Only oral cavity and pharynx cancers in Vietnam veterans were significantly elevated, although the doubling of risk on nasal/nasopharyngeal cancer in Vietnam veterans is of interest in light of findings in other studies. The continuing excess of soft tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s Disease is consistent with findings in other studies of people exposed to herbicides. The tim...

Recent investigations of Southeast Asian white toothed shrews belonging to the genus Crocidura have revealed discrepancies between the results of morphological and molecular studies. The following study concerns three species of Crocidura occurring in Vietnam, namely Crocidura attenuata, Crocidura tanakae and Crocidura wuchihensis, and an undescribed fourth species revealed by molecular analysi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among school-going adolescents. METHODS This cross-sectional study consisted of a secondary analysis of existing cross-sectional survey data from the Global School-based Health Survey from Cambodia and Vietnam in 2013, and comprised schoolchildren. Data was analysed using Stata 13.. RESULTS The study comprised 7,137 schoo...

BACKGROUND The monotypic genus Wenchengia (Lamiaceae) has been thought to be endemic to Hainan, China. This paper reports on historic records of Wenchengia alternifolia collected from Vietnam. The recent recuration and modernisation of the Paris herbarium greatly facilitated this discovery. NEW INFORMATION During preparatory work supporting the account for the Lamiaceae of the Flora of Thaila...

ABSTRACT In the past few years, dairy industry has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry of Vietnam. However, the value-added creation among different activities in the value chain of Vietnam dairy sector is distributed unequally. In the production activities, the dairy farmers gain low value-added rate due to high input cost. Whereas the processing activities,...

This paper by adopting the Software on Market Analysis and Restrictions on Trade assessed the ex-ante impact of tariff elimination under the European-Vietnam free trade agreement (EVFTA) on Vietnam's pharmaceutical imports from the EU based on two scenarios. The results showed that although Vietnam's tariff removal for the EU's medicines would not result in a significant increase in Vietnam's i...

Of the subfamilies and genera known from Vietnam, the following taxa are treated in this second part of the series entitled "Generic Synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam": Cerapachyinae: Cerapachys, Simopone; Aenictinae: Aenictus; Dorylinae: Dorylus; Leptanillinae: Leptanilla, Protanilla; Amblyoponinae: Myopopone, Mystrium, Opamyrma, Prionopelta, Stigmatomma; Ponerinae: Anochetus, Brachyponera...

Seventeen species of Strongylophthalmyia are recognized in the fauna of Vietnam, including eight new species: Strongylophthalmyia annulipessp. n., Strongylophthalmyia basisternasp. n., Strongylophthalmyia dichroasp. n., Strongylophthalmyia gavryushinisp. n., Strongylophthalmyia obtectasp. n., Strongylophthalmyia orchidanthaesp. n., Strongylophthalmyia strictasp. n., Strongylophthalmyia tomentos...

This study investigates the factors underpinning continuous improvement (CI) effectiveness in Vietnam. Based on survey data collected from 490 participants plus interviews and discussions with 130 business professionals with extensive knowledge of Vietnam, it identifies top management commitment as a major factor critical to the success of CI in that country. In addition, the paper highlights c...

Increasing antimicrobial resistance to key antibiotics in Helicobacter pylori has become a main cause of treatment failures in many countries, including Vietnam. For this reason it is advisable to perform antimicrobial sensitivity tests to provide more focused regimens for H. pylori eradication. However, this approach is generally unavailable for H. pylori in Vietnam and the selection of treatm...