The Asia-wide death toll from Tropical Storm Chanchu rose to 91 on Friday, with nearly 250 Vietnamese fisherman still missing at sea and 28 reported dead as the tempest moved offshore again after battering southern China. The storm has cut a path of destruction across several countries and territories around the South China Sea.
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/ 15 October 2005
The top United States health official trudged on Saturday through a Vietnamese market where live chickens are sold and slaughtered in an effort to get a very first-hand look at the difficulties of controlling bird flu. US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt was finishing up a four-country tour of South-East Asia.
The monkey temples on the resort island of Bali are a perfect photo opportunity for tourists feeding bananas to man’s closest relative, but most visitors are likely unaware they’re at risk of contracting a little-known retrovirus recently found to jump from primates to people in Asia.
In the last days before the fall of Saigon, Nguyen Thanh Trung was a pilot with a mission to bomb the presidential palace and United States embassy. Thirty years later, his ambition is to pilot the first direct Vietnam Airlines flight to the United States. Nguyen Huu Co was a general in the last South Vietnamese Cabinet. Now, at 81, he’s off to Nebraska to see his granddaughter graduate from college.
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/ 12 January 2004
A bird flu outbreak that has sickened nearly 600 000 chickens in Vietnam is suspected of being linked to the deaths of 10 children and an adult in Hanoi, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. Viruses in both the chickens and the people appear to be similar — but further testing is being done.