Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 7, 2015

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Man freed as new culprit sentenced
Bac Giang's People's Court yesterday sentenced Ly Nguyen Chung to 12 years in prison for the murder of Nguyen Thi Hoan 12 years ago in Viet Yen District.
Chung admitted to the murder and robbery that took place on the evening of August 15, 2003. He was still a minor at the time.
On the following morning, he confessed the crime to his father and fled to the northern border province of Lang Son. He also informed his brother and sister of the crime before he moved again to the central province of Dak Lak.
The investigation in Bac Giang led to local man Nguyen Thanh Chan, the victim's neighbour, being wrongfully convicted of the crime. Chan was cleared and compensated VND7.2 billion (US$330,000) for the years he spent in prison.
After 10 years in hiding, Chung finally surrendered to the police in October 2013.
Chung's account was confirmed by his father, his stepmother and two of his siblings. His footprints also matched those left at the scene.
However, new witness Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, a local woman who claimed to be a close friend of the victim, insisted that Chan was the murderer.
However, the court discredited her account saying it was mere speculation from details picked up from local people. She also failed to prove her close relationship with the victim beyond a business connection, and was unable to prove the authenticity of a written account of Chan's confession that she acquired from the victim's family. Confronted with the matter, a representative of the victim's family said they had no knowledge of this written account.
Waiting outside the court, Chan's wife Nguyen Thi Chien told vnexpess she would consider taking legal action against Ha.
2 Vietnamese tourists nicked for shoplifting in Switzerland
Swiss police fined a Vietnamese man and his sister 1,000 Swiss francs (US$1,043) each for stealing three pairs of spectacles at a trade center in Switzerland during their tour last week.
The two shoplifters were among 29 Vietnamese people, as agents of a beverage company based in northern Vietnam, who took a tour of France and Switzerland from July 9 to 17, said N.H.S., the head of the group.
As soon as the man, N.T.D., and his younger sister, N.T.H.P., left the trade center, Swiss police arrived and arrested the two, S. narrated.
The incident occurred on the afternoon of July 15, the group’s last day in Zurich before flying back to Paris, S. said.
Police took action after they received a report from the center that the two siblings stole three pairs of luxury eyeglasses, as recorded by surveillance cameras, S. said.
On that afternoon, the members of the group went shopping freely and were asked to gather at a designated place at 6:45 pm to return to their hotel.
When the deadline came, D., his wife, T., and his sister did not show up, and when all the other members came back to the hotel at 8:00 pm, the three were still not seen.
At nearly 9:00 pm, T. arrived at the hotel and told the other group members that she had lost D. and his sister at the shopping center and that she could not contact them as her phone had run out of battery.
After recharging the phone at the hotel, T. received a text message in German. S. asked a local for translation help and learned that the Zurich city police had detained D. and P.
S., D.’s wife, and a representative of the beverage company went to the police station, where officers told them that D. and P. had been caught filching three pairs of eyeglasses bearing well-known brands such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton, worth over 300 Euro ($328) per pair.
As shown in surveillance camera footage, D. and his sister removed the price tag and the product information card from the pairs of glasses and took them from the center while wearing two of the stolen items.
Center guards held them as soon as they stepped out of the center, and police then rushed to the scene, S. said.
S. suggested that police officers handle the case soon as the group had to fly to Paris early next morning before flying on to Hanoi.
Police said that D. and P. had to pay a fine of 1,000 Swiss francs each if they wanted to be released.
The shoplifters were set free after the group collected money among its members to pay the fines, S. recounted.
Transport Minister proposes to halt motorbike toll collection


 Man freed as new culprit sentenced, Transport Minister proposes to halt motorbike toll collection, National park helps raise baby tortoises, Defendants in Chu Va 6 bridge collapse jailed, HCM City sounds alarm over contaminated ice


Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang, who is chairman of the Central Road Maintenance Fund Management Council, has proposed the Government to halt collection of road maintenance fee on motorbikes from next January for low effectiveness and unsuitable ways of the collection.
According to an announcement by the Ministry of Transport on Thursday, the fee collection has been implemented for the last two years but reached only 21 percent of plan. It reduced 6.71 percent over plan in the first half this year.
That is because wards and communes have been asynchronous in managing motorbike number, organizing the toll collection and contributing the collected fund to the state budget.
Besides, sanctions on those not paying the fee as per last-year issued circular 133 by the Ministry of Finance were unfeasible and uncontrollable because penalization has come under the jurisdiction of tax agencies, inspectors from authorized departments and local people’s committees not police force.
Works on mobilizing residents to pay the fee have been limited. The fee payment has depended on motorbike owners without specific organizations and individuals taking responsibility for the toll collection.
On the other hand, many people from provinces have studied, worked and lived in big cities, resulting in a wide difference between registered vehicles and practical number and ineffective collection plan-making.
The collection has been implemented in some provinces and cites while some others such as Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Khanh Hoa have not done so, causing unfairness and not good public opinions.
While waiting for the adjustment of related legal documents, the Road Maintenance Fund proposed the Prime Minister to permit halting the fee collection on motorbikes starting January 1 next year.
Minister Thang also suggested the PM to task his ministry to work with the Ministry of Finance and other authorized agencies on Decree 18 adjustment towards abolishing the road maintenance fee collection and send the PM a report this year.
National park helps raise baby tortoises
Con Dao National Park in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province has released about 150,000 baby tortoises into the sea since 1994.
The park is the first in Viet Nam to effectively implement a programme for conserving and rescuing tortoises.
The park has 14 beaches where tortoises lay eggs over an area of thousands of square metres. The five largest such beaches — Bay Canh, Hon Cau, Hon Tre Lon, Hon Tai and Duong — have five forest management stations to protect the tortoises.
Every year from May to October, more than 400 tortoises lay eggs on sand banks in the park. Six hours after the eggs are laid, forest managers shift them to brooding holes to protect them. The eggs hatch after 45 to 60 days and the baby tortoises are released into the sea.
Defendants in Chu Va 6 bridge collapse jailed
The People’s Court in the northern province of Lai Chau sentenced three defendants to a combined 23 years of imprisonment on July 23 over the collapse of the Chu Va 6 suspension bridge in Tam Duong district that killed eight people and injured 38 others in February last year.
Nguyen Van Ky and Bui Hai Son, who are charged with “violating construction regulations, causing serious consequences,” were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each.
Hoang Dinh Van will spent three years in prison for “negligence of responsibility causing serious consequences”.
Both Ky and Son are banned from jobs related to construction activities for five years from the day they are released from prison; Van faces a two-year ban.
The defendants were also ordered to pay more than 2.5 billion VND (114,600 USD) in compensation to the victims and their relatives. Representatives of the deceased victims will each receive 120 million VND (5,500 USD) in compensation, while other victims will get between 2 and 60 million VND (91-2,750 USD) each.
According to the verdict, from August 31, 2012 to December 26, 2012, the Ky Hoa Private Construction Company directed by Ky failed to abide by the law during the construction of the Chu Va 6 suspension bridge, producing and installing a faulty turnbuckle that did not correspond to the approved design.
Van, head of the Tam Duong District Project Management Board, allowed Bui Hai Son to assume the role of technical supervisor of the district Project Management Board despite being aware of Son’s lack of proper licensing. Son then violated regulations on project supervision, checking and taking over the project despite the errors.
In February 2014, the 58-metre long suspension bridge collapsed as a funeral procession bearing a coffin made its way toward a cemetery on the other side.
The group fell 9 metres down into a ravine full of large, sharp rocks. Three people were killed instantly, five others died at a nearby hospital and 38 were injured.
HCM City sounds alarm over contaminated ice
More than 54 per cent of the ice samples collected from ice factories in HCM City are contaminated, the municipal Department of Food Hygiene and Safety has said.
The ice samples reportedly contained E.coli and three other kinds of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea and respiratory infections.
At a conference on ice making and trading yesterday (July 22), head of the department Huynh Le Thai Hoa said the department's recent inspection revealed that 12 out of 22 samples from ice factories failed to meet the hygiene standards.
The city has the maximum number of ice factories in the country. However, the quality of ice and its trade are still substandard.
Among 193 ice factories, only 79 use tap water. The rest use water from wells for their production, and more than 50 per cent has not tested the water quality.
As per regulations, an ice factory must base its test on the 109 index to ensure the water source meets quality standards before beginning operations. The cost of the test is about VND20 million (US$930).
Hoa said the department would crack down on substandard ice factories, survey all businesses and require them to check their hygiene and safety conditions.
Those who fail the inspection will be forced to close down.
The department will ask restaurants, coffee shops and beverage shops to commit to use ice from hygienic businesses. Consumers will be encouraged to make ice themselves to avoid being poisoned.
According to the World Health Organisation, 80 per cent of the human diseases in developing countries are caused by contaminated water and polluted environment.
Bacteria such as E.coli, coliforms, faecal streptococci and pseudomonas aeruginosa in ice can cause acute diarrhoea, cholera and damage the liver and kidneys.
Doctors still monitoring man after first heart-lung transplant
Doctors in Hue have performed the country’s first ever heart-lung transplant on a 40-year-old man who received the organs from a donor from Ho Chi Minh City.
The man suffered heart failure and had a surgery last year, but it did not fix the problem.
Doctor Bui Duc Phu, director of Hue Central Hospital, said the heart is healthy after the procedure on July 20 but oxygen supply to the body remains low.
The donated lungs have been swollen as the donor was put on a respirator for seven days before giving them away. The receiver still has to use respiration support.
"It’s too early to tell if it’s successful. But we have and will try our best to save him," Phu said.
His hospital had sent four doctors to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh on Monday morning to take the organs. They came back to Hue more than three hours later and finished the transplant in one hour.
Phu said the operation was the second heart transplant at the hospital since 2011. It was the first surgical procedure to replace both heart and lungs in the country.
Organs of the donor, who died after a work accident, have been given to five other patients.
Ninh Thuan urges land clearing for highway construction
Ninh Thuan Province's People's Committee has asked district authorities to take tough measures to complete the clearing of land for National Highway 1A's construction by the end of this month.
The build-operate-transfer (BOT) project for constructing and expanding a section of National Highway 1A in the central coastal province should be completed by the end of this year as per schedule.
However, the slow land clearing for building the 37km-long section in the province has been hindering the construction.
More than 100 households in the districts of Ninh Hai, Ninh Phuoc and Thuan Nam have been refusing to vacate their land for the project.
The local people have not accepted the compensation amounts as well as relocated housing.
Chairman of the People's Committee of Phuoc Dan Township in Ninh Phuoc District Vo Duc Khang said many households had refused to vacate and hand over their land.
"They have asked for unreasonable compensation rates, which do not comply with the law and regulations," Khang said.
A 600m-long section of the road will pass through the township, but the construction is at a standstill.
Nguyen Thanh Luy, vice-director of the project management board, said the construction of National Highway 1A was very important for the socio-economic development of the country and Ninh Thuan Province as well.
However, 60 per cent of work is yet to be done.
To resolve the issue, the provincial Natural Resources and Environment Department has asked relevant offices to review the compensation rates and relocation of the people, as well as to explain to them the government policies relating to public construction work.
People who were deliberately refusing to move out would be forced to vacate and hand over the land to the project, the department's Vice-Director Tong My Cuong said.
Endocrinology hospital opens 480-bed facility
The National Hospital of Endocrinology opened a new treatment facility at a ceremony this morning in Tu Hiep Commune in Ha Noi's Thanh Tri District.
"The 480-bed facility will help to reduce overcrowding by patients and improve the quality of treatment at the hospital in the future," the hospital's Director Tran Ngoc Luong said.
"The new facility will contribute to avoiding situations where several patients have to share one bed in the hospital," Luong said.
The nine-storey facility is equipped with a waste water treatment system and advanced medical equipment that can handle the demand for examination and treatment, especially professional tests that keep pace with advanced countries.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien asked the hospital to further improve professional skills to become the leading endocrinology research and training centre of the country.
The facility was built with a total investment of nearly VND 498 billion (US$23.8 million), including VND125 billion ($5.9 million) from the State budget and a nearly VND295-billion ($14 million) loan from the Viet Nam Development Bank.
SOS Children’s Village managers gather in Khanh Hoa
As many as 50 managers and heads of SOS villages and Herman Gmeiner schools across the country gathered in central Khanh Hoa province’s Nha Trang city on July 23 to share experience in caring disadvantaged children.
According to SOS Children’s Village Vietnam, 17 SOS villages nationwide care for more than 4,700 children. SOS primary schools, Herman Gmeiner schools and vocational workshops provided vocational training for 13,000 children.
As many as 19,000 children are receiving support from community-based activities.
As a result, thousands of disadvantaged children to have a chance to go to school and find stable jobs, securing their future.
Over 23 billion VND (1.05 million USD) from the Hermann Gmeiner scholarship, named after the Austrian philanthropist who founded SOS Children’s Villages International, has funded the studies of more than 9,100 Vietnamese children.
Le Hung Nghe, Director of SOS Village Nha Trang, shared that at his facility, trained care-giver SOS mothers and aunts have made efforts to ensure the quality of children’s health and education over the last 16 years.
Tran Thi Kim Dung, Vice Director of SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam, said future village models ought to prioritise natural environments for children’s growth in SOS families.
It also needs to cut costs and curb reliances on foreign financial assistance through smart spending and local fund-raising programmes, stated Dung.
Power line in Central Highlands set to finish in Q1 next year
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked the People’s Committees from the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum to monitor and push forward the Xekaman 1 – Pleiku 2 220-kilovolt power line project, which is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2016.
The 120-kilometre power line project, spreading across the two provinces, is designed to transmit electricity from the Xekaman 1 hydropower plant.
The localities were urged to provide land clearance support for the project contractor and speed up compensation procedures.-
Northern seminar seeks ideas to enforce social insurance law
A seminar held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on July 23 sought guidelines to enforce the Social Insurance Law that is set to come into effect on January 1, 2016.
Reports delivered at the event featured new policies specified in the Laws on Social and Health Insurance, looming difficulties in law enforcement, trade unions’ roles and responsibilities to ensure the legitimate rights of social insurance holders.
Addressing the event, Head of the National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs Truong Thi Mai said social insurance policy is the central pillar of the social welfare system for the sake of social progress and fairness.
With the State, employers and employees as stakeholders, social insurance contributions have formed the country’s largest social welfare fund.
As of December 31, 2014, over 11.6 million people were covered by social insurance, more than 11.4 million of which have compulsorily paid premiums and 196,000 have voluntarily paid premiums, while over 9.2 million received unemployment benefits.
About 1.5 million people aged over 80 years were entitled to State allowances last year.
Participants also put forth solutions to refining labour regulations.
The seminar was co-hosted by the NA Committee for Social Affairs, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Vietnam Social Insurance.
National action plan on environmental health discussed
Developing a national action plan for environmental health is crucial, heard a discussion in Hanoi on July 23 hosted by the Consultancy Central of Occupational Safety Health and Environmental Technology under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga from the National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health under the Ministry of Health said the national action plan will help boost studies, predictions, warnings and prevention of risks while reducing their impact on human health and establishing a national profile on environmental health.
He called for improved legal frameworks and enforcement as well as a mechanism of cross-sector coordination to strengthen management.
Publicity campaigns should be promoted to raise community awareness of the environment, Nga said, adding that training programmes should also be conducted to ensure capable human resources for the sector in the future.
A wide range of environmental risks remain, including contaminated water, air and land; waste; food; and climate change, Nga emphasised .
Only 85% of rural households have access to clean water, only 40% of which meets the water quality standards set by the Ministry of Health.
Just 65% of rural households have hygienic toilet facilities, leaving nearly four million others to contaminate their environment, according to the expert.
Grand requiem for fallen soldiers in Quang Tri
On July 23, the Quang Tri Ancient Citadel Veteran Group and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) provincial chapter held a grand requiem in commemoration of heroes and martyrs who sacrificed their lives while  defending the ancient citadel in 1972.
Le Xuan Tanh, President of the Quang Tri Ancient Citadel Veteran Group, said the requiem aimed to commemorate and respect the  thousands of fallen combatants for their sacrifice during the past struggles for national reunification.
On the occasion, organizations, banks and benefactors presented VND2 billion to the Quang Tri Ancient Citadel Veteran Group.  The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) alone also donated VND500 million to help build 10 houses for families of martyrs and war veterans.
In 1972, Quang Tri was seriously devastated by thousands of tonnes of bombs and shells. The province was also well known for the fierce 81-day-and-night battle at the citadel.
Hanoi aims to offer top welfare services by 2020
The capital of Hanoi is striving to take the lead on the provision of care for contributors to the national revolution, veterans, as well as other welfare and public health services, by 2020.
The municipal authorities announced a detailed master plan on July 22, which foresees a network of nursing centres for contributors to the national resistance wars and veterans, and social support facilities.
It aims to develop the infrastructure of public and private social welfare providers, including the supply of high quality equipment.
As a result, the elderly, people with disabilities, and people suffering from mental health will find it easier to access social welfare services.
In the meantime, individuals and organisations are encouraged to invest in social services, especially those geared towards the elders.
Between now and 2020, Hanoi plans to implement 28 infrastructure projects worth 1.76 trillion VND (83.8 million USD) in public and private social support centres, with more than 1.3 trillion VND (61.9 million USD) being sourced from the city’s budget.
From 2021-2030, 28 other projects of this kind will be launched at a total cost of 3.5 trillion VND (166.7 million USD), with more than 1.26 trillion VND (60 million USD) from the city’s budget.
By 2030, the city aims to be able to accommodate all local contributors to the resistance wars, war veterans in nursing centres.
The city will promote the master plan and ensure that Party Committees at all levels, the Fatherland Front, trade unions and social organisations are aware of its objectives.
It will also refine its welfare support policies, allocate land as needed, develop human resources and expand cooperation in this regard, both at home and abroad.-
Thai Nguyen: 80 percent of rural households enjoy clean water
More than 80 percent of households in rural areas in the northern province of Thai Nguyen have access to clean water, according to the provincial Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Centre.
The proportion of rural people using water that meets national safety standards is 58 percent while 98 percent of local schools have sanitary water and toilet facilities, reported the centre.
According to Director of the centre La Hong Chung, the province has set targets of 85 percent of rural people using sanitary water, 65 percent of households maintaining clean animal cages and 100 percent schools having adequate water supply systems by the end of this year.
To reach the targets, the province is focusing on completing five water supply projects and expanding large-scale others in different localities with a combined investment of 14 billion VND (641,000 USD) from the national target programme for clean water and environmental sanitation, he said.
At the same time, the centre is mobilising investments from foreign organisations for a project to build a solid waste treatment system and school toilets in Van Tho commune of Dai Tu district as well as sanitary toilets in Ky Phu and Van Tho communes in Dai Tu district and a water supply system in Cao Ngan and Thinh Duc communes in Thai Nguyen city, he noted.
Chung said in the near future, the province will focus on large-scale water supply facilities and expanding existing ones for increased efficiency and sustainability.
However, he also pointed to a number of shortcomings in the implementation of the national target programme for clean water and environmental sanitation in the province, including the insufficient management and operation of water supply projects.
As many as 10 percent of more than 200 rural water supply projects in the locality are ineffective and 18 percent are broken while the ratio of water loss is over 30 percent, the official noted.
75mn litres of pure water for polluted areas
As many as 75 million litres of fresh water will be delivered to people living in areas where sources of water are seriously polluted.
Under the programme, Devotion for Viet Nam's Future, signed today by the health ministry's National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health (NIOEH) and Karofi Viet Nam, 350 water purifiers will be installed for free to help purify the water in about 20 villages across the country, especially the northern provinces.
According to NIOEH's director, Dr. Doan Ngoc Hai, surveys into the practical needs of local people show that the construction of concentrated water supply systems in many rural areas was infeasible, particularly in communities that faced a critical shortage of clean water in large areas whilst people followed scattered settlements.
"If the construction of concentrated water plants does not help, the installation of household water purifiers is an ideal option," Hai said.
"We are co-operating with Karofi to ensure that the facilities are of good quality. We are availing this opportunity to supply underprivileged people and those living in remote and mountainous areas with access to fresh water," he said.
In addition, the VND4.3 billion (US$200,000)-programme will examine the health of locals, popularise the necessity of using quality water as well as the impacts of polluted water on people's health in one or two villages among those that suffer from severe water contamination.
A National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health staff is taking a water sample for test at Dong Lo Commune. It is the first commune to receive 55 water purifiers from the programme to provide pure water to people living in polluted areas. — Photo http://nioeh.org.vn
Dong Lo Commune, in the Ha Noi's outskirt district of Ung Hoa, is the first location granted 55 water purifiers during the signing ceremony in Ha Noi. One of the villages in the nation is suspected to have a large number of cancer patients thanks to the contaminated water.
Dong Lo Commune is home to 1,200 households from six villages, of which Thong Nhat and Thon Manh Tan lie on the bank of Nhue River and are often affected by river pollution when the river runs dry. The villagers use rainwater and well water contained in water tanks as the main source of water for daily use, Hai said following his field trip to the locality last Wednesday.
"As an enterprise that is committed to performing its corporate responsibility, we want all Vietnamese to have safe water for daily use," General Director of Karofi Vietnam Tran Trung Dung said.
Dung said the five-year programme also aimed to raise public awareness about the use of fresh water to protect health and the economical use of natural resources to protect the environment in general and water source in particular.
Studies, inspections and analyses by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on 323,000 samples taken from nearly 7,000 communes in all localities nation-wide, reveal that 12.5 per cent of samples show the arsenic content in water is from 0.05mg per litre.
According to the World Health Organisation, the permitted arsenic limit in one litre of drinking water is 0.01mg per litre, and 0.02mg of arsenic per litre of water is enough to cause endocrine disorders in users.
Low yield rice converted into higher value crops in Mekong Delta
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has implemented an agricultural restructuring project for the last two years, having converted 78,375 hectares of low yield rice into higher value crops in the Mekong Delta.
The project has been carried out becuase rice area has been increasing causing output redundancy. The grain supply has been on the rise while import demand has recently reduced in some nations.
Dr. Dang Kim Khoi, director of the Center for Agricultural Policy, said that rice production had faced competition from emerging markets such as Cambodia and Myanmar, which have boosted rice exports to China--Vietnam’s largest market.
Myanmar has made moves towards attracting investment in agricultural field while Cambodian rice quality has been appreciated in the world.
Therefore, Mr. Khoi predicted that these two nations will become rivals of Vietnam in the future beside traditional competitor Thailand.
Meantime, the rice import demand of China, Singapore and the Philippines has significantly reduced.
Vietnam’s rice export profit has moved down with high export volume and low value, which has concerned farmers in the Mekong Delta every harvest season.
Experts said that was because Vietnam had long been loyal to rice farming resulting in output increase and redundancy.
Previously, the country’s rice output swung from 37-38 million tons a year. Science and technology advance applications and new high-quality varieties have hiked the output to 45-47 million tons, causing supply exceed demand.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s restructuring project has converted 78,375 hectares of low yield rice into higher value crops in the Mekong Delta, where produces 50 percent of Vietnam’s output.
The change has brought high economic effectiveness thanks to higher prices of new crop products such as vegetables and maize, compared to rice, the ministry said.
Crop rotation will help reduce diseases and insects for rice crops afterwards. Maize and vegetable cultivation has also increased material source for livestock feed production which has depended on imports, it added.
According to plan, the Mekong Delta will change another 87 hectares of ineffective rice fields into vegetable, maize and fruit crops this year. It is expected that the total shifted area will reach 700,000-800,000 hectares by 2020.
The Ministry has proposed the Government to assist farmers with VND2 million (US$92) a hectare to buy new seedlings to replace 112,000 hectares of rice in the Mekong Delta.
It has also suggested the Government to expand financial assistance to northern and central regions and the Central Highlands to switch low yield rice into other crops from now until 2020.
150 workers in Binh Duong Province hospitalized due to food poisoning
Around 150 workers at Meraki factory in Song Than Industrial Zone in  Di An Town of the southern province of Binh Duong were hospitalized on July 22 due to food poisoning.
Medical workers of the Army No. 4 Hospital said that the hospital is treating 150 workers who were taken to the hospital when they suffered pain in belly and diarrhea; some of them also vomited.
The workers were said to have displayed symptoms of vomiting, stomach ache and diarrhoea after eating dinner including fresh vermicelli, bean sprouts and fried meat mixing with cucumber.
Dr. Tran Thanh Van, head of the hospital’s Internal Medicine Division, said that medical workers have given patients fluids intravenously to release toxic. Many workers have recovered yet some pregnant workers are kept for further treatment.
Market demand needs better understanding to curb unemployment
Students should consider market demand before deciding on a course of education, and keep in mind that job prospects may be better after graduation in one region than another, said the deputy head of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Doan Mau Diep.
"Each year, there are 400,000 admittances to colleges and universities, but 170,000 graduates cannot find jobs," Diep said.
Graduates from vocational schools have the highest unemployment rate because they are unable to catch up with new market demands and trends, he said.
Diep said it was unreasonable to expect that graduates be able to everything well just after leaving colleges and universities.
"Colleges and universities can only teach 70-80 percent of the required knowledge. Students need a training period to adapt to new positions and shape their career. I just don't believe that everything need to be trained completely again," Diep said.
"We need regular periodic surveys to understand firms' demands and then make suitable plans," he said.
Vietnam to attend 43rd World Skills Contest
Fourteen Vietnamese contestants will compete in 13 categories of the 43rd World Skills Contest to be organised in Sao Paulo, Brazil from August 5 to 17, according to the General Department of Vocational Training (GDVT) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The categories in which the Vietnamese contestants will compete comprise welding, IT solutions, carpentry-handcrafts, plumbing, mechanical electronics, web design, automotive technology, computer numerical controlled milling, industrial control, molding, plastic mold design, computer-aided design and brick construction.
All Vietnamese contestants are well trained and ready for the contest, with the goal of winning medals in the contest.
The Vietnamese delegation attending the 43rd World Skills Contest is scheduled to leave Hanoi for the event on August 4.
According to Duong Duc Lan, GDVT Director and Head of the National Skills Contest’s Organising Board, Vietnam has attended five world skill contests, earning an ‘excellent skill’ certificate at the first contest they attended, held in Japan. The Vietnamese team earned five ‘excellent skill’ certificates in the 40th and 41st World Skills Contest, while bagging seven certificates in the 42nd contest held in Germany two years ago.
This year’s contest in Brazil has 50 competing categories, including 46 official and four demonstrative vocations - nearly 1,300 contestants from 67 nations and territories have registered to take part in the competition.
TOA sponsors repainting project nationwide
TOA Paint Vietnam Co. Ltd on Tuesday donated 71,000 liters of paint worth VND3 billion to the Vietnam Sponsoring Association for Children to repaint elementary schools, children’s hospitals and charity shelters for children in 23 cities and provinces nationwide.
According to Hoang Van Tien, director of the Vietnam Sponsoring Association for Children, Vietnam has 26 million kids under 16, 1.5 million of them are orphans, disabled, HIV patients and law-breaking kids.
The repainting project will take place in Hanoi, Haiphong, Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Lang Son, Bac Giang, Thai Binh and Ninh Binh.
TOA Vietnam has a factory in Tan Dong Hiep A Industrial Park in Di An Town in Binh Duong Province with an annual capacity of 10 million gallons.
Kien Giang effectively uses international aid
Representatives of the Committee for International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) Affairs and the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang met on July 23 to discuss ways to enhance their coordination and information sharing on INGO funding and assistance.
The provincial People’s Committee reported that as many as 30 INGOs were implementing 33 projects in the locality.
Since 2010, Kien Giang has received assistance from a large number of NGOs, with over VND690 billion (US$nearly 32 million) being disbursed. The funding was mainly used to build infrastructure, protect the environment and preserve biodiversity.
The management and utilisation of funding complied with the programmes and projects’ objectives as well as the State’s current regulations on the approval and implementation of NGO projects, the People’s Committee said.
Delegates from the Committee for INGO Affairs asked the local chapter of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations to call for more support from INGOs in the locality and improve links with those already operating in the province.
The committee said it would work closely with Kien Giang and other localities to share information and facilitate INGO activities, thus contributing to poverty reduction and socio-economic development in Vietnam.
Remains of 205 volunteer soldiers returned to Vietnam
The remains of 205 Vietnamese military volunteers who lost their lives in Cambodia during the war had been repatriated to Vietnam and were reburied in Thoi Son commune, Tinh Bien district, An Giang province.
The reburial ceremony was held on July 24.
The remains were found by the Remains Collection Teams K90 and K93 under the An Giang Military Command during their excavations in 2014-2015.
Earlier, An Giang provincial leaders repatriated to Vietnam the remains of 18 Vietnamese military volunteers from Kiri Vong district, Takeo province, Cambodia.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri

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