Dr. Mattias Larsson. — Photo courtesy of Family Medical Practice Hanoi Viet Nam News By Dr. Mattias Larsson* In an earlier article I brought up the problem with overuse of antibiotics and how it makes it increasingly more difficult to treat common infections and in some cases where there are no antibiotics left to use (vietnamnews.vn/life-style/481171/the-antibiotic-apocalypse-and-what-you-can-do-to-prevent-it.html#SvckYvh8ha0PlXCO.97). The other day I had a patient who was diagnosed with pneumonia. The family had a relative who had been treated at a larger Vietnamese hospital and during that time caught an hospital infection and died. Our patient was treated with IV antibiotics for five days as we could not guarantee that any oral antibiotics would work due to resistance. The outcome was fine and the child survived. But it is a problem that even with the strongest IV antibiotics we don’t always know if the treatment will be effective. The tragedy of the commons is … [Read more...] about How we waste the asset of antibiotics
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Want more foreign talents? Then streamline your labor policies
Nguyen Khac Giang, a researcher at the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research Several years ago I used to work for an English language publisher. Naturally, that meant we needed native editors who had both excellent editing and language skills. To find someone like that in Vietnam was difficult to start with. But it was even more difficult to get them on board considering the paperwork required to bring them into our labor system was copious. So we decided to "fly under the radar" either through signing temporary contracts with editors for under three months or getting them without a contract at all. This happens all the time at small and medium businesses, especially in the education sector. It’s not uncommon to find an English-teaching center employing foreign teachers without official contracts, and the trend has been on the rise in the last few years. Vietnam’s work policies for expats may have been simplified since 2016, but it is still nowhere near … [Read more...] about Want more foreign talents? Then streamline your labor policies
BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 10/10
VinaCapital officially ends investment in poultry firm Ba Huan Ba Huan JSC, the country's leading pasteurized eggs and poultry meat producer, has decreased its charter capital from VND280 billion (US$12 million) to VND222 billion (US$9.53 million), effectively ending the involvement of VinaCapital, one of the two largest asset management firms in Vietnam, with the company. This results in an increase in the stake holding of domestic shareholders from 66.2% to 83.6%, of which Ba Huan's Director Pham Thi Huan owns 64%. In Feburary, VinaCapital`s flagship fund Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF) invested US$32.5 million to acquire a significant minority stake in Ba Huan. However, in early July, Ba Huan sought Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc's intervention in terminating its partnership with VinaCapital. The firm said there were differences between the English and Vietnamese versions of the agreement and the terms were not what the two parties had agreed initially. Among … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 10/10
EC delegation to inspect IUU fishing in Vietnam
Tuna are brought to a market in Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - A working delegation from the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries will visit Vietnam from May 16 to 23. The delegation will inspect the country’s implementation of the EC’s nine recommendations related to the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyen Xuan Cuong have guided the Directorate of Fisheries and 28 coastal cities and provinces over receiving the EC delegation. The Directorate of Fisheries has sent a document to urge and direct 28 localities, as well as associations and businesses to complete dossiers on the fight against IUU fishing before April 23. After the inspection, the EU will give its final decision over whether it seeks to withdraw the “yellow card” from Vietnamese offshore seafood. On October … [Read more...] about EC delegation to inspect IUU fishing in Vietnam
In gateway to Europe, Brexit backers eagerly await divorce day
With one year to go until Brexit, there are fears in Dover of long tailbacks for trucks because of additional customs red tape. (Photo: AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas) With one year to go until Britain's planned exit on Mar 29, 2019, there are fears in this gateway to Europe of long tailbacks because of additional customs red tape. But the mood is mostly defiant in Dover, where 62 per cent voted in favour of leaving the European Union in a 2016 referendum - far higher than the national tally of 52 percent. "It was the right decision to vote to get out," Sofia Cairns, who moved to Britain from Poland 37 years ago, told AFP in one of the southeastern English town's squares. "God established these borders for each country and that's how it should stay," she said. Outside his home, another Brexit supporter, Michael O'Leary, said he was confident that any disruption to the trade traffic that is the town's lifeblood would be only temporary. "I think it's going to gridlock for a while, but all … [Read more...] about In gateway to Europe, Brexit backers eagerly await divorce day