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Over 100
food poisoning workers hospitalised
More than 100
workers of Phan Rang Sugarcane Joint Stock Company in southern Ninh Thuan
were admitted to hospital with symptoms of food poisoning such as vomiting,
difficulty breathing and low blood pressure.
Doctor Nguyen Ton
Kinh Thi, director of Thap Cham Hospital of Transport said the hospital
mobilised its staff to treat the patients effectively. At present, some 13
workers are still in serious condition.
Workers were
reported to have eaten breakfast at their workplace as their company had
purchased 150 meals and several tins of bottled water for their workers
from Hien business nearby.
The cause of the
food poisoning incident is under investigation.
First
onboard safety drill at Ha Long Bay
A fire safety drill
was conducted on tourist boats in Ha Long Bay in the
Police officers
from Quang Ninh’s Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting Department, and the Water
Way Police Office under the Provincial Police Department, together with the
Ha Long Bay Management Board and Syrena Cruise staff took part in the fire
practice.
One fireboat, one
rescue boat and 15 firefighters responded to the simulation, in which a
cruise ship went up in flames with passengers still on board.
Ten passengers
called for help on the left side of the ship, and, led by the captain,
escaped through a fire exit and came ashore on a lifeboat.
Three other
passengers jumped into the sea and were saved by the bay’s rescue team.
The fireboat
arrived at the scene just in time, helping the boat’s crew extinguish the
fire within 10 minutes.
According to an
officer, the fire drill went smoothly and was a complete success.
Measures
taken to search for lost ship
Vietnamese agencies
are exerting efforts to search for an oil tanker with 18 people on board that
went missing after leaving
Being informed of
the news, the Consular Department under the Foreign Ministry sent diplomatic
notes to the embassies of
It also asked
According to the
National Committee for Search and Rescue and the Vietnam Maritime Security
Centre, the ship
It was scheduled to
arrive at Con Son island in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on October 5,
but only 40 minutes after the ship left
US helps
local disadvantaged youths find jobs
The
The project, which
is expected to last from June 15 to December 15, 2014 targets vulnerable
youths including those suffering from family violence, human trafficking,
poverty and HIV infection or other difficult circumstances.
The US Government
funding will provide training courses in such fields as hotels, tourism, hair
design and nail art, sales and marketing, website design at REACH branches in
Hanoi, Da Nang, Hoi An and Hai Duong.
Addressing a
working session at the centre, Ms Claire A. Pierangelo, the Charge
d’Affaires, ad interim at the US Embassy in
Equal opportunity
is a
REACH training
courses will open up bright prospects for students to get stable jobs. Since
2004, REACH has trained more than 10,000 disadvantaged youths and around 80%
of them located jobs within six months.
Hai Phong,
The Ministry of
Construction has proposed the government approve investments in pilot
projects for waste treatment plants, seeking to create a foundation for the
development of an efficient waste treatment technology industry.
The submitted
proposal stipulates the construction of one urban waste treatment facility in
Tan Hung commune, Tan Chau district in the southern
The Tay Ninh
facility will cover 10ha of land, with a capital of 138 billion VND (6.49
million USD). The plant will process all kinds of solid waste with a daily
capacity of 150-300 tonnes. It will apply bio-technology that has high speed
aerobic fermentation and processes the end products into compost fertiliser.
The facility in Hai
Phong covers 2,000m2 with a total capital of 5.5 billion VND (250,000 USD).
It will process general rural waste with a capacity of 5-10 tonnes a day.
According to the
Deputy Minister for Construction, Phan Thi My Linh, the implementation of the
pilot projects is crucial for carrying out the national solid waste treatment
programme in 2011-2020, in a bid to contribute to
Outstanding
farmers to be honoured this month
As many as 63
farmers from all over the country are to be honoured at a ceremony in
The award
programme, the second of its kind, is co-organised by the Nong Thon Ngay Nay
(Countryside Today) newspaper, Binh Dien Fertiliser JSC, and Vietnam
Television, the organising board said in a press briefing on October 7.
The event aims to
recognise and promote the role of Vietnamese farmers in national
construction, defence and development.
The awardees
include six rice farmers, six fishermen, two farmers who stood out for their
support for building new-style rural areas, and 40 farmers with integrated
agricultural production models.
The selected
farmers proved their outstanding performance in production and new-style
rural area building, said Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Farmers’ Association
Central Committee Nguyen Hong Ly, who is also head of the organising board.
They also developed
practical scientific initiatives and inventions of high economic value, she
added.
Also at the press
briefing, the organising board granted awards to the winners of a writing
contest titled “Outstanding Vietnamese farmer 2014”, selected from nearly
1,000 submissions.
The competition was
launched last year by the Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper and the Binh Dien
Fertiliser JSC launched the writing competition to promote best practices in
farming.
Support
programme on climate change response amended
The Prime Minister
has approved amendments to the framework of
Accordingly, the
SP-RCC will continue to run from 2014 to 2020, with funds sourced from
preferential or non-refundable official development assistance from the
Japanese International Cooperation Agency, the French Development Agency, the
World Bank, the Export-Import Bank of the
The programme’s
overall objective is to support the development and implementation of
strategies, policies and projects designed to effectively respond to climate
change impacts in
Concrete targets
include assisting the implementation of the National Strategy on Climate
Change, the Green Growth Strategy, and strategies for economic sectors on
climate change.
The SP-RCC is also
intended to support the policy, scientific-technological, and financial
measures undertaken by the Government, development partners and private
organisations.
The National
Committee for Climate Change is in charge of supervising the operations of
SP-RCC, while the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the
committee’s standing agency, will govern the programme.
Under the SP-RCC,
which has been implemented since 2009, more than 200 climate change-related
policy measures have been developed and carried out with the joint efforts by
development partners and 10 Vietnamese ministries and sectors.
The Hanoi Steering
Committee for Foreign Information on October 7 officially launched the
capital’s external information channel at the address of
http://hanoitimes.com.vn.
The channel was
upgraded from the Economic and Urban Newspaper’s English electronic
information page Hanoitimes. It provides visitors with continuously-updated
information, a map of the entire city and its tourism sites, hotels and
restaurants.
It is also expected
to help correct untrue information and promote investment and international
cooperation as well as connect
Speaking at the
launch ceremony, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao
said the debut of the channel is part of the city’s efforts to improve its
State management efficiency.
He expressed hope
that it will contribute to promoting images of the capital’s land and people
as well as its history, culture and socio-economic achievements to the world.
Deputy PM
urges building of plans for super storms
Deputy Prime
Minister Hoang Trung Hai has urged all ministries, sectors and localities to
draft their own response plans for strong and super strong storms by June
next year at the latest.
Chairing an online
conference on coping with super storms on October 7, the Deputy PM
particularly reminded provinces and cities nationwide to put in place plans
to evacuate local residents in case strong storms approach.
Deputy PM Hai
requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) to update
and make public research results on coastal regions’ vulnerability to storms
and floods, possible damages of storms on infrastructure projects and
residential houses.
The ministry is
also required to enhance its capacity of forecasting storms and possible
consequences.
Meanwhile, the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is instructed to build a map on
the level of floods in cities and provinces caused by rising water levels as
a consequence of strong and super strong storms. The map will be transferred
to ministries and local governments to serve the building of response plans.
At the same time,
Deputy PM Hai stressed that communications activities to enhance public
awareness about the risks of strong and super strong storms are one of the
most important solutions to cope with the natural disaster.
The MoNRE reported
that the coastal region can be divided into five areas subject to different
levels of storm impacts depending on the storm season, the frequency of storms
and the rainfall caused by storms. Among the five areas, the Quang Ninh-Thanh
Hoa region in the north has been hit by super storms reaching Level 15.
According to the
ministry, the coastal regions of Quang Ninh-Thanh Hoa, Nghe An-Thua Thien-Hue
and Da Nang-Binh Dinh face the risk of storms of Level 15 and 16, while the
Phu Yen-Khanh Hoa region can be hit by storms at Level 14 and 15.
Participants at the
meeting also heard reports on the implementation of construction regulations
in storm-vulnerable areas and guidance on preparations to cope with strong
and super strong storms.
Two more
arrested for baby deaths
The central Quang
Tri province's police have arrested two more persons for their involvement in
the deaths of three babies at the Huong Hoa commune hospital last year.
The hospital's Vice
Director Nguyen Van Thien and nurse Tran Thi Hai Van have been charged with
"irresponsible behavior that had serious consequences." The three
babies died after they were given Esmeron, an anaesthetic drug, instead of
the Hepatitis B vaccine by nurse Nguyen Thi Thuan on July 20, 2013.
Thuan was arrested
on March 27 this year.
Pharma firm loses right to supply drugs
The municipal
Health Department has decided to cancel results of a bid won by Viet Nam
Pharma for the supply of three medicines – Sustonit, Bipando and Peptan.
This follows an
earlier cancellation of bidding results won by the same pharmaceutical
company for four other medicines.
The department
reviewed results of the latest bidding, carried out in May this year, after
the General Director of the HCM City-based company, Nguyen Manh Hung, was
arrested last month for allegedly smuggling the medicines and forging bidding
documents.
The move also
followed reports of contradictions in the bidding process itself. It was
reported that some of the medicines could only be imported for use at a
number of hospitals, but the bids had been held for supply to the market as a
whole.
Last week, after
reviewing winning bids for 38 different medicines, the department had
cancelled bidding results for four medicines - Bicnu, Erwinase, Sodium
Bicarbonate and Digoxin.
Department director
Nguyen Tan Binh has asked relevant agencies to nullify the results, end
contracts and strictly punish violating bidders.
Meanwhile, the Drug
Administration of Viet Nam has announced it was revoking the registration of
seven medicines by Viet Nam Pharma, saying information given to the
administration did not match that carried by the labels on the actual
products.
Hand, foot,
mouth cases fill hospitals
When the mother of
eight-month-old Le Hung Khai of
After taking him to
the HCM City Pediatrics Hospital No.1 in District 10, doctors confirmed the
diagnosis.
It was the second
time that he had had the disease. The first time was when he was only two
months old.
When Khai was
admitted to the hospital, the neurology and infectious disease ward had no
vacant beds.
"Six or seven
children were sharing a bed," the mother, who declined to be named,
said.
To help their child
rest more comfortably, some parents had bought mats and placed them in a
hallway in the ward.
In recent weeks,
the hospital has seen an uptick in the number of patients with the disease.
Yesterday, the ward
treated 80 children with the disease, while only 50 were admitted over the
last two weeks.
Truong Huu Khanh,
the ward's head, said this was the peak season for the disease, which will
continue through December.
Both parents and
doctors are taking a precautionary attitude toward the disease and admitting
more patients after one child in
At the Peadiatrics
Hospital No.2, the number of hospitalised children on October 1 doubled
compared to the previous two weeks.
The city's
Preventive Health Centre said in August, 519 children were diagnosed with the
disease but the number increased to 799 in September.
Most of them were
in districts 6, 8, Tan Phu, Tan Binh and Binh Thanh.
Since the beginning
of the year, there have been nearly 6,800 cases, an increase of 19 per cent
compared to the same period last year.
Hand, foot and
mouth disease is a common viral illness among children under 5 years old.
More than 90 per
cent of children diagnosed with the illness recover without treatment, but
for more serious cases, complications such as pulmonary edema or paralysis
can occur. And in rare cases, some even die.
Khanh said that
parents should learn the signs of the disease and take their children to the
hospital for tests.
If they have the
virus, then they should stay at home until they recover to avoid
transmission, Khanh said
"It is very
important that everyone wash their hands with soap and water, and clean and
disinfect toys and the floors frequently," he added.
Beer serving places shouldn't be hotter than 30°C
Beer products
should not be served in places where the temperature is higher than 30
degrees Celsius, the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade has suggested,
the latest in a series of controversial propositions it put forward about
beer management.
While its other
draft decree which oversees the sales of alcoholic products still generates
opposition from beer makers and sellers, the ministry continues introducing
the draft of another fiat, intended to ensure food safety in beer making and
selling places.
Beer selling
locations strictly follow regulations stipulated by the Ministry of Health
for the sake of food safety, the trade industry demanded in the draft
legislation.
These places must
also be equipped with ventilation or air-conditioning systems to make sure
that the temperature there will not be higher than 30oC, according to the
document.
The ministry also
set out detailed rules on how beer serving facilities should store their
products.
Specifically, beer
must be stored in a position that is at least 15cm away from the floor, while
the respective proximities between it and the wall and ceiling are 30cm and
50cm, according to the draft legal document.
For those that
serve bia hoi (fresh beer), they must have specific equipment to keep the
beer cold all day, the ministry said.
Drinking beer in
open spaces such as on the sidewalk or in beer gardens is most preferred by
beer lovers in
The highest
temperatures in
The new draft
decree on beer safety was immediately confronted with a wave of objections
from members of the public, who said it is yet another draft that lacks
feasibility.
“I bet the draft
composers always drink beer in air-conditioned rooms,” a reader commented on
Tuoi Tre (Youth) Online.
“So all beer
selling places would have to install air cons in the summer to comply with
the rule,” the readers mocked.
Earlier this month,
the Light Industry Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade took a
proposed ban on selling beer on the sidewalk and several other controversial
propositions out of another draft decree on beer production and consumption
management.
The tentative ban
was dropped after the department received negative feedback from beer
businesses and associations.
The draft fiat no
longer contains the clause that prohibits beer from being sold on the
sidewalk, as well as stipulations that ban beer sales to people showing signs
of being under the influence, or pregnant and breastfeeding women.
But it preserves
the proposition that beer companies must place stamps on their products to
fight counterfeits, warn drinkers of alcohol abuse, and prevent tax evasion,
which local breweries have gone on deeming as a “costly regulation.”
It would cost
Vietnamese breweries VND1.6 trillion (US$75.31 million) a year only to place
stamps on their products, according to industry insiders.
Binh Dinh
keen to extend large-scale fields
The central
To ensure the
target is met, the locality plans to create a value chain from production to
processing. This would establish connections between partners in supply,
consumption and production in an effort to lower production costs and
increasing yields and quality for farmers.
In 2014, a total
233 large-scale fields covered an area of 9,720ha, involving more than 58,000
local households.
Rice farmers earned
25 million VND (1,190 USD) and 23.6 million VND (1,123 USD) per hectare for
the 2013/2014 winter-spring crop and the 2014 summer-autumn crop,
respectively. Overall, they earned 16 percent more than farmers who do not
take part in the large-scale production programme.
In addition to
rice, the large-scale production area also generated higher profits for other
crops, such as peanuts, corn and cassava.
Deputy Director of
the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Ngoc Hung
said the large-scale field production model attracted the active
participation of local farmers and enterprises.
Hung added that
small-scale fields in the region hindered the new production model, with each
individual cultivating only 0.5ha of land, and instead proposed families work
with others to form larger areas to cultivate a specific crop.
Vice Chairwoman of
the provincial People’s Committee Tran Thi Thu Ha highlighted the programme’s
performance, using the farmer-enterprise partnership model and advanced
technology.
She also
highlighted the need to develop effective policies and measures for the
sector’s growth.
Thai Binh
mobilsies over 6.3 trln VND for new rural building
The
Out of the total,
1.7 trillion VND (81.8 million USD) was allocated from the State budget, with
another 550 billion VND (26.2 million USD) from the joint fund for other
projects and programmes, and the rest from members of the public.
By the end of
September 2014, all communes in Thai Binh submitted their new-style rural
building plans. So far, 20 communes in the province have been recognised as
new-style rural areas.
According to Vice
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Pham Van Ca, if the registered
communes fail to achieve their targets by the end of 2014, the province will
stop funding and terminate support to them in years to come.
Between now and the
year-end, the provincial Steering Committee will review which communes
meeting all the 19 criteria. It is expected that the province will have more
52 communes recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of this year,
raising its total number recognized communes to 72, exceeding the target of
70 by the end of 2015.
The national target
programme, launched in 2010, defines 19 criteria, including measures to build
infrastructure, improve production capacity, build public facilities, protect
the landscape and environment, and promote local traditions and cultural
identities.-
Workshop seeks
to promote environment industry
Experts have
underlined the need to develop the environment industry in order to better
control pollution and repairing environmental degradation in the country at a
recent workshop-and-fair on environmental industrial products in
A representative
from the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Department of Science and
Technology said the environment industry has taken shaped in the country five
years after the Prime Minister’s approval of a project on the environment
industry to 2015, with a vision to 2025.
The industry has
met part of the demand regarding waste treatment and protection of land and
water environment, he said, stressing that the rising pressure in
environmental protection requires a greater involvement of the private sector
in developing environmental technologies and equipment as well as offering
related services.
Surveys conducted
by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment show the country’s 16
economic sectors need an estimated 7.6 billion USD in investment in
environmental protection. However, only a small number of businesses, mostly
small-and medium-sized enterprises, have registered to supply urban and
industrial waste water treatment services.
Only 6 out of 63
provinces and cities nationwide have waste water treatment plants, and just
105 among 283 operational industrial parks across the country have
concentrated waste-water treatment plants, which are able to meet around 34
percent of the real demand.
About 1.5 billion
cu.m of untreated waste water, most from urban areas and industrial parks,
are directly discharged into the environment each year, said Dr. Do Huu Hao,
Chairman of the Vietnam Environment Industry Association.
He added that urban
areas discharge about 30,000 tonnes of solid waste every day but only 83
percent of which are collected and treated. The rate is just 50-60 percent
for rural areas, which generate a combined 5,000 tonnes a day. The most
common treatment method is burying in duping sites, with 85 percent of the total
solid waste being disposed this way.
The workshop also
provided a venue for participating enterprises to introduce their latest
products and technologies in the field.
Health
Ministry uses standby fund for Ebola prevention
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung has allowed the Ministry of Health to proactively use its
standby fund created for countering epidemics in 2014 for preventive measures
against Ebola epidemic, which has caused over 3,400 deaths in
The sum, worth 7.34
billion VND (345,000 USD), will be used to build up communications and
technical materials, organise training, drill and quarantine activities, and
purchase chemicals and protection gear.
Earlier on
September 27, the Hanoi Department of Health held an exercise to prepare medical
staff for a possible Ebola outbreak in case the virus enters
Meanwhile, a short
training course on preventive measures and responses against Ebola virus was
organised in the Central Highlands
Local authorities
have built action plans to contain the disease in case of its outbreak while
keeping a close watch on tourists and Vietnamese guest workers who have
returned home from the Ebola-hit areas.
The Ministry of
Transport has launched a plan against possible petechial fever caused by
Ebola virus with a goal of early detecting infections in the sector,
preventing the epidemic from spreading and minimising deaths.
The Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism has also issued an action plan to prevent the virus,
which poses a high risk of entering the country via tourists, and at the same
time encouraged Vietnamese people to travel at home.
The Ministry of
Public Security affirmed that its clinics have prepared medicine, equipment,
isolation areas and workforce in case of any Ebola outbreak.
Ebola can cause
fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, organ failure and internal and external bleeding.
The earlier the virus is detected and the symptoms are treated, the higher
the chance of survival is, according to the World Health Organisation.
The current
outbreak of Ebola, which is spread via contact with the bodily fluids of an
infected person, such as sweat and blood, has taken the lives of 3,439 people
out of 7,478 cases across five West African nations --
No Ebola infections
have been reported in
GEF
national dialogue held in Hanoi
The Global
Environmental Facility (GEF) in
Tran Hong Ha,
Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria
KwaKwa, the World Bank’s Country Director for
Vietnamese and
foreign experts from relevant agencies, organisations and institutions
focused on the GEF-6 targets and programmes and identified
These priorities
include boosting the country’s coordination of GEF operations, exchanging
lessons learned from project implementation, and integrating GEF efforts into
national planning frameworks.
According to the
World Bank’s Country Director Victoria KwaKwa,
The World Bank and
the GEF will continue to support
The GEF has
invested a total of 130 million USD in 51 national and 42 regional projects.
It has enabled the
country to tackle numerous environmental issues, such as biodiversity loss,
climate change and water pollution.
The GEF is a
partnership for international cooperation, with 183 countries collaborating
with international institutions, social organisations and the private sector,
in an effort to address global environmental issues.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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