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  Politicians and managers should consider Vietnam and others in southeast Asia as a role model for a country with small but effective public services, according to a new report comparing global public sector performance.   The report by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, a large...

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  Up to 1,000 women die every day as a result of pregnancy-related complications globally, and 5,500 newborns die in the first week of life because of a lack of adequate medical care A midwife examines a pregnant woman in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan. The...

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  Vietnam’s higher education is still facing many challenges in delivering skills to students despite the fact that access to higher education has been growing fast over the last decade, a World Bank report says. The report, titled: "Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for...

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  Government would do well to keep people informed about its actions on the East Sea conflict, prominent lawmaker asserts   The government stands to gain a lot, and lose nothing, if people know about the actions it is taking on the East Sea conflict, an outspoken legislator...

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A mother breastfeeds her child in a waiting room at a hospital in Hanoi Poor breastfeeding has left seven million children under 5 years old undersized in Vietnam, the Health Ministry said in a report issued at a conference Friday.   The number accounts for 30 percent of children in the age group here.   The figure means...

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A dam on the Dong Nai River A group of scientists who made a field trip to the area near Cat Tien National Park where two hydropower projects are planned said Thursday environment impact assessments for them could have been made up. The scientists from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology’s Institute of Tropical...

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  A five-year study found that Vietnam spends up to 3 percent of its gross domestic product on mitigating the effects of environmental pollution A woman skims rubbish out of a polluted river in Hanoi. A national environmental report has warned that increasing environmental pollution...

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Dried up corn is seen in a field in eastern China, where a record drought threatens to push global food prices up. Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world’s food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit harvests. A...

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An Afghan mother, who lost relatives in Afghanistan’s wars is pictured in 2010 cradling a child at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. “Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of maternal...

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Israeli soldiers fire a mortar round towards the Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border with the Palestinian coastal strip in 2009. The United States worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain UN probes into possible war crimes committed during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, Foreign Policy reported Tuesday. The online...

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