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Doctors to
examine killer skin disease
As many of 300
reports on dermatology and venereology, including 60 reports from
Steven Chow,
secretary general of
"This RCD has
been held the first time by
"Trainees and
dermatologists will take advantage of this special opportunity to attend
various teaching courses and workshops at the conference," he said.
Chairman of Viet
Nam Society of Dermatology and Venereology, Associate Professor Tran Hau
Khang told a press conference the same day that the biennial conference would
attract more than 1,000 doctors from 30 countries.
"It's the
biggest opportunity for local doctors and experts to share experience,
knowledge and studies of scientists and dermatologists from all over the
world, as well as plastic surgery and laser therapies on preventing skin
ageing," Khang said.
Of the 60 reports
to be presented by Vietnamese dermatologists, two reports will focus on a
particular skin disease, similar to dermatitis, that affects the palms and
soles of the feet. The condition was fatal for 24 people out of a sample of
240 infected with the disease after it first appeared in Ba To District of
Quang Ngai Province in 2011, Khang said.
A resident was
diagnosed with the condition last month, following no outbreaks of the
disease for 11 months.
Local and foreign
experts, including those from the World Health Organisation, have yet to find
the cause of the disease or devise an effective treatment method, which has
been mostly found to have infected residents of Ba To District.
Khang said local
doctors have been in discussions with experts from the
He also said
"Leprosy has
been controlled in 51 provinces and cities. We'll up efforts to eliminate the
disease in the remaining 12 provinces from now to 2015," said Khang, who
is also the director of Viet Nam National Hospital of Dermatology and
Venereology.
"The country
has seen increasingly fungi-related dermatitis and infections, which result
from environmental pollution and unhygienic living conditions, as well as
sexually transmitted diseases (STD)," he said.
The conference
organisers also said the event was incorporated with the 6th Annual Meeting
of the AADV, focusing on best practices in clinical and cosmetic dermatology.
The conference
wraps up this Saturday.
Acute water
shortage for hundreds of households
Hundreds of
households in the Hoi Trung resettlement area in Ha Tinh Province have been
facing serious shortages of clean water as the water in the area is heavily
contaminated.
Nguyen Quoc Le, a
resident of
Nguyen Thi Dieu, a
resident in Kim Tho Village, said whatever they use to contain water turns
black after a few days. "I clean these cups every day but they still
look dirty," she said. Her son-in-law has to get clean water from
elsewhere when he goes on business trips once a week.
Several households
are more lucky, as the water in their area is not contaminated. People from
other neighbourhoods come and ask for clean water. However, these households
are also worried because the clean water pumps have become unstable.
One local said,
"Over the last three months, the pump has been giving out less water
than before. I had to spend money in order to bring in water from the stream
even though I know it's where buffaloes bathe."
Authorities have
tried to use disinfectants but this proved to be ineffective; meanwhile 137
have moved to the Hoi Trung resettlement area giving land to Ngan Tuoi-Cam
Trang irrigation project. About 138 wells were dug, yet two thirds of them
cannot be used.
According to the
chairman of Huong Quang Commune People's Committee, 51 wells are now
contaminated and several others have already dried up. Test results showed
that iron levels are 26 times higher than what is considered acceptable.
Tran Ngoc Hung,
deputy head of the site clearance team for Ngan Tuoi-Cam Trang irrigation
project said, "We conducted surveys on the water sources. Our
consultants provided four solutions but we chose to drill wells at the
people's request."
Hung said that the
problem can be solved if the water is left sitting outdoors for two hours,
but he did not know the reason for the contamination. "We are seeking
permission from the authourities to give financial support for the people to
build water tanks. In the future, they will use water from the
reservoir."
Student
arrested for blackmail through fan pages
A student in
Nguyen Van Tien,
now a fifth year student of the Hanoi University of Technology, is from the
According to the
initial investigation, on August 30, 2013, Tien used his Facebook account to create
a number of different fan pages using the logos of the agencies and companies
in question. He also published his mobile phone number on the pages so that
the firms and agencies could contact him to buy the fan page domains at
prices ranging from VND100,000 (USD4.76) to VND1 million (USD476).
However, after
receiving no offers Tien started to commit libel in order to put pressure on
the companies to buy his pages.
Besides
Dantri/DTiNews, many other organisations, such as Hoa Phat Group, Vingroup,
Oceanbank, Vinacafe and PetroVietnam have become victims to the scheme.
An official from
the
“He hoped that some
companies would not understand the technical side and would spend the money
to get rid of the problem,” the official added.
Old
downtown market to relocate next year
A 40-year-old
market in the heart of HCMC will relocate next year, instead of this year as
earlier planned.
Authorities of
District 1 and Ben Nghe Ward where the market is located announced in June
last year that some time this year they would relocate the market that
occupies a section of Ton That Dam Street in District 1.
However, vendors
have proposed giving them more time to prepare, so the authorities have
decided to let them have one more year to move.
Vo Quoc Hung, vice
chairman of Ben Nghe Ward, told the Daily early this week that a plan to
relocate the spontaneously-formed markets throughout the city, including Ton
That Dam Street market, had been approved by the city government.
Financial support
for vendors at Ton That Dam market cannot be publicized for now, Hung added.
Since the year’s
beginning, the district and ward authorities have yet to have meetings with
the affected vendors.
According to Trinh
Van Them, head of Ton That Dam market management unit, there are currently
212 food stores, cooperatives and stalls at the market.
Most goods sellers
at the market said they did not receive a notice about relocation support
from the management unit or the relevant authorities.
Ton That Dam market
was located on Ham Nghi Street before 1975 and then spontaneously moved to
Ton That Dam Street after that year.
Under Decision
17/2009/QD of the HCMC government on market management, in the 2009-2015
period the city will reduce the number of markets in the city downtown.
Construction of new markets in other areas would only be approved when market
needs are proven.
Ton That Dam market
is the first to relocate, which will be then followed by Nguyen Van Trang and
Co Giang markets.
Local authorities
in the central city of Danang have recently warned parents and students about
the rising number of cases where students were kidnapped in the city.
Kidnappers often
wander around primary schools when schools finish and claimed to be the
students’ relatives to pick them up.
On April 1, a
student of the fourth grade of a primary school in Thanh Khe District was
walking home after school when a man riding on a scooter claimed to be the
student’s relative, picked up the student and ran away.
The student,
however, tried to resist and was screaming on the way, forcing the kidnapper
to drop the student before fleeing.
The school’s
principal has confirmed that they received a claim from the student’s family
and reported the case to the district office of education and training.
Earlier on March 3,
another kidnapping case was recorded in the same district.
While two students
of the third grade were waiting for relatives to pick them up, two
face-masked young men riding on a motorbike approached them, and claimed to
be their relatives and picked them up.
When these students
resisted and screamed, these men shut them up by cloth and took them to a
deserted alley waiting for another young man. These men robbed the two
students of their jewelry and ran away.
The students’
families have reported the case to local police to call for help and police
are investigating into the case.
There were 16
instances of eroding riverbanks in
More riverbanks in
Districts Hoc Mon, Cu Chi, Binh Thanh, Thu Duc, and 2 face a high risk of
erosion from flooding caused by high tides and rain. The rainy season
normally begins in the first week of May.
Besides, on five
occasions high tides exceeded alarm level 3 to rise above 1.5m last year and
breach embankments in four spots, affecting more than 570 households.
Accidents at sea
like collision of boats and drowning, workplace accidents, and gas leaks
killed 15 people and left 31 others missing.
Le Hoang Quan,
chairman of the city People's Committee, ordered related agencies and
departments to check all embankments and dykes in the city to prevent
erosion.
Speaking at a
conference to review flood and storm prevention and control and search and
rescue yesterday, he urged local chiefs to immediately mobilise all available
resources for search and rescue efforts before asking for support from higher
agencies.
Last year the city
spent VND208.7 billion (US$9.9 million) on building embankments and dams and
repairing storm shelters for fishermen.
New school
model discussed in Quang Ninh
How to improve
efficiency of the new school model for Vietnam (VNEN) in the Red River Delta
and northern mountainous and midland provinces was the focus of a workshop
held in northern Quang Ninh province on April 11.
At the workshop,
participants discussed ways to increase efficiency in implementing the VNEN
project as well as shared their experience in teaching and renovating the
training method in provinces applied the VNEN.
They said that it
is necessary to intensify popularisation, while calling for public
involvement in activities at schools, in which the coordination between
family, school and society will play a core role.
The participants
emphasised the importance of managers and teachers to promote the educational
reform in the country, while proposing the Ministry of Education and Training
organise more refresher courses for teachers in the coming time.
Speaking at the
event, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien praised the
localities’ efforts and positive results reaped in performing the model.
In order to
overcome difficulties in applying the model, provincial education and
training departments should take the initiative to apply new teaching and learning
methods, Hien stressed.
The VNEN project
focuses on reforming teaching method and assessment to student in line with
new standards. With the new model, students play a central role in the class
while teachers serve as their facilitators and companions, which is different
from the traditional pedagogic method.
The model was
applied at 1,447 schools across the country in 2012. In the 2013-2014
academic year, the model has been performed at more 600 primary schools in
the country.
Viet Nam is above
the global average of seven hours of multiscreen time per day, with a
majority of users favouring smartphones and laptops as their preferred
device, according to a 2014 AdReaction Report.
The report, which
surveyed 30 countries, was conducted by Millward Brown, a global
communications service group specialising in advertising, marketing
communications, media, digital and brand-equity research.
Users in
The figure in
Vietnamese users
clocked among the highest number of laptop minutes – an average of 160
minutes a day – compared to other markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
In contrast to
other countries, TV remains the least-consumed screen in
Smartphones and
laptops dominate the screen the rest of the day, except for early evenings
when TV takes centre stage in usage in
The report also
surveyed consumer receptivity to advertising on TV, smartphones, laptops and
tablets, with 12,000 global samples, including 3,000 in Asia-Pacific (with
669 of that number in
The findings can
help advertisers make sense of the multiscreen world for brand-building by
taking advantage of the capabilities and effectiveness of each screen.
The report found
that most Vietnamese were still highly receptive to TV advertising compared
to other formats, although TV no longer represented the largest media
opportunity due to limited screen minutes.
Digital receptivity
in
Int’l
seminar on assisted reproductive technologies
Leading doctors,
scientists and reproductologists from around the globe will be gathering in
The event –Learning
Initiative for Fertility Experts (LIFE 2014)–expected to attract at least 150
domestic and international delegates, will include lectures by the world’s
leading experts, many of whom are Vietnamese.
Dr. Ho Manh Tuong,
General Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Reproductive Endocrinology and
Infertility Association (HOSREM) said that LIFE 2014 is an important
advancement for
Earlier, a
delegation of 40 Vietnamese doctors attended the 5th Congress of the Asia
Pacific Initiative on Reproduction, ASPIRE 2014, in
The success rate of
in vitro fertilization (IVF) method in
Danang
hosts regional dermatology conference
The 21st
Asian-Australasian Regional Conference of Dermatology (RCD) was held in the
central city of Danang on April 10, drawing the participation of nearly 1,000
dermatologists from nations around the world.
At the conference,
delegates shared experiences, topics and listened to speakers dilate over the
latest scientific studies which are capturing the attention of the
international scientific community, including
The latest studies
address issues related to an array of hard to diagnose dermatological
diseases, which are as difficult to diagnose and treat as many sexually
transmitted diseases (syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS...).
Dermatology is a
highly specialized field and dermatological diseases have major impacts on
human health and quality of life. Particularly in
Vietnamese
dermatologists presented 60 out of 300 scientific reports and two reports
about the two strangest diseases (hand-foot dermatitis syndrome at Ba To
district, Quang Ngai province). Accordingly, leading dermatological experts
discussed ways to determine the optimal treatment protocol.
The biennial
dermatology conference (first held in
Ass. Prof. Dr. Tran
Hau Khang, Director of the Central Hospital of Dermatology and Chairman of
the Vietnamese Society of Dermatology and Venereology said this is the first
time the international conference of large scale and prestige of dermatology
has been held in
This offers a good
opportunity for Vietnamese professors and doctors to update the latest
knowledge and exchange views with their international counterparts about skin
diseases such as leprosy, HIV / AIDS ... and some strange disease appeared in
Earlier on April 9,
three specialized dermatology classes were held in the framework of the
conference, attracting 100 Vietnamese dermatologists and Asian-Australasian
dermatological experts.
The conference will
run until April 12.
Foundation named after Phong Nha-Ke Bang explorer
A social foundation
has been named after Howart Limbert, who has led a team of the British Cave
Research Association to explore caves in the
Nguyen Chau A,
Director of the Oxalis Travel Company Limited, on April 10 said the Limbert
Foundation will grant scholarships for students in Minh Hoa district to
encourage them studying and working for Quang Binh’s tourism sector.
It will also invite
tourism experts to train local tourism staff and build community-based
tourism programmes.
Limbert and his
wife will act as advisors having the decisive say in scholarship recipients
and community-based tourism programmes, A said.
As the
organisation’s founder, Oxalis plans to spend 200 million VND (over 9,500
USD) in 2014 on helping two local households provide homestay services and
presenting scholarships to 10 students in Tan Hoa commune, Minh Hoa district.
The foundation will
also offer a training course on food safety for residents living by tourism
in the park this year.
Covering an area of
85,754ha, the
Its core zone
subject to strict protection is located in Bo Trach and Minh Hoa districts,
while the buffer zone covering 20,000ha spreads out over 13 communes in three
districts - Bo Trach, Minh Hoa and Quang Ninh.
The property
contains and protects over 104 km of caves and underground rivers, making it
one of the most outstanding limestone karst ecosystems in the world. The
karst formation has evolved since the Palaeozoic period (some 400 million
years ago) and as such is the oldest major karst area in
The park is also
home to a large number of faunal and floral species, including threatened
species such as tiger, Asiatic black bear, Asian elephant, giant muntjac,
Asian wild dog and the recently discovered sao la.-
Quang Binh
officials meet overseas Vietnamese
Senior officials of
the central
Deputy Chairman of
the provincial People’s Committee Tran Tien Dung, at the event, recalled the
local recovery after the 2013 storms which was partly attributable to the
support of OVs at home and abroad.
He expressed his
hope that they will offer more help to the locals in the coming time.
On the occasion,
the guests also donated 40 million VND (1,900 USD) to the Duc Ninh centre for
children with disabilities, plus gifts to the provincial chapter of the
Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent
They also offered
incense and laid a wreath at the tomb of General Vo Nguyen Giap in Quang
Trach district, and later toured several tourist attractions in the
locality.-
Proper
policies needed to reduce transport costs
Transport costs of
cargo and passengers by road always have a huge impact on the price of other
commodities and services, in which freight charges account for a large amount
of expenditure of the state budget.
According to the
Vietnam Business Forum, a weekly magazine of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce
and Industry, Auto transport rates generally are not controlled by the state.
Enterprises carry out self-declaration on transport freight rates under the
guidance of the Ministry of Finance which makes freight rates often
fluctuate, or even not suitable to goods' price, directly affecting the
operation of the whole society.
At the conference
"Transport Costs in
Most of the
transport firms are running with a small scale, some of them own only one or
two cars. It is quite hard for them to establish their brands because of
their small scale; therefore, they mainly operate seasonally based on a
modest quantity of patrons. Plus, small transportation firms become passive
with passengers’ needs which leads to the fact that they cannot be proactive
in making up business plan, thus, the efficiency of using means of
transportation is not high.
Besides, the
small-scale transport brands do not often have business networks or
information channels to access to their customers. This restriction leads to
low operational efficiency of cargo transportation as not carrying out
two-way transportation as well as low operational efficiency of passenger
transportation due to low tonnage coefficient.
According to
Vietnam Automobile Transportation Association, passenger transport tariffs by
cars along fixed routes, under the signed contract and tourists transport in
Major freight
companies in Hai Phong and
Deputy Minister of
Transport Le Dinh Tho said that until now, there are no official statistics
on the value of transportation in
It is necessary to
reduce transportation costs with the aim of decreasing prices of other
products and services and ensuring social security.
According to the
Vietnam Automobile Transport Association, to decline road transport costs,
The Directorate for
Roads of Vietnam said
Besides, it is
possible to build a large-scale truck station system, goods’ wholesale and
distribution in big cities or centres of goods production and consumption to
collect small quantities of goods which need long-distance transportation
into an enormous quantity to transport by heavy trucks. When the wholesale
system is put into operation, it will help to minimise the transportation of
long-distance goods by small trucks, decrease costs per unit of transporting
outputs and reduce traffic density on highways.
In particular,
representative of Directorate for Roads of Vietnam recommended that
Electricity
causes most blazes: City fire chief
All commercial and
domestic users should exercise greater caution with electricity, which is
responsible for most of fires in
Speaking to the
media on Thursday, Lieutenant Tran Trieu Duong said: "Companies,
organisations, and households should be equipped with safety equipment like
gas leak warning systems and extinguishers to put out fires as soon as they
break out."
In the first
quarter of this year, there were 94 fires in the city, 47 per cent fewer than
in the same period last year, in which three people were killed and three
others were injured.
There were also two
explosions in which four people died.
The department
received 360 fire calls, half down from a year earlier, with 222 of them
caused by burning grass and waste.
From companies and
organisations, it collected fines of VND1.6 billion (US$780,000) after
checking for fire safety equipment.
"We are always
focused on education," Duong said.
"In this
quarter over 50,000 people have taken part in 3,500 hours of training in fire
safety."
The city plans to
upgrade its firefighting ability to match the rest of the region, he added.
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