04.15.09
Posted in Health at 3:15 pm by heaven
Taipei - The Taipei City Government Wednesday set up a suicide prevention centre, in an effort to reduce the local suicide rate, seen as the second highest in Asia after Japan. Mayor Hau Lung-bin unveiled the opening of the centre, staffed by eight s...
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Manila - The Philippines on Wednesday launched a programme to immunize about half a million children below 5 years of age this year, to help prevent child deaths from illnesses which kill some 82,000 children every year. Health Secretary Francisco Du...
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04.14.09
Posted in Health at 11:06 am by heaven
Geneva - Somali pirates are in danger of again threatening food supplies for the war-ravaged East African country, the UN food agency warned on Tuesday. Piracy is a constant concern for the World Food Programme, said spokeswoman Emilia Casella - no...
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Posted in Health at 10:23 am by heaven
Darmstadt, Germany - A member of Germany's leading female pop band has been arrested for allegedly having unprotected sex despite being HIV positive, lawyers said Tuesday. Nadja Benaissa, a 26-year-old singer with the group No Angels, is to have had ...
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Posted in Health at 10:06 am by heaven
Beijing - A Chinese anti-tobacco group is petitioning the country's trademark authority, asking it to ban the use of the name of the country's leadership compound as a cigarette brand, state media reported. Zhongnanhai, the name of the central leader...
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