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Dozens of
boats swept away by heavy flood in Red River
As many as 20 boats
and ships were inundated by a heavy flood which hit Bat Xat district,
north-western Lao Cai province on July 14, causing estimated property losses
of VND8 billion.
Among the sunken
ships was a large one with 30 tonnes of cargo on board. Despite rescue
efforts by local residents and transport businesses, as of 6pm on July 14,
many flood victims had not located their swept-away boats and ships.
Bat Xat district’s
agriculture department deputy head Phi Trung Kien reported that around 42.7
hectare of crops were damaged by the natural disaster. Tens of households
were evacuated from flood-hit area in Ban Vi, Ban Vuoc and Ban Khoang
hamlets.
Torrential rains
and landslides also caused traffic congestion in Bat Xat district’s hamlets
and communes.
Online
World Cup betting ring busted
The Ha Noi Police
on Sunday smashed an illegal online betting ring which allegedly took about
VND6.68 billion (US$315,290) in bets on World Cup football matches.
The Dong Da
District police raided a house on Phao Dai Lang Street on July 6 and arrested
Ta Ngoc Hung, 36, the leader of the gang, and three other men while they were
taking bets via the Internet.
The police seized
VND30 million or $1,416, in cash.
The case is being
investigated further.
Also on July 6, the
police smashed a VND5-trillion or $235-million online gambling ring in the
central
Ha Noi
launches urban issues hotline
The Ha Noi
Department of Information and Communications has set up a free hotline where
complaints regarding lighting, electricity, water supply and other urban
infrastructure-related problems can be reported.
Nguyen Xuan Quang,
the department's deputy director, said the hotline number, (04) 3844 5566,
would be available 24 hours a day so that the solutions to the reported
problems can be worked out as soon as possible.
He said if a
concerned State agency fails to respond to some information, and if the
complaint proves to be true, the city authorities would be informed and
agency would face disciplinary action.
Additional
seven fishermen detained by China
Central Quang Binh
province’s Fishery Resource Exploitation and Protection Department on July 12
confirmed that seven local fishermen from Quang Phu commune and their fishing
boat QB 93256TS have been arrested and they are currently at a port in
Competent agencies
are in the process of verifying the exact coordinates at the time the fishing
vessel and crew members were arrested.
According to
Colonel Nguyen Van Phuc, Head of Quang Binh province’s Border Guards command,
verified sources have confirmed the fishing vessel has been arrested by the
Chinese side.
Quang Trach
District People’s Committee Chairman Dau Minh Ngoc said, "We have
quickly asked the Consular Department of the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to take prompt protective measures to bring the detained
fishermen back home as soon as possible and local authorities have also paid
visits to encourage families of the ship owners".
Signs for
reduced illegal Vietnamese workers in RoK
The number of
illegal Vietnamese guest workers has seen a slight drop after six months of
implementing a special Memorandum of Understanding under the Korea Employment
Permit System (EPS) for
According to Luong
Duc Long, Deputy Director of the Overseas Labour Centre under the Ministry of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the number of Vietnamese guest
workers employed by Korean employers has so far amounted to 5,000 people of
which 3,570 have passed Korean language tests and 1,450 have been re-selected
by Korean employers after they returned home on schedule under labour
contracts.
In the six-month
period, 2,179 Vietnamese employees have left to work in the RoK.
The RoK Ministry of
Employment and Labour reports the number of Vietnamese guest workers
illegally residing in the country has reduced but this is unsustainable.
“It is imperative
to properly implement the Government Decree on strengthening the management
of Vietnamese guest workers in the RoK to help reduce the number of workers
residing illegally in the country to below 30% in the time ahead.” Long said.
Valuable
wood seized at Transvina Port
The
The transporters
reportedly failed to present sufficient documents proving the legal origins
of the wood. They said it had been taken from the Thong Nhat Handicrafts
Co-operative based in the
The border guard in
Damaged
ship anchored Din ong Nai
A damaged
2000-tonne ship, with eight sailors onboard, was rescued and anchored for
repairs yesterday in the southern
The authorities had
received emergency distress signals from the cargo ship on Saturday, after it
developed a crack two nautical miles after leaving port in the southern
Initial
investigations revealed that the ship took on a wrong route and hit some
rocks. However, no oil spills or injuries have been reported.
One dead,
eight injured in coach accident
One woman died and
eight other passengers were injured in a coach accident yesterday on Highway
1A's section in An Cu Commune, Tuy An District, in the central
The coach was
traveling down the Tam Giang mountain pass when it crashed into a lorry
heading in the opposite direction.
According to
officials, the dead victim was some 40 years old and her identification has
not been released. The injured victims are being treated at Tuy An General
Hospital.
The coach and the
lorry were damaged in the accident.
Vice
President presents scholarships to needy children
Vice President
Nguyen Thi Doan, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Children Support Fund Council, on
July 12 presented scholarships within the programme “Together with children
to school” to needy students in Thua Thien-Hue province.
The scholarships,
aimed to encourage students to overcome their difficulties go to school, were
launched in September 2012 and are being implemented in 47 provinces and
cities nationwide.
Nearly 6,400
children who are in difficult circumstances, from ethnic minority groups, or
orphans have received scholarships worth more than VND18 billion (nearly
US$850,000) under the programme.
Established 22
years ago, the Vietnam Children Support Fund has mobilised over VND4 trillion
and assisted more than 28 million disadvantaged children.
On this occasion,
the fund presented 110 scholarships worth VND3 million each to needy
children, encouraging them to continue their study.
The same day, the
Vice President visited and presented relief to 30 families of war invalids
and martyrs and Vietnamese heroic mothers in Phu Vang district.
The
They also seized 13
cakes laced with drugs, 1,800 ecstasy pills and a gun loaded with 12 bullets.
The first gang
member to be arrested, Do Duy Khanh, was caught at the Nguyen Hong-Phan Van Tri
crossing in Binh Thanh District, while he was transporting three cakes filled
with drugs on a motorbike.
Another drug
trafficker, Tran Thi Luong, was held several hours later and the police
discovered 1,800 ecstasy pills, 82 grams of drugs and 12 boxes of bullets at
her house in Go Vap District.
The ring leader, Vu
Hong Son, and the rest of the gang members were arrested, and six cakes laced
with drugs and a shotgun[P1] loaded with six bullets were seized from them.
The police have
transferred the case to
Accordingly,
At a recent meeting
with Vietnamese Ambassador to Turkey Nguyen The Cuong, representatives from
Turkish universities said they desire to receive more Vietnamese students to
study in both Turkish and English.
In addition to
courses in Turkish, Vietnamese students can attend English-teaching
programmes in some public and private schools including
To date, there have
been 17 Vietnamese students studying in
Health care
giant Eli Lilly reaches out to
The US-based Eli
Lilly and Company, one of the world’s pharmaceutical giants, has opened a
representative office in
Lilly will focus
its global expertise and stellar history on diabetes and oncology treatment,
its Vice President and Director of Asian Operations Jannine Oosthuizen said
at the opening last week.
“These are areas in
which Lilly has an extremely strong history and an extensive commitment to
research and development. An unrelenting culture of innovation saw us invest
almost US$5.3 billion in research and development last year,” he added.
The company is also
known as the first to commercially introduce insulin as a means of treating
diabetes.
In
The HCM City
Education and Training Department plans to recruit nearly 4,600 teachers for
the academic year that begins next month.
Le Hong Son, the
department's director, said it had received 5,192 applications from teachers
seeking jobs.
The results of the
recruitment will be announced on July 25, he added.
The city needs 960
teachers for kindergarten, 1,694 for primary school, 1,372 for secondary
schools, and 403 for high schools.
Universities and
colleges are expected to have 108 new lecturers for the upcoming school year.
According to a
department report, the city has spent VND23.6 billion (US$1.13 million) on
preparing facilities and buying and installing new equipment for schools.
This year, there
will be 1,527 new classrooms, including 501 in outlying areas.
Nationwide
support for coast guards, fishermen
President of the
The move aims to
offer assistance to officials and fishermen who are safeguarding national
sovereignty at sea.
Tung granted a
fishing monitoring equipment worth VND300 million (US$14,200) to a fisheries
trade union in An Hai commune, Ly Son district, and VND400 million
(US$19,000) to fishermen.
Over 200 gifts,
each worth VND1 million, have reached the hands of fishermen’s relatives.
On the occasion,
the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group donated VND110 million (US$5,240) to
two fisheries trade unions in An Hai and An Vinh communes.
The
Earlier on July 11
in the central city of Binh Dinh, Dutch company De Heus presented over VND117
million to the fund for local fishermen.
In the central
The same day, a
music contest in the central
New TV
tower built in northern
The construction of
a 160-metre TV tower was started in the
It is designed to
serve about 8 million viewers in surrounding areas, once being operational
from later this year.
The new tower of
the national Vietnam Television network is built at a cost of VND21.6 billion
(US$1.03 million) at the site of the old one, which collapsed during a storm
in 2012.
Nam Dinh is located
at the heart of the south of the Red River Delta and considered as a key area
for extending broadcast range of terrestrial television, which is part of the
Government’s plan to digitise this kind of transmission.
Agro-produce
safety emphasised
Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat, yesterday, urged stricter
measures against manufacturers of low quality agricultural products.
At yesterday
afternoon's online conference held to discuss the management of agricultural
and seafood products and food safety, Phat demanded the revoking of licences
of violators and making information about them public.
"We cannot let
anyone profit by harming people," he said.
He stressed the
fact that the legal base for punishment has always been in place, implying
that there was no excuse for not imposing punishment.
He suggested to
local authorities that they consider ranking product quality from A to C (A
meaning meeting standards, B meaning average and C meaning substandard and
possibly dangerous) on packages to allow people to know and make their own
choices.
He asked local
authorities to focus on busting the trade in substandard and fake goods,
especially the circulation of fake plant protection chemicals in the last few
months of the year.
Nguyen Ngoc The,
Director of the Ministry of Public Security's Department of Rural and
Agricultural Security concurred with the minister.
He said central and
local governments needed to focus their resources on dealing with food safety
violations, stressing on the need to involve people in this work for it to
make a difference.
"Only when
people have the confidence to report to the local government about violations
will things change," The said.
"Poor quality
plant protection chemicals will not only affect the health of the people but
also the future and the wellbeing of the country."
Phat agreed, saying
that the government did not have a policy yet to encourage people's
involvement in preventing bad agricultural products from coming into the
market.
Nguyen Van Dong,
Director of the Agriculture Department of the southern
He said if a
manufacturer committed three violations, his operation licence should be
revoked.
A representative
from the agricultural department of the northern
According to Nguyen
Nhu Tiep, Director of the Department for Agricultural and Seafood Products
Quality Management, so far this year, more than 14,300 manufacturers of food
products have been inspected. Of those, over 1,584, or 11.6 per cent, have
been found to have violated safety regulations.
The number of
violators in the manufacturing sector and those trading agricultural
materials is even higher, with nearly 22 per cent (more than 800 out of 3,750
inspected).
The agriculture
ministry said that in the near future, it would submit a report on smuggling
prevention, with a focus on work against the smuggling of plant protection
chemicals to the Prime Minister's office, the Minister of Public Security and
Minister of Trade and Industry.
Long An
speeds up work on new port
The provincial
authority of Long An has asked the Dong Tam – Long An joint stock company to
accelerate construction of Long An International Port to better use the
dredged passage of Soai Rap River.
According to the
investor of the project, site clearance has been completed on over 90 per
cent of the 147 ha of land under the project.
Pier No 1 is
scheduled to become operational by the end of this year.
The request was
made after the second stage of the project to dredge
Forty kilometres of
the river running through
The project to
develop the port aims to promote import and export of goods and materials
from Long An Province and the Mekong Delta.
Mekong provinces
will be able to export all kinds of goods through the port by ship or by land
without transporting the goods to
Campaign to
promote a green summer
The 21st Green
Summer Campaign was kicked off throughout the country this weekend, in a bid
to boost widespread youth volunteer activities.
The campaign will
take place for nearly a month, with the focus of volunteer activities
scheduled in cities and provinces in the
In
Nguyen Thi Thu Ha,
HCM City Party deputy secretary, who attended the ceremony, expressed her
appreciation for the Green Summer Campaign and praised the young volunteers
for their contributions towards the general development of the community.
Immediately
following the ceremony, several awareness-raising activities, such as
encouraging people to stop running their motorbike engines at red lights or
handing out 500 paper bags, were begun.
The same day, the
southern
The volunteers will
help clean roads, distribute information about hygiene to ethnic groups, and
offer advice about rice farming.
Earlier on Friday,
the southern
Activities include
offering education of soft skills to adolescents in residential areas,
helping children with their summer homework and assisting the police in
directing traffic.
Nguyen Huynh Thu,
deputy secretary of the provincial Youth Union, said the Green Summer
campaign is a good opportunity for the youth to improve their own soft
skills.
Tuber
project addresses root causes of waste
Cassava and yam play
an important role in food and income security for farmers, but growers can
suffer huge losses after harvesting and during processing if they fail to
employ the proper methods.
Participants at a
recent workshop discussed these losses, which could be up to 60 per cent of
yam harvests and 30 per cent of cassava.
The workshop was
held to review an EU-funded project to reduce such losses.
These could be
physical as well as economic losses through discounting or processing
low-value products.
Post-harvest physical
losses were exceptionally high and occurred throughout the food chain from
being on-farm, trading, transport and handling in processing, distribution,
retail and consumption, said Ben Bennett from the Natural Resources Institute
under the UK's University of Greenwich.
Losses in economic
value were also high, he said. For example, cassava prices came down by up to
80 per cent within a couple of days of the harvest.
In
Under the
three-year project GRATITUDE ("Gains from losses of root and tuber
crops"), starting in January 2012, there were concerted efforts to
improve the post-harvest management of cassava and yams, thus leading to
reduced physical losses, economic losses through valued-added processing and
valorisation of waste products.
GRATITUDE focuses
on finding new ways of reducing waste during the production of food crops,
developing new products such as snack foods from the crops and seeking new
markets.
There were three
main outputs that address the postharvest losses for this project, said
Director Keith Tomlins.
These included
reduction of physical losses by implementing better storage, valued additions
and reduction of physical and economic losses in yam and cassava processing
through new processing and management methods.
The project would
also focus on using waste such as peels, liquid waste, and spent brewery waste,
so that higher value products could be produced for human consumption,
including snacks, mushrooms and animal feed, he said.
The impact of these
interventions would be to reduce postharvest losses by 50 per cent, he said.
The project brings
together 16 project partners from
It started by
launching pilot schemes to reduce waste in
Currently in
An alternative to
these products, suggested by the Gratitude Project, is the production of High
Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) that produces less waste than the starch process
and could also be used for food applications.
One of the products
that can be made using HQCF as an ingredient is bread, a popular commodity in
Viet Nam.
Part of the
research under the project looks at the consumer acceptance of bread made
with HQCF as a partial substitute for wheat flour.
At the School of
Biotechnology and Food Technology under the Ha Noi University of Science and
Technology (HUST), HQCF bread was produced on a trial basis. Preliminary
results showed that the bread containing HQCF was almost equally as
acceptable as the bread made with 100 per cent wheat flour.
The results
obtained from this study will be the basis for the School of Biotechnology
and Food Technology at HUST to collaborate with manufacturers in cassava
processing, with the goal of developing markets for HQCF.
Health
minister visits hospitals to seek ways to ease overcrowding
On a visit to two
city hospitals yesterday, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged them
to reduce their workload to relieve inconvenience to patients and improve
outpatient treatment.
A Ministry of
Health's delegation led by the minister visited Viet Nam National Cancer
Hospital's branch in Tan Trieu Commune and the National Hospital of
Endocrinology's branch in Tu Hiep Commune, both in Ha Noi's Thanh Tri
District, to inspect the initial results of the project to ease hospital
overload.
After making a tour
of the two hospitals, Tien expressed her appreciation at the managements and
staff of the hospitals in raising the quality of medical treatment and
catering to the customers' needs.
She asked for more
work, however, to be done to improve the quality of outpatient treatment and
reduce hospital procedures to relieve the inconvenience to patients.
She said the two
hospitals needed to get more involved in providing training and knowledge
transfer to non-central hospitals to ease the overload on the major
hospitals.
Tien also asked the
hospitals to take full advantage of their existing facilities even while
investing in new equipment to serve their customers better.
Under the project
to ease hospital overload, Viet Nam National Cancer Hospital (also known as K
Hospital) has opened a new branch in Tan Trieu and worked to streamline its
operations as well as reduce the examination time, according to the
hospital's Director Bui Dieu.
Dieu said the
hospital had managed to partly ease the overload by boosting outpatient
treatment and decreasing inpatient treatment, simplifying examination
procedures and increasing IT applications.
In similar attempts
to ease the overload, the National Hospital of Endocrinology has set up new
faculties and brought in more beds, according to the hospital's report to the
minister.
It has also managed
to reduce the examination time by simplifying procedures for medical tests.
UNDP-funded
project aims to protect wetlands
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project to conserve wetland areas and
establish two more wetland preservation areas in Thai Binh and Thua Thien-Hue
provinces.
The project,
sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme's Global Environment
Facility (GEF), will be carried out during the next four years at a cost of
over US$18 million.
According to the
Prime Minister's Decision 1131/QD-TTg signed on July 9, the project will be
carried out by the Viet Nam Environment Administration and the People's
Committees of Thai Binh and Thua Thien-Hue provinces, under the management of
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The decision seeks
to create laws for the conservation of wetlands, establish two new wetland
preservation areas, improve the ability of provincial-level governments in
protecting and exploiting wetlands and reduce threats from local livelihoods
to the areas' environments and biodiversity.
The project also
aims to raise public awareness about the value of wetland ecosystem,
targeting sustainable management and the use of larger linked landscapes.
Viet Nam is home to
many of the world's important wetland areas, including the Lang Sen Preservation
Area in Mekong delta Long An province, Mui Ca Mau National Park in
southernmost Ca Mau province and Tram Chim National Park in Mekong delta Dong
Thap province.
Company
fined for causing pollution
The Tuan Cuong
Plastic Co Ltd in Minh Hai Commune, Van Lam District, the northern province
of Hung Yen, has been fined nearly VND220 million (US$10,400) for creating
pollution.
The company
discharged waste water, which exceeded the regulated level by 10 times,
polluting the local water resources of Chi Dao and Minh Hai communes,
according to local authorities.
The company had
been fined for a similar violation in December last year.
The Tuan Cuong
Company has been operating for nearly 10 years, manufacturing a variety of
bags for supermarkets. However, the company used substandard materials and an
improper waste water treatment system during their manufacturing process.
Bastille
Day celebrated in HCM City
The Vietnam Union
of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) and the Vietnam-France Friendship
Association (VFFA) jointly hosted a reception in HCM City on July 14 marking
the 225th anniversary of French National Day.
Speaking at the
event, Vietnam Ambassador to France and VFFA President Le Quoc Hung expressed
his pleasure with the developing relations between the two nations.
He spoke highly of
the decision by the governments to elevate their relationship to that of
equal partners in a strategic partnership, noting in particular how the
decision has benefited HCM City and the French Rhones- Alpes Region.
“The Association
has served as an important bridge to help effectively implement community
development projects in HCM City with the funding totalingVND4 billion each
year,” Hung said.
For his part,
French Consul General in HCM City Fabrice Mauries said both nations boast
huge potential for developing multi-faceted cooperation in the future..
The same day, HCM
City’s Institute for Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) opened a
documentary photo exhibition on France by famous photographer Nguyen Xuan
Khanh.
The one-month event
is being held to mark 40th anniversary since the establishment of
France-Vietnam diplomatic ties.
An Giang
intensifies efforts against human trafficking
Officials in the
southern province of An Giang, one of human trafficking hotspots, learned
necessary skills during a training course on July 10-11 to fight the scourge.
Bordering Cambodia
along a line of 96.6km, An Giang boasts a vast system of waterway and roads,
two international border gates and national ones, which make it easier for smugglers
and their victims to cross the border.
Since 2011, the
province has received and offered assistance to 23 victims coming back from
China, Cambodia and Malaysia, most of them poor and lured with promises of
high-paying jobs overseas, and then end up in brothels or slave factories.
As a joint effort
between the Japan International Cooperation Agency and provincial social
groups, a free hotline 18008077 is now available to handle all relevant
cases, including judicial assistance and mental care for the victims.
Source: VEF/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri/VIR
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