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Three young
children drown in lake
Three sixth-grade
students drowned in a lake yesterday, according to the Tan Hiep Police
Department.
Four students were
reportedly playing near the lake and three of them, a boy and two girls, went
swimming later.
The fourth student
saw his friends drowning and called for help. However, the three children had
died by the time people came to rescue them.
The three children,
namely Tran Thi Ngoc Kieu, Ly Son Kim and Nguyen Dai Huu, were students of
Tan Hiep town's
The local residents
said that the lake is two to three metres deep, and that it's quite easy for
swimmers to collapse because the landowner is filling up the lake with dirt.
Local students
often swim in the lake even though the government has warned the people of
the dangers there.
Fake skin
cream seized in capital
Division 14 under
the city's Market Watch Department seized 500 fake boxes of Gentriderm Cream
on Wednesday at HAPU medical centre in Thanh Xuan district.
The department
seized the boxes while investigating three medical stalls run by several
companies, including Van Phuc Commercial and Pharmaceutical Company and Hau
Giang Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Company.
Phu Yen
Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Company, which imported the cream,
confirmed that the boxes were fake.
Health
experts discuss advanced techniques
More than 1,000
health experts gathered at the eighth congress of the
Hosted for the
first time by the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion,
the three-day event offers a chance for participants to discuss advanced
techniques in stem cell collection and preservation and treatment of blood
diseases such as blood cancer and Thalassemia.
EVN: More
than 85 pct of communes connected to national grid
More than 85 percent
of communes nationwide have been connected to the national electric power
grid by the end of September, according to Electricity of Vietnam (EVN)
group.
The group said
electricity has been supplied to all districts across the country either via
the national grid or by local sources, adding that the national grid has
reached five out of the 12 island districts, namely Van Don and Co To in the
northern province of Quang Ninh, Cat Hai in the northern port city of Hai
Phong, Ly Son in the central province of Quang Ngai and Phu Quoc in the
southern province of Kien Giang.
Also according to
the group’s statistics, 24,373,000 out of the total 24,760,000 households in
the country, or 98.44 percent, have been connected to the national grid.
The group reported
that it has completed 97 percent of the workload of the project on upgrading
and expanding the electricity grid in remote and hard-to-reach areas funded
by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s loans, bringing electricity to 56,000
households in the four provinces of Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Tra Vinh and Soc
Trang. The project will supply electricity to an additional 36,000 households
by the end of this year.
More than 9,600
households have benefitted from another project to expand the national grid
in the northern mountainous
EVN said it has put
into operation four new turbines with a total capacity of 1,622 MW since the
beginning of the year, which are turbines No. 1 and 2 at Vinh Tan 2 thermal
power plant, turbine No.2 at Hai Phong 2 thermal power plant and turbine No.
1 at Song Bung 4 hydro power plant.
In the meantime,
the group started construction work on three power plants – the 600 MW Thai
Binh thermal power plant, the 1,200 MW Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant and the
75 MW expansion of
Total power output
in the nine-month period reached 108 billion kWh, up 10.29 percent year on
year.
Telecom
devices presented to Tien Giang fishermen
As many as eight
telecom devices using satellite technology have been given to fishing groups
in the Mekong Delta
According to Nguyen
Trong Tuy, head of the provincial Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture,
local authorities planned to earmark over 1 billion VND (47,600 USD) from the
local budget to equip more 38 satellite devices for fishermen in 2013-2015.
The move aims to
encourage fishing boats to work in group for higher efficiency and mutual
assistance in natural disaster prevention and search and rescue efforts, he
said.
Tien Giang is now
home to such 11 groups, with 60 fishing vessels and 423 fishermen.
Recently, Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved a national scheme to provide fishermen with
modern communication equipment to 2020 with orientations towards 2030.
The equipment is to
support search-and-rescue operations, maritime safety and environment
protection as well as serve defence and security tasks and sea-based economic
development.
Free
measles-rubella shots given to 757,000 children
As many as 757,000
children under 14 in 26 provinces and cities across the country had received
measles-rubella shots by October 6 under a free vaccination campaign run by
the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Tran Dac Phu, Head
of the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department (HPMD) reported
the figure at a meeting of the National Steering Committee of the campaign
held on October 8.
More than 27
million doses of measles-rubella vaccines will be supplied for the drive, splitting
into four deliveries in August, September, October and December, Phu said.
The official hailed
the preparations made by localities for the campaign, with smooth
coordination between the health care and education sectors under the close
instruction of local governments.
During the meeting,
Health Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said
The Deputy Minister
also called for a close cooperation among ministries, agencies, localities
while emphasizing the active involvement of citizens and foreign nationals
living in
He suggested that
the Ministry of Education and Training and Ministry of National Defence take
practical measures to facilitate the campaign’s activities in their fields.
The free
vaccination campaign was prompted by a measles epidemic that erupted in
The three-phase
campaign is expected to benefit 23 million children aged 1-14, increasing the
vaccination rate for children of this age group to 95 percent.
Vaccination was
proven to be the most effective response to the outbreak, bringing the
disease under control in May.
The ministry has
assigned four review missions to supervise implementation of the vaccination
drive at all levels and localities, who reported that safety has been ensured
throughout the vaccination process and n o post-vaccination side effects
recorded so far.
Donors
praise
International
donors highly valued the Vietnamese Government’s efforts to improve policy on
climate change adaptation, and pledged their continued support for
Deputy Prime
Minister Hoang Trung Hai said
In addition to
international funds,
He confirmed that
the Government would earmark approximately 3 trillion VND (135 million USD)
for climate change adaptation, with a special focus on afforestation.
He urged relevant
ministries and sectors to work with international donors to accelerate the
implementation of the SP-RCC programme in
The SP-RCC
programme has been implemented in
Bac Lieu
tackles climate change
The Southern
The province is
involved in numerous scientific-technological projects to reduce green house
gas emission and cope with sea level rises, such as expanding the production
and use of biogas and wind energy, building dykes, and increasing forest
coverage. Furthermore, the province called for additional investments in this
field to be able to expand its efforts.
Bac Lieu’s
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development expects the government to
invest in the province’s long-term infrastructure development plans, such as
Ganh Hao embankment, and provide financial assistance to purchase advanced
natural disaster early warning systems and technology.
According to
climate change scenarios, as sea levels continue to rise, residential areas
will shrink, especially in Dong Hai District, Hoa Binh District and
Estimates reckon
that a 30cm sea level rise in the province could displace 553,000 residents.
Three students from
the
The suspension of
the students, majoring in automobile engineering and aeronautics, will last
for one year. During this time, they must leave the school and submit
assessment by the local authorities where they live in order to resume
studying after the suspension.
Tran Quang Hai
Bang, an official from the university said, the decision was made following
an incident that occurred on the morning of September 13, when three
first-year male students goaded each other on to harass the girl.
One lecturer
discovered what was happening after noticing the female student crying. The
lecturer referred the three students to university administrators.
After the male
students admitted to having made cash bets in order to encourage the
harassment, the disciplinary board decided on their punishment. The three
students have since apologised. A number of students at the university
complained that it was too strict, saying they should have got off with a
warning.
“We don't think the
suspension is draconian. This type of conduct is unacceptable in an
educational environment. We need to create a deterrent,” Hai emphasised.
He went on to say
that the students should be mature enough to take responsibility and the
female student has yet to come back to school due to the situation.
The Ho Chi Minh
City Municipal People’s Committee has approved the second phase of a project
on environmental hygiene worth over VND11,132 billion (US$524 million),
including US$450 million official development assistance funded by the World
Bank (WB).
The second phase,
which aims to build an eight-kilometre sewer system in District 2 and
construct the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe sewage treatment plant, will be constructed
between 2015 and 2020.
According to the
Committee, when completed, the sewage in the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe basin and
District 2 will be treated before being discharged into the environment,
helping improve residents’ health and awareness about environmental
protection, and restoring the eco-system in Sai Gon River and Dong Nai
River’s downstream basin.
The project’s first
phase was completed in 2012 with a total investment of VND8.6 trillion
(US$404 million) from the WB’s ODA and the city’s budget. The work has helped
improve the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Channel and living environment for millions of
residents, contributing to a gentrified urban landscape in the city’s central
area.
Irregularities
detected at
Though Saigon 2
Bridge was opened to traffic almost a year ago, irregularities in the process
of implementing the project have been found recently.
Irregularities were
also detected at the
According to the
conclusions recently announced by inspectors of the Ministry of Transport,
the assessment and approval of the projects’ designs and construction cost
projections were not carried out properly at some components, resulting in
wrong calculations of workload. As such, the costs had been pushed up by over
VND18 billion at the former and over VND4 billion at the latter.
In addition to
incorrect workload calculations, the management of construction quality was
loose, as seen in the absence of bidder capacity testing papers and quality
certificates for some suppliers of construction materials.
Other
irregularities include the lack of blueprints for some construction works,
and short supply of equipment for construction. Besides, the people in charge
of managing construction work at the
Therefore,
transport inspectors have told CII to learn from such shortcomings to prevent
similar irregularities in the future as well as closely follow regulations on
cost projections and management of construction works to avoid causing losses
for the State.
Saigon 2 Bridge
worth nearly VND1.5 trillion was constructed under the build-transfer (BT)
format and opened to traffic last October, three months ahead of schedule. It
is a major bridge in HCMC’s east area leading to southeast, central and
Meanwhile, the
second phase of Inter-provincial Road 25B stretching 5.3 kilometers was also
constructed under the BT format at a cost of VND624 billion. The road was
opened to traffic in September 2012.
Health
experts discuss advanced techniques
More than 1,000
health experts gathered at the eighth congress of the
Hosted for the
first time by the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion,
the three-day event offers a chance for participants to discuss advanced
techniques in stem cell collection and preservation and treatment of blood
diseases such as blood cancer and Thalassemia.
Top
cardiologists to take part in national congress
More than 2,000
doctors, including nearly 100 heart experts and surgeons from all over the
world, will be participating in the 14th National Congress of Cardiology
beginning October 11.
Pham Manh Hung, the
Some participants
will be coming from the
The event aims to
achieve an exchange of information and experiences among participants
regarding updated technology on cardiology and heart surgery. It also
includes free heart and hypertension check-ups for 400 ethnic minorities in
According to the
VCA, an estimated 25 per cent of the Vietnamese population aged more than 25
years are suffering from hypertension, and another 20 per cent are expected
to have cardiovascular diseases and hypertension by 2017.
According to
Population Service International (PSI), stroke is a leading cause of death
among adults in
UPU Letter Writing Contest launched in Hai Phong
The Ministry of
Information and Communications (MIC) launched the 44th Universal Postal Union
(UPU) National Letter Writing Contest in Hai Phong city on October 9.
The contest is open
to Vietnamese children between 10 and 15 years old. Contestants must write a
letter in prose with the prompt, ‘Tell us about the world you want to grow up
in.”
The handwritten
entries must not already be published in any newspaper or book and they
should be under 800 words. Those written in English or French must include a
Vietnamese version.
Participants should
submit their writings to Thieu Nien Tien Phong (Vanguard Teenagers) Newspaper
at
Thirty-nine prizes
will be presented to the best entries and the contest’s awardees will be
acknowledged as winners of the national literature contest and will receive
extra marks on graduation examination.
The top entry will
be translated into English or French to be submitted to the international
round.
Also at the launch
ceremony, the MIC presented first prize of the 2013 event to Pham Phuong
Thao, a seventh grader at Chu Van An secondary school in Hai Phong.
With the prompt,
‘Write a letter about how music can touch lives’, Thao described a violin
whose owner was a blind boy. He loved learning to play the violin however his
mother rejects his hobby and hates the musical instrument as his father left
her for a violinist.
Thao, speaking as a
violin, wrote a letter to the woman asking her set aside her personal history
depriving her son of playing violin.
Thao’s letter was
translated into French and sent to the Swiss-based UPU winning the
consolation prize at the international round.
Hanoi fixes
plaque to first Green Building
The Ministry of
Construction has attached the first
The project has a
total investment of 3.7 trillion VND (231 million USD) by Vigacera
Construction. It comprises two residential tower with 40 floors, three
basement levels and three swimming pools.
The investor paid
particular attention to providing a green environment, and planted trees and
built a lake within the complex.
The project has a
total investment of started in April 2010 and is expected to be completed by
the end of this month.
Viglacera aims to
create the best possible conditions for residents by using energy- and
resource-efficient technology and sustainable building practices. Each stage
of construction, from the foundation to the electricity network, was
researched carefully in a bid to use environmentally-friendly and efficient
solutions.
Addressing the
ceremony on October 9, Minister of Construction Trinh Dinh Dung highly valued
the project’s quality and efficiency. He affirmed that green buildings should
become a norm in times to come due to their energy saving potential and
environmentally-friendly design.
He asked Viglacera
to research ways to integrate green aspects into social residential projects
to meet the demand of the low and middle income real estate market.-
Ly Son
Islanders enjoy reliable supply of electricity
The official operation
of the national grid system on Ly Son Island in central Quang Ngai province
in September finally met the generation-spanning expectations of islanders
and opened an opportunity for making a great breakthrough in the island
district’s socioeconomic development, the Vietnam Economic News reported.
The island district
has a very important strategic position in terms of national defence,
security and economic development. It is not only a key outpost in the
eastern belt of the country but also a gateway of the key economic zone in
the central region. Therefore, the Party and State are much interested in
infrastructure investment for the island district, including the power
system.
Deputy Director of
the Central Power Corporation Nguyen Thanh said previously, the local
islanders only used power from diesel generators for 5-6 hours a day, from
5pm to 11pm. The electricity price was dozens of times higher than that one
in the mainland. Activities in agriculture production, storing and processing
of seafood relied on generators.
The power supply
project for Ly Son island district by underground cables was approved by the
Ministry of Industry and Trade on October 14, 2013, with total investment of
678 billion VND, including 8.7km of middle voltage transmission lines in Binh
Son district and 26.2km of 22kV undersea cables.
After nearly four
months preparing all the necessary conditions, works started on February 24,
2014 including construction of the transmission lines in the air through Binh
Son and Ly Son Island. On August 26 undersea cables were laid and after 14
days they were pulled to the island. On September 28, the project was
completed and officially put into operation.
Ly Son island
district’s Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Thanh said Ly Son's two islands
have an area of about 10.4sq.m and are home to 22,000 islanders who earn
their livings by catching seafood around Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa
(Spratly) archipelagos and growing garlic and onions.
In the district’s
GDP structure, fish-breeding and agriculture account for a big proportion
while the revenues from trade, tourism and services are not much, partly due
to the lack of power.
In the first nine
months of this year, the island district attracted around 18,000 tourists,
equivalent to the district's tourist numbers in 2013.
Exhibition
raises awareness of sea and island sovereignty: Minister
Exhibitions on maps
and documents affirming
Minister of
Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son made the statement at the
opening ceremony of a exhibition held in the
He stressed that
the exhibitions, which have been organised in many localities across the
country in recent time, is part of the state’s communication efforts to raise
public awareness of the nation’s sovereignty.
Nearly 100 maps and
a great number of documents and publications are on display at the five-day
event.
All of them are
important historical and legal evidence asserting that the Vietnamese states
have explored, exploited and exercised sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong
Sa and others waters since the 17th century in an uninterrupted and peaceful
manner.
Along with the
ongoing exhibition in the provincial Museum, a similar event will also be
opened in Quang Ninh’s Co To island district.-
Outstanding
female dignitaries honoured
The Vietnam Women’s
Union (VWU) and the Government Committee for Religious Affairs organised a
conference in
The honoured were
selected from over 490 religious women who are members of the VWU’s executive
committees at all levels.
Speaking at the
event, VWU Central Committee President Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa hailed efforts
made by the female dignitaries in encouraging followers of their religions to
abide by the policies of the Party and the law of the State as well as build
a better life.
Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Duc Dam stressed the important role of women, including religious
followers, in the national construction and development.
He expressed his
wish that the VWU will launch more practical action programmes and movements
that aim to draw more participation from these people in social development.
Buddhism,
Catholicism, Protestantism and Caodaism are the major religions in the
country.-
BIDV,
Laos-Vietnam Bank continue to aid Laos
The Bank for
Investment and Development of
The package worth
300,000 USD is to support the Lao National Assembly’s activities for 2014 and
2015, including construction of clean water tankers and provision of medical
equipment for ethnic minority people in the newly-established
Speaking at the
hand-over ceremony on October 9, President of Lao National Assembly Pany
Zathotou thanked the two banks for their assistance to the Saysomboun
province and
BIDV and the LVB
have so far supported nearly 11 million USD for Laos’ social welfare
activities, focusing on health care, education, and poverty reduction.-
Can Tho
seeks more WB loans for climate change response
Authorities of the
Mekong Delta city of
Representatives
from the two sides met at a working session on October 9 to review the
implementation of the project and scrutinise Can Tho’s proposal for
additional financial assistance.
Vice Chairwoman of
the municipal People’s Committee Vo Thi Hong Anh said the project focuses on
constructing inner-city anti-flooding works, upgrading urban infrastructure
system, increasing environmental protection efforts, building resettlement
areas and improving the local authorities’ management capacity.
The seven-year
project has a total estimated investment of around US$321.5 million, with
US$250 million coming from the WB’s International Development Association
(IDA).
Once completed in
2020, the project will benefit around 200,000 people in the districts of Ninh
Kieu, Cai Rang, Binh Thuy, O Mon, Thot Not and Phong Dien.
WB officials
praised the project, suggesting that it should focus on developing
infrastructure works to help the city better respond to flooding, climate
change, urbanisation and migration to urban areas.
They said they will
submit Can Tho’s proposals to the WB for approval in the future.
The WB earlier
approved US$90.4 million loan for Can Tho to implement the project. Its first
phase is underway with a focus on upgrading infrastructure in low-income
residential areas, water supply and drainage systems, and transport,
electricity and lighting works in Ninh Kieu, Binh Thuy, Cai Rang and O Mon
districts.
The project is part
of the Mekong Delta Region Urban Upgrading Project, which aims to improve
living conditions of the urban poor in selected regional cities.
The 8th
Asian-Pacific Conference on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, is taking place from
October 9-11 in
The event was
co-organised by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
under the Ministry of Health, the National Hematology and Blood Transfusion
Society and the Asian-Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Hemostatis (APSTH).
Addressing the
conference, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen hailed the progress in
the field, particularly in thrombosis-hemostasis disorder treatment, which
effectively supports other areas such as organ transplant, obstetrics and
surgery.
She added that the
event provides opportunities for international and domestic participants to
share expertise and improve knowledge in the field.
The biennial event
will hear over 250 domestic and foreign research reports in this field.
A number of
activities will be held as part of the event such as honouring outstanding
individuals in the field, presenting insignia “For the people’s health care”
to foreign experts, and an exhibition on latest technologies and products in
hematology and blood transfusion treatment.
HCM City
delegation meets OVs in Belgium
A delegation from
the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in
Dung affirmed that
the overseas Vietnamese community is an inseparable part of the Vietnamese nation
and OV intellectuals serve as a valuable resource for the national
construction and development.
The meeting will
provide the delegation with a deeper insight into the life of OVs in
Overseas Vietnamese
in
During their
October 9-11 stay in Belgium, the HCM City delegation plans to attend the
opening ceremony of the Vietnam Culture Week in Silly, about 50 km from
Brussels.
World
Disasters Report to be launched in Vietnam
The 2014 World
Disasters Report will be announced in
The report studies
the impacts of disasters on culture and vice verse and how societies respond
and adapt to climate change and improve post-disaster livelihood for
residents.
Four Vietnamese and
foreign speakers will make presentations at the launching event, Chairman of
the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) Nguyen Hai Duong said on October 10.
The Vietnamese
Government has been implementing adaptation measures such as introducing new
legal documents, enhancing resilience capacity, and establishing a national
programme on the community-based disaster risks management prior to 2020.
According to the
Hydrometeorology and Climate Change Department, over the past 15 years,
natural disasters, including storms, floods, droughts and landslides, have
killed and injured more than 10,700 people, while causing economic losses of
about 1.5 percent of GDP each year.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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