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Social News 6/12
The
Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and
the US Department of Labour (DoL) held their 11 th labour dialogue in
Addressing
the event, MoLISA Deputy Minister Doan Mau Diep said that since the two
agencies set up their links 15 years ago, they have jointly organised regular
dialogues and actively exchanged information on issues of mutual concern.
They
have also expanded cooperation to law making and technical assistance in the
fields related to labour, employment, labour safety and sanitation, and child
labour.
Speaking
highly of the
DoL
Associate Deputy Under-Secretary Mark Mittelhauser stated that during this
dialogue, the two offices will seek solutions to shortcomings in implementing
their memorandum of understanding on cooperation as well as measures to boost
cooperation and law enforcement towards the signing of a cooperation
agreement in 2015.
Delegates
discussed the possibility for coordination in reducing and preventing child
labour and ensuring labour safety and sanitation.
On
December 4, a workshop was organised to share the
ASEAN
volunteers support locals in Thue Thien-Hue
The
ASEAN Young Professionals Volunteer Corps organised a volunteer programme to
support community in Hai Duong commune, Huong Tra town, central Thua
Thien-Hue province from November 23-December 5.
Jointly
held by
Some 27
corps members have worked with the local community to construct fences and
yard for Hai Duong Kindergarten in a bid to prevent children from road
accidents.
According
to the provincial Youth Union Secretary Nguyen Chi Quang, the coastal Hai
Duong commune was selected by the programme due to its vulnerability to
natural disasters.
In 2013,
storm No.11 hit the commune, causing 1.5-meter floods and tidal surges which
blew off 300-meter shore and threatened lives of local residents, he said.
The
volunteers also conducted workshops and training courses for villagers on
environment protection and helped clean local beaches.-
RoK-Vietnam
job fair kicks off in HCM City
The
Korea-Vietnam Job Fair for Global Talents 2014 opened on December 5 in
The
event, co-organised by the Korean Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)
and the RoK Consulate General in
They
want to recruit qualified Vietnamese candidates in the fields of production,
business and personnel management, strategy making and interpretation.
Tu Hong
Diep, a representative from the RoK Consulate General described the fair as a
meeting place for RoK businesses and Vietnamese job seekers, especially young
talents, who want to test their ability during on-the-spot interviews.
RoK
enterprises’ demand for high-quality Vietnamese workers will increase in the
time to come as bilateral trade and investment relations are thriving, she
said.
She
added that one of the reasons for RoK companies to choose
At
present, RoK businesses operating in
In
District 8, one of the City’s “hot spots” of drug-related evils, the police,
night-watchmen, and ward-level security men collected 50 drug addicts.
Meanwhile,
at District 12, the functional forces patrolled and checked An Suong flyover
area at Trung My Tay ward, one of the district’s ‘dark’ spots of drug use,
and took suspects to the ward’s office.
Mai Van
Tho, chairman of District 12’s Trung My Tay Ward People’s Committee, said
that the ward mobilised all forces to examine ‘hot’ spots in the area as well
as checking all suspected hotels and guesthouses.
Actions
have been taken to ensure security and order at An Suong flyover area, the
ward’s most troubled area, Tho said.
The forces
in District 5 also patrolled streets in the area surrounding
According
to the municipal People’s Committee, the City currently has records of over
19,000 drug addicts. Of the recorded 8,000 who are currently in
treatment-education-labour centres, 60 percent are from other localities or
homeless.
The
Committee said the real figure could be 50-70 percent higher because a large
number of synthesised drug addicts had yet to be counted.
The
December 5 raid is part of a project on managing drug addicts before they are
sent to compulsory rehabilitation services to recover their health.
The
project aims to help limit the growth of new addicts and the risk of
spreading HIV by those people to the community as well as contributing to
reducing crimes and social evils in the city, the Committee said.
3,000
packages of frozen buffalo meat seized
Market-watch
officials and the city police yesterday seized 3,000 packages of frozen
buffalo meat that did not have any labelling and expiration dates.
The
packages were seized in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone in Me Linh District,
Ha Noi.
The
authorities suspect that the buffalo meat was being tagged as beef to be used
for making workers' meals at the Bac Thang Long Industrial Zone.
The
buffalo meat belonged to a company based in Hoang Mai District, but the
firm's name remained unclear.
Local
media also reported that at least 10,000 tonnes of frozen buffalo meat have
been imported in
The case
is being investigated further.
Smuggled
mobile phones seized at Ha Noi airport
The Ha
Noi police, in co-operation with customs officials in the city's
Vu Sy
Hai, 31, was found hiding 91 mobile phones of well-known brands such as
Vertu, Nokia, Philips and
The goods
had been transported from
At the
investigation agency, Hai admitted that he had purchased the phones in a
market in
He owns
a mobile phone shop in Cau Giay District's
The
value of the goods was estimated to be more than VND242 million (US$11,415).
Hai and
his luggage have been detained for further investigation.
Floods
kill two children, inundate
Two
primary school students drowned in the flood waters of a river in the central
Thua Thien -
Nguyen
Thi Tra My, 7, and Nguyen Van Lanh, 8, were cycling to their school when they
fell into the river and drowned.
Tran Van
Hoa, chairman of Loc Bon commune where the accident happened, said the road
is very close to the riverbank and the students fell accidentally into the
river.
Heavy
rains and a huge volume of water released from the Huong Dien power plant
reservoir caused flooding in many low-lying areas in the province's Phong
Dien, Quang Dien and Huong Tra districts.
Though
the floods caused traffic problems in these areas, the farmers were happy
because the flood waters swept away pests and rats, and deposited alluvium
for the coming paddy crop.
Gov’t-granted
house of ex-inspector chief to be withdrawn next week
By the
middle of next week,
The
retired official is Tran Van Truyen, 64, who is a former member of the Party
Central Committee and the ex-chief of the Government Inspectorate. He retired
in October 2011.
The city
People’s Committee on Monday issued a decision to take back a house from
Truyen’s daughter, Tran Thi Bich Hue, at
This
decision makes null and void the city’s decision issued on June 6, 2011 on
selling this house to
The
withdrawal is based on a directive shown in a press release issued on November
21 by the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for
Inspection, providing a conclusion on the origin of the properties allegedly
obtained through Truyen’s wrongdoings.
This
house was leased to Truyen in June 2004, and in March 2011 Truyen asked to
purchase the state house from the local government, citing his family’s
housing hardship, and the People’s Committee sold it to him in the name of
his daughter,
But the
central inspection commission found out at that time that Truyen’s daughter
already owned a high-class apartment in District 5,
Through
Truyen’s actions, the commission concluded that the retired chief government
inspector had not been honest about his housing circumstances, and that the
house, therefore, must be withdrawn from his daughter.
In the
above-mentioned press release, the central inspection commission said,
“During his office terms as a central and local official and after retiring,
Truyen carried out many wrongdoings in the field of housing and land. He had
made insincere statements on his personal properties and asked land and
housing authorities to make property-related decisions in favor of himself or
his relatives.”
Also
based on the commission’s conclusion, the People’s Committee of the southern
Conference
spotlights heat stress
Do Ngoc
Khue looks at the thermometer on the notice board and switches on a spray
that cools its roof top if the temperature is too high for workers.
Khue,
head of Security and Safety at the Da Nang-based Chemical Industrial Co.
Central Mine Central (MICCO), said that workers in his factory worked in hot
environments and were exposed to extreme heat, which could lead to illness.
"Some
years ago a worker got dizzy at work and was taken to hospital for treatment,"
he said. "We became very worried when the worker said that the hot
environment made him tired and faint," he added.
That was
when the company's leaders realised that they should do something to protect
and reduce heat stress for its employees.
"Our
workers are provided with training on heat-stress resilience. The most
important thing is that their awareness of the problem has been raised,
enabling us to protect them," Khue added.
"If
our company's solution against heat stress is applied in all enterprises,
workers will have a better working environment and better occupational
health, which in turn will increase their working efficiency and their
company's development," he said.
Khue
shared his thoughts at a conference, entitled Building heat stress resilience
among Da Nang's most vulnerable workers, which was held by the Centre for
Community Health and Development (Cohed) last week.
It was
aimed at developing a national agenda to protect workers from the effect of
climate change, particularly in the context of global temperature increases.
Speaking
about the policies on heat-stress resilience for workers exposed to heat,
Deputy Director General of Work Safety Department under the Ministry of
Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Nguyen Anh Tho, said that 77.5
per cent of companies in
"Work
safety has not been paid enough attention by enterprise leaders, especially
leaders of small enterprises and small and medium enterprises, which account
for 95 per cent of businesses in our country," Tho said.
"Workers
in traditional craft villages, including those work in brick production and
garments factories, have to work outdoor for hours daily," the Deputy
Director said.
"The
most important thing is that the company leaders must care of their workers'
occupational health - and the workers must know how to protect themselves in
extreme working conditions," he added.
"If
the workers' health is good, they can surely work better, which can contribute
to an enterprises' growth," Tho said.
A
director of the Centre for Community Health, Dao Thi Mai Hoa, said that its
project for heat-stress resilience had been piloted in three factories in the
central city of
"Vulnerable
workers at risk of heat stress include outdoor workers and workers in hot
environments, such as construction workers, miners or those who are more than
65 years old," Hoa said. "Prevention of heat stress for workers is
very important. Employers should provide training to workers for them to
understand how it affects their occupational health and safety, and how it
can be prevented," Hoa said.
Hoa said
that there were types of heat stress, including heat stroke, heat exhaustion,
heat syncope and heat rash. He added that workers who suffered from heat
stress must be treated immediately.
MOLISA's
Tho said that to protect workers, policies on prevention of occupational
health must be adopted. "More enterprises must be required to follow
work safety regulations for workers, including workers in farming, fishing
sectors or workers who do not have labour contracts in private
enterprises," Tho said.
"It
is not difficult for enterprises' leaders to reduce heat stress in workers.
They can plant more trees or install a spray machine to cool the factory's
roof like MICCO. I am sure that this will be very helpful for workers'
health," she added. Comments on the draft national agenda for
heat-stress resilience were collected at the conference.
Illegal
teaching centers disbanded in HCMC
The
Department of Education and Training in
This is
one of the moves to show the city’s determination in managing and dressing
teachers who provide private tutoring outside of regular school hours at
their home. Rampant private tutoring has seen in senior and junior schools.
Accordingly,
for the academic year 2014-2015, all such center like that must be disbanded.
Schools must ask for approval from the city authority over opening private
tutoring classes outside the regular hours.
Only
medicine schools allowed to enroll pharmacy students
In its
document to universities of medicine on December 3, the Ministry of Education
and Training has clearly stated that it and the Ministry of Health agreed to
pause some subjects to renovate training in medicine and improve medical
workers’ skills.
Some
subjects include general medicine, Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery,
traditional medicine, and pharmacy in schools which provide training to many
subjects.
Two
ministries of Education and Training; and Health will review and check the
facilities and teams of lecturers of medicine schools nationwide. To
meet the demand of some provinces, the two ministries will consider carefully
including assessing all necessary conditions to ensure the training quality
before giving the go-ahead to open subjects.
Enrolment
quota of medicine students will be based on the number of lecturers of each
subjects and available regulations to guarantee the quality and schools are
not allowed to have more enrolled students than the set quota.
Phu
Yen seeks inordinate compensation after storm
Although
storm Sinlaku only caused slight damage to the coastal
The
storm destroyed 11 homes, leveled 903 hectares of farm land and caused slight
flooding. There were no casualties. However, total damages were estimated by
the Phu Yen People's Committee to be VND9.5 billion.
Local
people in
They
requested VND10 billion from the state for the damages. Besides, the local
authorities also asked for another VND50 billion for upgrading a dyke in Ro
village although it was not affected by the storm. Earlier in the year, they
were already given VND 185 billion by the state to restructure the dyke and
to make upgrades beachfront facilities.
Tropical
storm Sinlaku hit the
Justice
sector urged to improve civil judgement enforcement
The
Ministry of Justice held a conference in
Speaking
at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised efforts
made by the civil judgement enforcement agencies in strengthening inspection
and strictly handling violations, especially the serious, prolonged and
complex cases that have caught the public's attention.
However,
he also pointed out some shortcomings and weaknesses in the enforcement of
civil judgements.
The
number of enforced verdicts, while showing an increase from the period before
the law was put in place, remained short of target, the Deputy PM said.
The
number of judgements issued in 2014 that were not implemented within their
due date remained high, he added.
Deputy
PM Phuc suggested relevant agencies quickly implement the Law on amendments
and supplements to some articles of the Law on enforcement of civil
judgements, speed up the issuance of documents guiding the implementation of
the law and submit to the Government for promulgation.
Deputy
PM Phuc also urged the sector exert more effort to play an active role in
perfecting institutions, reforming administrative procedures and issuing
numerous documents guiding the implementation of laws.
Many programmes
to assist disadvantaged students and workers in large cities and provinces
have been organised for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday which falls on
February 19.
The Ho
Chi Minh City Student Assistance Centre will grant 2,700 bus tickets to
disadvantaged students in flood-prone provinces as well as other areas. The
city's Fatherland Front funds the programme.
The
annual entertainment programme will also be held for students who are not
returning home during the Tet. The centre will also help students who want to
earn more income for Tet.
The
city's Youth Social Work Centre last week also launched a writing contest on
the difficulties and wishes of workers and students who want to return home
for Tet. The contest is based in
Awards
of VND300,000 (US$14) each will be given to 1,000 students.
The
contest is a part of a programme Trai Muot Duong Ve Yeu Thuong (The Way Home
Full Of Love), funded by P&G's Rejoice product brand.
The
programme also offers a "happy bus" for workers in the Mekong Delta
The
Many
enterprises have agreed to join the programme; they will subsidise 70% of
ticket prices and the remaining will be paid by the union.
Moreover,
1,500 gifts worth VND500,000 (US$23.8) will be presented to provincial
workers who do not return their hometown during Tet holidays.
Tran
Cong Khanh, Chairman of the Trade Union, said the city has 16 industrial
parks and export processing zones with hundreds of workers.
During
Tet, workers often do not return from their hometowns, so enterprises are
offering gifts to certain categories of workers.
Nguyen
Thi Thu, Chairwoman of the city's Labour Federation, said the city would
focus on workers who have had labour accidents and treatment at hospitals,
employees who are natives of flood-affected provinces and cities, and those
whose labour contracts have concluded or were negotiated illegally.
Workers
at companies where the owners have fled will receive gifts worth 500,000 VND
each.
Hoa
Binh told to address pollution
Deputy
Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has told northern
Hai gave
the People's Committee until December 30 to come up with a solution. The move
came after VTV1 reported on November 20 that the rubbish dump, located in Tan
Hoa Ward, had polluted the surrounding environment, including the Da River.
The dump
has discharged dozens of cubic metres of waste water into the river daily for
the last decade, causing growing concerns, according to the television
station.
Throughout
this period, Vinaconex Water Supply Joint Stock Co's Da has been processing
the river water and reticulating it to thousands of Hanoians as tap water.
Last
week, however, a Vinaconex representative said the Ha Noi tap water it
provides meets all quality standards. He said the dump was 15km from where
the plant took raw river water and treated it, so any effect from the rubbish
dump was trivial.
The
national information security index of
Assessments
from international organisations, however, still showed that
According
to Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Minh Hong, the
work of ensuring information security at offices, agencies and enterprises in
Vietnam has still not been given due attention.
Meanwhile,
the legal framework on standard and national technical regulations on
information security has yet to provide a sufficient foundation for the
application of management measures in the field, he noted.
Under
the theme “Information safety, security and national sovereignty,” the 2014
Vietnam Information Security Day aimed to raise public awareness of
information security and encourage human resources training in the area.
It also
looked to promote the application and development of IT in a safe and secure
manner since attacks targeting important data of organisations and
enterprises as well as private information of thousands of people are on the
rise.
During
the ceremony, representatives of many software giants such as Google,
Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco and Firewire, shared their experience, solutions and
tools to ensure safety and security for important national information
systems.
Besides
a conference held following the launch, the 2014 Vietnam Information Security
Day also consists of two seminars on ensuring security for key national information
system, and the risk of information loss from hand-held devices.
Seminar
seeks ways for climate change adaptation
Scientists
working in science and technology, and environment gathered at a seminar in
the central city of
The
event was held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment as part
of the Scientific and Technological Programme serving the National Target
Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTPRCC).
In his
opening speech, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thai Lai said
In
recent year, climate change has adversely impacted on both production and
living conditions as well as national poverty reduction goals and sustainable
development of all sectors nationwide, he noted.
During
the seminar, participants shared information and practical experience in
assessing environment and climate change impacts, and proposed measures in
response to climate change.
Realising
threats of climate change to national sustainable development, the Government
has swiftly made an overall plan to cope with the phenomena. In 2008, it
approved the NTPRCC.
Accordingly,
the Ministry of Science and Technology was assigned to work with the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Environment to build and implement a scientific and
technological programme to serve the NTPRCC in the 2011-2015 period, which
aims to map out methods to effectively tackle climate change.
After
the three years of implementation, the programme has greatly contributed to
mitigating climate change impacts on
Vaccinations
help to prevent some cancers
The
country's oncology-prevention programmes should focus on treatable infections
by encouraging the use of vaccinations and antimicrobial treatment, a group
of oncologists have recommended.
Vaccinations
could be key to prevent some of the infection-related cancers, including
liver and cervical cancers, according to an article published by the six
oncologists in the Vietnam Oncology Journal.
Infections
and cancer often provide unique models of pathogenesis in relation to
diagnosis, therapy, screening and prevention, according to their report,
which was presented at an oncology conference held in
For
instance, HBV vaccinations have been shown to prevent liver cancer in
high-incidence countries.
The HPV
vaccine, which is now available, reduces the chances of getting cervical
cancer.
A report
from the World Health Organisation in 2003 showed that up to 23 percent of
malignancies in developing countries were caused by infectious agents.
In
developed countries, cancers caused by chronic infections accounted for
approximately 8 percent of all malignancies.
An infective
agent is linked to some of the most common cancers. H. pylori, for example,
causes gastric cancer; human Papillomavirus causes the vast majority of
cervical cancer; and hepatitis viruses cause liver cancer.
These
type of cancers are among the top five most prevalent cancers in
From
2008 to 2012, the hospital was in charge of recording population-based cancer
registration in the city.
In the
city, 34,581 cancer patients were observed during this period. The crude rate
(the number of cancer cases divided by the population and multiplied by
100,000) of the two genders was 92.2 in male and 100.5 female per 100,000,
according to the hospital.
The
age-standardized rate (which takes into account how many old or young people
are in the population) of the two genders was 134.5 in male and 109.9 in
female per 100,000.
The most
common cancers in both genders increased rapidly from the age of 40.
Compared
to the 2000-2004 period, there was an increase in both the crude rate and
age-standardized rate, according to the oncologists' research findings.
Also at
the conference, a study investigating the rates of depression and factors in
breast cancer patients in
The
study of 339 breast cancer patients showed that a high percentage of breast
cancer patients had positive scores of depression, with 28.6 percent. Mild
depression affected 13.6 percent of the patients.
Depression
prevalence was highest among patients aged over 70, the illiterate, poor
patients, the unemployed and the unmarried.
The
research findings showed that doctors need better understanding of depression
in breast cancer patients, and should choose the appropriate treatments to
improve their quality of life.-
The
Ministry of Health on December 4 sent urgent dispatches to the Ministry of
Transport and provincial municipal People’s Committees asking them to
actively prevent bubonic plague as the epidemic killed at least 40 people in
Madagascar while also hitting many other countries including the US and
China.
Accordingly,
the Ministry of Transport was urged to guide units with transport means
entering
The
units must actively examine, detect and destroy rats and fleas on their
transport means, especially water, railway and road vehicles, to minimise the
risks of disease transmission from animals to humans.
The
Health Ministry also requested the health departments of provinces and cities
to instruct quarantine agencies increase the examination and supervision of goods
on vehicles returning from epidemic-stricken areas.
Media
agencies should strengthen the dissemination of anti-plague measures among
people, especially those living in high-risk areas, and encourage them to
kill rats under the guidance of the agricultural sector.
The
bubonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis which is transmitted
to human via flea bites. It kills about one in ten infected patients.
Patients first develop high fever, headache and painful swelling in lymph
glands. In extreme cases, their skin turns dark purple. Once diagnosed,
patients can be treated with antibiotics. If they are diagnosed early on,
they have better chances to recover.
More
than 200 organisations and individuals donated over VND3.3 billion
(US$157,100) to
Addressing
the fund-raising programme, Vice Chairwoman of the municipal People’s
Committee Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc said the city has recorded 21,000 HIV/AIDS
sufferers, including over 5,000 AIDS patients and nearly 4,000 deaths, since
the first case was detected 21 years ago.
As many
as 535 communes and wards across
The
capital city has undertaken a number of measures to prevent the transmission
of the virus and help HIV-infected people integrate into the community, Ngoc
noted, while admitting that the incidence of HIV cases has yet been reduced,
and a number of the patients are orphans or people without stable jobs and
income.
Since
its inception four years ago, Hanoi’s support fund for HIV patients has
raised more than VND8 billion over US$380,900) and run an array of practical
activities, including two projects providing care for the target group at a
cost of US$89,000.
At the
event, held in coordination with the Hanoi Radio and Television Station, the
organisers presented 14 passbooks to people living with HIV.
French
enterprises look into business climate in Vietnam
A
delegation from the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF), the
largest employer federation in
The
visit, the ninth made by a MEDEF delegation, aimed to boost bilateral
economic relations as well as increase partnerships between the two
countries’ businesses.
During
meeting with Vietnamese partners, French enterprises said they wish to expand
collaboration with
Bac
Giang becomes second-tier city
The PM
has inked a decision to recognize Bac Giang of the
Bac
Giang city is a political, economic and culture hub of the province.
Located
50km to the North of Ha Noi and connecting Ha Noi with Lang Son city and Dong
Dang border gate, Bac Giang city has become an industrial and service centre
of Bac Giang province.
Earlier,
the city was recognized as a third-grade city in 2003.
In 2013,
average income per capita of the city was 1.45 times higher than the national
average figure. Economic growth rate has increased constantly by 17.1% over
the last three years. Poverty rate was 1.5%.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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