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Social News 7/1
Fire burns down 12 houses in Ca Mau
A gold shop in Thoi Binh District in the southern
At around 6:45 p.m, the fire started from Tan Phat gold shop
and then quickly spread to nearby houses at Thoi Binh Market area due to
strong wind.
Local police sent three fire engines and many firefighters to
the site. The incident caused power loss for Thoi Binh town for a short time.
By 8:00 p.m, the fire was controlled.
According to initial statistics, at least two gold shops and
10 houses were destroyed, causing big loss. Luckily, no human loss was
reported.
The investigation is being conducted.
Three fishermen die of strange snails
Though border safeguards in the central
As being informed that three fishermen in serious condition
after they ate snails, border safeguards in Cua Sot station in Ha Tinh
arrived in the boat immediately to take three people for treatment; however,
three all died.
When safeguards came to the ship, Tran Xuan Thuc and Tran Van
Duong both at 29 year old and Duong Van Tinh, 22 were lying unconsciously.
They were taken to the province’s
Doctors have confirmed food poisoning cause their death.
Cat
Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway line gets new manager
Le Kim Thanh, deputy head of Vietnam Expressway Corporation,
has been assigned to be acting director general of the Railway Project
Management Board after two serious accidents occured with the Cat Linh-Ha
Dong flyover project.
Deputy Minister of Transport, Nguyen Ngoc Dong, announced the
decision to promote Le Kim Thanh as acting director general of the Railway
Project Management Board, under the Ministry of Transport, on January 6.
Thanh was assigned with mission to speed up key projects which
are lagging behind schedule such as the
Le Kim Thanh, born in 1973, is an experienced engineer. He
worked as director of the
Nguyen Manh Hung has recently been demoted from acting
director general of the Railway Project Management Board after a section of
scaffolding on part of the Ha Dong-Cat Linh project collapsed on December 28
at Ha Dong Terminal, crashing 10 metres on to a passing taxi. The driver and
three passengers escaped injury.
On November 6, a steel beam dropped from a crane at the
construction site which killed one motorbike rider.
Last year, several railway officials were dismissed or
suspended follows the alleged bribes from Japan Transportation Consultants
Inc to Vietnamese officials for
Three Vietnamese students will be participating in the 61st
world youth conference Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN)
scheduled for February 12-15 in the
Bui Tuan, Hoang Son
The largest, oldest, and most prestigious conference for youth
in the world will be attended by nearly 3,000 outstanding students from 70
nations and territories, reports Tuoi Tre newspaper.
Bui Tuan was quoted by the paper as saying, “We were extremely
happy when we were chosen to take part in the conference at the end of last
year because there were a lot of applications submitted. We’re also proud to
represent the school to join the event.”
Students at HNMUN 2015 will debate and vote on a number of
matters related to
This is a great opportunity to enhance self-awareness, leadership
and teamwork skills by exchanging ideas and information with many
international friends, added Tuan.
Throughout the conference, which was launched in 1955 by
Chairman of
Accordingly, an inspection team with the involvement of the
fire-fighting police, departments of Construction, Culture and Sports,
Industry and Trade, and Electricity, and market management agencies will be
formed, focusing on inspecting risk areas such as petrol stations,
restaurants, entertainment centres, and construction sites.
Quan underscored the need to thoroughly abide by standards and
regulations on fire prevention and fighting, including those related to safe
distance for extinguishing fire, measures for preventing fire-spread and
emergency exit.
The Chairman also urged the concerned agencies to strictly and
effectively implemented directives of the municipal Party Committee and
People’s Committee relating to fire prevention and fighting, and rescue work
in the locality, while enhancing state management in the field.
Communication activities should be fostered in the coming time
to raise public awareness of the issue, Quan said.
In 2014, nearly 250 fires were reported in
Export of traditional Chung cakes begins ahead of Tet
A Dong Nai-based maker of Banh Chung – a type of traditional
rice cake for New Year celebration of Vietnam – has shipped abroad 40 tonnes
of the cake to serve the Overseas Vietnamese community during the upcoming
Lunar New Year (Tet).
Besides the cakes, Tran Gia company in Bien Hoa city, the
southern
Currently, more than 4 million Overseas Vietnamese are living
in over 100 countries around the globe. Many of them still keep the practice
of celebrating the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 19 this year.
Chung cake is an integral part of the lunar New Year
celebration. It is made from glutinous rice, pork and green bean paste, and
then wrapped in “dong” leaves, which give the rice a green tint after being
boiled for ten hours.
The vacuum-packed cakes can keep for six months.
Hospitals in grassroots, central level less overcrowded
Hospitals from the grassroots and central level have become less
overcrowded, which is due in part to a 2011-2016 scheme pursued by the
Ministry of Public Health.
Central-level hospitals have added over 4,800 beds, or 24.6%
of the total, including Quang
In 2014, the ministry submitted proposals to build second
facilities of the Bach Mai,
In late 2014, work started on the construction of the second
facilities of children’s hospital in Binh Chanh district –
Compared to 2012, when the scheme kick-started, the number of
public hospitals has climbed to 115, offering as many as 25,700 beds. Up to
11 satellite hospitals located in the
Under the ministry’s project 1816, provincial-level hospitals
in 57 out of 63 cities and provinces sent 4,661 medical staff members to
district health care facilities to conduct about 3,300 rounds of technology
transfer and nearly 2,800 training courses for over 57,900 of their
grassroots peers.
Medical stations in districts also assigned their staff to
communal partners to re-train more than 64,700 health workers.
Beyond that, the family clinic model has also become popular,
especially in
During 2013, they conducted 41,084 medical check-ups and
detected 102,588 cases of disease contraction.
Family clinics in 8 cities and provinces numbered 97,
equipping themselves with amenities and conveniences at the service of
patients.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien vowed to build on the past
achievements and offer the best services to patients nationwide throughout
2015.
Civet-conservation posters distributed
As many as 2,000 copies of posters and calendars to highlight
the importance of Owston's civet conservation in
It is part of the Owston's Civet Awareness Campaign organised
by the Save Viet Nam's Wildlife campaign.
The campaign aims to raise public awareness and ensure that
confiscated Owston's civets and wildlife are transferred to rescue centres.
This is the first time an awareness campaign for Owston's
civet conservation has been conducted in
New university gets approval in capital
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam approved Ha Noi College of
Education's decision to become Ha Noi Capital University.
Ha
The Ministry of Education and Training will approve the
quality of the university's education before allowing students to enroll.
The 2502/QD-TTg was put into effect on December 31 last year.
Ship discovered stealing oil
Ba Ria-Vung Tau border guards on Sunday discovered a ship
illegally transporting oil on the
Duong Dong-Sai Gon Joint-stock Company's Duong Dong Ship 18
stole oil from Thai Binh Duong Oil and Gas Joint-stock Company's Hercules
Ship M. Duong Dong Ship 18's owner, Tran Dinh Phu, failed to provide any sort
of permit for the oil or papers on the goods' origins.
When the border guards discovered it, Duong Dong Ship 18 had
taken about 400cu.m of FO oil from Hercules Ship M.
Long An Police seize contraband cigarettes
Duc Hoa District Police in the southern
The cigarettes' brands were Hero, Jet and Coff.
On Saturday the provincial market watch also confiscated more
than 14,000 packs of cigarettes near the Vam Co Dong River in Hoa Khanh Nam
Commune. The traffickers ran away.
An Giang tackles border smuggling
Police and market watch forces in the Mekong Delta
An
Police have taken steps to prevent the illegal practice, but
it is becoming more complicated. Smuggling is on the rise as Tet approaches
and demand for goods increases. Gold, electronics, wood and wine are some of
the most popular smuggled products.
Phan Loi, head of the provincial Market Watch Department, said
smuggling has become more prevalent because the region has been more open and
integrated in recent years, and local products haven't been able to compete
with foreign-made ones.
Smugglers often transport goods in the middle of the night or
early in the morning to get them over the border more easily, he said. They
also separate products into smaller packages to make them easier to hide, and
change locations to make it more difficult for authorised forces to discover
them, he said.
More seriously, many smugglers have used violence against
authorised forces. Three smugglers recently fought local authorised forces
with stones and sticks when they were discovered. They also burned down a
house to destroy evidence of illegal goods being stored there, he said.
Mai Thi Anh Tuyet, director of the provincial Department of
Industry and Trade, said An Giang Province had both flat and mountainous
terrain, and a nearly 100km border with
Tuyet proposed stricter measures to punish smugglers. Those
found smuggling 500 or more packs of cigarettes should face criminal charges,
instead of the current 1,500 packs, she said.
Power supply assured for southern region
Several power plants that are set to go on stream in the
southern region will ensure there is adequate supply through the dry season,
which ends in May, officials assure.
Besides, the Southern Power Corporation said to ensure supply
in southern provinces this year and in future, it had expanded the
north-south transmission system.
It has increased the capability of the transmission system
with the 500KV Pleiku–My Phuoc–Cau Bong, Phu Lam–O Mon, and Vinh Tan–Song May
grids.
Cao Quang Quynh, deputy head of the Electricity of Viet Nam
(EVN)'s public relations department, said, "Power from the north can
fully meet the south's requirement thanks to the grid."
According to the National Power Grid Management Centre, the
country's power generation capacity would increase by 11.5 per cent this year
though water levels in hydropower reservoirs are only around 65 per cent of
last year's.
It expects transmission from the northern and central regions
to the south to be around 10.5 billion kWh and 17.1 billion kWh compared to
7.3 billion kWh and 13.7 billion last year.
In case of need, oil-fired plants would also increase output,
officials mobilised.
The centre also expects power import from
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has instructed EVN to make
comprehensive plans to ensure all plants run properly to fully meet demand
during the dry season.
The Viet Nam Petrol and Oil Corporation has been ordered to
supply the required volume of gas to power plants.
Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper quoted Pham
Quoc Bao, deputy general director of EVN –
Last year the city saved around 4 per cent power while in
recent years foreign investors have been licensed with modern, power-saving
technologies in mind, he said.
"I am sure that this dry season power supply will meet
the demand".
Designboom features Dong Nai kindergarten
Dong Nai province’s Farming Kindergarten designed by Vo Trong
Nghia has been featured by Designboom for its impressive design in the top 10
world educational facilities design category for 2014.
The school features a fully accessible green roof shaped in a
triple-ring form, with three courtyards enclosed by a looping structure and
accommodates up to 500 local children.
The result provides an aesthetically pleasing and safe
learning environment for the students, which allows them to participate in
small scale food cultivation, promoting local identity and connectivity to
nature.
Three die in vehicle collision in Huong Hoa
Three people were killed and one was seriously injured after a
vehicle collided with a motorbike about 7pm on Monday in Tan Long Commune's
provincial road 9, Huong Hoa District.
Both vehicles were travelling towards Lao Bao – Dong Ha in
The motorbike was carrying four people of the same family,
including a pregnant woman. One of the children was seriously injured in the
accident, the rest of the family members were killed.
The other vehicle, a seven-seater, was carrying two persons.
It was being driven by 37-year-old Truong Van Anh, a resident in Lao Bao town
of
The case is being investigated further. The car driver was
believed to drive under the influence of alcohol.
The People's Committee of Hanoi has kicked off a campaign to
make the capital greener, cleaner and more beautiful and control traffic
chaos.
Nguyen Quoc Cu, head of Thanh Xuan district's Residential
Block 14, welcomed the campaign. He said that a 2010 crackdown on street
vendors doing illegal business on the pavement and residents illegally
parking vehicles there had been successful until last year.
Director of the city's Transport Department Vu Van Vien said
that under the campaign, the city would focus on inspecting pavements to
ensure they were not encroached on by local residents or street vendors.
The city had also speeded up the compilation of behaviour
codes for Hanoians to be issued this year, he said.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister
Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that
Chairman of the capital People's Committee Nguyen The Thao
said that following the campaign, the city would put all cables underground
and arrange places for street vendors to do business to prevent them from
illegally encroaching on pavements. The public lighting system would also be
improved.
"I called upon all local citizens to promote Hanoians'
civilised and elegant characteristics," Thao said.
People were asked to aid in the campaign by following traffic
rules and keeping the city clean and green, he said.-
Survey focuses on 53 ethnic minorities’ socio-economic
situation
The Prime Minister has signed a decision approving a project
to survey and collect information about the socio-economic situation of the
53 ethnic minority groups.
The project aims to systematise the data to serve the State
management on ethnic affairs. Authorities of localities where are inhabited
by ethnic minority groups and officials working in relevant offices at
central, provincial and municipal levels are responsible for conducting the
survey on ethnic minority households.
The project will focus on collecting information about the
population and population distribution, access to infrastructure and services,
social welfare, human resources training and development, health care and
rural environmental sanitation, and religion and belief.
The survey will be carried out with five-year frequency, on
July 1 of the years that ending number is 4 and 9. The first survey will be
implemented in the first quarter of 2015.
Ca Mau rings alert on saltwater intrusion in farming areas
The saltwater intrusion has had an adverse impact on rice
farming and aquaculture in coastal areas of the southernmost province of Ca
Mau , according to locals.
A report released by the provincial Department of Natural
Resources and Environment revealed that close to 10,000 hectares of
agricultural land in the province have been intruded by sea water.
The department blamed such situation to the impacts of climate
change and sea level rise, saying that the sea level has risen over one
metres in the past decade while local sea dykes have seriously degraded.
In addition, the pouring of sea water into 290,000 hectares of
farming land for shrimp breeding was also another reason.
According to Le Van Su, Director of the provincial Department
of Agriculture and Rural Development, the province is facing a shortage of
financial resources to tackle the problem.
Of 1.3 trillion VND (61.9 million USD) required for upgrading
the dyke systems in the West Sea in general and Ca Mau in particular as part
of a project approved by the Government in 2012, the province has been
provided with only several dozens of billion VND, which is not enough for it
to do the work, he said.-
Ca Mau to build 100 houses for AO victims
The Association of Agent Orange Victims of the southernmost
province of Ca Mau said it will build 100 houses for the victims facing
housing difficulties this year.
Each house is expected to cost 15 million VND.
The association will raise cash for the programme from
governments of districts and towns and persuade local residents to donate
land, said Tran Thanh Phong, President of the Association.
Phong hoped the cause will get support from businesses and
philanthropists.
The biggest challenge facing the programme is that, according
to Phong, the number of victims in need of a home increases to thousands.
The programme was launched in early 2014 and has to date built
35 houses.-
Dong Nai leads new-style rural building programme
The southern province of Dong Nai is among the localities
leading the national programme on new-style rural area building with 52 out
of 136 selected communes satisfying all the 19 criteria so far, said Vo Van
Chanh, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
Thanks to the programme, the living standards of rural people
have much improved. Notably, the 2014 per capita income reached 37.6 million
VND (1,790 USD) and 38.6 million VND (1,830 USD) in Xuan Loc district and
Long Khanh town, respectively, making them recognised as district-level new
style rural areas, Chanh said.
Last year , as many as 785 communes were estimated to become
new-style rural areas. In addition, 1,285 communes were expected to meet
15-18 out of the 19 criteria for new rural development, and 2,836 others to
satisfy 10-14 criteria, according to the programme’s steering committee.
More than 157.8 trillion VND (8.5 billion USD) sourced from
the State budget, credits, and the community, was spent on implementing the
programme.
Building infrastructure, improving production capacity,
constructing public works, protecting the landscape and environment, and
promoting local traditions and cultural identities are among the criteria of
the programme, initiated by the Government in 2010.
EU
provides IT packages to gov't agencies
The European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project
(EU-MUTRAP) on January 6 provided information and technology (IT) equipment
to departments and units under three ministries and the National Office of
Intellectual Property.
The three ministries are of finance, industry and trade (MOIT)
and of planning and investment.
The equipment package includes IT devices for the
beneficiaries involved directly in negotiating trade agreements and
implementing international economic integration commitments. This is among
various technical assistance activities conducted by the EU-MUTRAP Project
for line ministries in Vietnam.
Moreover, in order to enhance the capability of the line
ministries, EU-MUTRAP also provides policy development consultancy,
integration agreement impact assessment studies to suggest appropriate
implementation policies and measures, and dissemination of international
integration agreements, as well as training on integration-related skills and
knowledge.
As part of its trade-related assistance, EU-MUTRAP helped to
develop and implement software applications in departments under the MOIT,
such as the portals for policy and law on e-commerce and for supporting
industry, and to upgrade the information system for management and issuance
of e-certificates of origin, as well as hand over 66 imported books on
international trade and investment, give support for subscription to get
access to the database, and provide online documents on trade and investment
to relevant MOIT units.
This is the first equipment and software support package under
the first annual work plan of the project. The second one is expected to be
delivered during the second annual work plan (between July 2014 and December
2015).
The IT equipment handover ceremony was attended by Tran Quoc
Khanh, MOIT Deputy Minister and Head of the Government delegation for
international economic and trade negotiations, Ambassador and head of the EU
delegation to Vietnam Franz Jessen and representatives of the recipients
under MOIT and other ministries, as well as the EU-MUTRAP Project Management
Unit.
Leaders and representatives of the MOIT and relevant
ministries highly appreciated the significance of such equipment, which will
practically and effectively support their trade and investment negotiations,
research, policy making and enforcement in the coming time.
Chinese railway group to replace director
The China Railway Sixth Group (CRSG) will replace the director
of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong railway project following a series of construction
and traffic safety violations, according to Ma Jiang Qian, CRSG's General
Director.
Ma Jiang Qian said at the meeting between CRSG and the
Ministry of Transport that the company was reviewing the project's procedures
to avoid similar accidents in the future.
He also said that the company would send its technicians to
monitor, inspect and evaluate construction and traffic safety before allowing
the work to continue.
CRSG's General Director promised that the company would
compensate the victims in accordance with the contract and conclusions by
stakeholders.
VN-China hotline rules set
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently promulgated
regulations on the responsibility of Vietnamese agencies for operating a Viet
Nam-China hotline dealing with unexpected fishery incidents arising at sea.
The Department of Fisheries Resources Surveillance under the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Directorate of Fisheries will
be the co-ordinator of the hotline's operation on the Vietnamese side.
Agencies responsible for collecting information include the
Directorate of Fisheries, the Border Guard Force, the Maritime Police Force,
the Navy, the system of coastal information stations, the Maritime Search and
Rescue Centre, the National Committee for Search and Rescue and the People's
Committees of coastal provinces and centrally-run cities.
They are responsible for informing the co-ordinator of any
incidents at sea within one hour of learning about them. The department must
inform relevant agencies in the field within 30 minutes of receiving the
information. Incidents related to emergency shelter should be handled within
one hour, while those related to fishery accidents should be dealt with
within two hours, fishery disputes at sea within 20 hours and incidents of
ship and/or fishermen detention within 40 hours.
Baby girl dies of HFMD in Hau Giang
Can Tho Pediatrics Hospital reported on Monday that a
21-month-old in Hau Giang Province's Vi Thanh City died of hand-foot-mouth
disease (HFMD).
The child was the first HFMD death in 2015 and the second HFMD
death in the province since 2012.
Hau Giang General Hospital found the baby infected with HFMD
last Thursday and transferred her to Can Tho Pediatrics Hospital, after which
her condition worsened.
Vietnam halts air search for sunken Bulk Jupiter, 16 missing
sailors
Vietnam authorities on Monday halted using planes to look for
the Bulk Jupiter, which sank off the southern city of Vung Tau last Friday,
leaving 16 of its 19 Philippine crewmembers missing, the National Committee
for Search and Rescue said.
The information was released by Major General Nguyen Van Binh,
deputy chief of the committee’s Secretariat and deputy head of the Rescue and
Salvage Department under the Ministry of Defense.
Over the past three days, search and rescue forces from the
committee and the Vietnam People’s Army have mobilized dozens of ships –
including fishing boats – to search for the sunken ship and the missing
sailors, with the support of many foreign vessels, the official said.
Immediately after receiving a report about the incident, the
committee has since last Friday also deployed many planes to search for the
sunken Bahamas-flagged ship and the missing sailors in a vast sea area off
Vung Tau.
However, except for saving one crewmember, the ship’s chef,
Rojas Angelito Capindo, 43, and recovering two bodies drifting at sea, one of
which was the ship’s captain, Andrin Ronel Acueza, 46, while the other was the
third Officer, Dinoy Jerome Maquilang, 23, the joint rescue forces have yet
to find any more sailors or signs of the sunken ship, the official said.
Meanwhile, bad weather hampered the search on Monday, Pham
Hien, vice president of the Vung Tau Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre,
which is leading the search, told Reuters.
“The weather is very bad with high waves and strong winds,” he
said.
The committee has therefore decided to temporarily stop the
deployment of planes, Major General Binh said.
Those ships that have been mobilized to search for the sunken
vessel and its missing sailors over the past three days have also been
ordered to resume their previous normal operations, but they are also asked
to continue watching and be ready to take part in rescue and salvage
activities when requested, Binh said.
The Bulk Jupiter was in distress about 150 nautical miles off
Vung Tau while transporting 46,400 metric tons of bauxite from Malaysia to
China last Friday morning.
Chef Rojas confirmed there were 19 crew members on board the
missing ship, and all were Filipinos. The accident happened to the ship at
about 6:00-7:00 am on Friday morning.
He told rescuers that when the ship suddenly capsized and
sank, most of the crewmembers were inside the its holds.
“As it was carrying such a heavy load, it could have sunken
rapidly after capsizing, and this may be the reason why the crew had not
issued SOS signals,” Major General Binh commented.
The emergency signals the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue
Coordination Center (Vietnam MRCC) received on Friday did not come from the
crew but from the buoy system on board that automatically sent out signals
when it contacted water, the official
explained.
Given the direction of winds and waves in the area where the
ship was in distress, if objects belonging to the ship were drifting at sea,
they might have moved to the waters of Indonesia, so Vietnamese competent
agencies have asked their Indonesian counterparts to coordinate in the search
for signs of the ship as well as the missing sailors, the official said.
On Sunday, vessel SAR 413 handed over the role of directing
rescue efforts on the scene to the Vietnam Coast Guard’s ship 4034 and
returned to Vung Tau, taking ashore the rescued chef and the two bodies.
The two bodies will be sent to Ho Chi Minh City before being
repatriated to the Philippines, said Colonel Tran Cong Hieu, a Vietnamese
border guard commander.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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