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Laughing yoga helps improve health for practitioners

Laughing yoga is gradually becoming popular in the world, attracting more people to practice. 

How likely are you live to 90? Depends on your gender and body size

 Living to the ripe old age of 90 may depend on your body size -- both height and weight -- as well as your level of physical activity, and seems to influence a woman's lifespan more than it does a man's, 

Social News 4/2

Stakeholders share int’l experiences on bear bile farming, Education, health, gender equality top SDG priorities: survey, Scholarships, gifts given to people in need ahead of Tet, Vietnam to raise forest coverage, exports

Health of banking system in decline

 VietNamNet Bridge – The health of the local banking system is falling, which is evident in its capital adequacy ratio (CAR) drop.

$285mil project to improve Vietnamese’s average height poses big concerns

 VietNamNet Bridge - Economists and journalists are skeptical about the numbers on Vietnam’s social and economic indicators. Few people pay attention to a number that is also very important – the average height of Vietnamese people.

Balloon explosion injures three

 A balloon explosion in Hai Phong's Hung Nhue Vuong Street left three people seriously injured and a 14sq.m apartment with no roof.

Can Tho City’s Chairman out of danger

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly three weeks after a stroke which lead to a coma, Chairman of Can Tho City – Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son – is recovering and begins to recognize things around him.

Rate of incorrect diagnosis is very high

More than half of the patients who should be treated at the district level hospitals and more than one third of those only needing treatment at the provincial level hospitals go to central level hospitals for treatment. Why?

Go to "healthy market" in Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge – The wretched life of patients and their relatives at hospitals is revealed at a photo exhibition named “Health Market” at No. 45 Trang Tien, Ha Noi.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 7/12

  Vietnam, US boost public-private health cooperation; Man seized for making fake certificates; Ha Noi to remove extra-thin houses; EU donates medical equipment to Ha Nam

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 3/12

  Efforts made to shake off Agent Orange hangover; Laos, Vietnam celebrate 50 years of labour cooperation; Seed Fund launched to assist deserving youth; Law Committee's France tour ends