Last updated: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi
Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant...
Last updated: Monday, January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture
After the sun sinks among the...
Last updated: Monday, December 19, 2011
Hua Cam Tu, a 37-year-old woman who had both her kidneys removed by doctors without her permission, is being treated at the Can Tho General Hospital.
A Mekong Delta hospital said Thursday it would provide free dialysis treatment to a patient whose health is getting worse after doctors removed both two kidneys without her consent,...
Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A Hyundai sedan was damaged after a Toyota Fortuner crashed into it in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1 on Dec 10.
A nine-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a car accident that took place in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 last weekend succumbed to his injuries on Monday, bringing the accident’s fatalities...
Last updated: Monday, December 5, 2011
Lumps cover the face of Thach Thi Sa Ly. (Photo: Lao Dong)
A 35-year-old woman in a poor, rural village in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang seems threatening to strangers because of her densely covered bubble-like lumps, Lao Dong newspaper reported.
Thousands of small tumors are covering Thach Thi Sa Ly’s body, including...
Last updated: Monday, November 21, 2011
Psychologists warn increasing violence among local youth indicates modern life in crisis
An image extracted from online video footage depicting a schoolgirl in Hai Phong City brutally attacked by her schoolmates
Nguyen Viet Cuong had no idea that yelling at one of his students would...
Last updated: Saturday, November 12, 2011
African drug smugglers shift carriers to avoid detection
Preyanooch Phuttharaksa, a 22-year-old Thai student, was arrested on October 29 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for allegedly smuggling more than three kilograms of methamphetamine...
Last updated: Sunday, November 6, 2011
A doctor examines 27-year-old Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, who suffers from strange rapid-aging condition.
Doctors from Hoan My Hospital in Da Nang have said they will be able treat a 27-year-old woman suffering from a strange condition that makes her look much older than her age.
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai of Quang Nam Province’s...
Last updated: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A couple pass by a pancake a day after a powerful earthquake in the town of Ercis in Van province, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011.
Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey.
The rescue...
Last updated: Sunday, October 23, 2011
Schoolgirl’s death should spotlight cruelty of animal captivity, experts say
This circus elephant killed an 11-year-old girl in Lao Cai Province. Experts say animals suffer a lot of stress in captivity and should live freely in a sanctuary for the rest of their lives.
There...
