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French national plants cannabis on Hanoi’s Red River alluvial ground

The police in Hanoi’s Long Bien district have discovered a 3,000m2 garden of cannabis allegedly planted by a French national on the Red River.

HCM City seizes over nine kilos of drugs from Europe

The HCMC Department of Customs teamed up with various competent forces to examine four packages sent from Europe to Vietnam on June 16 and confiscated over nine kilograms of ecstasy pills worth VND20 billion, 

Few pharma firms in VN eye big earnings growth in 2020

Pharmaceutical firms are not entirely confident with performance in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the global supply chain up-side-down.

 

Coronavirus and chloroquine: Is there evidence it works?

Some world leaders are keen on chloroquine anti-malarial drugs to treat Covid-19 - what's the evidence?

Pharma giants seek to cash in on local market potential

While several sectors are being hit by the coronavirus outbreak, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is taking an advantage, with numerous expansion strategies among players being placed in the gun barrel.

Female international drug trafficker arrested in Hai Phong

Police in Haiphong have successfully arrested a Vietnamese woman suspected of being the gang leader of an international drug trafficking ring between the northern port city and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Common drug could prevent thousands of head injury deaths

Researchers say tranexamic acid treatment has potential to save tens of thousands of lives

Laotian drug trafficker arrested in central Vietnam

 A Laotian citizen was arrested attempting to illegally transport drugs into Vietnam on May 28.

Could your medications be making you depressed?

 When you hear of a drug having side-effects you might think of a physical reaction like a rash or a headache.

Prostate cancer immune system drug results could be 'spectacular'

 Drugs that boost the immune system have saved the lives of some men with terminal prostate cancer, say doctors in the UK.

Drugs, weapons seized from bar in HCM City

 Police seized many drugs and weapons while raiding the Top 9 bar in District 3, HCM City, early yesterday morning.

HIV cure continues to evade doctors

 Giving drugs within hours of HIV infection is not a cure, say doctors treating a baby in Milan, Italy.

Red tape, lack of funds hinders drug treatment

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Sept 10 called on agencies and localities to speed up the treatment of drug addicts throughout the nation.

Social News Headlines 19/3

 Prolonged drought damages farming production; A/H1N1 flu-infected cases on the rise; Gambling ring faces trial in Bac Ninh; Vietnam-Japan College to be established; Vietnam calls for int’l efforts against drugs

Crime rates, gang violence show steady rise in 2013

 VietNamNet Bridge – Criminal activity rose in 2013 driven by increases in cases relating to drugs, human trafficking and social evils, according to a recent report on public security.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/12

 IFC to invest in Vietnamese SMEs; Wood exports to pick up; Hanoi inaugurates its largest entertainment complex; Vietnam sees higher trade surplus; Vietnam ranks third in shrimp exports

Many famous discotheques in Saigon raided

 VietNamNet Bridge - Suspected as sensitive places which are the home to prostitutes, drug addicts and gangsters, a series of large discotheques in Saigon have been checked.

Import medicine dislodges locally-made products

 VietNamNet Bridge – Expensive imported medicine has been dominating the Vietnamese market, a poor country with the average income per capita at $1,000 a year.

Tien Giang: Judge uses drugs with his girlfriend in a hotel

The police of My Tho City on June 8 caught Judge Pham Hoai Nam of the People's Court of My Tho City and a woman named Tran Ngoc Dieu, 22, in the act of using drugs at a hotel.

Hanoi: Growing opium as medical herbs

VietNamNet Bridge - There are rumors about the great features of the wine soaked poppy; some people grew opium at home as medical herbs.