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Smuggled
elephant tusks seized in HCM City
Suspect goods
seized recently by
Listed in the World
Red Book, African ivory tusks are banned from importing and exporting.
Sent from
They were later
sent to the
Further
investigation into the case is underway.-
The
Accordingly, from
August 10, more than 1,300 medical service prices will be increased with an
average increase of 20%. The increases will apply to public general
hospitals, specialised hospitals, medical treatment centres, maternity homes,
and clinics in
In patients
undergoing treatment at public medical facilities prior to the effective date
of the adjustment will be charged based on the old rates until discharge.
In addition, medical
service fees at central hospitals will now be applied at lower-level
hospitals too.
Price increases
have been applied to over 800 healthcare services in
OVs
evacuated from
Most Overseas
Vietnamese (OVs) in
The information was
released by Vice Chairman of the OVs Association in
“They are gathering
in buildings with underground tunnels to protect themselves from the blasts
of artillery and mortar shells,” Tien said.
He reported
Speaking at an
August 4 press briefing, Ukraine National Security and Defence Council
spokesperson, Andrey Lysenko, said hat Ukrainian troops are prepared to
attack Donbass region where the rebels have taken a stronghold.
Requiem
held for Vietnamese, Lao martyrs
A requiem was held
in
Buddhist monks,
nuns and followers prayed for martyrs’ souls and for the country’s peace and
people’s prosperity.
The ceremony was to
call on younger generations of
On the occasion,
the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV)’s branch in
Vietnamese,
Lao provinces push for mutual development
The Central
Highlands
Under a memorandum
of understanding signed in Kon Tum on August 6, both sides will facilitate
all-level visits, and propose new areas of cooperation while sharing
experience in Party build-up, new rural development and poverty reduction in
their border areas.
On trade activity,
they will encourage business communities to explore chances in tourism,
agriculture and mining via exhibitions.
The two provinces
plan to upgrade the Dak Blo – Dak Ba border gate into a major one and ask the
Vietnamese government for continuing supply of official development
assistance to
To ensure border
security, police, border defence and armed forces will hold regular talks,
upgrade and increase the number of border markers planted in their
localities.
Kon Tum and Sekong
signed memoranda of understanding in 2010 and 2012. The former offered
assistance in professional training and crime combat while the latter lent a
helping hand in the search and repatriation of remains of Vietnamese experts
and volunteer soldiers fallen in
Sekong also helped
Kon Tum connect with the economic corridor linking central
More
support for Quang Ngai fishermen
The Fishermen
Support Fund of central Quang Ngai province has raised over 40 billion VND
(1.9 million USD) for its local fishermen after three years of operation.
The fund has
provided 25 billion VND (1.1 million USD) to assist 350 fishermen and build
houses for families of Agent Orange/Dioxin victims.
It also presented
100 million VND (4,700 USD) to the Vietnamese law enforcement authorities at
sea and built two fishing boats worth 14 billion VND (660 million USD) for
fishermen.
Fort Hood Col. Viet
Xuan Luong became the first Vietnamese American to be made a general in US
history in an August 6 ceremony at Cooper Field at Fort Hood, attracting
Austin police and members of the local Vietnamese community.
Members of the
Police Department’s office of community liaison accompany more than 100
members of
According to
Statement.com, Luong’s family evacuated
Binh Nguyen, the
“It’s a very proud
moment for myself,” Nguyen said. “It’s rare to come across another
Vietnamese-American in the Army let alone one so highly ranked.”
Fund helps
grow trees around Dien Bien Phu
A fund has been
established, called "One Million Trees for
These activities
are part of a series of projects in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of
the historical victory at
The tree-planting
programme drew the participation of several high-ranking officials and other
well-known figures, including Nguyen Hanh Phuc, member of Central Party
Committee and chairman of the National Assembly’s Office, Pham The Bao, an
official from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), Bui
Thu Huong, Vinamilk’s External Affairs director. Vo Hanh Phuc, daughter of
the late General Vo Nguyen Giap, and Miss Vietnam 2010, Ngoc Han.
With the help of
local residents and hundreds of local young volunteers, 40,000 green trees
were planted on Doc Lap Hill as well as several other historical sites in
Bui Thi Huong said,
“The programme's goal is to improve the living environment in this
area."
According to Huong,
the fund has helped launch similar programmes in 10 other localities across
He said, “The
programme is important because it fosters respect and protection of the
environment. We hope that the result will be more awareness and creative
solutions to living a green lifestyle."
Between 2012 and
2013, the fund helped plant nearly 100,000 trees in 10 cities and provinces
nationwide. This year they intend to plant between 120,000 and 150,000 more.
The HCMC government
has stressed that only locally-produced goods will be allowed for advertising
on buses and that slogans of these products printed in Vietnamese language
are allowed on the exterior of buses.
After approving a
pilot scheme submitted by the HCMC Department of Transport to put ads on
buses in the city, the city government requires that colors of those
advertisements must be aesthetically attractive and should not resemble those
of traffic signs.
The transport
department has been told to complete the pilot project before the end of this
month in accordance with regulations and based on the opinions contributed by
relevant agencies.
According to the
department’s pilot project, advertisements will be placed on 156 buses
operating on ten routes in the city. The chosen buses are those which can
carry 40-80 passengers.
After one year of
test-operation, the agency will review the pilot scheme before deploying the
project on all buses in the city in order to reduce state subsidies for
commuter bus services.
Trung
Luong-My Thuan expressway to get off ground this year
Construction of the
54-kilometer Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway section is scheduled to begin
this year after the Ministry of Transport approved the building plan for this
project last week.
Cuu Long
Corporation for Investment, Development and Project Management of
Infrastructure (Cuu Long CIPM), the owner of the project, said the project
must be divided into two stages to make it easy to raise investment capital
as the whole section requires a hefty VND25 trillion if it is carried out in
accordance with the original plan.
In stage 1A, the
expressway will be built under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) format and
have two lanes plus emergency stopping bays.
There are two
capital recovery plans. For the first plan, the investor would collect tolls
from both HCMC-Trung Luong and Trung Luong-My Thuan sections over a period of
around 15 years starting 2019.
Regarding the
second plan, the investor would collect tolls from users of the Trung
Luong-My Thuan expressway over a period of 20 years starting 2019 plus
support from the State for the toll collection right for the HCMC-Trung Luong
expressway for a certain period.
In stage 1B, the
expressway will be expanded to six lanes using official development
assistance (ODA) loans in the second phase.
Deputy Minister of
Transport Nguyen Van The has told Cuu Long CIPM and relevant agencies to
revise the expressway project design before August 10 in preparation for work
to begin on the section. The project owner will also evaluate the financial
capability of investors and contractors and report to the Ministry of
Transport before August 15.
Earlier, the Bank
for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) was assigned to invest in
Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway project. However, the bank had to return the
project after two years, citing difficulties in fund raising. Then, Cuu Long
CIPM was picked to replace it.
The Trung Luong-My
Thuan section is part of the HCMC-Can Tho Expressway, which is expected to
reduce traveling time between HCMC and the Mekong Delta. This expressway has
three sections, namely HCMC-Trung Luong, Trung Luong-My Thuan and My
Thuan-Can Tho.
The 40-kilometer
HCMC-Truong Luong section was opened to traffic in February 2010.
Easier
access to loans for low-income civil servants to buy homes
The HCMC Housing
Development Fund (HOF) is expected to propose allowing low-income civil
servants to borrow more than the current ceiling of VND400 million to buy
homes in the coming time, the fund’s chairwoman said.
Dao Thi Huong Lan,
who also director of the HCMC Department of Finance, told a ceremony to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the fund last week that HOF has disbursed
more than VND610 billion for nearly 2,000 low-income earners in the past
decade.
Speaking to the
Daily on the sidelines of the event, Lan acknowledged that the amount remains
modest, partly because the fund is intended for the civil servants who get
wages from the State budget and are permitted to borrow no more than VND400
million and no higher than 70% of the total value of a home they want to buy.
Lan said
Nguyen Ngoc Thach,
director of
Thach said
borrowers from the education sector account for 49% of the loans, the health
sector for 15% and others for 19%.
The fund has
financed many enterprises to build resettlement areas and budget homes for
workers. The fund provided VND329 billion for nine housing projects in
2007-2010.
In the past decade,
Department of
Finance director Dao Thi Huong Lan said the city has plans to develop 2.7
million square meters of social housing in 2012-2015 as part of a housing
development strategy for 2020 with a vision toward 2030 in the city.
Up to 1.3 million
square meters of the total area, equivalent to 17,500 apartments, will be set
aside for low-income people to buy or rent while 800,000 square meters is
used to meet the housing demand of 93,000 workers.
Can Tho
aims to bring clean water to 93 percent of rural population
The Mekong Delta
City of Can Tho has set a target that 93 percent of the local rural
population will have access to hygienic water by the end of this year.
To achieve the
goal, the city has invested over 30 billion VND (1.42 million USD) in
building a clean water supply system, with a daily capacity of 2,600 cu.m per
day, in Vinh Thanh district.
The project will
enable 5,500 households in the two communes of Thanh Thang and Thanh Loi as
well as Thanh An town to access water meeting the standard of the Ministry of
Health.
Eight other water
supply stations have also been constructed, serving 5,739 households in seven
communes of six districts namely Phong Dien, Vinh Thanh, Thoi Lai, Co Do, Cai
Rang and Thot Not.
This forms part of
Component 3 in a World Bank-funded project on water supply and rural
environmental sanitation in the Mekong Delta region, to be implemented from
2011 to 2016.-
Deputy Prime
Minister Hoang Trung Hai on August 6 inspected the progress of some urban
railway lines in
At the working
session with municipal officials, the Deputy PM said the Ben Thanh - Suoi
Tien section is the first metro line to be built in
The slow
disbursement of Official Development Assistance capital and partnership
capital were the main reasons for the delay of some big projects, he noted.
Hai also ordered
officials of neighbouring Binh Duong province to clear land for the building
of the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien underground line, which partly traverses its Di
An district, by this October at the latest.
The HCM City
Management Authority for Urban Railway reported that it has drawn up a plan
to establish a State-owned limited liability company which will be in charge
of operating the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien and Ben Thanh – Tham Luong urban
railway lines.
The plan will be
submitted to the Prime Minister for approval in near future, representatives
from the authority said.
The construction of
the 19.7km-long Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien line was started in August 2012, and it
will begin operation on a trial basis in 2019.
Meanwhile, the
11.3km-long Ben Thanh – Tham Luong line has been built since August 2010 and
is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
They are two out of
the seven urban railway lines to be opened in
Poverty,
new rural areas get priority in public investment
The Prime Minister
has instructed that only two national target programmes will be carried out
in the period from 2016-2020, which are poverty reduction and building
new-style rural areas.
In a directive
issued on August 5 on planning public investment for the five year period, PM
Dung said he made the decision with the aim of avoiding overstretching
resources in order to focus capital on the most necessary projects.
He required
ministries, sectors and local governments to try and complete halfway
projects under other national programmes, and not to propose new ones.
In making plans on
investment using capital sourced by the State budget, central and local
Government bonds, Official Development Assistance and preferential loans, the
PM instructed ministries, sectors and local authorities to take into serious
consideration the situation of public investment in the 2011-2015 period and
socio-economic development plans for the 2016-2020 at both national, sectoral
and local levels.
The public investment
plans should also be based on the national strategy on public and foreign
debts for 2016-2020 and vision to 2030, the master plan on economic
restructure and growth model shift for 2013-2020 as well as approved
restructuring plans of sectors and State-owned economic groups and
corporations.
The directive made
clear that all outstanding debts in capital construction must be settled
before December 31, 2014, and no more debts will be allowed to occur as from
2015 in line with the Law on Public Investment.-
Activities
mark Day for Agent Orange Victims
A wide range of
activities are being held to mark the Day for Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims
(August 10) and the 53rd anniversary of the Agent Orange catastrophe in
Chairman of the
Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) Senior
Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Rinh said the events aim to raise public
awareness on the issue while calling for domestic and foreign assistance and
support for the Vietnamese victims as well as the struggle for justice for
the Vietnamese victims.
A mobile texting
campaign was launched on August 4 to collect money in support of AO victims
nationwide. From now to September 30, people can support the campaign by
texting DACAM to 1409.
An exchange
programme will be held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 9.
An exhibition -
themed “Agent Orange – Sense and Justice” is underway in the Mekong Delta
city of
During the war in
An estimated 4.8
million Vietnamese were exposed to the toxic chemical, with over 3 million of
them dying or painfully struggling from its serious effects.
Not only Vietnamese
but people from many other countries also became victims of this mass-killing
chemical.
Former
Soviet military experts’ contributions hailed
Vietnamese
Ambassador to Russia Pham Xuan Son has highlighted former Soviet military
experts’ great contributions to
Son made the praise
at an annual meeting with 120 former Soviet military experts who had assisted
He expressed his
deep gratitude to the experts, who had helped
For their part, the
former Russian experts recalled their unforgettable memories of the time when
they served in
On August 5, 1964,
the
Fighting back,
Vietnamese armed forces shot down eight aircraft and arrested the first
As many as 18
lecturers from
The course,
organised under the support of the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), the ‘Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (USAID LEAF)
programme and the United States Forest Service (USFS), is part the
nine-course training programme on regional climate change, which began in
October 2012.
The programme
includes four major modules, namely overview of climate change, measures to
ensure environment and society, reduction of emissions in land use planning,
and carbon control.
The USAID LEAF
programme director, David Ganz, spoke highly of the participation and
remarkable contributions of Vietnamese universities to the programme,
expressing his hope that they will play a vital role in developing similar
training courses in
Ass. Prof. Dr. Bui
The Doi from the
These events help
participants get insight into issues relating to climate change as well as
improve their skills in teaching and doing scientific research in the field,
he added.
Sanitation
project benefits Binh Dinh locals
As many as 520
hygienic toilets have been built in the central
The facilities will
be handed over to households living under the poverty line in Tay Son, Phu My
and Tuy Phuoc districts, according to the provincial Preventive Medicine
Centre.
The project with a
budget of 687,510 AUD (649,000 USD) is being carried out between 2013 and
2017 with the aim of supplying clean water for 3,254 families and supporting
the construction of toilets meeting the health ministry’s standards on
sanitation for 4,250 others.
According to the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), over 45 percent of rural families in
10,000
ex-inmates jobless, risk backsliding in
About 10,000 former
prisoners are now out of work and thus likely to commit crimes again in
These are among the
25,000 ex-inmates who were released between 2012 and 2014 after serving their
jail terms, Colonel Dinh Thanh Nhan, deputy director of the HCMC Police
Department said at a conference on Tuesday.
The 10,000 former
prisoners cannot find a job as they are unskilled or beyond the working age,
Col. Nhan elaborated.
These people do not
have enough money to start their own business either, the deputy director
added.
“So they run a high
risk of relapsing into crime again,” Colonel Nhan said.
Last year, the
relapsing rate was 5.3 percent and it rose to six percent in 2012, Col. Nhan
revealed.
Speaking at the
conference, Lieutenant General Cao Ngoc Oanh, head of the Police General
Department for Justice Assistance and Execution of Criminal Judgments, asked
relevant agencies to seek measures to help ex-prisoners land jobs as soon as
possible so that they can have a stable life.
Having a job will
help ex-inmates re-integrate into society soon, erase their complex about
their past, and not relapse into crime, the official said.
At the event, the
department hailed 403 former prisoners for making considerable progress in
their life.
Of these, 17 have
got rich and provided others who are also ex-prisoners with good jobs.
DNA test
suggests recovery of
DNA testing has
shown one of the bodies collected from a river in
Test results from
the Ministry of Public Security’s
But police have yet
to arrive at any final conclusion on the recovery of the woman’s corpse that
has not been found since she died in 2013.
Le Thi Thanh Huyen
died post-surgery at the age of 37 at Cat Tuong Beauty Salon after she had an
operation there on October 19, 2013.
According to the
case file, Huyen came to the salon on that day to have an abdominal
liposuction and breast lift surgery.
After being
anesthetized, she underwent aesthetic operations performed by Dr. Nguyen Manh
Tuong, 41, the owner of the salon, from 12:00 pm until 4:00 pm.
Thirty minutes
after the surgery, Huyen had difficulty breathing and started foaming at the
mouth. Dr. Tuong gave her an injection and she appeared to recover.
But at 5:45 pm,
Huyen’s body suddenly turned blue and her blood pressure could not be
measured. Dr. Tuong then put Huyen on a respirator and gave her a cardiotonic
but could not save her.
Dr. Tuong and Dao
Quang Khanh, a security guard at his salon, carried Huyen’s body in the
doctor’s car to
After investigation,
police arrested Dr. Tuong and Khanh on October 22 last year.
Before his arrest,
Dr. Tuong worked as a doctor at Hanoi-based
Police also
concluded that Khanh had stolen an iPhone 5 from Huyen’s handbag.
Based on Dr.
Tuong’s testimonies to investigators, Huyen’s family and competent agencies
have spent a lot of time and effort searching for the body.
Police have charged
Dr. Tuong with “breaching regulations on medical examination and treatment,
drug production, preparations, supply and sale or other medical services” and
“interfering with human corpses, graves, and/or remains.”
Meanwhile, Khanh
has been indicted for “interfering with human corpses, graves, and/or
remains” and “stealing property.”
The Hanoi People’s
Court opened a trial for the two defendants on April 14, 2014 but delayed it
the same day and returned the case file to the investigation agency for
clarification of some professional issues related to the woman’s death.
No court hearing
has ever conducted again ever since.
250 kg bomb
detonated
A 250kg bomb left
over from the war in Ha Tinh Province has been detonated in a controlled
explosion on August 5.
The construction
management board of Thach Ha District found the bomb during pre-construction
digging for a road. The bomb was 1.7 metres long and had a diameter of 35 cm.
It was located within one of the key bombing sites of the American War.
Upon learning of
the bomb, the Military Command of Ha Tinh Province quickly arrived at the
site and blocked off traffic. They also cooperated with municipal authorities
to move the bomb to a shooting range in Ngoc Son Commune where it was
detonated under controlled conditions.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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