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SBIC urged
to build ironclad fishing vessels in response to fishermen’s needs
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) to work
with relevant agencies and fishermen to build fishing vessels with iron hulls
in order to enhance the development of the fishing industry.
PM Dung made the
request at a meeting with the corporation’s leaders in the northern coastal
He stressed the
necessity of providing fishermen with bigger, safer and more modern vessels
while ensuring effectiveness and sustainability.
PM Dung also
praised the quality of fisheries surveillance ships built by the corporation
and required it to continue building and handing over other ships on schedule.
He also requested that the SBIC work with the fisheries surveillance force to
improve ship designs to meet new requirements and fulfill any assigned tasks
of ship maintenance, reparation and construction to serve the fisheries
surveillance and maritime police forces.
The Government
leader urged the SBIC to push restructuring—especially in finance, production
and job creation, as well as in affiliated enterprises, while enhancing
business management capacity and ensuring production and trade efficiency.
PM Dung reiterated
that
The Party and State
have set a sound policy on growing the shipbuilding industry in a strategy on
developing maritime economics to meet requirements of fishing,
transportation, maritime security and national defence, PM Dung added.
PM Dung also
visited KN781 fisheries surveillance ship, one of
Some
contagious diseases likely to enter Vietnam
A number of
life-threatening highly communicable diseases, including the Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), are likely to infiltrate into
At a June 4
workshop on epidemic prevention in
However, he said
there remains a considerable threat of epidemics breaking out for a number of
highly contagious diseases.
The heat and
humidity of the summer months create ideal conditions for many communicable
diseases to gestate, such as hand-foot-mouth disease (HFM) and dengue fever.
In addition, factors such as the increased travel in and out of country and
bad environmental sanitation increase the likelihood of epidemics.
Health Ministry
statistics show since early this year, the country has recorded 9,746 cases
of dengue fever in 42 provinces and cities, including 7 fatalities in
Around 24,730 cases
of HFM disease have been detected in 62 provinces and cities, including two
deaths in Long An and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces. Currently, the disease has
primarily occurred in southern provinces, accounting for 78.5% of total infected
cases nationwide.
Meanwhile, 5,031
people have been infected with measles in 63 provinces and cities. The
disease seems to have declined over recent weeks.
The PMD stated that
It warned that
vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the disease. In summer, the
healthcare sector continues to promptly monitor, detect and deal with
outbreaks, as well as disseminating preventive measures to the public.
The workshop
updated participants on the latest information about preventive measures
against dengue fever, measles, HFM, flu, varicella, rabies and MERS-CoV.
Part of
motorbike fee revenues to go to rural roads
The Government has
issued a new decree allowing communal authorities to use part of road
maintenance fee revenues from motorcycle owners to build rural roads from
August.
Decree
56/2014/ND-CP, which was issued last month with effect on August 20, says
part of revenues from the fee will go to the budgets of communes for
upgrading and constructing roads in rural areas.
The People’s
Council of a locality will decide part or all the local allocation for
communes to invest in rural roads. However, the decree clarifies the budget
allocation ratio must be balanced between the needs for new roads in line
with the national new rural development program and road maintenance
depending on their spending and revenues to ensure the efficient use of the
fee allocations.
At a seminar late
last year, transport enterprises in HCMC voiced strong objections to
allocating part of the road maintenance fund to communes to develop rural
roads as part of the new rural development program. This seminar was held to
gather comments on the draft amendments to a revised decree on fee
collections for road maintenance.
Representatives of
the firms cited Article 7 of Decree 18/2012/ND-CP as saying that the national
road maintenance fund is used for maintenance and management of national
highways while the fee allocation for localities is for maintenance and
management of local roads.
They argued that it
was the State budget which should cover investments in rural roads of the
national new rural development program.
Despite suggestions
and outcries of enterprises, Decree 56/2014/ND-CP still regulates that the
owners of trailers and semi-trailers should pay road maintenance fees.
The owners of cars
and trucks have had to pay road maintenance fees since January 1, 2013 while
many provinces and cities have yet to collect the fee on motorcycles as they
have not passed specific fee levels.
More
vessels to be built for Fisheries Surveillance Force
The Prime Minister
has decided to invest US$200 million in building four more large-scale
vessels for the Fisheries Surveillance Force to allow them to better carry
out their law enforcement missions in the country’s waters and supporting
Vietnamese fishermen.
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung made the investment decision at a June 4 working session with
key officials of ministries, agencies and the Shipbuilding Industry
Corporation (SBIC), following an inspection of a new large-sized ship built
by Ha Long Shipyard for the force.
The ship, named
KN-781, has a displacement of more than 2,000 tonnes, and is one of the
largest patrol ships in the country. It will be handed over to the Fisheries
Surveillance Force this month.
The Ha Long
Shipyard is also putting final touch on another similar vessel for the force,
which will be transferred in July.
The PM also agreed
to the building of an additional 15 medium-scale ships, bringing the expected
number of fisheries surveillance vessels to more than 50 in total, thus
allowing the force to better perform its law enforcement and and rescue
missions at sea.
The Ho Chi Minh
City Power Corporation plans to bury more than 1,000km of electric lines and
cables underground in 2014 and 2015, heard a conference reviewing the work in
the southern hub on June 4.
From now to 2015,
the firm will complete 36 ongoing projects installing 329km of power lines
underground.
It plans to start
42 projects burying 394km of wires in 2014 while another 38 projects will
begin in 2015 for 342km of power lines.
By the end of 2015,
the city is expected to finish the rearrangement of 445km of middle voltage
and 691km of low voltage lines along with 11.7km of 110kV cables.
The corporation
attributed the great volume of work for 2014-2015 to the slow progress made
from 2011 to 2013.
Vice Chairman of
the municipal People’s Committee Le Manh Ha said that burying electricity
wires and telecommunication cables underground has given a facelift to the
city.
However, to ensure
the work’s further progress, the corporation and managerial agencies, such as
the municipal departments of transport, information and communications and
industry and trade, need to devise measures to tackle existing problems, he
added.
Presently, the city
has buried 28 percent of middle voltage and 10.6 percent of low voltage
lines. The respective figures are expected to reach 30 percent and 20 percent
in 2015.
Ho Chi Minh
City braces for MERS-CoV, H7N9
Medical stations in
Director of the
municipal Preventive Medicine Department Nguyen Tri Dung made the call at a
meeting in the city on June 4.
The function heard
that no cases of such diseases have been reported so far in
Passengers on
flights from A/H1N1-hit countries, such as Cambodia, Egypt, Indonesia and
Bangladesh, and those from China, which has recorded cases of both A/H1N1 and
H7N9 viruses, and the Mers-CoV-hit Middle East nations must have their body
temperature measured before entering Vietnam.
The city has seen a
reduction in cases of prevalent diseases such as measles, chickenpox,
foot-hand-mouth and dengue since May. However, preventive measures must be
continuously taken to keep the diseases under control.
It will increase
vaccinations for children aged 3-10 years old until July, while launching the
Environmental Sanitation Month to mark the ASEAN Dengue Day (June 15).
Lai Chau
struggles to clear opium poppy plantations
Opium poppy fields
are still growing in the northern mountainous
The situation is
particularly bad in Ta Tong Commune, Muong Te District, which is mainly
inhabited by the Ha Nhi ethnic group.
Chairman of the
commune's People's Committee Sung A Chu said that the area of poppy
plantations had fallen, but locals continued to cultivate them.
Local authorities
held campaigns to eradicate opium poppy fields twice a year, but local people
still found ways to grow them illegally, he said.
In March this year,
local authorities destroyed 55,000sq.m of poppy fields in the commune.
However, it was
difficult to completely deal eradicate the problem, he said.
"Opium poppies
are often planted in remote areas. There are fields that take two days to
reach through the forests, and it was difficult to establish who was growing
them" he said.
A lack of
regulations to punish opium poppy growers was another challenge, he added.
The expansion of
poppy fields has led to a high rate of drug addiction in the commune.
"Local
authorities held detox programmes for drug addicts but they often relapse
when they return home,"
In order to
completely eradicate opium poppy fields in the commune, local authorities
plan to help local residents to improve production by introducing high-yield
rice varieties and rubber plantations which can thrive in the commune's
climate.
US, Sweden
support disadvantaged children in Thua Thien Hue
The central
The project aims to
improve local residents’ living conditions and raise orphans’ and poor
children’s capabilities to earn their own living, contributing to the
development of education and healthcare activities.
The project will be
carried out in a year, in the districts of Quang Dien, Phu Vang and Huong Tra
commune in Thua Thien Hue.
Meanwhile, the
provincial People’s Committee received more than VND2.9 billion in a
non-refundable aid from a
The money will be
used to set up a project to increase vulnerable women and children’s
involvement in family affairs and social activities.
Binh Duong
helps disturbance-affected enterprises
The Department of
Customs in the southern
According to Nguyen
Phuoc Viet Dung, director of the department, as many as 356 out of 369
businesses operating in Binh Duong have so far resumed their activities,
maintaining contributions to the local budget.
He added that his
agency helped 34 enterprises recover their lost data software and customs
papers.
Branches of the
department were also directed to work overtime to be able to quickly assist businesses.
The disturbances in
some localities, including central Ha Tinh and southern Binh Duong and Dong
Nai provinces, erupted during workers’ rallies against
Some extremists
incited others to destroy the property of foreign firms, as well as some
national businesses and individuals, and acted against law enforcement
officials, disrupting social order and business activities.
Authorities have
arrested and brought to trial hundreds of rioters.
People in the
capital city of
The statement was
made by Hanoi Party Committee Secretary Pham Quang Nghi during a working trip
to industrial zones in the city on June 4.
Speaking at the
Thach That - Quoc Oai Industrial Zone, Nghi mentioned recent regrettable
disturbances which occurred in some localities during public opposition to
While stressing
that it is a legitimate right of Vietnamese people to oppose
Talking to foreign
business owners and workers, he shared that
According to Nguyen
Xuan Chinh, head of the city’s management board of industrial zones (IZs) and
export processing zones (EPZ),
Businesses
operating in
Art
performance marks World Environment Day
An art performance
to raise public awareness of environment protection and climate change
adaptation was recently held in Ho Chi Minh City in response to World
Environment Day (June 5).
Speaking at the
June 4 event, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach
Tuyen highlighted climate change and rising sea level as unpredictable
ecological challenges which require global efforts to minimise their impact.
The performance
aims to call on local people to protect the environment even with small deeds
in their daily life such as putting the garbage into the right place, using
power and water economically, and increase forest coverage, said Vice
Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem.
On this occasion,
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Vietnam Cinema
Association, and the Vietnam Television held a ceremony to honour winners of
the fifth Environment Film Festival, which received 119 entries.
The United Nations
General Assembly declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), following the theme “Take actions to prevent rising
sea level”.
It aims to
underline the significance of protecting the environment and responding to
climate change, especially in prone islands and coastal areas.
Dak Nong
enjoys sound partnership with Cambodian province
The Central
Highlands
According to Le Duc
Cuong from the Dak Nong Department of External Relations, the agreement,
aiming to boost socio-economic agreement between the two localities in the
2010-2015 period, has seen a number of fruitful outcomes.
Thanks to the close
coordination between local governments of both sides, the localities have
finished border demarcation work as scheduled, with eight landmarks planted,
he said.
Dak Nong has also
handed over a 24 billion VND (1.128 million USD) vocational school as well as
a public security headquarters building to Mondulkiri, said Cuong.
Meanwhile, trade
exchange activities between the two provinces have been on the rise, mostly
with consumer goods, construction materials, fertilizer and agricultural
products, he noted.
At the same time,
the two sides have also seen strong partnership in security and defence,
particularly in preventing and combating violations of border regulations,
drug trafficking and cross-border crimes, Cuong added.
Vietnam
donates rice to drought victims in Angola
The Vietnamese
Embassy in
This was the result
of a fund-raising campaign launched by the Embassy and the Vietnamese
community in
At the hand-over
ceremony, deputy governor of Namibe province Alcides Cabral thanked
Vietnamese people in
He said he believes
the aid will contribute to promoting friendship between the two countries.
The rice volume,
estimated at US$35,000, will be delivered to victims in drought-stricken
areas soon.
In December 2013
the Vietnamese expatriates in
OVs in
Overseas Vietnamese
(OVs) in
Another VND30
million was given to owners of the fishing boat DNa 90152 in Danang whose
boat was sunk by a Chinese vessel in late May to help ease their suffering.
Vice Political
Commissar of the Vietnam Coast Guard Maj. Gen. Hoang Van Dong expressed sincere
thanks to the OV community in
He confirmed that
despite difficulties and dangers at sea, Vietnam Coast Guard and Fisheries
Resource Surveillance Forces would stand firm to defend national sovereignty.
Over the past
weeks, Chinese vessels which were deployed to protect its drilling rig
Haiyang Shiyou-981 in the
Climate
change takes its toll on Tien Giang dykes
As many as 150
landslide-prone areas threaten a stretch of the dyke system in four districts
of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's
Nearly 40 of the
locations covering a length of 2.6km are said to be in serious danger.
Nguyen Thien Phap,
head of the province's Irrigation, Storm and Flood Prevention and Control
Department, said it would cost about VND16 billion (US$752,000) to repair and
reinforce the trouble spots.
The extra rain and
tidal heights caused by climate change together with rapid socio-economic
development are partly to blame for the situation, he added.
Phap said the dyke
in question was built too close to the river bank, which meant it was being
quickly eroded in the flood season.
He said householders
who lived near danger areas had been removed to safe places, adding that
despite efforts, the situation was not fully under control.
According to Phap,
the province has spent nearly VND86 billion ($4 million) in an attempt to
remove 248 landslide-prone spots since 2005.
Patients
give positive feedback on new hospital fee
Patients expressed
satisfaction if hospital fee hike along with better services. Most of health
insurance card holders did not worry about the new hospital fee because in
reality the health insurance agencies cover most payment for their treatment
and they are required to make copayment but not much for healthcare services.
Around 63,000
health insurance card holders registered in the
The new hospital
fee rate does not affect them much, even some technique service increase
slightly, he added.
Meanwhile doctors
of the
Hospital Director
Le Hoang Minh said that most of patients who suffer incurable diseases have
to undergo complicated technique services, hence they have to pay a bit high
differential margin.
So doctors try to
apply best available techniques in treatment, Mr. Minh said.
The new fee
schedule will take effect in the 378 public hospitals and clinics in the
city, with those for examination and checks, the daily cost of a sickbed,
tests, and many other services rising to 75 percent of the rates that will
come into effect in 2016.
Next year they will
go up to 85 percent and 75 percent respectively, and a year later to 100
percent.
People join
hands for national sea and islands
A wide range of
activities have been held across the countries in recent days in response to
movements towards national sea and islands and in support of fishermen,
islanders and forces working and living on Vietnamese waters.
The Bank for
Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) on June 3 announced a credit
programme worth VND150 billion (US$7.05 million) for local enterprises and
fishermen in Binh Dinh province.
Under the
programme, BIDV will provide loans with preferential interest rates for
companies and fishermen to build 27 new fishing vessels, who will also engage
in building a national flag tower on Cu Lao Xanh Island in Binh Dinh
province.
BIDV also presented
VND1.2 billion (US$56,400) for the Fund for Binh Dinh Fishermen, VND400
million (US$18,800) for fishing villages in Binh Dinh and VND100 million
(US$4,700) to the family of Huynh Thi Nhu Hoa, owner of the fishing boat ĐNa
90152 sunk by Chinese vessels on May 26.
Earlier, the bank
offered a credit package of VND3 trillion (US$141 million) to fishermen and
enterprises to build, upgrade or repair their offshore fishing vessels.
On the same day,
the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank)
also announced a credit programme for more than 3,000 members of Quang Ngai
provincial fishery syndicate in the 2014-2018 period, to assist their
careers.
Between June 1-3,
the
A delegation of
doctors from the
The Club of Saigon
Businessmen in
The Huong Sen
Health Care Centre under the National Hospital of Acupuncture called on its
staff to send mobile texts to respond to the 'Joint efforts for national sea
and islands' programme launched by the Ministry of Information and
Communications and the Vietnam Red Cross Society. Nearly 1,000 officials of
the centre sent texts to support the programme and contributed VND96 million
to the Vietnam Red Cross Society.
By June 2, the SMS
campaign has received more than 853,000 messages worth over VND15.3 billion
(US$719,000).
Yesterday at Thanh
Long temple in Thai Binh city, the Executive Board of Thai Binh provincial
Buddhist Sangha held a ceremony to pray for peace in the
New
children’s hospital planned for opening in 2016
Authorities of HCMC
expect a new children’s hospital will be up and running in 2016 as part of a
scheme to open five new hospitals in the next two years to cope with chronic
overload at hospitals.
In a recent
document on major health projects submitted to the Prime Minister, the HCMC
government proposed awarding no-bid contracts for the consultancy packages of
the new hospital project.
The city wants to
pick a consortium consisting of Construction Corporation No. 1 (CC1) and
The city will
organize a public tender to select a capable and experienced contractor for
the package to supply and install high-quality medical equipment at the new
hospital with 18 months.
In January this
year, the Prime Minister approved a scheme to build five new modern hospitals
and institutes in HCMC, including the children’s hospital and allowed the
city to appoint contractors for urgent cases. These facilities of regional
standards will help ease increasing overload at the operational hospitals
here in the city.
Earlier this year,
the HCMC government planned to start construction of the new children’s hospital
in July this year on 12 hectares in Tan Kien Commune in Binh Chanh District.
This new 1,000-bed children’s hospital is expected to share patients with the
heavily overloaded Children’s Hospital No.1 and No.2.
In addition, HCMC
has plans to begin work on a second facility of
Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Van Ninh told a meeting with leaders of the HCMC government last
year that the Government had approved some VND10 trillion for the two new
hospital projects. This is part of the VND20 trillion endorsed by the
Government for building key hospitals in the south.
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