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Social News 23/3
Work begins on major expressway segment
Construction of an 18.7-km section of the Ben Luc-Long Thanh
Expressway, which will run through
The project includes three intersections at Ben Luc-Long Thanh
Expressway and HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway, National Highway No 1A, and
National Highway No 50, according to the developer Expressway Viet Nam
Expressway Corporation (VEC).
With a total length of 57.1 km, the Ben Luc-Long Thanh
Expressway runs through Long An Province's Ben Luc and Can Giuoc districts;
Binh Chanh, Nha Be and Can Gio Districts in
The section is part of the national north-south expressway.
The road includes a total of 20km of bridges, including the
3-km long
With four lanes, Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway can allow
vehicles to run at a maximum speed of 100 kph.
When completed, the expressway will facilitate transportation
between the south-eastern region and the Mekong Delta without running through
Mai Tuan Anh, general director of VEC, said the expressway
would connect the country's expressway and highway networks with major
seaports in the south such as Thi Vai-Cai Mep and Sao Mai-Ben Dinh, and the
planned
It will also help ease traffic pressure and reduce the number
of traffic accidents on National Highway No 1A and National Highway No 51 and
at the same time reduce the travel time between Long An, Dong Nai and Ba
Ria-Vung Tau provinces.
Once put into operation, the expressway will be part of the
The project will benefit HCM City, Dong Nai and Long An, the
southeast region and the Mekong Delta and at the same time create favourable
conditions for economic development in southern provinces, said Pham Van
Ranh, deputy chairman of Long An Province People's Committee.
Investment required for this section of the expressway amounts
to VND31.3 trillion (US$1.608 billion), said VEC during the groundbreaking
ceremony of Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway on July 19 last year. Speaking at
the ceremony, Deputy Minister for Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong said
A ceremony was held yesterday to inaugurate a hi-tech
treatment centre at the Thong Nhat hospital in
The centre is part of the first phase of a project to upgrade
the hospital, aiming to make it a leading health-care institution in the
region.
In addition, two buildings have been built with new
examination rooms and 500 more beds at a total cost of more than VND493
billion (US$23 million), raising the hospital's capacity to 1,200 beds.
Attending the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised
the efforts of hospital staff to ensure medical treatment for southern
residents during the past 40 years.
He also urged the health sector and localities to work harder
to ease patient overload at big hospitals, in tandem with enhancing service
quality by improving facilities and improving staff capabilities.
The Director of Thong Nhat Hospital, Dr. Nguyen Duc Cong, said
the hospital had treated many complicated cases that required the application
of hi-technology.
He said it was the leading geriatric centre in
Missing girl found dead in Cambodia
An eight-year-old Vietnamese girl was found dead in
Ngo Ngoc Phut was a second grade student at the Binh My 2
primary school in Binh My Commune, Cu Chi District,
Despite considerable efforts made by her family and relevant
agencies, no trace of her was found.
Nguyen Huu Hanh, Phut's father, said her body was found in a
place near many casinos.
According to the People's Committee of Loi Thuan Commune, Ben
Cau District,
The police are conducting further investigations.
Ventilation checks ordered
The Nam Tu Lien District People's Committee in southern Ha Noi
has ordered a thorough check of ventilation systems in all underground floors
of commerical buildings.
The order came after 19 people passed out at Big C Supermarket
on March 14 after inhaling motorbike exhaust fumes from vehicles leaving a
big concert. They were all taken to hospital.
The incident happened when fumes accumulated from hundreds of
motorbikes in the basement parking lot of the supermarket, located under The
Garden building.
Nguyen Trong Luong, deputy chairman of the district's People's
Committee, said the presence of an unusually large number of people, who had
gathered for a concert on Sunday night, was the main cause of the problem.
After the concert, hundreds of people on motorbikes were
trying to get out at the same time. The running engines produced a large
amount of carbon dioxide fumes that wafted up to the supermarket through the
staircase.
Binh Minh Thang Long Real Estate Management JSC, manager of
the building, signed an agreement with the district's People Committee in
2007 to comply with safety and environmental regulations.
The premises were later rented out by BigC Supermarket.
"The company, however, has not been able to show that
they have strictly followed safety regulations," he said.
Ho Quoc Nguyen, director of the supermarket's public relations
department, said a technical malfunction of the building's ventilation system
could be the main culprit.
Deputy Chief of district police Ha Quang Thai said the police
had set up a task force to investigate the incident.
Air quality will also be tested to determine air pollution
levels during peak hours to help prevent similar incidents in the future.
After the incident in Ha Noi,
Ha
Noi to block streets for IPU meet
The capital will block a series of streets for the 132nd
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) from March 28 to April 1.
Nearly 2,000 foreign delegates from 150 nations and
international organisations are scheduled to arrive here.
From 6am to 10pm, all trucks with a capacity of more than
500kg and passenger buses with at least 25 seats will be blocked from 36
streets, including Tran Duy Hung, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Kim Ma, Buoi and Tran
Phu.
During the same time, all vehicles will be banned from
entering Thang Long Avenue around the Viet Nam National Convention Centre;
Pham Hung from Tran Duy Hung to Me Tri; Mieu Dam; and Do Duc Duc.
Press trained for upcoming IPU-132
A press training conference for the upcoming 132nd Inter-Parliamentary
Union (IPU-132) Assembly and related meetings in late March was held in
The conference was organised by the Press Authority under the
Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) in association with the
Information and Communication Subcommittee under the IPU-132 Organising
Board.
Addressing the event, MIC Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung
highlighted that this year’s IPU hosted by
Over 300 journalists from local and international press and
news agencies are expected to cover the meetings, he said.
He urged the local press to widely disseminate information on
the history of the IPU, the Vietnam-IPU relationship and the country’s
initiatives for the IPU-132.
It is vital for the press to be well-prepared for the
forthcoming event and capable of covering the news in a timely fashion, he
added.
At the conference, the journalists were introduced to the IPU
and its political significance to
The IPU-132 will take place in
Youths build flagpole at north-east outpost island
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee
(HCYUCC) and the Association of Vietnamese Students (CAVS) on March 21
started work on building a flagpole at the Tran outpost island in Co To
district, northern Quang Ninh province.
The 15-m high pole is being built at the highest point of the
island (188 meters high from the sea level).
It is one of the seven flagpoles that the youth organisations
have been building at the national outpost islands, namely Bach Long Vy
(northern port city of Hai Phong), Cu Lao Xanh (central Binh Dinh province),
Phu Quy (central Binh Thuan province), Con Son (southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau
province), Tho Chu (southern Kien Giang province), and Hon Lao (central Quang
Binh province).
The programme is jointly carried out by the HCYUCC, the CAVS,
and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) with an aim to
raise sense of responsibility among the youths for safeguarding the national
seas and islands sovereignty.
The flagpole at Tran island will be completed on May 19 on
time for the 125 th birthday anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.
Scottish activist, Vietnamese woman cycle to
A Scottish activist and his Vietnamese friend arrived in
Simon Nelson – an English teacher and environment activist
coming from
An Giang is one of
The two people had covered nearly 2,000 kilometers on their
bicycles before reaching
The journey is part of their cycling trip from An Giang to
Nelson is poised to attend COP21, the 21st Session of the
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change.
The conference session will be organized in
Nelson and Ngan, his like-minded friend, decided to bike all
the way to the session to prove their resolve to combat climate change.
They still have over 14,000 kilometers through 10 other
countries ahead.
The two are scheduled to partake in talks on March 25 at local
universities and K-12 schools to help engage the public in activities to
avert the calamity of climate change and raise funds for climate-affected
residents and environmental protection projects in the Mekong Delta.
Nelson and Ngan will cull evidence of climate change and their
disastrous effects from the localities which they have been through and will
present it at the
They both work as English teachers in
While the Scot has made several cycling trips in
Japan presents hybrid cars to Hanoi Police
The Japanese Government presented 44 hybrid cars to the Hanoi
Police Department at a ceremony held in
A the handover, Hanoi Police Director, Major General Nguyen
Duc Chung, expressed his gratitude for Japan’s support of his force as they
look to complete their tasks and reduce environmental pollution in the
capital.
Over 500 million JPY (US$4.2 million) in Japanese Government
aid has been provided to Hanoi Police since 2014, covering the purchase of 98
new generation Toyota and Mitsubishi hybrid, plugin-hybrid, electric and
clean diesel cars.
An additional 42 cars will be presented to the Hanoi Police
Department in 2015.
The police are coordinating with the Japan International
Cooperation System (JICS) to utilise the aid in a timely and efficient
manner.
Medical TV channel to be broadcast
With the aim to raise people’s awareness of disease prevention
and improving their health condition, the Public Health Association in
The channel will broadcast news of healthcare protection and
improvement activities for city residents’ health and the whole country in
order to provide knowledge of medical treatment and instruct people how to
prevent diseases.
The channel also broadcast news of Vietnamese medical
achievements and in the world as well as good examples in medical sector who
are devoted in healthcare mission.
Currently, audiences can use Smart TV, Set top Box TV, digital
equipments to access to the website hytcc.org.vn.
It is expected that the channel will be officially broadcast
in May, 2015.
Two Vietnamese to be prosecuted for trafficking child
Police in
The two that face prosecution are Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang, a
36-year-old Hanoian, and Pham Thi Nguyet, 45, hailing from the
Police officers launched an investigation in July last year
after receiving a letter from a
Long said in the letter that the pagoda had illegally sold his
godson Cu Nguyen Cong, whom he often called Lai, to other people.
In this 2008 file photo, middle-ranking bonze Thich Dam Lan
and some children supported by her are seen at Bo De Pagoda in Long Bien
District,
Through investigation, police officers concluded that Cong,
born on October 25, 2013, was the son of Tran Thi Thu Ha from the northern
province of Phu Tho and Vu Xuan Truong from the northern province of Tuyen
Quang.
Cong died of measles in June 2014, according to news website
VnExpress.
Ha and Truong lived together as husband and wife and the woman
had an unwanted pregnancy, according to police probes.
So after Cong was born, they sent him to the pagoda so that he
could be nurtured there.
Trang, who worked as a nursemaid at the pagoda then, took Cong
out of Bo De and sold him to Nguyet for VND35 million (US$1,645) in January
2014, according to investigators.
They will sit behind bars for three to 10 years if convicted.
Influenza A H1N1 outbreak confirmed in central Vietnam
Sixteen students of a school in the Central Highlands region
in
Representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute
announced on March 21 that 16 fourth graders at
The representatives said the test results and the students’
symptoms are indicative of a flu outbreak.
After being treated for three days, the kids’ conditions are
now stable. Over half of them have had their fevers brought down, and only
two still suffer a high temperature, Dr. Dong Sy Quang, of Lam Dong
Province’s Health Department, said on March 21 afternoon.
He added his department has instructed Da Teh District’s
Health Center continue treatment of the 16 students in quarantine and adopt
urgent measures to make sure the outbreak is eradicated.
Bui Van Hung, chair of the Da Teh District People’s Committee,
said a team has been deployed to sterilize the school and the 16 students’
homes as well as all sites throughout the district to stall the spread of the
flu.
All of the school’s students have been notified of their
friends’ afflictions, and are required to put on masks and sterilize their
hands in tanks erected in the school, starting Monday.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute, influenza
A H1N1 viruses are transmitted via respiration and throat fluids.
On March 18, 16 out of 18 fourth graders in a class of
The kids received treatment in quarantine at the district’s
health center on the same afternoon as they were suspected of contracting
influenza A virus subtype H5N1, a deadly avian flu strain.
Epidemic inspections launched by the provincial Health
Department and Da Teh District’s Health Center indicated that the outbreak
stemmed from one of the female students in the same class one week earlier.
The viruses were quickly passed on from the girl to her
classmates.
Apart from the 16 students infected with influenza A H1N1, Da
Teh District’s Health Center on Friday morning found two other students from
the same school to also have mild fevers and coughs, Dr. Quang, from the Lam
Dong Health Department, said.
These two students are treated and monitored at home as their
conditions are not serious.
The influenza type A subtype H1N1 virus caused a worldwide
pandemic in 2009. It is now a human seasonal flu virus that also circulates
in pigs.
The virus spreads between people in the same way as seasonal
flu viruses and has led to several deaths in Vietnam in recent years.First
smart transport system on highway launched
The Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong highway connecting the City
and the Mekong Delta province of Long An has become the first in Vietnam to
be controlled by the Intelligent Transport System (ITS).
The system was official put into operation on March 20.
According to Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Van The, the
ministry has invested in ITS for highways and major roads with a hope to
reduce traffic congestions, with the model for the HCM City-Trung Luong route
to be multiplied in other regions.
The ITS project on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong highway
was implemented from April 2013 to December 2014, with a total investment of
38.5 million USD funded by preferential loans of the Republic of Korean
Government and the Vietnamese Government budget.
The system includes a smart control and management centre
located in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh district and traffic monitoring
devices installed along the highway.-
Binh Dinh strives for sustainable fisheries development
With more than 134 kilometres of coastline and various bays,
lagoons and river mouths, the central province of Binh Dinh is striving to
leverage its geographic potential for sustainable fisheries development in
both sea fishing and aquaculture as well as aquatic processing for exports.
The province has set its sights on an annual increase of 6.9
percent in the total offshore catch volume in 2015.
To achieve the target, the province has proactively
implemented Government policies to support the fishing sector, said Director
of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Phan Trong
Ho.
He continued to say that the province plans to build 200
fishing vessels using steel and new materials this year while carrying out a
pilot project on tuna purchasing, processing and consuming through
cooperation between the provincial People’s Committee and the Japan-Vietnam
Friendship Association in the Japanese city of Sakai .
Binh Dinh will also accelerate work on the upgrades to De Gi
port in Phu Cat and preparations for other fishing port projects in Phu My
district and Quy Nhon city.
Meanwhile, aquaculture is projected to produce 9,000 tonnes of
products, nearly 6,000 tonnes of which are shrimp.
Local agencies will continue to introduce farmers to cultivating
techniques and disease prevention measures, while intensifying inspections
and management of young fry, feed and farming environment.
Furthermore, the province is cooperating with relevant
agencies to carry out activities to promote sustainable aquaculture
development and map out two high-tech aquaculture zones, Cat Thanh in Phu Cat
commune and My Thanh in Phu My commune.
In a bid to improve aquatic processing capacity towards the
goal of 75 million USD in aquatic product export, Binh Dinh authorities are
to focus on building a tuna production chain model from fishing, purchasing
to exporting.
Accordingly, it will call for more investments for planned
processing sites in two coastal districts and one city, Hoai Nhon, Phu Cat
and Quy Nhon, facilitate the construction of aquatic product processing
plants of Minh Phu Group and Hokugan Group. Site clearance is being sped up
in order to break ground on Hai An 2 seafood processing plant this April,
which is invested by the Binh Dinh Seafood Company.
The province will also invest in expanding fishing logistics
services by setting up logistic trawlers working at sea to timely provide
gasoline, fresh water and ice as well as to purchase products from fishermen.
Agriculture sector urged to improve competitiveness
President Truong Tan Sang has asked the Federation of
Agriculture and Rural Development (FARD) to enhance its competitiveness in
order to stand ready for future competition in the agriculture sector during
the country’s international economic integration process.
Addressing a reception to 66 exemplary farmers and
agricultural businesses under the FARD in Hanoi on March 20, the President
commended the federation’s significant contributions to national agricultural
development as well as its efforts to call for businesses’ participation and
expand international cooperation to mobilise resources for building new-style
rural areas.
He called on the federation to keep its members updated of the
difficulties, including non-tariff barriers and language difference, emerging
in international integration so that farmers proactively enrich their
knowledge and apply technological advances to production, thus improving the
quality of their agricultural products.
The President also took note of the federation’s
recommendations on support policies and incentives to create favourable
conditions for enterprises’ investment in the agricultural sector.
During the meeting, delegates reported to the State leader on
business production in the field of agriculture as well as the process of
building new-style rural areas. Many businesses have worked with scientists
to apply scientific and technological advances to agricultural production,
contributing to limiting environmental pollution and improving productivity,
they said.
The federation has been operational for nearly two years,
comprising 60 collectives including scientific organisations and businesses;
and over 1,900 member individuals. The federation has considered participation
in building new-style rural areas its key task, with farmers and enterprises
being the pivotal forces.
Vietnamese, French doctors discuss cooperation prospects
Representatives from more than 20 French non-governmental
health care organisations attended a conference on France-Vietnam health care
cooperation held in Ho Chi Minh City on March 21.
Over 100 Vietnamese and French doctors and health experts at
the event discussed four main topics, including collaboration in improving
maternal and infant health, preventive medicine, training and research, and
forensic medicine.
Dr. Gildas Tréguier from APPEL-Lorient said the conference
gave a chance for both sides to share experience in health coordination over
the past years, thus seeking ways to remove all existing obstacles and
increase efficiency of their affiliation in the future.
In paediatrics medicine, the France-Vietnam health cooperation
programmes in 2015 will focus on exchanging technical experience among senior
professionals, he said.
Meanwhile, the programme will continue with humanitarian
activities targeting vulnerable group, with special strategies on
malformation prevention and screening, as well as improvement in access to
health care services for poorest households.
At the same time, Assistant Prof. Ngo Minh Xuan, Vice
Headmaster of Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University, said that in the past four
decades, Vietnam and France have enjoyed effective partnership in health
care.
Following the health cooperation deal signed in 1993, more
than 2,000 Vietnamese doctors have been trained in France ’s hospitals, he
noted.
According to the French Ministry of Higher Education and
Research , Vietnam ranks ninth in the number of students studying in France
with 6,295 students registered in the 2012-13 academic year. The figure has
been stable since 2008, it said.
Cooperation in health technology enhanced
A workshop on cooperation in health technology was held in
Hanoi on March 21 by Japan’s Nagoya University, the Japanese daily Nikkei in
collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and Bach Mai Hospital.
Addressing the event, Deputy Health Minister Le Quang Cuong
highlighted effectiveness of bilateral cooperation programmes in health care
between Vietnamese agencies and foreign partners.
He said he hopes for the further development of cooperation in
health care, particularly cancer prevention and treatment between Asian
countries as well as between Vietnam and Japan.
According to the official, despite considerable upgrade of
facilities in recent years, hospitals in Vietnam can handle about 25 percent
of all cancer cases.
Cancer is one of the leading fatal reasons in the world and
Vietnam. The country has around 150,000 new cancer cases and 75,000 deaths of
the disease each year.
The Vietnam-Japan digestive endoscopy centre was set up in
July 2014 at Bach Bach Mai hospital with financial assistance from Japan’s
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and technical support from Nagoya
University.
Experts swap drug addiction treatment experience
A wide range of experience in successfully treating drug
addiction was put forward at a conference titled ‘Treating drug addiction –
Scientific advances and practical experience from France and the US’ and held
by the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Issues on March 20 in Hanoi.
Dr. John Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer of the Recovery
Network of Programmes in Connecticut, the US, said the most important thing
in treating drug addiction is to help patients and their families regain
faith.
According to Hamilton, addiction is a brain-related disease
and the rehabilitation process depends on behaviour and social circumstances.
He continued, highlighting the need to view addiction as a chronic and
recurring disease.
Meanwhile, Dr. Laurent Michel, Director of the Pierre Nicoles
Centre in France, shared information on the treatment of drug addiction in
Europe and France as well as at his centre.
For Vietnam’s part, a representative of Bac Giang’s Department
of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said the province aims to encourage
the establishment of private rehabilitation centres.
The province also intend to build a network of consulting,
caring and assistance groups, mainly at the commune or town level, for the
treatment of drug addiction in the community.
Deputy PM urges intensified care for the elderly
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked ministries, sectors
and localities to focus on designing and implementing laws and policies to
support and provide care for the elderly in Vietnam.
While presiding over a meeting in Hanoi on March 20 to discuss
the implementation of the 2015 action plan of the National Committee on
Ageing, Deputy PM Dam urged effective policies and programmes benefitting the
elderly in line with the context of each locality and current regulations.
According to the Deputy PM’s guidance, the Ministry of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is to work with relevant ministries,
sectors and agencies to examine the implementation of the 2009 Law on the
Elderly and the National Action Programme on the Elderly for 2011-2015.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health was asked to intensify
communication efforts to raise public awareness of the social responsibility
to care for the elderly, as well as establish more geriatric wards in
hospitals.
Projects to support and improve the spiritual life of the
elderly will include reducing ticket fares to visit historical and cultural
relic sites and cultural, sport and tourism activities.
Deputy PM Dam, who is also Head of the National Committee on
Ageing, asked the Vietnam Association of the Elderly to expeditiously
establish an action month for the elderly or organise related events.
Statistics show that there are more than 9.4 million elderly
people in the nation, accounting for 10.45 percent of the total population.
Currently, nearly 2.8 million people are receiving retirement
pensions and social insurance benefits with over 1.5 million receiving
monthly social allowance.
Geriatric wards have been established in hospitals in 49
provinces and cities nationwide thus far, up 20 localities from 2013.
The Vietnam Association of the Elderly’s local chapters work
to conduct practical activities, positively contributing to the country’s
renewal process, socio-economic development and poverty reduction.
New arrest in housing scam led by Vietnam beauty queen
Police in Ho Chi Minh City on March 20 took into custody a
woman who allegedly abetted a Vietnamese-Russian beauty queen in a scam that
cheated a man out of nearly VND16 billion (US$734,000).
Nguyen Duc Thuy Dung, 26, was suspected of faking documents
that purportedly showed Truong Ho Phuong Nga having returned the money to the
victim after he had filed a complaint with the police, news website VnExpress
reported.
Nga, 28, who won a beauty contest for Vietnamese in Russia in
2007, was detained earlier this week for investiagtion on fraud charges.
She allegedly told a local businessman, referred to as H.,
that she had many good contacts who could help him buy houses at low prices.
The man then transferred VND5.6 billion ($257,000) to her
account to buy a house in District 5.
But Nga later told him the deal fell apart due to some
paperwork issues.
She then managed to convince him to send another VND10 billion
($459,000) for buying a new house.
After failing to get the promised house, H. demanded his money
back. Since Nga allegedly kept evading him, he reported the case to the
police.
Police received the complaint in December and called Nga for
questioning.
She claimed to have repaid H., and produced documents as
proof, but the police later found the documents to be fake.
The investigation is continuing.
Nga reportedly emigrated to Russia with her family when she
was 12.
After winning the beauty contest, she returned to Vietnam to
work for a communications company in 2009 and also did some modeling work.
She has starred in a couple of music videos and films and
emceed a few charity, film and beauty events without attracting much
attention.
Source :
VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri
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