Referee Nguyen Hien Triet gives a red card to an Indonesia player in the final of AFF U22 Cup with Thailand, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February 26, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Anh Giang. Referee Nguyen Hien Triet of the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company passed out during a physical examination on Monday. The Referee Committee of V. League 2019 conducted the physical test to evaluate the umpires’ quality and fitness for the second leg of the tournament in Hanoi’s Hang Day Stadium. The refs had to take two tests including running 40 meters six times, a stamina test with 40 times running 75 meters and walking 25 meters, with breaks. The assistant refs also took the same tests, but instead of running 40 meters six times, they only had to run 30 meters five times. Hanoi's temperatures were 26-31 degrees Celsius (79-88 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday and were considered cool with zero heat. But FIFA certified referee Triet fainted while doing his runs. Triet was … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s FIFA certified referee faints during physical exam
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Thousands of city students join exam assistance programme
Thousands of student volunteers in HCM City are taking part in Tiếp sức mùa thi (Assistance during Exam Season) programme this year. — VNA/VNS Photo Xuân Dự HCM CITY — More than 20,000 student volunteers at colleges and universities are taking part in HCM City’s Tiếp sức mùa thi (Assistance during Exam Season) programme to offer help to candidates and their relatives. The annual programme was launched on Sunday by the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union’s HCM City chapter, in collaboration with Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper and Thiên Long Group. Lê Xuân Dũng, deputy director of the HCM City Student Assistance Centre and head of the programme’s organising board in the city, said all volunteers had received training in knowledge and skills to offer assistance effectively. Volunteer groups would closely work with authorised agencies … [Read more...] about Thousands of city students join exam assistance programme
HCM City boosts medical cooperation with RoK’s Gyeonggi province
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Hospital managers, renowned doctors and investors from the Republic of Korea’s Gyeonggi province attended a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on June 4 to study investment opportunities in the field of health care in the southern economic hub. Director the municipal Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh said his department and the Gyeonggi counterpart had signed minutes in 2018 on cooperation in human resources training, professional and management experience exchanges, and information technology application to serve medical examination and treatment. Under this document, 24 Vietnamese students were sent to the RoK for professional exchanges and intensive training, he said, adding that the RoK province also assisted Vietnam in research, diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and cancer as well as in healthcare management issues. Ryu Yong Chol, director of Gyeonggi’s health department, evaluated HCM City as … [Read more...] about HCM City boosts medical cooperation with RoK’s Gyeonggi province
Where are the top 10 exam scorers studying?
VietNamNet Bridge - The students who got the highest scores at the national high-school finals have successfully enrolled in the universities of their choice. Hoang Duc Thuan, the highest scorer at Hanoi Pharmacy University Hoang Duc Thuan, a math major at the Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted in Phu Tho province, is the highest scorer at Hanoi Pharmacy University. At first, Thuan registered to study at the Information Technology Faculty of the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences. But later, after consideration, he decided to apply for the pharmacy school. Thuan was famous before he appeared in local newspapers with his impressive exam results. He got 28.25 scores for three A-group exam subjects (10 for math, 9.5 for physics and 8.75 for chemistry). Thuan said the 10 score for math was a surprise. The won first prize at the provincial competition for excellent students in math when he was in 12th grade and first prize at the Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition when he was in the … [Read more...] about Where are the top 10 exam scorers studying?
University Medical Centre performs 1st liver transplant
A liver transplantation team from ASAN Medical Centre and the HCM City University Medical Centre successfully performed the first living donor liver transplant at the HCM City University Medical Centre. Photo courtesy of the HCM City University Medical CentreViet Nam News HCM CITY — A 50-year-old patient who received the first living donor liver transplant by doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre, with medical assistance from South Korean’s ASAN Medical Centre, is recovering well more than a month after surgery. The male patient received a portion of a healthy liver taken from his 33-year-old wife, who has a blood type compatible with that of her husband, according to doctors at the centre. The man had serious liver disease, including cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis B and early stage liver cancer that had not spread to other parts of his body, Trần Công Duy Long, deputy head of the hospital’s hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery … [Read more...] about University Medical Centre performs 1st liver transplant