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Crane hits
cement gate, three die
Three people died
yesterday after a crane they were on, hit a commune culture house's gate that
fell on a vehicle in the central
The accident took
place after a local, Dinh Quang Nang, forgot to lower the crane, which later
crashed on the gate. Witnesses recalled that the brick-and-cement gate, which
weighed around 8 to 10 tonnes, fell on the crane, deforming it and killing
Nang, his son, and an other man.
The local authority
has supported the deceased's families by holding memorial services. The case
is under investigation.
Forest
fires engulf Hoang Lien National Park
Raging forest fires
broke out in Na Hang area, away 3km from Seo My Ty hamlet, Ta Van commune,
The fires continued
to spread into Seo My Ty hamlet on March 6 and swept through
Local militiaman
and relevant agencies in
Lao Cai province’s
People’s Committee Chairman Doan Van Huong directed relevant agencies to
mobilizein
Two forest fires
occurred in
Released
prisoner denies asking for large compensation
A released prisoner
from Bac Giang Province has denied that he asked the People's Supreme Court
for compensation worth over VND1 billion (USD47,337) for his 10-year unjust
imprisonment.
Nguyen Thanh Chan
had been sentenced to life for murder 10 years ago and was released last
November after the guilty party confessed.
Chan said that he
is living with his family after his release from the prison. He has been
asking for legal consultation about compensation for his losses.
Recently, an
unsigned petition, said to have been made by Chan’s relatives, was published
by some media outlets. The petition claims that he asked for a compensation
of over VND1 billion.
The petition said
that before he was arrested in 2003, he was the main bread-winner in his
family and had an income of about VD280,000 (USD13.25) per day.
The petition
calculated he was jailed for 3,700 days, and compensation arrived at the
figure of over VND1 billion.
In addition, he
asked for some other compensations for his wife who was ill and had to get
medical treatment worth VND60 million during her effort to claim innocence
for him as well as their debts worth around VND500 million during his
imprisonment, the complaint said. There are other compensations the petition
asked for, including medical and other expenses.
However, Chan said,
“I haven't made any such petition. I’m still calculating my losses over the
period and completing the required paperwork."
Vu Thi Nga, the
lawyer who represents Chan, also denied involvement.
“I’m Chan’s lawyer
and providing him with pro-bono legal consultation. Chan and his family plan
to negotiate the matter,” Nga noted.
On one occasion,
Chan has complained about the speed of the process, saying, "After my
release I have to reintegrate into the community and work to earn a living.
This is made very difficult, as both my wife and I are ill. I wish the
payments could be made sooner."
To date, his family
has yet to receive any compensation for his unjust imprisonment.
Chan has also
accused local authorities of extorting a false confession. On February 27,
Chan met investigators from the Ministry of Public Security for the the third
round of negotiations.
Outbreaks
of diseases in schools in HCMC
Dr. Nguyen Tri
Dung, director of the
The city is facing
various outbreaks of diseases including measles and dengue in the past two
months, said Dr. Dung. The wet weather is a good environment for spread of
the viruses.
An adult died of
dengue fever in HCMC last time, according to the
The Children
Hospital No. 1 and 2 and the
Ten students in
The health and
education centers are currently working together to raise public awareness of
disease prevention.
HCMC Hospital of
Hematology and Blood Transfusion announced they will be applying Nucleic Acid
Testing (NAT) to screen donors for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),
Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
NAT is a technique
used to detect early onset of a virus or bacterium in the blood. The NAT
procedure is expected to ensure a safe supply of blood for transfusions. The
hospital is the first in the country to apply the technique.
The center supplies
blood for 100 private and public hospitals in HCMC. It collects 220,000 units
from donors per year, accounting for 25 percent of the total donated blood in
the country. The number of donors has risen 98 percent in the last year.
Doctors
enjoy financial supports in Quang
Medical graduates
from three biggest medical universities of
A new decision
released on March 3 by the Quang Nam Province's People’s Committee stipulated
that people with a doctor's degree in medicine will be given VND 500 million
in cash and provided with accommodation when they commit to work in public
health facilities in the province from 12-18 years.
The decision aims
to improve medical treatment in the local healthcare sector which is in
serious lack of good medical staff.
Meanwhile, newly
graduates with an average, average good, good and excellent diplomas from the
three medical schools will also be given financial support between VND
200-250 million.
Those who accept to
work in the province's remote and mountainous areas will get a support of 0.1
to 0.4 times higher than the announced amount.
The age limit for
those with a doctor degree is 45 and 40 for a normal doctor.
Hydropower
project kills river in the Central Highlands
Up to six out of
seven branches of the
The river runs
through Ea Huar Commune and its neighbouring areas in Buon Don District,
Ama An, Head of Tri
A Village, Krong Na Commune, said, the dry river has affected life of
hundreds of local households who live on fishing activities. Furthermore,
they also lack of water for daily life and irrigation. More than 10 hectares
of rice fields are dying due to the water shortage.
Bay Nhanh Waterfall
area on the river used to be known for breathtaking waterfalls but now
visitors do not have the chance to admire them anymore. There is no more
elephant riding or boat sailing services on the river, either.
Le Thi Thanh Ha,
Director of Ban Don Tourism site, blamed the situation for the construction
of Serepok 4A Hydropower Project invested by Buon Don Hydropower Joint Stock
Company.
"Many visitors
to the area are expressing their disappointment when seeing the dying tourist
site," Ha said. "And our revenues have fallen by 80%."
On March 3, Tran
Hieu, Vice Chairman of Dak Lak Province People’s Committee, said the
situation is unacceptable, asking for the provincial Department of Industry
and Trade’s explanation.
The department
admitted that this is an urgent problem and it will soon carry out an
investigation at the site.
Incomes in
medical sector must be reviewed for effective reform
Public hospitals
should review the pay scale of medical staff to help make the sector's reform
more effective, said Dr. Pham Manh Hung, Chairman of Vietnam Medical
Association.
According to Dr.
Hung, many doctors complain about low pay. While this is true at most
hospitals, doctors also earn extra income aside from their salary from the
state, with doctors in cities often earning more than their rural
counterparts.
“I cannot say for
sure how many doctors have high incomes. This issue needs an honest and
objective inspection. Where does doctors’ extra income come from, which
should be clearly clarified,” he said. While doctors often say their salaries
are low, in fact their overall incomes can be quite high. Dr. Hung said that
the concept of salary and wages should not be separated.
“In my opinion,
public hospitals should use some of the financial management methods of
private hospitals to make staff income transparent,” he suggested.
According to the
Dr. Hung, such transparency is necessary for meaningful reform.
During the period
of subsidies in
“I think that
management agencies should create mechanisms so that doctors would not need
to think of ways to earn extra money,” he emphasised. But he added that
before such an adjustment is carried out, a thorough review of the payment
system must be done.
As long as doctors
preoccupied with earning a living and not completely on medicine, any reform
policies will be ineffective and opposed by doctors, he said, adding that
purely disciplinary measures taken now would be unlikely to create the
intended results.
The income
disparity between urban and rural areas, has also caused doctors to flock to
cities, leaving in a gap in disadvantaged areas.
On behalf of the
two governments, Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh and
Japanese ambassador to Viet Nam Hiroshi Fukada signed an exchange of notes
regarding the loan yesterday.
Accordingly, JPY10
billion ($97.7 million) is to be spent for the fourth phase of Viet Nam's
Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change – a multi-donor partnership
which includes Japan, the World Bank, France and Canada, to support in
developing policy and institutional actions to create an effective response
to climate change.
The remainder of
the funding, JPY15 billion ($146.5 million), would be used for the second
Economic Management and Competitive Credit programme for Viet Nam (EMCC 2).
Minister Vinh said
that the loans were very helpful to
"
Ambassador Fukada
said that he hoped the ODA would bring into play its effectiveness, and that
transparency would be ensured.
He said, due to
such assistance, he expected the relationship between the two countries would
become even closer.
Quang
The central
The 30-km route
will be served by a 24-seat bus making 11 trips per week for passengers travelling
from Ha Noi and
The route seeks to
boost air travel from
The airport, which
began operating in 2005, only allows landings by 50-seat ATR-72 aircraft and
the Fokker 70. Future plans call for the airport to host 2.3 million
passengers and 1.5 million tonnes of cargo by 2025.
UNESCO
initiative promotes gender equality
UNESCO joins
international and regional partners to launch the annual Women Make the News
(WMN) initiative on the International Women’s Day (March 8) themed “Advancing
Global Partnerships to Achieving Gender Equality in and through Media.”
It is closely
linked to the International Women’s Day global theme, “Equality for women is
progress for all”.
Research has shown
that, on average, only 24% of people questioned, seen, heard or read about in
the media are women. Only one quarter of board members governing media
organizations are women.
The media, as
champions of freedom of expression and with their function to promote
diversity, should treat this imbalance as a threat to the free expression of
half the world’s population.
Getting more women
in the news needs to be a consistent commitment to achieve evolutionary
change.
UNESCO is calling
on its media partners to commit to ensuring that 30% of all experts
interviewed in the news are women as a step towards achieving gender equality
in editorial content.
Half the world’s
population implies 50% of the viewership, listenership and readership of the
world’s media. Responding to them is a sure business and development model.
It is sure progress for media development and indeed sure progress for all.
Likewise, UNESCO is
inviting editors-in-chief of newspapers, radio, television online and offline
to join this initiative, and to entrust women journalists and reporters with
editorial responsibility for the newsroom on International Women’s Day or
during the WMN initiative.
The WMN 2014 theme
this year is connected to the success of the groundbreaking Global Alliance
on Media and Gender (GAMAG) which was launched during the first Global Forum
on Media and Gender which took place in
Through GAMAG,
constructive dialogue between media partners and civil society will be
strengthened, and all stakeholders can collectively work to give momentum to
women's access to expression and decision-making by promoting a
gender-inclusive media and communication environment.
Gender equality in
all levels of decision making in media and in content involves all and has
many dimensions as described in the UNESCO Gender-Sensitive Indicators for
Media resource. The media civil society, governments, private sector and
development organizations can contribute. GAMAG and the WMN 2014 initiative
unite all stakeholders to take action.
Fishing
ship saved in Truong Sa archipelago
A fishing boat
crewed by 46 sailors ran aground in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago on
March 5 and had to be rescued by two other fishing vessels, according to the
border guard station in Ky Ha Port.
When the vessel,
captained by Phan Van Thanh from central Quang
Captain Thai Nguyen
Van Ha from Ky Ha border guard station said his team are still in contact
with all three boats to advise on the safest measures to save the ship.
Bird flu
breaks out in Ninh Thuan
The Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)’s Animal Health Department on March
5 confirmed another outbreak of the deadly H5N1 avian flu.
The
life-threatening virus was detected in hundreds of fowl in a flock located in
Phuoc Thai commune in the central coastal
As many as 500
fowls have been culled as a precautionary measure to stop the disease from
spreading, officials stated.
The disease is on
the move and has now struck a number of provinces nationwide; including Tay
Ninh, Bac Lieu, Hai Duong and Binh Duong and it shows no sign of abating.
According to the
Animal Health Department, by March 5 the H5N1 virus had spread to 23 provinces
and cities. All infected poultry have been culled.
The Department
raised concerns over the further spread and transmission of the deadly virus
to humans, and has asked officials and the public in affected areas to
intensify urgent preventive measures against the avian flu.
On March 4, the
MARD provided 14,000 litres of sterilization chemicals for free to Tra Vinh
and Nghe An provinces to help them stamp out the epidemic.
Market
hotting up on women’s day
In the lead up to
International Women’s Day (March 8), retailers and boutiques across the
nation are launching promotional discounts on a wide
variety of gifts for women.
Men typically
purchase beautiful flower arrangements and sentimental gifts for their
beloved on this special day, while children most often find something special
to give to their mothers and female teachers.
In the final days
prior to Women’s Day, shops and vendors selling flowers and gifts are packed
with men who put off shopping for gifts until the last minute, particularly
in the capital Hanoi and Danang city.
This year, most
customers seem to have veered away from the more traditional fresh flowers
and postcards in favour of more practical gifts like cosmetics, clothes
and home appliances.
Many shopping
centres and supermarkets in
Nguyen Thanh Mai, a
shopkeeper in
This year, unique
and relatively expensive gifts seem to be favoured by a large number of
consumers, especially youngsters who prefer gold-inlaid roses.
An ordinary single
red rose from Da Lat costs VND4,000-6,000, while roses in other colors sell
for VND2,000-4,000.
However, the price
of a gold-inlaid rose in chocolate color goes up to VND6 million and most 24k
gold-inlaid roses cost from VND3 million - VND4.5 million each.
Gold-inlaid
postcards are among the most favoured on the special day, too. Moreover,
those who wish to present their beloved a special gift can order a
gold-inlaid portrait by sending a portrait photo and paying VND1-2 million,
depending on the size of the picture.
The gift market is
blooming, and luxurious presents like cosmetics and jewellery abound, amidst
a myriad of other hot selling items including pillows, glasses and
key-holders with beautiful designs and affordable prices.
First
A ceremony to
unveil a plaque for a street named after Tran Kim Xuyen, the first
journalist-war martyr of the revolutionary Vietnamese press and the first
director of the Vietnam News Agency, took place in
The 550m
Born in Huong Son
district in the central
Tran Kim Xuyen laid
down his life on March 3, 1947 at the age of 26, becoming the first
revolutionary journalist to die in battle.
Speaking at the
event, VNA Director General Nguyen Duc Loi paid tribute to Xuyen for serving
the country and its press, especially the VNA.
Deputy Head of the Hanoi
Party Committee’s Department of Popularisation and Education, Phan Dang Long,
said the fact that
The honour is a
milestone for both the VNA and his family, he said.
A contract for the
non-refundable aid provision was signed in
The project, a
joint effort between Save the Children Japan and the Japanese government,
aims to promote communication activities to provide knowledge on health and
nutrition for mothers and pregnant women in the province.
One of the poorest
provinces in the country, Yen Bai reported the rate of malnutrition among
children at more than 20 percent, while the national average is 17 percent.
Since the 2012
fiscal year, Save the Children Japan with the Japanese government’s
non-refundable aid has conducted numerous activities to help improve
awareness on health and nutrition, increase cash income and provide information
on agricultural production in Van Chan district.
Thanks to the new
aid, the Japanese non-governmental organisation will continue implementing
the activities. It will work with the provincial departments of health and
agriculture and rural development to expand the household nutritious
vegetable garden model, while seeking micro-credit for local women and
training them in household finance.
Plan
presented for northwest ethnic, religious affairs
The Committee for
Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Steering Committee for the Northwestern
Region have sought to maximise their coordination in ethnic and religious
affairs in 2014.
They will also
coordinate with each other to implement a strategy on ethnic affairs by 2020
and build a project on sustainable socio-economic development models in the
Northwestern,
Both will work as
advisors for the Political Bureau, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat
and the Government on ethnic affairs, especially those to improve living
standards of free migrants in the
The publicising of
the Party’s policies and guidelines and the State’s laws towards ethnic
groups also receives more attention from the two committees, according to the
conference.
Apart from
patriotic movements and new-style rural area building programme, the
cooperation plan focuses on the building of the political system in the
Northwestern region.
Last year, the two
committees significantly contributed to helping spur local socio-economic
development, reduce poverty, improve people’s living standards and ensure
political security and social order in the region.
Trade union
experts share cooperation experience
Leading trade union
representatives from
The event was a
joint venture organised by the
VGCL representative
Vo Van Nhat praised
The VGCl is intent
on building trade unions in all domestic businesses and 65% of foreign
invested companies.
At present, various
free trade agreements stipulate improved workers’ rights and thus the role of
trade unions have increased, he said.
Participants agreed
a fair balance between the interests of employees and employers is a decisive
factor behind the success of any business.
Trade unions should
encourage employees to actively contribute to the company’s development while
protecting their legitimate rights and interests, they added.
According to Vice
Chairman of the Japanese Federation Shoichi Hachino,
More and more
trans-national companies have invested in
Activities
to mark International Francophone Day
Plans for the
celebration of International Francophone Day (March 20) were announced at a
March 5 Asia-Pacific Office of International Organisation of Francophonie
(OIF) press conference in
The event aims to
draw up cultural activities and exchange programmes, with a view to promoting
the development of the French language and the French speaking community in
IOF Asia-Pacific
Office Director Annisa Barak proposed music and dance performances with the
participation of artists from Francophone Community member countries in
She revealed that
OIF Director General Abdou Diouf is due to visit
The IOF always
praises
Vu Anh Quang,
deputy head of the MOFA’s Department of International Organizations, expressed
thanks IOF members for their contributions and valuable support for
Vietnam
Airlines increases flights to Hue
National flag
carrier, Vietnam Airlines will increase flights to
The number of seats
will be lifted to 400 per day on the HCM City-Hue route and 300 per day on
the Hanoi-Hue route.
Budget airline
VietJet Air in turn said it will launch a new HCM City-Da Lat air route from
March 22 with seven flights, adding 2.520 seats per week.
From March 30, All
Nippons Airways announced it will expand its Haneda-Hanoi air route by one
flight per day.
Trolleys
could help ease
Electric trolleys
could soon ease traffic congestion in
The city's Transport
Department submitted a pilot project to put 50 trolleys into service in the
city centre to the municipal People's Committee last May. However, the
People's Committee has not yet provided feedback on the project.
To ease congestion
in the city, public transportation such as buses, trolleys and subways must
account for at least 40 per cent of traffic, according to Associate Professor
Nguyen Xuan Mai from HCM-based
"Currently,
public transportation meets only seven per cent of demand by commuters. So we
need to increase public transportation options to reduce traffic jams,"
Mai said.
The capacity and
weight of trolleys are two times higher than those of diesel buses, but their
electric engines make them more environmentally friendly.
"About 315
trolley systems are currently used in cities and towns of 45 countries around
the world. Therefore, we could negotiate the price if we invest in this
vehicle," said Trinh Van Chinh from the
Experts estimated
that the system would cost about US$2,350 per kilometre, a quarter of total
capital for the city's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.
Huge
rich-poor gap cause for concern: report
The rich-poor and
urban-rural gap in
The report,
released by
The country's
poorest residents earned an average VND512,000 ($24) per month, up 38.5 per
cent from 2010, while corresponding figures for the well-off were VND4.8
million ($227) and 40 per cent.
Tran Thi Hang,
deputy head of GSO, said that her agency has always sought to improve the
quality of its research and information in the service of domestic and
international agencies.
She emphasised the
need of making data more accessible for users and promoting its use by
State-run agencies, research institutes and universities so that such studies
play a greater role in residents' lives.
For instance,
investigating and comparing the use of land over the last 10 years would
provide a sound foundation for better land management in the country, she
said.
The World Bank's
lead economist for
The GSO conducts
annual surveys on Vietnamese residents' living standards, based on several
factors including monthly income and expenditure on food, education and
healthcare.
Municipal
authorities have stepped up awareness and vaccination campaigns, worried
about significant increases this year in the incidence of measles,
chickenpox, dengue fever, mumps and hand-foot-mouth diseases.
Nguyen Tri Dung,
head of the municipal preventive health department, said at a meeting
yesterday that a vaccine shortage lasting almost one year has made it
difficult to fight chickenpox in the city.
There have been 131
chickenpox cases in the last two months, an increase of 157 per cent over the
same period last year.
His department has
ordered the vaccines but do not know when it would get them. In the meantime,
it is very important that residents maintain good hygienic habits, Dung said.
Children, the elderly
and the malnourished are particularly at risk of contracting chicken pox, he
warned, adding that pregnant women should avoid crowds.
The city has also
seen an increase in measles outbreaks. More than 130 patients have been found
with measles in last two months, a 20-fold increase compared with the same
period last year.
A 36.7 per cent
year-on-year increase in the incidence of dengue fever, a 21.5 per cent
increase in hand-foot-mouth and a 39 per cent increase in mumps was also
reported at the meeting.
The city has
stepped up campaigns in schools and the larger communities to provide
information and help residents take preventive measures, Dung said.
To increase
immunization coverage, the department will administer measles vaccinations to
all infants and toddlers (nine months to three years old) who have not yet
had two shots of the vaccine.
They aim to
administer 80,000-100,000 shots this week, Dung said.
Nguyen Huu Hung,
deputy head of the city's Department of Health, said at the meeting that if
there is no reduction in the incidence of measles, vaccinations could take
place in schools as well.
Illegal
boats pose threat on reservoir
More than 40 boats
are operating illegally and posing safety threats to commuters on the reservoir
connected to the Dakdrinh Hydro Power Plan in central
Since the reservoir
began storing water last September, residents in the province's Son Tay
District and communes in the neighbouring
The boats are
mostly homemade vessels or modified sea boats fashioned by local residents.
The boats have not been registered with the authorities to verify their
capacity and safety.
According to a
Vietnam News Agency reporter, drivers had not obtained licences to operate
the vessels and boats were not equipped with life jackets, posing a
significant risk to commuters.
Dinh Van Dao, who
owns four boats operating on the reservoir, said he had acquired the boats
because of an increase in demand from people wanting to travel from
Travelling across
the reservoir by boat had provided a fast and more convenient method than
travelling by road, he said. He added that prices were only between VND25,000
–VND50,000 (US$1.1 – 2.2) for one person and VND50,000 – VND100,000
($2.2-4.4) per motorbike.
According to Dao,
his boat can carry up to 50 motorbikes and drivers at any given time.
Dinh Xuan Duong, a
police officer in Tay Son District said plant operators had setup drift
signals to prevent people wandering too close to the dam, but local residents
had continued to drive boats there, Duong said.
He warned that deep
water levels could pose a danger to people who couldn't swim.
In an effort to
address safety concerns, police have tried to raise awareness about waterway
regulations and provided life jackets for more than 20 boats.
Boat owners have
also been urged to register their boats with the authorities, a request which
has been ignored by many.
The government of
Accordingly,
residents living in lots four and six, will be moved to new buildings due to
the serious degradation of the site and the threat of landslides along the
area of
Local citizens are
concerned that lots four and six could fall into the river anytime. The city
government has decided to relocate hundreds of households from these two
lots, as a matter of urgency, so that they can begin rebuilding.
Duong Hong Thang,
deputy chairman of Binh Thanh District People's Committee, said "We are
working with the city Department of Construction on a final plan and the
relocation plan will be announced this month."
The Committee's
Office approved the acquisition of 1,050 apartments on Ward 12, Binh Thanh
District, for the residents to be temporarily relocated to.
The Thanh Da
Residential Area was built in the 1960s in Binh Thanh District's Ward 27 and
was one of the first residential areas in
It is the
thirteenth time the city has announced the relocation of residents living in
Thanh Da, the first was announced in 2003.
Man seized
for illegal weapons and drugs
The traffic police
in the northern
While checking a
car on its way from Ha Long city to Mong Cai city, the police found Nguyen
Hoai Dung, 45, carrying a gun with five bullets. After further checking
Dung's car, the police recovered another gun with five bullets, a black bag
containing 488 brand-new bullets along with a package of crystal
methamphetamine.
Dung had earlier
been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Quang Ninh People's Court
for illegally storing drugs. The case is being investigated.
Two injured
in
A blast at a petrol
station in the city's Thu Duc District injured two people on Tuesday night.
Eyewitnesses said
that the two victims were injured by debris from the gas pumps.
Preliminary
investigations suggested one of the causes of the explosion were obstructed
petrol pipelines. The case is under further investigation.
The station was
previously suspended for low-quality petrol in 2011.
Two Market
Watch officers killed in traffic accident
Director of Le Chan
District Power Company Dinh Van But was arrested after he surrendered himself
to the police for allegedly running over and killing two men with his car.
The incident
occurred yesterday afternoon in northern Hai Phongs Duong Kinh District.
But, 55, was
reportedly driving a government vehicle at high speed, which rammed into two
Market Watch officers. One of them died at the site of the accident, while
the other died after being hospitalised.
The police are
conducting further investigations into the case.
Plan
presented for Northwest ethnic, religious affairs
The Committee for
Ethnic Minority Affairs and the Steering Committee for the Northwestern
Region have sought to maximise their coordination in ethnic and religious
affairs in 2014.
They will also
coordinate with each other to implement a strategy on ethnic affairs by 2020
and build a project on sustainable socio-economic development models in the
Northwestern,
Both will work as
advisors for the Political Bureau, the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat
and the Government on ethnic affairs, especially those to improve living
standards of free migrants in the
The publicising of
the Party’s policies and guidelines and the State’s laws towards ethnic
groups also receives more attention from the two committees, according to the
conference.
Apart from
patriotic movements and new-style rural area building programme, the
cooperation plan focuses on the building of the political system in the
Northwestern region.
Last year, the two
committees significantly contributed to helping spur local socio-economic
development, reduce poverty, improve people’s living standards and ensure
political security and social order in the region.
Seven
railway bridges on north-south route inaugurated
Seven new bridges
on the Hanoi- Ho Chi Minh City railway route have been open to traffic,
helping shorten the running time of trains.
They were built at
a total cost of nearly 26.5 million USD by
Construction of the
bridges in central Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces were completed in 22
months, five months ahead of the schedule.
It is part of a
project enhancing safety of railway bridges along the north-south route. With
an investment capital of 3.79 trillion VND (178.1 million USD), the project
aims to replace 44 railway bridges in 15 provinces and cities.
The north-south
single-track metre gauge line was put into use in 1936 with a total length of
1,726 km.
Upgrading the
current railway system will help shorten the travelling time from 28 hours to
25 hours 24 minutes by 2020.
Meanwhile,
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has considered building a 1,435mm gauge dual
track line that can run at speeds of up to 200km per hour in the future.-
A workshop in the
central city of
The pilot project,
the first of its kind in Vietnam, is funded by the UK’s Foreign Ministry with
some 900 million VND (42,800 USD) for the 2013-2014 period, benefiting
enterprises based in Da Nang’s seafood service industrial zone and Lien Chieu
industrial park.
It is expected to
provide in-house firms with tools to use energy effectively, monitor
greenhouse emissions, recycle waste and launch effective links with
management agencies, as part of efforts to realise Da Nang’s goal of becoming
an environmentally-friendly city by 2020.
If successful, the
model will reach out to other industrial zones across the nation.
The event was
co-hosted by the
Source: VNS/VNA/VOV/SGGP/Dantri/Nhandan
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Thứ Năm, 6 tháng 3, 2014
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