First white tigers displayed at Saigon Zoo
Ho Chi Minh City’s Saigon Zoological
and Botanical garden has put on display two white tigers (Panthera
tigris tigris) on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.
Over 10,000 people die of A/H1N1
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on
December 18 confirmed that the A/H1N1 flu had killed more than 10,000
people in 208 countries and territories across the world since its
outbreak in April.
Politics
PM Dung enhances ties with Holland, Nepal, Kuwait
The Vietnamese government attaches
importance to cooperating with the Netherlands in the areas of economy,
trade, investment and development aid.
President Triet meets newly-appointed ambassadors
President Nguyen Minh Triet has
expressed his delight at the development of friendship and cooperation
between Vietnam and Palestine, the Philippines, Algeria, Armenia,
and Nepal.
Hanoi hosts training course on potatoes
A training course started on Nov. 30 in
Hanoi to instruct 21 agricultural technicians from ten Asian countries
on how to develop a potato industry, from planting to processing, in
rural Asia.
Asian economies face challenges in meeting MDGs for health
Asian and Asian Pacific countries continue to make progress in
reducing poverty but hunger still remains widespread and many economies
are struggling to fulfil their other Millennium Development Goals
(MDG), including reductions in maternal mortality rates and access to
sanitation.
Floods claim dozens of lives in Asia
Flash floods and landslides occurring
in Southwestern and Eastern China last weekend left 29 dead and
missing, injured dozens others, and seriously damaged the country’ s
transport infrastructure.
