Rain stops in Vietnam, but flood toll rises to 92 Nov 5, 2008
Five more bodies were found late Tuesday in two northern provinces near Hanoi, Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- International)
More rain forecast as Vietnam floods toll at 66 Nov 4, 2008
A total of seven more deaths were reported in the northern provinces of Phu Tho, Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang, Hung Yen and Ha Nam, authorities said. In central Vietnam, authorities said Tuesday that three more bodies had been discovered in Ha Tinh province, bringing the total there to 15. (International Herald Tribune)
Floodwaters start to recede in Vietnam capital Nov 3, 2008
Authorities reported six deaths in the northern provinces of Vinh Phuc, Bac Giang and Thai Nguyen on Monday. The central Nghe An province became worst-hit after 10 more bodies were recovered Monday, bringing the death toll there to 22, said provincial disaster official Nguyen Dinh Thuy. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Vietnam Flooding Leaves at Least 20 Dead, With More Storms Predicted Today Nov 2, 2008
The government advised Ninh Binh, Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Bac Giang and Thai Nguyen provinces, all of which are north of Hanoi, to prepare for rising water, flash floods and landslides. River levels are 4 meters (13 feet) above normal, it said in a separate posted earlier yesterday, citing the. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Flash floods kill 97, leave 48 missing in Vietnam Aug 11, 2008
The flash floods had, by 21:00 Sunday, claimed at least 97 lives, left 48 people missing, and injured 38 others in the 10 provinces of Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Quang Ninh, Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang, Bac Can, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen and Lai Chau, the newspaper quoted statistics from the provincial Anti-Flood and Storm Steering Committees as reporting. Lao Cai was hardest hit with 36 deaths and 38 missing, followed by Yen Bai with the respective figures of 35 and three, and Ha Giang nine and two. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam reports additional pig disease-hit provinces Apr 22, 2008
Now, PRRS is hitting the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh in the northern region, and HaTinh, Quang Nam, Nghe An, Lam Dong and Thua Thien Hue in the central region, said the department. PRRS was first recognized in the United States in the mid-1980sand is now present in most pig producing countries. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam strengthens anti-bird flu activities Feb 18, 2008
Vietnam currently has four localities having poultry being hit by bird flu: northern Thai Nguyen, central Quang Binh province, northern Quang Ninh province and southern Long An province, the Department of Animal Health under the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said Feb. 17. Editor: Sun Yunlong. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnamese man dies from bird flu Feb 14, 2008
Vietnam currently has two localities having poultry being hit by bird flu: northern Thai Nguyen and central Quang Binh province, according to the Department of Animal Health under the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country, the department said. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam alert to bird flu outbreaks among fowls, humans Feb 6, 2008
Bird flu case were found in two northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Tuyen Quang and the central province of Quang Binh. Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and chairman of Vietnam's Anti-Bird flu Steering Committee, in late January asked sectors and localities nationwide to assign officials and specialists to go to grassroots levels to timely detect potential bird flu outbreaks right at households, and intensify vaccination against bird flu viruses among fowls. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam reports more bird flu outbreaks Jan 23, 2008
On Jan. 22, the Department of Animal Health under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed that the country currently has three localities being hit by bird flu, namely, southern Tra Vinh province and the two northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Tuyen Quang. It has yet to confirm the bird flu outbreak in Quang Binh. (Xinhuanet, China)
Nearly 5% of poultry in Vietnam bear bird flu viruses Jan 9, 2008
Bird flu is now hitting northern Thai Nguyen province and southern Tra Vinh province, said the department. Editor: Du Guodong. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam reports 2nd locality hit by bird flu Jan 4, 2008
HANOI, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's northern Thai Nguyen province has been stricken by bird flu, raising the current number of affected localities in the country to two, local newspaper People's Army reported Friday. On Jan. 1, bird flu hit a flock of 350 white-winged ducks aged two months raised by a household in Song Cong town, the newspaper quoted the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as reporting. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam confirms bird flu human fatality Dec 27, 2007
Before the latest human cases of bird flu infections, Vietnam had detected seven bird flu patients from the five northern provinces of Vinh Phuc, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Ha Nam and Ha Tay since May 10, of whom four died, according to the ministry's Preventive Medicine Department. Editor: Du Guodong. (Xinhuanet, China)
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With the availability of Peacework opportunities in the United States, Thai Nguyen, a national citizen of Vietnam, experiences the pleasure of visiting the United States and making friends with its citizens. This is my third trip and I visit with my American family, Nguyen said. (Stuttgart Daily Leader, AR)
Feature: Vietnamese province bordering China thriving Oct 27, 2007
"Besides my own fruit business, I'm planning to pour money into a transport company of my friend. The transport business here is very lucrative because many businesspeople in northern localities such as Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Hai Phong and Bac Ninh hire transport enterprises in Lao Cai to transport Chinese steel billets and steel products," she said, noting that her friend's company has 5-6 contracts on transporting thousands of tons of the Chinese imports a month. Not only people from Lao Cai but... (Xinhuanet, China)
Bird flu virus strain in Vietnam mutates Oct 10, 2007
Vietnam has detected seven bird flu patients from the five northern provinces of Vinh Phuc, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Ha Nam and Ha Tay since May 10, of whom four died, according to the Preventive Medicine Department under the Vietnamese Health Ministry. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural... (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam imports more bird flu vaccines from China Sep 4, 2007
Bird flu is now hitting three communes in northern Thai Nguyen province and the two southern provinces of Dong Thap and Tra Vinh, according to the department. Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country. (Xinhuanet, China)
Bird flu spreads in Vietnam Aug 26, 2007
Nearly 700 ducks and young chicken were culled to contain the outbreaks in northern Thai Nguyen province and the southern Mekong delta province of Dong Thap, the national animal health department said in an online report. Vietnam has now reported recent bird flu outbreaks in four of its 64 provinces and municipalities, including northwestern Dien Bien province near the Lao border as well as Cao Bang near China. (INQ7.net)
Vietnam bird flu spreads Aug 26, 2007
The outbreak of H5N1 in the northern province of Thai Nguyen and Dong Thap to the south brought to four the number of provinces on the Government's bird-flu radar ... On Wednesday, 150 ducks and 35chickens fell sick in Thai Nguyen, 80 kilometres north of Hanoi, and tests confirmed they had the H5N1 virus. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Vietnam reports bird flu outbreaks in 2 provinces Aug 25, 2007
Bird flu outbreaks have recently been spotted in Vietnam's southern Dong Thap province and northern Thai Nguyen province, according to the country's Department of Animal Health on Saturday ... On Aug. 22, 150 ducks and 35 chickens raised by a household in Thai Nguyen's Pho Yen district were sick ... Bird flu now is hitting four communes in the three northern provinces of Dien Bien, Cao Bang and Thai Nguyen, and Dong Thap, said the department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural... (People's Daily Online)
Journey from the Fall Jul 13, 2007
In the meantime, Long's wife, Mai (Diem Lien in a measured, beautifully wrought performance), struggles to leave the country with her young son Lai (Nguyen Thai Nguyen) and mother (a powerful Kieu Chinh). We watch as they arrange to board a rickety ship and lie low in a stuffy hold in a desperate attempt to reach the United States. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Vietnam reports second bird flu human death since late 2005 Jun 24, 2007
Since late 2005, Vietnam has confirmed five human cases of bird flu infections, of whom two have died, two from the northern provinces of Vinh Phuc and Thanh Hoa have been discharged from hospital, and one from northern Thai Nguyen province has still been under treatment at the hospital. All of the bird flu patients have either had direct contact with or eaten dead fowls, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan said recently, noting that H5N1 has yet to mutate, and medicine Tamiflu... (People's Daily Online)
A powerful 'Journey' from Vietnam to America Jun 22, 2007
His wife, Mai (Diem Lien), tries to keep the faith at home but ultimately gives in to her husband's wishes that she smuggle herself out of the country along with their young son, Lai (Nguyen Thai Nguyen), and her mother-in-law (Kieu Chinh) ... Starring: Long Nguyen, Diem Lien, Kieu Chinh, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Jayvee Mai The Hiep, Khanh Doan, Cat Ly. (Boston Globe)
Vietnamese bird flu patient recovers fully Jun 12, 2007
Now, a local man from northern Thai Nguyen province, the country's second bird flu patient since November 2005, is under treatment at the city-based Tropical Disease Hospital. He worked at a poultry slaughterhouse in Hanoi on May 14 and developed bird flu symptoms five days later. (Xinhuanet, China)
Vietnam reports 2 suspected bird flu cases Jun 5, 2007
HANOI, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Two people from Vietnam's northern Thai Nguyen have been hospitalized after exhibiting bird flu symptoms, according to local newspaper Youth on Tuesday ... Since late May, Vietnam has confirmed two local men, one from Thai Nguyen and other from northern Vinh Phuc province, as the two latest cases of bird flu infections in the country since mid-November 2005 ... The man from Thai Nguyen's Pho Yen district, who worked at a poultry slaughterhouse in the capital city on May... (Xinhuanet, China)
Bird flu winging it around Vietnam again...more humans affected Jun 5, 2007
To date a total of 42 Vietnamese have died since the virus re-surfaced in Asia in late 2003; the latest human cases are in two men, from the northern provinces of Vinh Phuc and Thai Nguyen. Both men had contact with poultry shortly before becoming ill; the first patient, from Vinh Phuc, helped slaughter chickens at a friend's wedding early last month and later developed high fever. (News-Medical.net)
Bird flu hits more ducklings in northern Vietnam Jun 3, 2007
Regarding recent human cases, doctors reported on Saturday to a government meeting on bird flu prevention on two men, from the northern provinces of Vinh Phuc and Thai Nguyen. The first patient, from Vinh Phuc, helped slaughter chickens at a friend's wedding early last month before he developed high fever. (Reuters AlertNet)
Poultry die en masse in three Vietnamese localities May 30, 2007
Fowls have died en masse in 's central Quang Ngai province and the two northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Thanh Hoa over the past few days, local media reported Wednesday. The fowls might have died of having been infected with virus strain H5, said Labor newspaper. (People's Daily Online, China)
Foot-and-mouth disease hits N Vietnam Apr 25, 2007
HANOI, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Quang Ninh have been stricken by foot-and-mouth disease, according to a local veterinary agency on Wednesday. The disease has hit Dai Tu district in Thai Nguyen since April 12, affecting six bulls and buffaloes, and 14 pigs, and the two districts of Ba Che and Tien Yen in Quang Ninh since April 5, affecting 27 bulls and buffaloes and 14 pigs, said the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and... (Xinhuanet, China)
Foot-and-mouth disease hits 2 Vietnamese provinces Feb 23, 2007
Now, the disease has hit 18 communes in five provinces, namely Tuyen Quang, Yen Bai and Thai Nguyen in the north, and Phu Yen andKon Tum in the central region, said the department. Under a national agriculture development plan approved by the government in 2005, Vietnam will, by 2010, have 35-40 million pigs,6. (Xinhuanet, China)
