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Ha Tinh
returns looted assets back
Police in Ky Anh
district, in the central
After learning
about looting from the factory, which is located in the Vung Ang Economic
Zone, Ha Tinh police promptly tracked down places where the illegal trade of
the plundered assets would take place and reclaimed the stolen goods.
Meanwhile, other thieves returned some of it after an appeal by the police.
As a result, a vast
number of the plundered assets, including 17 computer central processing
units, 10 computer screens, three photocopy machines, 5.8 tonnes of steel,
six industrial-size refrigerators, and 11 motorbikes have been retaken by the
local police and handed back to the company.
Representing the
aggrieved party, Thai Quoc Duong, head of Formosa’s security office, thanked
Ha Tinh’s law enforcement forces and the Ky Anh police in particular for
their swift measures to retrieve the stolen assets and ensure public order at
the worksite, which will help the project soon return to its usual
operations.
Duong expressed his
hope that the local police will continue investigations to recover the remaining
lost assets.
The Ha Tinh police
will continue searching for extremists and looters and bring them to court.
To date, the
provincial police have detained and commenced criminal proceedings against 24
people on charges of looting and destroying assets and disrupting social
order in the Forsoma worksite.
The disturbances
broke out during workers’ rallies in protest of
Some extremists
incited others to destroy the property of foreign firms in some localities as
well as of the State, businesses and individuals, and acted against law
enforcement officials, disrupting social order and business activities.
Thanks to the government’s timely interference, most affected companies have
returned to work and social order and security has been restored.-
Vietnamese
students protest China’s illegal acts in East Sea
The Central
Committee of Vietnam Students’ Association (VSA) has expressed strong
objection to
In a statement
issued on May 28, the committee said
The Vietnam
Students’ Association demands that
It also stressed
that Vietnamese students will do their utmost to maintain and further
strengthen the friendship between the two countries’ students, adding that
they always hope for peace in Vietnam, China and all another countries over
the world.
Through the
statement, the VSA Central Committee called on students in
On May 2,
On May 27,
Industrial
zone workers air their complaints to officials
Ha Noi would
improve the investment environment for business and living conditions for
workers in industrial and processing zones, said vice-chairman of the
municipal People's Committee, Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, yesterday.
At a meeting with
nearly 100 workers and trade union officers from eight industrial and
processing zones, Tuan listened to the problems businesses and workers were
facing.
Most of the
difficulties related to a shortage of infrastructure, including housing,
schools, hospitals and entertainment areas.
Tran Van Loi, a
worker at Ha Noi Asti Electronics Ltd Company in Quang Minh Industrial Zone,
said that last year his company arranged accommodation for hundreds of
workers at housing blocks in Kim Chung Commune, Dong Anh District.
However, half of
them vacated the apartments because they were not up to standard. They said
water leaked into the buildings when it rained. On the other hand, there was
often a shortage of water, even for toilets.
"This is such
a waste because the company had already paid rental for five years," Loi
said.
Van Anh, a worker
with Canon Viet Nam Ltd Co, called for the construction of a pedestrian
bridge across busy Bac Thang Long-Noi Bai expressway to cater to thousands of
workers during rush hours.
"It is
dangerous to use the pedestrian crossings and they are too far from the
factories," she said.
Dinh Quang Duong, a
worker with Yamaha Motor Viet Nam Company, said there was an urgent need to
build more kindergartens for workers' children.
He said that Bac
Thang Long Industrial Zone had about 50,000 female workers and most of them
were either mothers or awaiting marriage.
Vice chairman Tuan
asked the departments of Construction, Planning and Investment to pay more
attention to workers' concerns.
Worker dies
from electric shock
A worker died after
receiving an electric shock at a construction site in the city's main street
yesterday.
The victim, who was
identified as Vo Van Canh, 31, touched the exposed power grid when he was
pulling a steel bar from the ground to the upper floor of an unfinished
building.
A witness said she
heard an explosion emanate from the building before seeing the victim lying
on the ground.
An ambulance and
medical staff were called, but the victim died at the scene.
Police
seize rare gibbon, mynah in Dak Nong
The police in
DakRlap District in the Central Highland Province of Dak Nong seized a
white-cheeked gibbon and a mynah from a resident after being informed by the
local people.
These two
creatures, considered highly endangered species in the country, were being
kept as domestic pets by the resident, Dang Tuan Anh, in the Dak Ru Commune
in the district.
Anh declared that a
stranger, known as Cuong only, gave him the gibbon in late April and that he
had bought the bird from a vendor in the district.
The police are
investigating the case.
CITES
further supports
The Convention on
International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
will provide continued support for
CITES Secretary
General John Scanlon made the commitment at a meeting with Deputy Prime
Minister Hoang Trung Hai in
Scanlon appreciated
Deputy PM Hai
welcomed Scanlon’s first visit to
He asserted that
the Vietnamese Government strictly and responsibly carries out regional and
international conventions on the protection of wild fauna and flora. In
recent years,
As an entrepot of
wild animal to overseas,
The country will
continue to raise management capacity of agencies, improve public awareness,
and complete legislation on wild animal protection.
Ministries
get tough on illegal pesticides
The ministries of
Agriculture and Rural Development and Public Security have been told to clamp
down on illegal and dangerous farm pesticides smuggled across the border with
Counterfeit
pesticides often destroy crops, causing losses to farmers and creating food
shortages and food safety problems.
Statistics from the
Vietnam Environment Administration show that the country imported about
70,000-100,000 tonnes of pesticide a year in the past three years.
However, the amount
illegally smuggled across the border is reported to be increasing.
Phuc asked the
agriculture ministry to review legal documents controlling the management of
weed and bug killers. The review is expected to be completed by the third
quarter of this year.
Phuc also told the
ministry and the Ministry of Finance to help localities build warehouses to
store seized pesticides.
He ordered People's
Committees to ensure residents living near the border do not illegally
transport or sell fake pesticides.
The committees will
be asked to teach farmers how to distinguish genuine pesticides from fake.
In 2011, the
Department of Plant Protection reported that inspectors had found thousands
of violations in the importation and sale of pesticides.
At the time,
Professor Bui Ba Bong, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
said fake and low-quality products have not only slowed the growth of the
farming industry, but also reduced farmers' incomes.
Bong said the
Government and the ministry have set penalties for the purchase and
circulation of fake products, but these will be increased if they are found
to be ineffective.
CIAT
launches strategy to achieve food security
The International
Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) yesterday launched its new global
research strategy for the 2014-20 period in Ha Noi.
The strategy aims
to strengthen food security and bioefficiency in tropical countries,
including
It defines three
objectives which are central for creating upward spirals of sustainable
growth: to make affordable high-quality food readily available to the rural
and urban poor by boosting agriculture productivity and enhancing the
nutritional quality of staple crops; to promote rural income growth by making
smallholder farming more competitive and market-oriented through improved
agricultural value chains; and to provide the means to develop more intensive
and competitive agriculture in an environmental friendly manner.
Under the strategy,
in the coming years, CIAT will continue to concentrate on developing more
resilient and productive crop varieties, including common beans, cassava,
tropical forages and rice, the four vital crops in the tropical and
subtropical areas.
CIAT Director
General Ruben Echeverria said that tropical countries face many challenges
during their economic growth, including urbanisation and environmental
pollution, and added that the improvement of crops and sustainable
agriculture could help address the challenges.
CIAT emphasised the
importance of cassava, animal feed and sustainable soil management in
achieving bioefficiency in
According to CIAT,
cassava is the third-most important food crop in the tropical region and also
serves as livestock feed and industrial raw material.
About eight million
rural households across
In
Head of Viet Nam
Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Nguyen Van Bo said that cassava was earlier
blamed for soil degradation.
However, if it is
grown with the right techniques, it is able to adapt to the changing climate
and generate more income for farmers, because it can be used as animal feed
and as raw material for bio-energy and pharmaceutical industries.
"Science and
technology are an important factor in helping improve the farmers
income," he said, calling for further scientific cooperation between
The CIATs new
strategy is expected to promote cooperation in developingmore resilient and
productive varieties and technology transfer.
Ca Mau
attempts to shore up dykes
About 80 per cent
of the eastern and western sea dykes in the southern
Most of the rivers
and canal systems in the province were also in bad repair, and a 1.3km
stretch of the canal in
The districts of
Dam Doi and Nam Can saw banks split at 10 spots along 220m of canal and
rivers on May 18, 19 and 20, causing dozens of houses to sink. Total losses
were estimated at more than VND2 billion (US$95,200).
Tran Quoc
Fixing the damage
to the eastern and western sea dykes was difficult due to strong waves and
winds, he said.
In an effort to
prevent further damage, rocks had been laid along the dykes, but strong waves
had swept them away.
Since 2009, the
province has invested about VND150 billion ($7.1 million) on repairs to its
sea defences, but continuous battering from the elements has taken its toll.
The province did
not have enough funds to repair all the dykes, said
Authorities there
plan to ask the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the
Government for financial support to build a 6.4km embankment to protect the
western sea dykes, estimated at about VND3 trillion ($142.8 million).
Pests
destroy hectares of star anise
A pest called Oides
leucomeleana Pic has devastated thousands of hectares of star anise trees in
northern mountainous
The provincial
Plant Protection Department said it lacked effective measures to kill the
pests. As a result, more than 1,300 hectares of trees were destroyed.
Star anise is one
of the province's key agricultural export products. There are more than
33,000 hectares of trees, resulting in annual turnover of VND600-700 billion
(US$28.5 million-33.3 million).
The pest first
appeared in Van Quan and Cao Loc districts, where 250-350 pests living in
each tree have destroyed 900 hectares of star anise.
Lang Van Nhat, a
resident of Van Quan District's Lung Cung Commune, was able to harvest four
tonnes of star anise from his 320 trees before the pests came. Now the garden
is seriously damaged and many trees have only bare branches.
Nhat said the pests
only came out at night and were hard to detect, as they built their nests on
the wet ground but climbed up trees when they grew up.
About 100 pests
could devour all the flowers and leaves on a tree in one night, he said.
Head of the
provincial department Hoang Van Day said that the department had tried many
different methods to prevent the pests from spreading, with little success.
Since February, the
department had guided district plant protection stations to spray two tonnes
of chemicals and more than ten tonnes of additional powder on star anise
gardens to exterminate the bug. However, these chemicals were only effective
in cold weather.
The department also
used another kind of chemical on 300 hectares of trees in Van Quan District.
After four days, the number of bugs in each tree decreased by 50 to 100.
The department
recommends that farmers continue spraying the chemicals every one or two
weeks.
Green
campaign launched in HCM City
The fifth annual
“Green Consumption Campaign”, which seeks to improve people’s awareness of
environment protection, was launched on May 28 in
The campaign will
call on people to consume more environmental friendly products and encourage
businesses to increase their responsibility towards the community and the
environment.
According to the
organizers, seven projects on environmental protection have been carried out
in the city this year, with the participation of more than 1,000 volunteers.
A new feature of
this year’s campaign is a project that instructs households in Tan Phu
District to classify different types of solid garbage, said Nguyen Thanh
Ngan, chief volunteer coordinator of the campaign.
More than 90% of
households in the district have committed to maintain “green residential
quarters”.
Nguyen Thanh Nhan,
deputy director of Saigon Co.op, said sales of green products had increased
strongly at Co-op Mart supermarket during the campaign.
For this year, the
supermarket chain will set aside a total of VND23.5 billion (US$1.1 million),
six time higher than last year, to implement six promotion programmes under
its green consumption month from June 7-22.
During the period,
customers will have a chance to buy green products at cheaper prices, and
receive gifts if they use environmentally-friendly bags and others, Nhan
said.
A ceremony will be
held at the co.opmart Binh Trieu on June 7 to officially kick off the “Green
Consumtion Campaign 2014”, which is co-organised by Saigon Giai Phong
(Liberated Saigon) newspaper, the HCM City Department of Industry and Trade,
and Saigon Co.op.
Dengue
fever to be eradicated worldwide
Fifty domestic and
foreign scientists are seeking solutions for wiping out dengue fever at an
annual conference in
In an opening
speech, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long noted in
Within the
framework of the conference, scientists updated the results of a field study
which was conducted in
They said that the
project will also be rolled out in other countries including
Prof. Scott Oneill,
Director of the Eliminate Dengue research project, revealed that Aedes aegypt
mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria will be released in a number of
countries suffering dengue fever throughout the year, in order to assess
viral resistance in mosquito species.
The Eliminate
Dengue research project is a non-profit international collaboration between
Friendship
medals and orders conferred to Russian teachers
State Vice
President Nguyen Thi Doan on May 27 presented two collectives and 15 teachers
from Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) with
friendship medals and orders.
Speaking at the
event, Ha Minh Hoa, Director of Vietnam Institute of Geodesy and Cartography
Director Ha Minh Hoa under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
highlighted the valuable support of teachers from MIIGAiK in training human
resources and developing geodesy and cartography in
Hoa expressed hope
that the university will continue to help
Representatives
from collectives and individuals expressed their great honour to receive the
noble awards in recognition of their contribution to the cause of training
and education and developing geodesy and cartography in
Excessive
pesticides detected in Chinese produce
The National
Agro-Forestry–Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD) on May 27
issued a warning that 17 batches of fruit and vegetables from
The NAFIQAD sent a
letter to
To ensure food safety
for Vietnamese consumers, NAFIQAD demanded AQSIQ take immediate remedial
action to prevent any such future occurrences, determine the cause and timely
respond to the NAFIQAD with the results of the investigation.
The fruits and
vegetables include lemons, grapes, persimmon, apples, mandarine and orange,
carrots and turnip from Chinese companies namely Shenzhen Asia Global
logistics, Shanghai Company, Yunnan Tongtai Import and Export Trading,
Tongshai Songwei Huge Wave Imports and Exports, Pingxiang Yunshan Trade,
Guangxi Pingxiang Tianhui Trade, Guangxi Pingxiang Hexing Trading and Kehou
Shunjing Trade respectively.
World youth
federation’s joint managing council meets in Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union is hosting a conference of the joint managing council
of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) from May 27-31, reflecting
the country’s contributions to the world’s democratic, progressive youth
movements.
The conference is
attended by about 60 delegates from more than 20 countries and 30
organisations.
Addressing the
event, First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central
Committee said the
Delegates focused
their discussions on the political report, key issues of member organisations
and future activities of the federation. They are expected to approve the
conference’s political resolution and the federation’s budget.
Also at the event,
the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union reported to the participants
developments relating to
It called on the
federation and all progressive democratic youth in the world to show support
and solidarity with the Vietnamese people in the struggle for safeguarding
the national sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as national construction
and defence.
Annalucia Vermunt
from the New Zealand Socialist Youth Organisation said
On this occasion,
the delegations of youth unions from
Agriculture,
husbandry expanding on Spratly Archipelago
The Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) plans to expand crop planting and
livestock herding to serve the needs of soldiers and people around Truong Sa
(Spratly) Archipelago, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper
reported.
According to the
newspaper, the plants and animals, which have been studied for adaptability
to the environment of the archipelago, are expected to be brought there
during the upcoming working visit by MARD officials.
The mission is to
be led by its Deputy Minister Tran Thanh
One of the
important objectives of the trip is to study and assess the efficiency of the
project on a pilot basis, specifically the production of selected plants and
animals on Truong Sa Archipelago.
From the survey’s
results, the working delegation will consider expanding the model across all
of the islands of the archipelago.
This investment in
the models and projects aims to raise the spiritual and material lives of
soldiers and people on the islands.
According to Deputy
Minister Nam, under the project, two main constructions, including
grass-houses for vegetable planting and pilot raising of animals and poultry
will be built.
Viettel
provides free internet access to all schools
All educational
institutions across the country, from pre-schools to universities, will be
connected with internet by fibre optic infrastructure provided free of charge
by military-run telecom group, Viettel.
This is one of the
important contents in an agreement between the group and the Ministry of
Education and Training signed in
The agreement is a
continuation of a programme to provide schools with internet access which has
been implemented from 2008 to 2013. To date, Viettel has provided internet
connections to nearly 30,600 educational institutions across the nation, with
81% of those using broadband internet services.
Under the new
agreement, by 2015, 100% of educational institutions in the country from
elementary to tertiary education level will have access to the internet via
optic fibre cable systems.
Viettel will also
co-ordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to boost
comprehensive IT application from central to local level and among the
education and training sector.
Since 2010,
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