has invested hundreds of billions of dong to build pedestrian subways and flyovers for residents to be able to cross streets safely, but which now have become ideal locations for flourishing social evils.

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Raging cancer and abnormal numbers

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Báo Dân Trí English 7 month(s) ago

Raging cancer and abnormal numbers

According to unofficial statistics from the people and the governments of communes located around the Thach Khe iron mine (Ha Tinh province), there are nearly 100 people with cancer in recent years, an unusual number.

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Man gets life for killing 85-year-old chess partner in Hanoi

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

A court in Hanoi on Tuesday handed down a life sentence to a man for stabbing his 85-year-old friend to death during an argument after the latter’s daughter scolded him for making noises in her café.

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Swallow ‘fortresses’ upset HCMC neighborhood

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 10 month(s) ago

Swallow ‘fortresses’ upset HCMC neighborhood

Swallow-raising houses, called ‘fortresses’ thanks to their giant, concrete construction, in Ho Chi Minh City have thrived over the last few years, and have become an unpleasant threat to neighborhoods where they are located.

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World famous Korean stage show set to enchant Vietnam

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

World famous Korean stage show set to enchant Vietnam

"Cookin’ Nanta", a comedic stage show accompanied by percussion instruments from South , will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from July 27-29.

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Vietnam’s economic transparency under strict scrutiny

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Hanoi Times English 11 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - International partners are paying greater attention to transparency in Vietnam’s socio-economic development before they make decisions o­n investment and cooperation.

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