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Women
charged for selling baby
One of the
defendants is Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang (L), 37, who was in charge of caring for
the children, while the other is Pham Thi Nguyet, 35, from Ninh Binh
Province.- Photo giaothongvantai
The investigation
into allegations that a baby was sold from a pagoda in Ha Noi has moved
forward today after police announced they had submitted evidence to
authorities for consideration.
Two women were
arrested last Sunday for allegedly selling a nine-month-old baby from Bo De
Pagoda, a home for orphaned and abandoned children in Long Bien District.
One of the
defendants is Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang, 37, who was in charge of caring for the
children, while the other is Pham Thi Nguyet, 35, from
Preliminary
investigations show that Trang and Nguyet sold the boy for VND35 million
($1,650).
The women are
charged with "trading in, fraudulently exchanging or appropriating
children", and could spend the rest of their lives in prison under the
Criminal Code.
Facebook
accounts locked in Vietnam
On August 12,
Facebook suddenly locked the accounts of many users in
The move was a
surprise to many account-holders, who were sent a message saying that there
was suspicious activity detected. "It's likely that your account was
compromised as a result of entering your password on a website designed to
look like Facebook," read the message.
Those who received
the message had to re-enter their private information and create a new
password in order to access their accounts.
One user stated,
"I'm surprised. I don't know if this was caused by a hacker or not, but
I feel uncomfortable divulging my personal information a second time. I
haven't violated any law or the terms and conditions of Facebook, yet my
account has been locked."
Another user
commented that dozens of her co-workers faced the same problem. Many see it
as a glitch, but the actual reasons are unclear at this point. Under normal
circumstances a Facebook account can be locked if a particular user has been
reported of violating the site's terms, but a blanket closing of accounts
appears to many as something more than a minor glitch.
Reporters are still
trying to get in touch with representatives of the firm for an official
statement.
Dengue
fever increases remarkably in HCMC
Since the beginning
of this year, the city’s hospitals and medical centers have admitted nearly
4,500 people infected with dengue fever and the number of dengue positive
cases in July doubled that of June, according to statistics from the HCMC
Preventive Medicine Department.
The city has around
70-100 cases dengue fever admitted to hospitals every week, but the figure
jumped to 143 cases a week from the end of July till now with Hoc Mon
District accounting for the highest number of patients.
At the
In HCMC alone,
nearly 2,500 people have been infected with dengue fever since the beginning
of this year and among them are 900 children. Last week, a five-year-old
child from Long An Province died of the disease while another child from
September will be a
high season for many diseases such as dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth disease
and respiratory illness. When the new school year begins later this month,
the disease could spread more quickly as children will gather together and
the epidemic usually peaks in the end of the rainy season, doctors said.
According to
medical specialists, this year’s dengue fever is more serious.
Warnings of
flashfloods in northern region
The national
weather center has given warnings about flashfloods and landslides in
northern upland areas including Bac Can, Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Tuyen Quang, Yen
Bai, Lai Chau and Dien Bien provinces.
The warnings came
out when flash floods triggered by downpours killed six people and injured
four in Tam Duong District,
The national
weather center has forecast that these
The forecaster also
issued flood warnings for localities in the Red and Thai Binh rivers from
Wednesday to Friday. The flood can cause the rivers to surge by two to three
meters in the upstream and one to two meters in the downstream.
Water flows into
Son La Hydropower’s reservoir can reach 8,500 cubic meters a second. Water
levels in the
In specifics,
regions given flashflood warnings in the northern upland includes Pac Nam, Ba
Be, Bach Thong districts and Bac Can Town in Bac Can Province; Hoang Su Phi,
Xin Man, Vi Xuyen, Yen Minh, Bac Me districts and Ha Giang City in Ha Giang
Province; Na Hang, Lam Binh and Chiem Hoa districts in Tuyen Quang Province.
Risks of
flashfloods and landslides are also forecast to happen in some places in the
northwest including Bac Ha, Bat Xat, Muong Khuong, Van Ban and Sa Pa
districts in Lao Cai Province; Mu Cang Chai, Van Chan, Yen Binh, Luc Yen
districts and Yen Bai City in Yen Bai Province; Muong Te, Phong Tho, Sin Ho
and Tam Duong districts in Lai Chau Province; and Muong Lay and Muong Cha
districts in Dien Bien Province.
Downpours and
floods triggered in July by Typhoon Rammasun left 24 people dead in the
north, with three killed by floods in Ha Giang and three by lightning in Lao
Cai.
Landslides and
floods last month also inundated and destroyed over 7,200 houses, 4,300
hectares of crops, 130 hectares of aquaculture areas and nearly 1.7
kilometers of roads. The total damage was estimated at over VND650 billion.
Lao Cai
donates rice to Chinese quake victims
The northern
border
A 6.5 magnitude
earthquake jolted Ludian county, Zhaotung city of
Vietnamese Party
and State leaders sent their condolences to Chinese leaders over heavy losses
in property and human lives caused by the powerful earthquake.
The Viet Flight
Training Joint Stock Company (VFT) on July 12 signed a deal in
At the signing
ceremony, CAA's President Tek Rethsamrach said the deal would greatly
contribute to developing qualified pilots for
The flight training
programme has received US$3 million of funding from the Vietnamese
Government.
Established in
2008, VFT comprises stakeholders from Vietnam Airlines, Vietnam Helicopter of
the Vietnam Ministry of National Defence, Vietnam Aircraft ISC, ESMA Aviation
Academy of France and HIPT Group.
With a wealth of
experience in pilot training, VFT director Nguyen Nam Lien expressed his
belief the company will be able to train professional pilots for CAA.
Bomb
explosion kills two in Phu Yen
Two men were killed
sawing open a bomb yesterday afternoon in coastal central
The men found the
bomb in Da Chat Forest and sawed into it to obtain explosive powder from
inside.
The bodies of the
victims were sent to their families to bury.
Photo of
boy warned for theft shocks public
Recently a photo
was posted on Facebook showing a boy crying and in a panic, with a bunch of
fruit he is said to have stolen hung around his neck, raising public concern.
The boy is 10 years
old, and looks thin and pale in the photo. Almost immediately after its
posting, there was a public outcry concerning the treatment of the boy and
children in general. Although it was removed by the account holder quickly,
the image was re-posted and circulated on the internet.
Reaction to the
image was prompt and critical. Most comments involving this picture did not
lay much blame on the child for his petty theft, but on the heavy-handed
treatment by the store-owner who had caught him and decided to humiliate him
publicly. Many went so far as to say that such treatment can cause real
psychological damage to a child.
A similar case
occurred in
New
university grads prove to be hard hires
While employment
demand has been up in
The site,
Jobstreet.vn announced the results of 630 Vietnamese companies concerning the
country’s human resource market in the third quarter of this year. The
results showed that employment demand increased compared to the same period
last year, evidence of economic improvement.
Of the companies
surveyed, over 59% reported to have a higher human resources demand, while
78% plan to recruit new staff in the second half of this year. The figure is
up 6% compared to the same period.
Hiring demand among
employers increased in the third quarter to just over 63% from about 58% last
year. But the hiring of new graduates fell by almost 8.9%.
According to the
same survey, about 22% of university graduates questioned said they were paid
between VND2 million and VND3 million, while around 29% reported having been
paid between VND3 million and VND4 million. Only 18% were paid VND4 million
to VND5 million.
Even with the low
pay, employers were still hesitant to hire new graduates, as almost 44% of
employers questioned said that young graduates lacked experience and the
skills required for jobs.
In addition, 33% of
surveyed enterprises worried about instability in young employees and said
that they were not confident in the English skills of young employers.
The most surprising
news, perhaps, was that a large minority of university graduates failed to
find a job involving their major.
The Australian
Consulate General in
DAP provides funds
for small-scale development projects with a view to addressing humanitarian
hardship and advancing developmental outcomes for disadvantaged communities.
The average grant
to each project will approximate US$10,000.
The deadline to
apply for the programme is October 10.
For information
about the DAP programme visit the link www.hcmc.vietnam.embassy.gov.au
DAP is a part of
the Australian Government’s larger non-refundable aid programme in Vietnam,
which will provide an estimated AUD141.3 million in fiscal year 2014-2015.
In the 2013-2014
fiscal year, the programme provided AUD130, 000 to 11 projects in the fields
of health care, education and small-scale infrastructure projects.
Market
watchdog seizes medical equipment
The Ha Noi Market
Management Department seized 12 allegedly substandard items of medical
equipment from three private health clinics in Ha Dong District's
The seized
equipment included X-ray, ultrasound and ECG machines.
The owners of the
first two clinics could not produce any documents to show the place of
manufacture of the machines. In the last clinic, the market management
department found an ECG machine being used without any quality verification
done by authorised agencies.
The case is under
investigation.
Hydro-plants
leave Phu Yen residents without resources
Construction works
on the Ba Ha River and
Pham Dinh Phung,
deputy chairman of the Son Hoa District People's Committee, said that the
district had lost more than 1,500ha of cultivated land to make way for the Ba
Ha River Hydroelectricity Plant. Meanwhile, the Song Hinh District had lost
more than 1,600ha of land to the Hinh River Hydroelectricity Plant.
Nearly 300
households in the districts had to be resettled to accommodate the two
plants.
Reports from the
Son Hoa and Song Hinh districts people's committees in the central
Meanwhile, land
surrounding the resettlements was not suitable for cultivating crops, said Phung.
While the plants
are currently operational, construction efforts to build irrigation channels
for resettled residents was lagging behind schedule, said officials.
While the pumping
station in Son Hoa District's Krong Pa Commune was expected to be used across
300ha of rice and farm land, current levels suggest there is only enough
water for 43ha. Similarly, another pumping station in Suoi Trai Commune
designed to water more than 100ha of rice, would only be able to service
around 30ha.
In Song Hinh District,
resettlement quarters in Bau and Hoc villages were also in need of small
irrigational channels to support agricultural production. Even more
seriously, local residents are desperate for clean water to prepare their
food and to drink.
A majority of the
wells in the resettlement quarters had deteriorated and were yet to be
repaired despite multiple requests to district authorities, said Phung.
Local authorities
have failed to deliver policies to provide vocational training and help
residents transition into new jobs, exacerbating skills shortages and
increasing the risk of poverty.
As many as 99.7 per
cent of households in resettlement quarters in the province are surviving on
low incomes.
Dang Thi Kim Chi,
deputy head of the National Assembly delegation from
Local authorities
should have policies for job transitions, crop cultivation and animal
husbandry so that residents can build stable incomes for themselves, she
said.
Enterprises
profiting from the hydroelectricity plants also needed to pay closer
attention to the deteriorated water, road and irrigation infrastructure in
resettlement quarters, she said.
Local authorities
needed to support residents with arable land and adopt a "each office
helps a poor commune, each state worker helps a poor household" approach
approved by the provincial authorities to reduce household poverty rates,
said Chi.
Photonics
forum held in central city
As many as 260
international professors, scientists and researchers gathered at the 8th
International Conference on Photonics and Applications and the National
Spectroscopy conference at the central city of
Scientists from
France, Germany, the US, Japan, South Korea, Belarus and Viet Nam will
present 150 reports on photonics and spectroscopic studies at the four-day
event.
The conference is
also a rendezvous for scientists exchanging experience in studies of quantum
photonics, optics, lasers and nano-physics and applications.
The two-year time
conference will help local scientists and researchers to approach new
innovations and boost co-operation between
Binh Duong
needy students receive scholarships
The National Fund
for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) on August 13 granted 600 scholarships to
outstanding students from needy in southern Binh Duong province.
The scholarships
were presented by Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan who is also chairwoman
of the NFVC Sponsorship Council.
Of the
beneficiaries, 550 were awarded scholarships worth VND3 million, while the
remaining 50, each got VND5 million.
Over the past two
decades, the NFVC has awarded 10,000 scholarships worth VND30 billion to help
needy students in 58 provinces and cities across the country.
VPDF hosts
South-South solidarity conference
A two-day
South-South People’s Solidarity Network (SSPSN) conference opened in
Invited guests and
representatives of social movements and people’s organizations from the
“South-South Countries” comprised of 23 African, Asian and Latin American
countries are attending the conference.
Participants are
discussing and analyzing the current world situation and the impact of
economic globalisation of Countries from the South. They are also addressing
issues pertaining to the lesson learnt by the countries and the experience of
regions, particularly those in
Speaking at the
opening ceremony, former Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh emphasised that
the conference follows the format for previous conferences held at a world
social forum in
“It aims to realise
challenges and opportunities for countries from the South in the
globalisation process in order to propose timely solutions to protect their
independence, self-control and sustainable development,” Binh said.
Binh said that 2015
marks the 60th anniversary of
Next year also
marks formation of the ASEAN Community with the aim of enhancing cooperation
among ASEAN countries for the sake of peace, stability and development in the
region.
Head of the German
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nadja Charaby pointed out challenges for
South-South countries to overcome in the current period and essential support
for efforts to enhance solidarity, develop green growth projects, maintain
traditional connectivity and learn development experience from countries from
the North and the South.
OVs - an
indispensable part of the Vietnamese nation
A Communist Party
of Vietnam (CPV) delegation led by Central Committee Secretary Ha Thi Khiet
is visiting three European countries, aiming to promote solidarity among Overseas
Vietnamese (OVs).
During the
eight-day visit to
At a meeting with
OVs in
Khiet said OVs in
At the meeting all
of the OVs expressed their delight at the national development , displaying a
strong determination to make greater contributions to to the homeland.
Vu Quy Duong,
President of the OVs Association in
Phan Bich Thien,
Chairwoman of the Fund for Hungary-Vietnam Relationship, said OVs in
During their stay
in
Vietnamese
celebrate Buddhist festival in Laos
Overseas Vietnamese
(OVs) in
Vu Lan ceremony is
observed on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month to pay debt of gratitude
towards their parents.
Speaking at the
event, Most Venerable Thich Minh Quang thanked OVs for preserving the noble
moral values of Vietnamese people.
During the
festival, the OVs community in
This year’s event
was attended by many senior Vietnamese and
Social
insurance for seasonal workers
It was necessary
for seasonal labourers or those with labour contracts lasting from one to
three months to join compulsory social insurance, members of National
Assembly's Standing Committee agreed yesterday.
Examining the draft
revisions of Law on Social Insurance yesterday, lawmakers said that the move
would help to expand the number of those benefiting from social insurance and
ensure coverage for workers in the event they lost the ability to work.
Once joining
compulsory social insurance, seasonal labourers and those with contracts
lasting from one to three months could have their premium co-paid by themselves
and their employers. As a result, they will become eligible for pensions in
the event of retirement, death, sickness, pregnancy, work accidents and
occupational diseases.
Chairwoman of NA
Committee for Social Affairs, Truong Thi Mai, said that employers used labour
contracts with terms of less than three months to avoid the obligation to pay
social insurance for employees.
It was estimated
that there are about 16 million labourers signing labour contracts but only
about 10.8 million had joined compulsory social insurance.
Most of the
remaining number had labour contracts lasting from one to three months and
had not bought social insurance.
Part-time officers
at communal and ward People's Committees, including those working for local
social associations of women, the elderly, farmers or the Red Cross would be
proposed to buy social insurance.
At present, there
are about 229,600 part-time commune officers. They are not paid as State
employees but only given allowance subject to local socio-economic
development and local budgets.
According to the
Government's proposal, part-time commune officers should join voluntary
social insurance, implying that they would decide premium rates and terms of
payment. The Government would subsidise the premium.
Mai from the NA
Committee for Social Affairs said that if the revised law required part-time
commune officers to buy voluntary social insurance, it would need to regulate
premium rates and Government support would be less than 10 per cent.
She noted that 23
localities nationwide had supported part-time commune officers in joining
voluntary social insurance.
However, according
to the NA Committee for Social Affairs, which is in charge of assessing
proposed revisions to the law, part-time commune officers should be subject
to compulsory social insurance, at least for two categories of retirement and
death.
The compulsory
social insurance fee is for 22 per cent of the basic salary (VND1,150,000)
and is used as a co-efficient to calculate salaries and allowances for
State-employees.
Part-time commune
officers would have 14 per cent of their basic salary paid by the
State-budget and the other 8 per cent paid by them if they joined compulsory
social insurance.
Mai added that
since 2005,
Chairman of NA
Legal Committee, Phan Trung Ly, said that it was difficult to calculate
pensions for them in the case of sickness, pregnancy or occupational diseases
because they worked part-time at ward/commune People's Committee and had
other business to do outside.
Chairman of the
He agreed with the
proposal about voluntary social insurance for part-time commune officers.
"The premium
should be based on their productivity, their paid allowance," he said.
Members of NA
Standing Committee yesterday also discussed content relating to pension
policies, timelines for paying social insurance and the inspection role of
agencies over social insurance payments by people, organisations and
enterprises.
According to the
bill, the general director of Viet Nam Social Security and directors of its
branches at the provincial level and head of its inspection teams would be
able to decide fines for violators including those that delay or evade paying
social insurance.
In the afternoon,
the committee discussed the proposed veterinary law. The ordinance was
approved by the National Assembly in 2004.
Deputies said it
was an important legal basis for the prevention and control of animal
diseases and epidemics, animal quarantine and slaughtering as well as state
control of veterinary medicines and veterinary jobs.
However, they said
the ordinance had some shortcomings regarding practical applications and
long-term vision.
Members of the NA
Standing Committee agreed that it was necessary to have a veterinary law. One
aspect of the law project under discussion was the competence to announce the
existence of epidemics.
Chairman of the NA
Economics Committee, Nguyen Van Giau, said a law regulation that the chairman
of the commune where the epidemic exists can declare an epidemic was not
rational.
Giau said one of
the conditions for announcing an epidemic was the availability of a diagnosis
by a competent authority identifying the cause of the disease. Thus,
appointing the commune's chairman to announce an epidemic was improper.
Chairman of the NA
Office Nguyen Hanh Phuc suggested the responsibility be assigned to chairman
of the province where the epidemic existed.
Deputies said that
in the diagnosis and investigation of an epidemic, the project law did not
regulate the responsibility of individuals and organisations deal with sick
animals to inform veterinary agencies.
Deputies also
discussed other contents of the law including veterinary jobs, compulsory
slaughtering and culling sick animals.
Fire
destroys wood making factory, house
A fire destroyed a
wood manufacturing factory and a house in the central highland
No injuries or
casualties have been reported.
Some residents said
they heard a loud explosion that woke them up from their sleep.
Parked vehicles on
the small alley prevented the fire engines from being driven in, and
fire-fighters found it difficult to get closer to the burning buildings.
The fire was
extinguished by 6 a.m.
The police is
investigating the cause of the fire, and will release a report on the
estimated damage soon.
Locals
break construction regulations
More than 1,000
building violations were reported in Ha Noi in the first half of this year.
Nearly 20 per cent
of the illegal or improper work had to be demolished.
After inspecting
more than 7,000 buildings, authorities found a total of 1,162 offences. More
than half of them related to work that had not been approved.
Inspectors decided
to suspend the construction of 814 buildings and impose financial penalties
on the owners of another 213.
A total of 194
projects were ordered to be demolished.
"The
buildings, mostly on the outskirts of Ha Noi in the districts of Chuong My,
Gia Lam, Me Linh and Thanh Oai, were built without official permits,"
said the chief inspector of Ha Noi Construction Department, Phan Van Bao.
He added that this
was because district people's committees had not issued specific regulations
about securing permits for construction in residential areas.
Bao added that amid
growing urbanisation, rural people were constantly migrating to the big
cities and were not fully aware of urban construction regulations. They were
often used to building homes without official permission.
Building projects
that violated their permits were mostly located in inner Ha Noi, where
building owners make the most of living space to maximise profits.
Ha Noi Construction
Department will submit to the People's Committee a proposal that double
financial penalties be imposed on construction violations to address
spontaneous urban development.
Damaged
roads under repair
Four out of seven
road work projects have completed repairs of subsided highways that required
fixing shortly after being opened.
The remaining work
would be completed by next Wednesday, head of the Department for Management
of Traffic Work Construction and Quality Tran Xuan Sanh said.
At a meeting on
Monday, Sanh said that repairs to four roads; the section of National Highway
No1A from Ben Thuy Bridge to Ha Tinh Province, the section of National
Highway No2 from Ha Noi to Thai Nguyen Province, the National Highway No5 and
the 35-km long route avoiding Thua Thien Hue Province, had finished.
Three other
projects; the Uong Bi-Ha Long section of National Highway No18, the route
avoiding Vinh City, and the enlargement of National Highway No1A passing Ninh
Binh Province, were currently in progress.
"The
department will have a report on the cause of the subsidence on these
routes," he said.
To ensure the
quality of repaired roads, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang required the
department to work with the Viet Nam Road Administration to re-examine repair
jobs on these projects and the Gie Bridge-Ninh Binh,
The department
would have to issue the time of maintenance for these routes by the end of
this month, he said.
In June, a
14-member inspection team, led by Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc
Dong, was set up to examine why many sections of new roads and highways had
subsided so quickly after a short time of opening.
The team would
study and propose solutions to address subsided roads and ask experts from
scientific institutions and related agencies to help.
International
experts have discussed the problem of subsidence and cracks on transport
projects, citing temperature changes, overloaded vehicles, construction
methods and building material quality for the collapse of construction works.
Numerous measures
have been taken to fight the problem, including strict oversight over
heavily-loaded vehicles, asphalt quality and designing and building
processes.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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