A tourist bus erupted in flames and casualties were scattered nearby after a horror crash in China.
The collision with a truck left six dead today, five of them Germans, and another 14 injured, according to local reports. Read article
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Bhutan is facing a major health concern with the rising cases of Hepatitis B infection. Tucked in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, with a population of just over 650,000, is bordered to the west, south and east by India and in the north by China. Bhutan launched Hepatitis B vaccine in 1997 after high prevalence of […]
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LEGAZPI CITY, ALBAY, Philippines – Chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne disease, struck a village on Batan Island of the town of Rapu-Rapu in Albay, afflicting some 83 villagers, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said Monday. Salceda said he has directed Dr. Luis Mendoza, the provincial health officer, to check on the reported sudden rise of the chikungunya […]
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This summer, four young women set off on vacations in Southeast Asia. Here’s what they had in common: they were all from North America; they were all in their 20s; they were all pretty, bright, adventurous. And one more commonality: they are all now dead. Two of these deaths occurred in June in Thailand, two […]
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BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese besieged the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, hurling rocks, eggs and bottles, and protests broke out in other Chinese cities in an angry dispute over a group of remote islands.Paramilitary police with shields and batons barricaded the embassy, holding back and sometimes fighting with slogan-chanting, flag-waving protesters who at […]
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Seven people, including three French and one Russian, were found after losing contacts for more than a day at a mountainous tourist site in southeast China’s Fujian Province, local firefighters said Sunday. The seven were in good condition when being found at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Shibachongxi mountain valley with dozens of rivers and […]
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A man who died at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital last month was a victim of what is probably Vietnam’s first-ever recorded case of the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. The Hospital of Tropical Diseases said Wednesday (August 29) a male patient named P.V.T., 25, of Phu Yen Province died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis – […]
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A SUDDEN surge of Hepatitis A cases were reported in a town in the farthest province of the region, the Department of Health (DOH)-Cordillera reported. DOH medical officer Dr. Amelita Pangilinan said the Regional Epidemiological Surveillance Unit reported a rapid increase of Viral Hepatitis in Cabugao, Apayao from June 22 to September 3. Read article
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The acting head of the Veterinary Agency, Mr. Hoang Van Nam, said the new virus still belongs to the 2.3.2.1 virus branch but it is different from the 2.3.2.1 virus (both A and B groups,) which caused the avian flu epidemic in Vietnam last year. Nam said that this virus can make the avian flue […]
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Sri Lankan police arrested a Chinese tourist suspected of swallowing a diamond worth 1.8 million rupees ($13,600) on Wednesday at the island nation’s biggest international gem and jewelry exhibition. Chow Cheng, 32, is believed to have swallowed the diamond as he inspected it at the exhibition, attended by buyers from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, India […]
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