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Son
My massacre victims remembered
A
poignant memorial service took place on July 29 to remember those 504
civilians, many of whom were women and children that were killed in the 1968
massacre at Son My in central Quang Ngai province.
The
event was as part of a program to alleviate the pain of the Vietnam war.
The
sombre service was attended by a large number of monks, nuns, Buddhist
followers and local people and paid tribute the Son My victims and all those
who gave for the cause of national liberation.
Speakers
at the deeply moving event led prayer services and talked about the
importance of educating the nation’s younger generations on the importance of
the revolutionary tradition, patriotism and national pride.
On
March 16, 1968, US troops indiscriminately and brutally slaughtered 504 defenceless
residents of the Tinh Khe commune, mostly elderly, women and children and
destroyed the village.
Worker
falls to death from
A
construction worker was killed and another was seriously injured after
falling from the 12th floor of an under-construction building in
The
accident happened while they were putting up a scaffolding to install an
elevator in the
The
victims, 23-year-old Nguyen Quoc Huy from the southern
The
investor of the project, which offers low-income earners exemption from
paying land fees and low interest loans, is Hoang Quan Joint Venture
Consulting- Real Estate Company.
The
case is being investigated further.
Former
Deputy Chief Inspector prosecuted for bribery
The
People's Procuracy of the Tay Nguyen (Central Highland)
According
to the procuracy's indictment, the inspection team led by Trong had
confiscated four containers from the Hiep Toan Limited Company in
From
May to October 2014, 200 overloaded containers traveled from Dak Nong to
Toan
was also prosecuted for bribery.
The
provincial procuracy will refer the case to the court.
The
speed limit on
The
People's Committee of the city yesterday instructed the municipal department
of transport to install speed-limit signs on either side of the 250m bridge
in an attempt to minimise accident risks.
The
department will also install warning signals on roads leading to the bridge,
with soft and light-reflecting median strips on the bridge.
High-definition
cameras will be installed to monitor the vehicles and record their number
plates. The bridge's lighting system will also be checked to ensure the
safety of travellers.
The
local police will enhance supervision to check drunk-driving and will
strictly punish violators.
All
necessary work will reportedly have to be completed by Friday.
Earlier
this month, two serious accidents happened on the bridge within a week.
A
woman was killed and her husband was injured in a hit-and-run accident on the
night of July 19. The killer driver, a local resident who was arrested after
one day, said he had consumed alcohol, including beer, 30 minutes before he
hit the motorbike of the two victims.
In
another accident between a van and a motorbike on July 13, three people were
killed and two children were injured. Two of the dead victims were pushed off
the bridge from a height of 10 metres. The injured children were discharged
from the city's
Former
TV icon arrested for swindling money
Police
in the central
Trang,
43, allegedly borrowed VND8.3 billion (US$382,000) from 68 households in the
communes of Giang Son Dong, Giang Son Tay and Hong Son by mid 2014 but was
unable to repay the debts and later declared bankruptcy.
She
then borrowed an additional VND3 billion (US$138,000) from 33 households.
In
Giang Son Dong Commune, Do Luong District, in 2013, Trang started investing
in farms and the cattle feed trade. She was lauded for her achievements in
the business of farming and animal husbandry by the local television channel
in mid 2013. Since then, she has borrowed money to expand her business, roll
debts between banks and take part in a loan club. The locals trusted her and
lent her money.
Police
in Do Luong District are continuing to investigate the case. –
Bac
Giang police seize 3,000 poultry birds
Police
in the
The
local police seized a truck carrying 2,000 chickens and ducks, being
illegally transported to Bac Giang from
A week
ago, police detected and seized a truck carrying 1,000 birds, comprising 700
ducks, 100 geese and 200 chickens on Highway 31 of Dinh Tri Highway.
In both
cases, the transporters could not show any legal certification of the
poultry's place of origin. The illegal poultry were all destroyed.
The
two cases are under investigation.
Driver
charged for traffic violations
Police
in central
On
July 19, Ho Tuan Sau, 49, fell asleep at the wheel of a seven-seat bus
travelling along National Highway No.1A while passing through
The
resulting crash killed three men on the bus and left four others seriously
injured.
An
initial investigation showed that the brakes had most likely not been applied
as no tracks had been left on the road.
Fishing
ship and crew rescued
A
salvage ship rescued a fishing vessel with 31 crew members which was found
drifting at sea near the Hoang Sa Islands (Paracels) of
The
fishing boat's engine had broken down, leaving the vessel adrift on rough
seas for the past few days.
The Da
Nang-based Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No. 2
(MRCC Da Nang) said the fishing boat from
The
centre, in co-operation with maritime search and rescue agencies in the
region and
The
crew members were all healthy and uninjured.
A
group of stealing assets in cars arrested
Police
in the central Nghe An province's
Col
Mai Chien Thang of
The
group of criminals who lived in the city, included Vuong Van Long, Nguyen Van
Cuong, and Tran Duc Thanh.
Long,
25, was identified as the leader of the gang that used to frequently break
into parking lots on rainy nights and smash the windows of cars parked there,
decamping with valuable assets, such as watches, laptops, phones, and
documents.
After
stealing property, they used to sell it to Nguyen Thai Hung, 41, a resident
of the city.
Hung
has also been arrested for further investigations to clarify how he used to
dispose of property acquired in this fashion.
According
to initial statistics, this group was involved in 32 cases of property theft
in five months, having stolen assets worth about VND600 million (US$27,700).
The
police is further investigating how to evaluate the damage they caused to the
cars when they smashed window panes, and add this to the evidence for
prosecution, and charge them with destructive behaviour, Col Thang said.
Sailors
rescued from drifting ship
A
salvage ship rescued a fishing vessel with 31 crew members which was found
drifting at sea near the Hoang Sa Islands (Paracels) of
The
fishing boat's engine had broken down, leaving the vessel adrift on rough
seas for the past few days.
The Da
Nang-based Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No. 2
(MRCC Da Nang) said the fishing boat from
Parade,
fireworks to mark National Day
Thousands
of people will participate in a parade at
The
department's Director To Van Dong said about 10,000 people would join the
parade and 21 cannons would be fired at Thang Long Imperial Citadel on
September 2, National Day.
On the
same day, fireworks displays will take place at 9pm at Hoan Kiem,
Ha
Noi forms storm evacuation plan
Hundreds
of thousands of residents in Ha Noi will be moved to safe places if a strong
typhoon hits the capital, deputy chairman of the municipal People's Committee
Tran Xuan Viet said yesterday.
Viet
said they would be moved to schools, cultural houses (dinh), sporting halls
and other strong public buildings when winds reached more than 118km per
hour.
He
added that evacuations would begin the day before the full force of the
typhoon was expected.
Ha Noi
plans to assign about 50,000 workers from state agencies to join rescuers.
More than 100,000 militiamen and youth union members - and nearly 13,000
soldiers will also help.
Resettlement
zone has no good land
Despite
big State investment in roads, schools and other infrastructure in the 100
hectare Ninh Thuy resettlement zone in central Khanh Hoa province over the
last six years, few people live there.
This
is because there is limited farmland, the cost of water is too high - and the
site is too remote.
The
resettlement zone is located in Ninh Tho commune in Ninh Hoa town. It was
built in 2009 for about 500 residents of Ninh Yeng hamlet about 10km away.
They
were forced to leave their land as three Van Phong thermo-power plants were
built. In the first phase, the province invested VND426 billion (US$20.3
million) to complete infrastructure for a residential area of 35ha. However
only six families live there.
Tran
Van Huong has just finished building his house in the resettlement zone. He
was offered a plot of land to build a house and a 200sq.m plot of land for
farming.
Every
day, Huong drives more than 10km to Ninh Phuoc commune to work on other
people's farms.
Another
inhabitant, Kieu Thi Phong, said that even though her family had 10 people,
it had been allocated only 200sq.m for farming.
By
October, all households in Ninh Yeng hamlet have to leave and either accept
resettlement or go elsewhere.
At
present, 30 households in the hamlet have declined to accept compensation and
another 23 households have refused to accept land in the resettlement zone.
Le Van
Thong, one of those who has to move, complained that the compensation money
was far too low.
"In
my village, I have more than 8,000sq.m of land to cultivate garlic and
500sq.m land for living. But I only received compensation of VND1.1 billion.
This was the market price in 2010," he said.
"Moreover,
in my old village, I made VND200 million profits from garlic each year. When
I came to this resettlement zone, I was given only 200sq.m, so how can I earn
a living?," Thong said.
Nguyen
Vinh Thanh, deputy chairman of Ninh Hoa town's People's Committee, said the
complaints were real. "We will soon send a official document to the
Gates,
guards, upgrades aim to put end to rail fatalities
Viet Nam
Railways (VNR) will assign workers to act as sentries at illegal rail
crossings throughout
Doan
Duy Hoach, deputy director of VNR, said the guards would be equipped with
flags, lamps and mobile phones.
They
would take turns to man the crossings, Hoach said. They would warn residents
whenever a train approached.
The
VNR is also upgrading 300 of the 6,000 railway crossings throughout the
country. This is part of a process to install railway gates where there are
no one - and to replace old, hand pulled gate barriers with those powered by
electricity.
Two
hundred and forty two railway accidents occurred in the first six months of
this year, an increase of 62 cases compared with the same period last year.
A
total of 109 people were killed, an increase of 24 over last year. Another
150 people were injured, an increase of 42.
The
accidents caused VND50 billion (US$2.2 million) worth of damage. Most
occurred at illegal rail-road crossings.
About
75 per cent of the accidents happened on the Ha Noi-HCM City route.
Hoach
said the railway sector was planning to shut off all crossings and build
flyovers by 2020. However, he said that VND55 trillion ($2.5 billion) needed
for the work was not presently available.
About
90 per cent of rail crossing accidents were caused by careless car drivers,
Hoach said.
Some
provinces are eager to get things done. Chairman of the Ha Nam People's
Committee, Nguyen Xuan Dong, asked his province to install powered gates at
all illegal crossings by the end of August.
Quang
Ninh rallies resources for post-flood recovery
Post-flood
recovery efforts are ongoing in the north-eastern
Burial
services and other assistance expenses will be wholly covered by local
authorities and families of the injured will receive 3 million VND (142 USD)
each.
The
heaviest downpour in 40 years began in the northeast part of the province on
July 26, leaving 23 local residents dead or missing. The total damage has
amounted to over 1 trillion VND (45.8 million USD).
Nearly
3,900 houses, schools and hospitals were submerged with several places in Cam
Pha, Ha Long and Van Don more than two metres underwater.
As
many as 19 houses were destroyed and more than 1,100 hectares of rice and
crops and 300 hectares of aquaculture inundated in water.
On
July 29, a landslide blocked traffic in Cam Pha city and Van Don district. To
make matters worse, the heavy rain also collapsed water pipelines in Cam Pha
and Ha Long cities, disrupting water supply for the next two weeks.
Electricity
supply has resumed in flood-stricken areas. All necessary equipment has been
sent to the 110-kilovolt Mong Duong power station.
Van
Don, Cam Pha and Ha Long power stations are well-equipped for all possible
contingencies.
The
provincial authorities asked relevant units to clean up the rubble and rubbish
on the streets and in residential areas.
The
provincial Department of Health also directed the preventive medical centre
to launch decontamination sprays and environmental clean-ups
In
another development, local relevant agencies are searching for six fishermen
who went missing when their fishing boat sank near Co To Island on July 27.
Only one fisherman was rescued by the Border Guard one day later.
Quang
A
ceremony was held in Hoi An city in the central province of Quang
Co-organised
by the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Department of
Industry and Trade, and Tourism Association, the annoucing is expected to create
a tourism product value chain and increase local incomes.
It is
part of a project to develop sustainable and responsible tourism in the
central region of
According
the provincial People’s Committee, the introduction of the seal will help
tourists differentiate local fine art handicraft products from other
provinces.
Red
Cross Society sends relief to Quang Ninh
The
Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) sent urgently needed aid amounting to 160
million VND (7,330 USD) on July 29 to victims of the three-day torrential
rain in north-eastern Quang Ninh province.
Each
family with a member killed in the flooding received 3 million VND (137.5
USD) while local affected households were offered some 200 relief packages,
including a set with a blanket and mosquito-net, water tank, cookware and
Aquatabs water purification tablets.
A VRCS
delegation headed by Vice President and General Secretary Doan Van Thai
visited Quang Ninh later the same day to examine the flood damage and local
relief needs.
Meanwhile,
the Vietnam Red Cross chapter in Quang Ninh presented 45 million VND (2,062
USD) to injured victims and the families of those who lost their lives in the
flood and mobilised volunteers to provide help for local residents.
It
also calls on Red Cross chapters in cities and provinces nationwide to join
its relief efforts.
In
addition, the provincial Red Cross volunteer teams are scheduled to clean up
affected areas and assist victims of flooding and landslides in early August.
The
same day, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee also sent 450
million VND (20,600 USD) to assist the victims.
The
torrential rain lasting from July 26-28 , the heaviest down-pour in 40 years,
has left 23 people dead or missing and caused 1 trillion VND (over 45.8
million USD) in economic damage.
Bat
Trang craft village seeks ways to boost development
The
traditional Bat Trang ceramic village in Gia Lam district,
Bat
Trang ceramics are a pride of
A
market to introduce Bat Trang ceramic products was also established, helping
to intensify craft village promotion. The market has become an ideal shopping
destination for foreign visitors.
From
the end of the Tran Dynasty to the beginning of the Nguyen Dynasty, a large
quantity of Bat Trang potteries were shipped to Japan, Malaysia, Thailand,
Spain, Portugal, Holland, the UK and France.
In
recent years, the village has greeted over 10,000 international tourists and
more than 50,000 Vietnamese tourists per year.
However,
artisans in the traditional craft village are facing difficulties in seeking
markets for their products, especially foreign markets.
According
to Ha Van Lam, a representative of the Bat Trang craft village, about 80-85
percent of local products were exported to foreign markets in 1990-2000 but
the figure dropped remarkably after 2005.
The
situation is attributed to economic recession, slow renovation in improving
product models, severe competition in the markets and unprofessional
operations of local households and businesses.
In
such a context, municipal authorities and local residents have been making
every effort to recover the long-standing craft village.
Famous
local artisans create ceramic products bearing their personal stamp which are
attractive to a great number of customers.
Local
pottery makers are focusing on expanding domestic markets while seeking
foreign partners.
Additionally,
they are also paying attention to applying new production technologies,
innovating models and improving the quality of their products in order to
meet the increasingly demanding requirements of customers.
According
to statistics from Bat Trang commune, the locality’s annual revenue from the
ceramic industry reaches nearly 400 billion VND (18.34 million USD),
contributing substantially to local socio-economic development.
In
order to promote the development of the craft village, a specific direction
and more support from municipal authorities and relevant agencies are needed.
Son
La: 27,000 households lack electricity
About
27,000 households in the northern mountainous
Bui
Duc Hai, Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, revealed that
the rate of households currently using electricity in the province is only
83.6 percent, below the country’s average.
To
deal with the issue, the province and the Northern Power Corporation (NPC)
under the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) will launch a project to supply
electricity to the targeted families in mid September.
The
project, worth 135 billion VND (6.25 million USD), will work to connect 5,345
households in 72 remote villages of Mai Son and Song Ma districts to the
national grid.
Another
project worth 557 billion VND (25.8 million USD) that began in May 2012 has
so far supplied electricity to 20,836 households in the locality.
Requiem
held for fallen soldiers, innocent civilians
A
grand requiem to pray for fallen soldiers was held in Son My relic site in
Tinh Khe commune in the central city of Quang Ngai on July 29.
The
event was also designed to commemorate hundreds of innocent civilians and
compatriots who laid down their lives in the battlefields of the Son My raid
and wars in
Co-organised
by the provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Institute for
Women and Child Development under the programme “Xoa diu noi dau Son My ”
(Relieving Son My’s pain) in 2015.
The
event is dedicated to those who laid down their lives for national
independence and freedom. It also promotes patriotism among the younger
generation.
Health
Ministry boosts HIV/AIDS-testing
The
Ministry of Health implemented measures to increase the number of those
receiving HIV/AIDS tests by making testing facilities available and more
convenient.
The
Agency of HIV/AIDS Prevention under the Ministry of Health said on July 29
out of 1,345 existing HIV/AIDS testing and consultation facilities, 95 are
allowed to declare patients positive or negative for HIV/AIDS.
These
facilities have offering counselling and testing to 260,000 people, 5,000 of
which were positive for HIV. However, the testing rate, especially among
high-risk groups, is still low at only 30 percent.
The
agency cited many challenges facing HIV consultation and testing such as lack
of testing supplies, money, medication or discrimination.
To
overcome the issues, the Ministry of Health has opened new facilities,
upgraded old ones and is providing mobile testing services.
The
ministry will also work with community consultation organisations to send
at-risk individuals to health centres for testing.
In the
first five months of this year, the ministry opened three new testing
facilities in Ha Giang, An Giang and Binh Phuoc and upgraded 55 facilities.
Provincial-level
testing facilities are available in Son La, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen and Thanh
Hoa and district-level facilities, located mostly in remote districts, are
offered in Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Thai Nguyen, Son La, Quang
Ngai, Ba Ria – Vung Tau and Kien Giang.-
Post-harvest
loss reduction policies remain inefficient
Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has warned of slow
implementation of Prime Minister’s Decision 68/2013/QD-TTg on support
policies to reduce post-harvest losses in agriculture.
Currently,
the focus is only on low efficiency rice due to a lack of synchronous
measures, he said during a conference to review the realisation of the
decision in
The
minister held that losses in rice production come from the process of
selecting various varieties, harvest, transport, drying, husking, and
storing. However, he said, attention has only been paid to the harvest and
storage processes.
Decision
68/2013/QD-TTg was issued as part of the efforts to implement Resolution
48/NQ-CP on mechanisms and policies to reduce post-harvest losses of farm
produce and aquatic products.
According
to the Department of Agro-forestry-fishery Trade, Processing and Salt
Industry, over the past five years, the resolution has helped speed up
mechanisation in agricultural production, especially in rice cultivation and
harvest, resulting in higher productivity.
In the
Mekong Delta region particularly, combine harvesters have been used in 76
percent of the total rice areas and up to 98 percent in some localities,
helping reduce losses to 2 percent from 5-6 percent.
Thanks
to support policies, farmers have purchased machines and equipment serving
production, processing and storing of agro-forestry and fishery products.
However,
deputy head of the department An Van Khanh said mechanisation growth has yet
to meet requirements for post-harvest loss reduction. Although losses in rice
post-harvest have been reduced, they remain high compared to those of
vegetables, aquatic products and sugar.
He
held that the number of farmers with access to the policies is low while
interest rate of loans for farmers remains high at 8.55 percent per year.
A
report by the State Bank of Vietnam showed that by July 30, total lending
capital in the programme had reached 3.47 trillion VND (159 million USD) with
outstanding loans of 2.44 trillion VND (111 million USD), up 32 percent from
that of December 31 last year.
However,
the report held that the figures remain low due to limitations in
preferential policies for types of machines and equipment designed for
post-harvest loss reduction.
Therefore,
Minister Cao Duc Phat asked for regulation adjustments towards the expansion
of types of agricultural machines and equipment receiving support.
He
also pointed out that only 2 of 13 measures to realise Resolution 48 have
been institutionalised with a lack of support for enterprises and research
facilities in manufacturing and purchasing machines from other countries.
He
also urged the Department of Agro-forestry-fishery Trade, Processing and Salt
Industry to review the other 11 solutions and define responsibilities of
relevant agencies in the slow implementation of the solutions.
Gia
Lai promotes ethnic minority languages
The
Central Highlands
In the
2014-2015 school year, as many as 349 classes have been organised across 89
local primary schools targeting nearly 8,000 ethnic minority pupils, 6,800 of
which are Jrai and 1,155 are Bahnar.
A number
of training courses have been conducted annually to enhance the capacity of
ethnic minority teaching staff, including 321 teachers from Ayunpa and A Khe
towns and Pleiku city in 2014.
In the
first half of this year, another 239 teaching and managerial staff attended
training programmes and received certificates from the province’s
Hundreds
of local officials also joined Jrai and Bahnar language classes. Some of them
also teach the languages at local primary schools.
Local
teachers and intellectuals participated in the development and edition of the
curricula.
The
locality has also invested some 1.25 billion VND (57,300 USD) in reprinting
ethnic language textbooks for the 2015-2016 school year.
Deputy
Director of the provincial Department of Education and Training Huynh Minh
Thuan highlighted the lack of Jrai and Bahnar language teachers in the
locality.
He
also called for different human resources for teaching the languages in
remote and mountainous areas.
Long
An display spotlights
Historical
and legal documents proving
On
display are a collection of more than 100 maps, documents, publications and
objects that affirm
Most
notably, four atlases and 30 maps that were originally published by the
Chinese government are included in the exhibition.
The
four-day running July 29- August 2, has been organized by The Ministry of
Information and Communications in collaboration with the Long An provincial
People’s Committee.
Source: VNA/VOV/VNS
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