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Authorities in Laos have arrested a popular young Lao musician and producer known for singing songs criticizing official corruption in the one-party communist state, sources in the country say.
Syphone Vongchinda, better known as Ther Una, was taken into custody last week in the Sepon district of Savannakhet province in southern Laos, according to a district police officer and his neighbors.
“According to reports, he was summoned and taken away by provincial police,” the district police officer told RFA’s Lao Service on July 27, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I don’t know why they arrested him, he said.
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Vietnam has rescinded a recent endorsement of 12 traditional medicines as effective treatment against COVID-19 after promotion of the herbal remedies by the country’s health ministry caused an outcry among experts.
Nguyen Truong Son, the deputy health minister, issued a dispatch on bolstering COVID-19 prevention measures with traditional medicines and herbal products on Saturday only to recall it Monday after it created a backlash among pharmacists and started a storm on social media over the weekend.
Son explained the withdrawal saying that it had some inappropriate content that the ministry spotted only after publishing the dispatch.
According to the
VietnamPlus online newspaper, after seeing the dispatch, experts and pharmaceutical industry employees expressed anger that many of the listed supplements and products do not work on COVID-19.
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