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Social News 19/5
Rent
soars on new pedestrian street
Rent at
the high-rise office buildings and private residences on and near Nguyen Hue
Boulevard have shot up since this downtown road was turned into a promenade
last month, sources said.
The
sources said the monthly rent of offices has risen by at least US$6 per
square meter compared to the charge applied before the pedestrian street was
complete.
A real
estate consultant in HCMC estimated the existing monthly office rent at the
Other
buildings along the street charge US$18-20 per square meter per month. These
rentals are exclusive of service fees which are about US$4-5 per square meter
per month.
The
manager of B.O. building on the street said the monthly rent of a
67-square-meter area overlooking the street on the sixth floor is over
US$2,000.
Meanwhile,
an 18-square-meter office which does not overlook the street costs US$600 per
month, and the rent of a 40-square-meter rooftop area of the building is
US$1,000 per month. These rents are 30% higher than before.
Demand
for apartments for lease along the street has surged despite higher rent.
An
entrepreneur told the Daily that he had contacted the landlord of a
210-square-meter apartment overlooking the street and near Mac Thi Buoi
Street to bargain for a lower rental when he read an advertisement that it
was leased at VND1.41 million (US$64.73) per square meter per month.
However,
the apartment had been leased out, he said, adding that he has asked to lease
several other apartments located on alleys on nearby streets and the average
rent is US$16 per square meter per month.
Space
rentals have jumped as more companies and individuals are rushing to open
shops along the street, which is often crowded with pedestrians at night.
Government
to promote Vietnam-Laos-Thailand caravan
The
Vietnam National Administration of Tourism today launches a parade in the
central region of the country as a promotion for the new caravan tours
through
The
parade will run till next Friday to attract more international vacationers to
join the caravan, especially in the East-West Economic Corridor and the
54
Vietnamese travelers joined the Caravan ASEAN Family Rally 2009 organized by
Winners
of contest for HIV-infected people to be announced soon
An award
ceremony of the “Red Ribbon” contest held for people infected with HIV/AIDS
will take place in HCMC on May 22 two months after the event was launched.
Popular
local artists will hold hands of the winners when they come to the stage to
call for the society to give more sympathy to those infected with HIV/AIDS.
The
celebrities include the second runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008,
Truong Thi May, artist Kim Cuong, photographer Pham Hoang
Tuyen
has been chosen as the first goodwill ambassador of the contest, which is
organized by the Vietnam National Network of People Living with HIV
(VNP+) in partnership with the Vietnam Administration for HIV and AIDS
Control (VAAC) and by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief (PEPFAR). She has donated VND30 million (US$1,380) to activities of
the program.
Designer
Sy Hoang said he has joined the program in order to help call for the
community to give HIV-infected people a helping hand.
Deputy
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long,
VietJet
Air increases domestic flights in summer vacation
Vietnamese
budget carrier VietJet Air is increasing flights on domestic tourism routes
to meet high demand in summer vacation.
VietJet
Air will offer more than 1,500 flights on its
It also
supplies additional 270,000 tickets costing at VND199,000 for short distance
routes and VND399,000 for over one-hour flights if customers book
tickets before May 30, 2015.
This
fare will be applied for flights from now to August 30, 2015.
The
carrier will increase 10 flights for HCMC-Da Nang route; 20 flights for
HCMC-Hanoi route and 11 flights for Hanoi-Da Nang route.
For
international routes, the carrier will increase more flights. For instance,
it will increase two return flights a day from HCMC to Singapore; three
return flights a day from HCMC-Bangkok and two return flights per day from
Hanoi to Bangkok.
In
addition, since May 27 the carrier will operate HCMC-Chu Lai route with the fare
of VND480,000 (US$22.06) a ticket and four flights a week.
The air
fare for between two major cities Hai Phong-Da Nang is VND580,000 (US$26.68)
starting on June 1, 2015.
Morning
fire destroys central market kiosks
Police
are investigating the cause of an early Monday fire that destroyed several
confectionery kiosks in a central market in Ha Noi.
At least
four people caught in the fire suffered severe burns, said officials.
The fire
was reported around 6am at bread-selling kiosk No26 in Phung Khoang Market,
Thanh Xuan District and rapidly spread to surrounding kiosks that sold
clothing and dried food.
It was
reported that five people lived at the site of the fire, including a couple
with two children and a home-helper.
The
couple, owners of the bread kiosk, a seven-month child, and a home helper
reportedly suffered burns. Only the older daughter escaped from the
fire, fleeing the home to seek help.
Tens of
fire trucks and firefighters were sent to the scene whilst Thanh Xuan
District police, in co-ordination with the Ha Noi City's transport
police, worked to control traffic in the area around the fire.
The fire
was brought under control after two hours, with no casualties reported among
those putting out the flames.
Quang
At the scene of accident, the victim house's glass window is damaged.
— Photo vov.vn
A 45-year-old
farmer living in central
While
returning home from work, the man reportedly found the bomb at the
construction site of the
Officials
said the man brought the bomb home, where he attempted to strip it down.
However, he did not have knowledge about bombs and, apparently, the
bomb struck the floor and exploded. Witnesses reported that glass windows and
the tiled roof were damaged.
The Tam
Xuan Commune People's Committee reports that local authorities, in
co-ordination with the victim's family, held a burial service for the
man on Sunday evening.
Lightning
claims woman's life in Quang Tri
A woman
in central Quang Tri province died yesterday when she was struck by lightning
on her way back home from a farm field.
Authorities
in the province's Trieu Long Commune announced in the morning that the
54-year-old woman was struck dead by lightning. The woman, who was working on
her rice field, was rushing home as it was about to rain, but was hit
by a lightning bolt.
Although
some locals took her to a hospital, she reportedly died on the way.
The
commune authorities said that lightning has been occurring in high frequency
these days and cautioned farmers to avoid fields or tall trees.
Husband,
wife charged with $2.2m fraud
A
married couple in the Mekong Delta
Nguyen
Van Giap and his wife, Nguyen Thi Thanh Dung, both age 52, were founders of
the My Tho Town-based Bay Giap Company that specialised in selling
fertilisers and plant protection products.
They
were found to have taken advantage of the ‘buy now pay later' policy of
several fertiliser and plant protection products manufacturers in HCM
City to fraudulently amass $2.2 million.
Over
$7.8 mln for
Over 170
billion VND (7.82 million USD), including 100 billion VND (4.6 million USD)
from bank donations, was raised for social welfare activities in the
Central Highlands region during an arts performance programme held in Da Lat
city, Lam Dong province on May 17.
The
programme, part of the 3 rd Conference for Investment Promotion and Social
Security for the Central Highlands, was organised by the Steering
Committee for the
It
called on organisations, individuals, donors and enterprises within and
outside the country to work together in ensuring social security
initiatives, contributing to alleviating hunger and poverty, raising living
standards and promoting socio-economic development in the region.
According
to the event’s organising board, the funds will be used in remote and
disadvantaged areas in the Central Highlands.
From
2008 to 2014, banks spent around 556 billion VND (23 million USD) on social
welfare activities in the region.
At the
2nd Conference, commercial banks signed 20 credit contracts to provide over
23.8 trillion VND (1.1 billion USD) for the region.
The
Central Highlands consists of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, and Lam
Dong provinces.
A dying
male dolphin was found off the coast of
Fisherman
Nguyen Minh Ty said the creature nuzzled his coracle repeatedly while he was
fishing some 200 meters off
“It
continued to stick to my boat though I tired to take him out to sea several
times. Finally, I decided to take him to shore.”
The
village head, Vo Loi, 80, and other fishermen then attempted to take the
dolphin to sea again but it kept swimming to shore.
The
fishermen then decided to take the dying dolphin, which weighed about 100kg,
to the nearby
The
dolphin was about 2.5 meters long and had several infected injuries, Loi
said.
It died
in the afternoon and the fishermen buried it in the temple yard.
Loi said
a female dolphin was found dead a year ago and they had buried it near the
temple.
“According
to local rituals, today is the 1st anniversary of her [the female dolphin]
death and burial at Bai Xep, and we held a reburial ceremony to move
her remains to the temple to worship.
“Maybe
he [the male dolphin] was somehow aware of it and decided to swim here to
die.”
Final
segment of Noi Bai-Lao Cai highway opened to traffic
The
first two lanes of the last remaining segment of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai
Expressway, from Binh Minh ward in the bordering northern city of
Construction
on the 19-kilometre section began in the the fourth quarter of 2010, and cost
over 4 trillion VND (185 million USD).
It
comprises of two intersections connecting the expressway with the 4E and 4D
national roads, a 700-metre tunnel, and a system of bridges stretching
3.6 kilometres.
The
road, with a speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour, will help connect the Noi
Bai-Lao Cai Expressway to
It is
expected that the last two lanes of the section will be opened to traffic at
the end of this year.
The
construction of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai highway started in 2009 with a total
investment of over 1.2 billion USD. It has a total length of 245
kilometres and links
As an
important project of the Kunming-Lao Cai-Hanoi-Hai Phong road corridor, the
highway is a key component of a cooperation programme between
The
Spanish Red Cross (SRC) pledges the highest level assistance to its
Vietnamese counterpart’s activities including disaster prevention and
response, said Chief Representative of the Hanoi-based SRC office Ignacio
Garcia.
The
Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) has played a key role in humanitarian activities as
well as in disaster prevention and response, Garcia continued at a
workshop jointly held by the VRC and the SRC office in
As
He also
suggested the society increase communication, deepen coordination with
relevant agencies, and call for support from domestic and foreign
organisations.
The
workshop drew representatives of the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), State agencies, and the
disaster-prone provinces of Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang
They
were provided with information on the IFRC’s international disaster response
tools,
Participants
reviewed ways to promote the efficiency of disaster response coordination
between IFRC forces and Vietnamese local authorities and to expand the
activities and efficiency of provincial disaster response teams.
Founded
in 1946, the VRC is currently a member of the National Steering Committee for
Natural Disaster Prevention and Control. It has set up a national
disaster response team, 26 provincial and district teams, and 158 others at
the communal level.
It
implements nearly 30 international projects on community-based disaster risk
management every year and has called for some 9 million USD worth of
relief for other countries to assist in disaster aftermaths thus far.-
President
Ho Chi Minh’s press career shown in exhibition
An
exhibition portraying the late President Ho Chi Minh, who founded
On
exhibit are over 200 photos, materials and objects featuring his press
activities, many of which are released for the first time, including a
collection of 40 photos of his meetings with foreign journalists or his
images on foreign cover pages.
The
event is a tribute to a talented leader, a world cultural figure and a great
journalist who trained a staff of Vietnamese revolutionary press
reporters, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan
said in his opening remarks.
President
Ho Chi Minh used the press as a sharp and effective tool to support the
national revolution. He established and directed various press
agencies, leaving a substantial press legacy behind and valuable teachings
for us to follow, Tuan added.
The
display, as part of celebrations for the 125th birth anniversary of the late
President (May 19) and the 90 th anniversary of
The
Vietnam Journalists’ Association is curating the event.
Exhibition
featuring late President Ho Chi Minh opens
As many
as 79 outstanding masterpieces, symbolising the late President Ho Chi Minh’s
79 years of life, are on display at the Ho Chi Minh Museum.
The late
President’s image is portrayed through paintings, sculptures, poetry and
music. The showcased art upholds great historical and cultural values,
drawing the public’s attention.
Notably,
a painting of the late President is on display, drawn in blood by Ngo Quang
Numerous
international artists such as Erik Johansson (Swiss), Vladimir Efimovich
Tsigal (
The
event, which opened on May 18, is part of activities to celebrate the 125th
anniversary of the late President’s birthday (May 19).
The
charity boards of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s chapters in central Quang Tri
and Thua Thien-Hue provinces presented 200 gift packages to Pako and
Van Kieu ethnic minority households in a commune of Quang Tri’s Dakrong
district on May 18.
Each
gift package is worth nearly 300,000 VND (14 USD).
The
money was raised by Buddhist followers, monks and nuns together with domestic
and foreign donors.
Ta Long
is an impoverished mountainous commune in Dakrong district with 28.3 percent
of its households in poverty and 10.3 percent falling near the poverty
line.
The
Quang Tri charity board also handed over 1,000 gifts to the impoverished,
disabled and Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the province.
As many
as 500 gifts were presented to the elderly and 200 scholarships were provided
for to disadvantaged students.
The
board is also supporting a nutrition programme for a number of kindergartens
in the locality, benefiting nearly 2,000 children.
Thanh
Hoa to promote cooperatives
Chairman
of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Nguyen Thien Nhan,
praised recent efforts by the central
Nhan was
speaking during a field trip to the province in mid-May.
Although
provincial authorities last year issued a five-year cooperative development
plan towards 2020, nearly 1,000 cooperatives are still facing problems.
Those
co-operatives run business in various sectors, including agriculture,
industry, commerce and fisheries and transport services. Small size and
a lack of infrastructure result in the low effectiveness of most cooperatives
in the province, representatives said at a meeting with Nhan.
Difficulties
in borrowing loans from banks to expand operations was also another obstacle,
said Hoang Kim Trung, chairman of the Trung Nghia Cooperative.
"Many
cooperatives did not even have sufficient documents to borrow loans as
required under the amended Law on Cooperatives 2012," he said.
"We suggest that the authorities allow banks to accept our current
situation for easier loan processing," Trung said.
Nhan
acknowledged the importance of the cooperative sector in the socio-economic
growth of Thanh Hoa and asked the authorities for a better management
at cooperatives to gain higher profits and raise farmers' incomes.
"The
cooperatives should research the market, give farmers advice about which
plants and animals to grow, and help make their products accessible to
consumers," Nhan said.
Charity
walk organised to support school sports
A
charity walk themed “Green energy journey” was held in
T he
programme aimed to raise funds to provide sports equipment for 10 local
primary schools with inadequate facilities.
About
600 million VND (27,700 USD) is expected to have been mobilised at the event.
In 2014,
the first “Green energy journey” attracted over 7,000 students.
A
symposium was held in the Russian city of
Opening
the function, Director of the Hanoi-based Ho Chi Minh National Academy of
Politics and Public Administration Ta Ngoc Tan said the late President
was a great man due to his role in and enormous contributions to the history
of
He
directed
The
symposium, held on the occasion of Ho Chi Minh’s 125th birthday anniversary,
was designed to express respect for him and make Vietnamese and Russian
scientists and people more aware of the value of his ideological legacy.
Welcoming
the event, an official of
Speeches
dug into the values of the Ho Chi Minh ideology regarding the national
liberation revolution, culture, morality, peace, cooperation between
nations, and friendship between
The
symposium was organised by the Ho Chi Minh Academy, the management board of
the President’s relic site in
Earlier,
they opened an exhibition of more than 200 photos and documents on the life
and revolutionary activities of the leader.
Vietnam
Buddhist Sangha chapters present gifts to ethnic groupsPrime Minister Nguyen
Tan Dung officially launched an e-portal of the
The
e-portal, found at http://kekhai.baohiemxahoi.gov.vn , enables individuals
and entities to make online social, unemployment and health insurance
transactions, forming part of the VSI’s efforts to reform its administrative
procedures.
The VSI
has so far cut 263 procedures down to 115, saving nearly 3.67 trillion VND
(174 million USD) in the State budget, surpassing the goal set by the
government.
It also
applied the “one-stop shop” mechanism and ISO 9001:2008 quality management
standards at 63 provincial and 700 district offices to better serve
nearly 65 million health insurance and 12 million social insurance
cardholders, reported VSI General Director Nguyen Thi Minh.
In his
speech, the PM hailed the VSI for ensuring welfare through social, health and
unemployment insurance policies.
Looking
forward, the VSI is striving to trim yearly tax payment time requirements to
49.5 hours in late 2015, on par with the ASEAN-6 group’s level, he
said.
The
leader also expressed a more ambitious goal of cutting another 1-2 hours to
be comparable to the ASEAN-4 group in the future.
The VSI
was asked to regard administrative reform as a key political task since it
brings immediate benefits to the population, and focus on embracing
technological advances.
Together
with taxation and customs, the VSI is improving administrative overhaul at
the direction of the government to improve the business climate and
national competitiveness.
Various
activities mark late President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday
A
variety of activities were organised on May 17 across the country to mark the
125th birthday anniversary of the late President Ho Chi Minh, founder
and first president of modern
On the
evening of May 17,
The
union also awarded 20 scholarships to disadvantaged workers and 20 gift
packages to impoverished workers’ children.
The 2015
Summer of Voluntary Youth was also launched at the event.
An art performance,
‘Ha Noi connects five continents’, was organised at the Ly Thai To Flower
Garden at Hoan Kiem Lake to mark the birthday of the late President.
On the
same day in
In
another token of remembrance, the Mekong Delta
Road
expansion project kicks off in Mekong Delta
A road
project to upgrade and widen some 50 kilometres of National Road 53, which
links the two Mekong Delta provinces of Vinh Long and Tra Vinh, was
begun yesterday.
The
upgraded road begins at Km 11+295 in Vinh Long's Long Ho District and will
continue to Km56+00 in Cang Long District in Tra Vinh province.
Plans
call for widening the road so vehicles can travel at speeds of 60 kilometres
per hour in cities and 80 kilometres per hour in rural areas.
The
construction work was carried out under the BOT (Build-Develop-Transfer)
plan, with investments totalling more than VND1.22 trillion (US$56.7
million).
The
project was expected to be completed in two years, and officials will begin
collecting tolls in May 2017.
National
Road 53, which stretches more than 172 kilometres, is the key route
connecting Vinh Long and Tra Vinh provinces and is a part of the
national road network within the Mekong Delta region.
The
expanded National Road 53 is expected to help meet transportation demands and
ease traffic congestion on the road, contributing to the socio-economic
development of Vinh Long and Tra Vinh provinces, as well as the entire Mekong
Delta region.
Married
couple charged in fraud worth billions
A married
couple in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap have been prosecuted by the
provincial police for fraudulent business practices which earned them
more than VND 48 billion (US$2.2 million).
Nguyen
Van Giap and his wife, Nguyen Thi Thanh Dung, both age 52, were founders of
the My Tho Town-based Bay Giap Company that specialised in selling
fertilisers and plant protection products.
They
were found to have taken advantage of the ‘buy now pay later' policy of
several fertiliser and plant protection products manufacturers in HCM
City to fraudulently amass $2.2 million.
Polluted
water kills thousands year
A new
law was needed to tackle water pollution a workshop has been told in Ha Noi.
The new
law, together with another call for the National Assembly to exercise its
supervision of the water environment, came after a health ministry
report that each year 9,000 people die and 200,000 others were diagnosed with
cancers because of using polluted water.
Nguyen Ngoc
Ly, director of the Centre for Environmental and Community Research (CECR), a
non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Ha Noi, said water
pollution had been institutionalised in several legal documents, however the
problem had not been solved and now seemed to have gone out of hand.
She said
the Law on Environmental Protection and the Law on Water Resources, which
govern this issue, were too generic and this led to poor enforcement.
"Further,
inconsistent provisions on ways to control water pollution in these laws
created confusion about whom, what and how they target," she said.
Ly added
another problem was that the current laws did not detail the technology to be
used for water pollution treatment, which was a loophole where State
money could be spent on outdated technology. Corruption was also often
involved.
Nguyen
Van Bay, director of Department of Water Resources Management (DWRM) under
the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) admitted
that limited human and financial resources and poor awareness and law
compliance were to blame for water pollution.
He
suggested the Government add criminal penalties for acts of polluting water
resources, increase fines, build a national system for monitoring
activities, and publicise the names of establishments that caused pollution
or threatened the environment.
A DWRM
report shows that most of the main rivers in
It said
these were the breeding ground for pathogens and harmful algae in surface
water and their percolation through the soil contaminated groundwater.
DWRM
statistics show that 70 per cent of industrial parks in
Out of
the nation's 639 industry clusters, which are a smaller version of industrial
parks or industrial estates, only 42 possess a concentrated waster-water
system.
Almost
all craft villages throughout the country discharge waste water directly into
rivers, canals and ponds.
The
workshop titled "Policy and Law on Controls of Water Pollution" was
held on May 8 in Ha Noi by the National Assembly's Committee for
Science, Technology and Environment, the MONRE and the Coalition for Clean
Water, a Ha Noi-based NGO.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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