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Social News 6/1
Rockers meet orphans in Can Tho
Rock bands Stevans from
“We have a chance to meet disadvantaged children in
Leader Tran Lap of Buc Tuong and members of Hac San also came
to play and chat with the underprivileged kids.
The organizers of Rockstorm donated milk and cash to the
shelter as the charitable part of their events. So far, they have raised
VND1.4 billion from four concerts held in
Goat-related items hot as 2015 Lunar New Year approaches
Goat-related items are being sought after in
One of the most sought-after item in
The prices of the statues range from VND80 million to VND500
million, depending on the size.
To welcome the Lunar New Year, the US Treasury has issued
one-dollar-note "Lucky Money" with a limited available amount of
88,888.
Meanwhile some two-dollar-notes that are enhanced with
holographic gold images of goat are being sold at USD13.5 per note. Their
price is doubled on Vietnamese websites at USD27 per note. The wholesale
price is also as high as USD22.5 per note.
One of the most favourite items are the goat-shaped ornamental
trees made on customers' orders. Other zodiac animal-shaped trees are also
favoured and sold at VND30 million (USD1,400) each pair of animal.
Guests flee
Dozens of guests fled from a
At 6:45am, local residents discovered that black smoke was
pouring out of a second-floor window of Van An 2 Hotel on
Hotel staff tried to put out the fire to no avail. Six fire
trucks and 32 fire fighters were sent to the site later and put the fire
under control in 30 minutes. No one was hurt but the fire destroyed most of
the guests' belongings.
Initial investigation showed that a mobile phone was charging
in room 201 and exploded. The fire spread to the mattress before covering the
whole room.
Government officials study
As many as 25 senior government officials of
The training course focuses on sharing
In addition to discussions with
The programme is carried out between Temasek Foundation of
Minister warns train project's contractor over safety
violations
Transport minister Dinh La Thang issued a warning to the
principal EPC contractor of the Cat Linh–Ha Dong train project, following a
series of construction and traffic safety violations.
In a meeting on Sunday, the minister said that the recent
accidents not only showed that the contractor of the urban train project did
not comply with safety standards, but also caused public fear and discontent.
"We cannot allow another accident to happen. People's
lives are at risk here. Every time something went wrong, they said that they
accepted responsibility. But nothing changed after that," pointed out
Thang.
The minister ordered the contractor to immediately replace the
project's director general, and terminate the contract with its current
consultant company as well as sub-contractors.
The most recent incident took place on December 28, when a
scaffolding and frame collapsed in the Ha Dong District, crushing a taxi with
four people inside, and endangering the lives of nine construction workers.
Fortunately, no one died in the incident.
Remote sensing technology helps monitor marine environment
resources
A project on using remote sensing technology for monitoring
sea and island environment resources is nearing the goal of compiling a basic
database on the country’s marine resources and environment.
The project is being carried out by the National Remote Sensing
Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and
the Vietnam Administration of Seas and
According to head of the National Remote Sensing Department
Nguyen Xuan Lam, the department has established a system of topographical
maps of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos and building a database to serve
the compilation of a map collection on a 1:50,000 scale of the land cover of
coastal areas and emerging islets.
The department has also drawn a collection of specialized maps
on the 1:1,000,000 scale accompanied by data on the physical, chemical and
biological factors as well as sea and island environment for the entire
territorial waters of
The initial results have opened up prospects for the country
to enhance its capacity in the future application of remote sensing
technology in the exploration and monitoring of its maritime and island
resources and environment.
Educational project draws more ethnic minority pupils to
school
The government’s educational project targeting nine minority
ethnic groups with populations under 5,000 has produced positive results
after four years of implementation.
According to Nguyen Hoa, Deputy Director of the provincial
Education and Training Department of the Central Highlands
Under the programme, classrooms and boarding facilities were
built in remote areas, improving access to education for local children. The
programme also offered lessons and teaching method specially designed for
those learners as well as training courses for teachers.
Besides exemption of school fees, the pupils of the nine
ethnic groups are given monthly allowance to help with their living expenses
and can choose to study at boarding schools at elementary or secondary
schools. This has encouraged ethnic children to pursue higher education.
In the coming time, more poverty-alleviation efforts and
investment in school building and teacher training are needed to continue
this meaningful project.
Vinh Long aims to mobilise 150 bln VND for the poor
The southern
To achieve that goal, the locality will call on individuals
and organisations to join efforts to help poor people improve their lives,
thus contributing to sustainable poverty reduction, said Nguyen Van Sang,
Vice President of the provincial Vietnam Fatherland Font Central Committee.
The money collected will be used to build houses for the poor,
help them in production and medical treatment, and cover scholarships for
poor students with outstanding academic performances.
In 2014, thanks to the “Day for the Poor” campaign, Vinh Long
raised 33.1 billion VND, equivalent to 165.7 percent of the set target. Over 1,200
charitable houses were built.
The campaign has so far helped 3,762 households escape from
poverty, reducing the province’s poverty rate to 3.54 percent.-
Dak Lak province enhances vocational training for rural youth
The Central Highlands
Dak Lak is striving to increase the proportion of trained
labourers to 50 percent in 2015 and 57 percent in 2020, she said.
To that end, it will expand vocational training to serve the
industrialisation, modernisation, and agricultural and rural development such
as those relating to information technology, agricultural and forestry
production and processing, tourism, and handicrafts.
Between 2016 and 2020, provincial authorities will encourage
economic sectors to set up 60 vocational training establishments so as to
equip 30,000 people in rural areas with job skills every year, the Vice
Chairwoman noted.
She added at the same time, local colleges will also get help
to improve their training quality to national and ASEAN levels and open
courses in accordance with the market demand.
The province in the past years has also been paying heed to
raising the teaching staff’s capacity, surveying labour demand and supply,
and organising job fairs, the official said.
In 2014, about 26,500 people in Dak Lak became employed,
adding up the number of those getting jobs since 2011 to 103,390, mostly the
young in rural areas, with 43 percent of them under training.
Covering more than 13,000 sq.km of land in the heart of the
Southern province succeeds in lifting ethnics out of poverty
About 1,900 low-income households of ethnic minority groups in
the southern
The ethnic minority households, accounting for 14.5 percent of
local poor families, will soon escape from poverty since they have been
benefiting from vocational training, low-interest bank loans, and other forms
of assistance, Deputy Director of the department Lam Duy Tin said.
Since 2009, the provincial People’s Committee has supported
some 73 billion VND (3.47 million USD) to more than 5,800 ethnic minority
students for their vocational training fees. About 3,400 of them have
graduated so far.
Ka Sem, a Co Ho ethnic from Phu Binh commune, Tan Phu
district, secured a job in Ho Chi Minh City for the last five years and
earned around 7.5 million VND (357.1 USD) a month at present.
She said the entire tuition fee for her two-year learning of
fashion design at the Vocational Training Junior College No.8 in Bien Hoa city
was covered. She was also introduced a job immediately after graduating.
Vocational training and creating jobs are key measures to
raise people’s income, Tin noted, adding that Dong Nai has lifted more than
4,700 ethnic minority households out of poverty in the past five years.
Dong Nai has a population of more than 2.76 million with over
175,000 being ethnic minority people, according to statistics in 2013.
Can Tho aims to reduce household poverty rate to 1.84 percent
The Mekong Delta City of Can Tho will strive to bring the
household poverty rate down to 1.84 percent in 2015, which means around 5,660
local households will escape poverty.
At a year-end conference reviewing poverty reduction efforts
in 2014, Vice Director of Can Tho’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social
Affairs Nguyen Thanh Vung said the city will provide preferential loans for
over 19,000 poor households to expand production and generate income.
In addition, 1,000 poor households will be provided with
breeding animals worth 1.3 billion VND (62,000 USD), while nearly 8,700 needy
households will receive subsidy for electricity use.
The city will also try to raise donations to build 600 houses
for needy households.
In 2014, Can Tho reduced its household poverty rate by 1.11
percent by providing 469 billion VND ( 22.3 million USD) in credit for 36,350
poor households and beneficiaries of social welfare.
Orbis funds eye care projects in central Vietnam
Orbis flying eye hospital is among projects on eye care funded
the non-governmental organisation in the central
The project, carried out from early 2015, has a total
investment of 4.8 billion VND (225,600 USD), of which Orbis funded over 4.4
billion VND (210,000 USD).
The project will train 160 doctors and 70 orderlies through
seminars and sharing of experiences. Around 15 engineers and technicians will
also take part in training courses to learn how to maintain and operate
modern ophthalmology equipment.
Around 140 patients will be provided with vision screening,
diagnosis and treatment guidelines while some 60 patients will receive
surgeries and treatment to regain their eyesight.
Earlier, Orbis decided to fund a project worth 22.6 billion
VND (1.06 million USD) providing eye care services for children in the
northern
Founded in 1982, Orbis International is an international
non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving eye sight
worldwide. It implemented its first hospital-based programme in
The capital aims to reach the rate of 12.5 doctors per 10,000
people and two pharmacists per 10,000 people in 2015. The figures will be
raised to 13.5 and 2.5 respectively in 2020.
The capital’s health sector will enable more patients to
access modern health check-ups and treatment, while developing infrastructure
and increasing the number of sick-beds at hospitals.
It will also simplify administrative formalities via the
implementation and expansion of the one-stop-shop mechanism and the
application of information technology as well as reducing time and cost for
medical treatment.
Over the past five years,
Additionally, more than 51,000 middle-aged women in the city
were screened for cancer as part of a three-year project on cervical and
breast cancer, which was led by the Hanoi Committee for the Advancement of
Women and ended in 2014.
The city also distributed free medicine worth 500 million VND
(24,000 USD) and equipped the
OV Community in Norway welcomes the New Year
The Vietnamese Association in
In his speech, chairman of the Vietnamese Association in
Norway Pham Thanh Pha highlighted last year’s achievements in community-based
activities including organizing International Women's Day, Mid-Autumn
Festival, supporting disadvantaged children and joining efforts with fellow
citizens to defend the sovereignty of sea and islands.
The Vietnamese diplomat thanked OVs in
Mai also updated them on the outstanding achievements in
socio-economic development as well as the Vietnam-Norway relations while
extending New Year best wishes to OVs.
Community-based activities such as holding annual New Year
get-togethers have become a cultural beauty of Vietnamese people in
Tet gifts to Truong Sa soldiers, people
A ship carrying working delegations from ministries and
localities as well as New Year gifts departed from
As scheduled, the ship will drop in 20 islands and islets in
the district, delivering gifts to people and soldiers there on the occasion
of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) – the most important festival of
Vietnamese people in the year.
More than 80 reporters from media agencies across the country
were also on board the ship.
Addressing the departure ceremony, Tran Son Hai, member of the
Khanh Hoa Party Standing Committee and Vice Standing Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee, wished soldiers and locals in Truong Sa island
district enjoy a joyous and safe festival.
He said he hopes they will continue promoting heroic tradition
and solidarity to overcome all difficulties and firmly safeguarding the
national sovereignty over sea, islands and continental shelf.
Lam Dong to build, repair 42 suspension bridges in 2015
As many as 42 suspension bridges in the Central Highlands
The provincial People’s Committee has approved a project on
the construction of nine new bridges which will be carried out in early this
year. The rest will be repaired latter to ensure safety for local residents.
The work is part of a 931 billion VND (44 million USD) project
to build 186 suspension bridges in 28 cities and provinces in the northern,
central and Central Highlands regions.
Outlined by the Ministry of Transport, the scheme aims to help
improve living conditions for inhabitants in mountainous and remote areas of
the country and mitigate the risks of traffic accidents, especially during
the flood season.
The plan is also to deal with the fact that 40 percent of all
the suspension bridges across the country are in need of urgent repairs or
reconstruction, according to the ministry.
Figures from the ministry indicate that there are about 1,950
suspension bridges in
Up to 94 percent of them are located on roads connecting
villages and communes.
Int’l workshop highlights
As many as 120 international and domestic scholars and
cultural managers are gathering in central Khanh Hoa province for an international
workshop protecting and promoting cultural values of
Addressing the opening ceremony on January 5, Dang Thi Bich
Lien, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, stressed that
The two-day event, jointly held by the Vietnam National
Institute of Arts and Culture Studies and the provincial People’s Committee,
presented a number of reports featuring the sea and island culture of coastal
localities in
Meanwhile, foreign participants shared experience on many
issues with a view to applying and promoting cultural values of sea and
islands in the country’s socio-economic development, especially in tourism.
Scholars from the
The workshop assessed that sea and island cultural values have
contributed to safeguarding
Binh Dinh province expands large-scale fields
The central province of Binh Dinh plans to build an additional
250 large-scale fields in 2015 covering more than 10,000 hectares, said
Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Phan Trong Ho.
The large-scale field is a centralised production model that
utilises the coordination among farmers, businesses, scientists, and State
agencies to facilitate the application of technology in cultivation, thus
improving the value of agricultural products and farmers’ income.
For 2015, Binh Dinh will zone 10,000 hectares of 230 fields
for growing rice while the rest 20 fields totaling 1,000 hectares will be
covered by food crops such as maize, cassava, and peanut trees, he said.
Binh Dinh has called on companies that supply seedlings and
production materials and buy farm produce to cooperate with agricultural
cooperatives and farmers. It has also encouraged businesses to provide loans
and asked scientists to advise farmers on cultivation techniques.
The province has run technique training courses for local
farmers and converted ineffective rice fields into food crops areas, the
official added.
In 2014, it built 233 large-scale fields with a total area of
more than 9,700 hectares and 58,000 households participating in. Such a model
generated over 7.3 tonnes of rice per hectare each crop and brought about
23.6 million VND (1,123 USD) per hectare in profit, some 0.5 tonnes and 3.7
million VND higher than normal models, respectively.
Binh Duong strives to complete new-style rural area building
by 2020
The southern
In 2015, the locality aims to mobilise about 1.994 trillion
VND (93.7 million USD) to implement the new-style rural area building
programme and have 19 more communes satisfied the all 19 criteria.
In 2014, more than 2 trillion VND (94 million USD), of which
927 billion VND came from local people and businesses, was invested in
building new style rural areas, thus improving infrastructure facilities and
lowering the poor household rate to 1.52 percent.
As many as 11 communes in the province became new-style rural
areas, while the rest met at least nine criteria.-
Intensive seafood farming benefits southern farmers
Farmers from the southern
The province aims to increase the area for seafood farming to
over 15,000 hectares and harvest about 140,000 tonnes of shrimp and fish of
all kinds.
Director General of the provincial Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development Nguyen Thanh Can said local authorities will adopt
technical measures to increase productivity and quality of the key products
such as shrimp and tra fish.
The province will also focus on creating processing material
sources for exports while diversifying and expanding effective models
combining aquatic breeding and rice growing.
Tien Giang forms part of the Mekong Delta which provides 90
percent of the country’s exported rice, 70 percent of exported fruits and 70
percent of exported seafood.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s
The chapter organised many delegations to visit and present
gifts to families whose members rendered services to the nation, poor and
ethnic minority people in
Notably, a voluntary programme in six northwestern provinces
helped each build a 100 million VND boarding house and a 50 million VND
playground for children. It also provided free medical check-ups and medicine
as well as presented scholarships and learning equipment to local students.
The chapter also set up 10 voluntary teams assisting doctors
and nurses at hospitals in receiving patients.
During the 2014 “Give Strength in Exam Season” programme, the
capital youth gave assistance to over 200,000 examinees and their relatives.
They donated more than 120,000 units of blood, helping ease
blood shortages in hospitals.
National power grid reaches outpost islands
The five island communes of Quan Lan, Minh Chau, Ban Sen,
Thang Loi, and Ngoc Vung in Van Don district of northern Quang Ninh province
have officially connected with the national power grid.
With this, Quang Ninh has basically accomplished its target of
bringing electricity to the country’s northeastern outpost islands, helping
turn their Van Don district into a special economic region in the near
future.
Started from April 2014, the power supply project has a total
investment of 312 billion VND (14.9 million USD) funded by the province, the
Electricity of Vietnam group (EVN) and the Northern Power Corporation (EVN
NPC).
The five communes have 2,568 households in total.
Ministries receive equipment to speed up international
economic integration
The European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project
(EU-MUTRAP) held a ceremony in Hanoi on January 5 to hand over equipment to
units under the Ministries of Industry and Trade, Finance, Planning and
Investment, and Science and Technology.
The equipment includes computers to serve units participating
in the negotiation of trade agreements and the implementation of commitments
of international economic integration.
In order to improve the capacity of ministries and sectors,
the project has also provided consultancy related to policy development and
the research on the impact of the integration commitments to policy-making.
It also helps disseminate information about international integration
commitments.
The first phase of the project also supports the construction
and transfer of application software for the website on Vietnam’s support
industries as well as other websites of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The second phase of the project is being implemented from
July, 2014 to December, 2015.
Representatives from the ministries and sectors spoke highly
of EU-MUTRAP’s support while stressing the necessity of devices to serve
negotiations, research, planning and implementation of trade policies in a
practical and efficient manner.
Vingroup establishes scholarship fund for corporate managers
Vingroup has announced the establishment of a scholarship fund
to develop skills of Vietnamese corporate managers.
In the initial stage the group will earmark US$10 million for
the fund with the first project to train high-quality hotel management
scheduled to start in January this year.
The scholarship fund aims to build a staff of young Vietnamese
corporate managers who will possess international standard qualifications and
skills with a particular focus on high-end services such as hotels, resorts,
commercial centres and other business facilities.
In addition to financing, Vingroup will also directly participate
in running training programmes together with renowned and experienced
international training institutions.
The fund is expected to provide an excellent training
environment for scholarship recipients, who will be able to acquire
international expertise and work in their field of study after the training
programmes finish.
In January, the fund will recruit 50 Vietnamese general
managers between 25 and 35 so that they can take charge of luxury hotels and
resorts, most of which are currently run by foreigners.
The managers will attend training courses from international
institutions such as the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
and those demonstrating an excellent performance will win a two-week trip to
Singapore, Dubai or Switzerland to practise their skills.
Vingroup plans to expand its scholarship programmes to other
areas including commercial centres, home appliance centres and large
supermarkets later in the year.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 1, 2015
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