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Three dead,
three injured in lightning strikes in Lao Cai
Heavy rain mixed
with thunder and lightning killed three children and injured three others in
the north-western
The six were struck
by lightning at around 4:03pm while they were grazing their buffalo and
taking shelter under a big tree in Bon hamlet, Bao Yen district.
The three dead
victims were aged from 11-14, and identified as Truong Thi Cau and her two
brothers Truong Van Mong and Truong Van Dau from Bon hamlet.
The three injured
are Ly Thi Nham, Ly Thi Vinh and Hua Thi Ton.
Bao Yen district
provided financial assistance worth VND2 million to each family of the dead
victims, while the injured received VND1 million each.
WB funds
environmental sanitation project in Dong Hoi city
Central Quang Binh
province and the World Bank (WB) on July 20 inaugurated a newly constructed
drainage and waste water treatment system in Dong Hoi city, as part of its
Environmental Sanitation Project (DAVSMT).
DAVSMT is one of
three WB-funded projects on environmental sanitation for central coastal
cities, with total investment capital of US$78.5 million, including over
US$59 million from the WB’s preferential loans, over US$1.3 million in
non-refundable aid and the remainder sourced from local budget.
Construction of the
project began in March 2007 and was completed in March 2014.
The project focused
on building and upgrading the rainwater drainage system, building a waste
water treatment plant, supporting a sanitation programme at schools,
supplying garbage collecting equipment and enhancing communication campaigns.
The plant is
designed to treat 10,000 cubic metres of waste water per day discharged from
78,000 residents in the city.
The WB appreciated
the progress of the project and decided to provide additional funding for the
project to implement the following phase.
Youths to
play role of UN diplomats
Wearing suits and
ties and acting like young diplomats, students from throughout
The event –
Vietnamese Youth Model United Nations 2014 – is a student-run Model United
Nations Conference staged for students aged from 16 to 24 under the
sponsorship of the Centre for Community Empowerment (CECEM) and the US
Embassy in
This is considered
a great opportunity for local students to learn more about the UN and its
work. As the students will play the role of diplomats representing
differing UN member countries it also provides an excellent chance for them
to learn more about the views and actions of specific member states.
The event aims to
encourage youth to address and discuss political and socio-economic issues
and develop a global generation of young people who possess good presentation
and negotiation skills.
HCM City
students join Int’l Free Hugs Day
More than 300
students converged on Tao Dan Park in
From Tao Dan Park
to other public places throughout
The Free Hug
campaign aims to encourage teens to open their hearts and instill enthusiasm
and determination in them.
The annual event
was observed in
The campaign was
first initiated in 2004 by Juan Mann, a young Australian man who gave out
hugs in the Pitt Street Mall in central
In 2006, a video on
Mann’s hugs was posted on YouTube and drew more than 74 million viewers.
Following his lead, voluntary organizations in 80 countries, including
Improving
social welfare in Vietnam
Deputy Minister of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam made the statement at an
international seminar in
He said the global
economic downturn from 2008 to 2013 negatively affected
However,
UNDP Vietnam
Country Director Louise Chamberlain asked
Delegates exchanged
information and made recommendations to improve social assistance activities
in the country in the 2015-2020 period.
The seminar was jointly
held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
South
Africa helps build kindergarten in Ninh Binh
The South African
Consulate General in
The 118 square
metre school in Gia Tuong commune, Nho Quan district, is expected to cost
VND150 million. It will have three classrooms and accommodate 150 local
school kids in the 2014-2015 academic year.
The grant of
financial assistance was announced as part of the activities marking Nelson
Mandela International Day (July 18), commemorating the 96th birth anniversary
of the former President of South Africa.
In November 2009,
the UN General Assembly declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International
Day" in recognition of the former South African President’s
contributions to world peace and freedom.
Forum
discusses forest adaptation to climate change
How to develop
forest sustainably, adapt and reduce the impacts of climate change was
discussed at a forum held in the central highland
The event attracted
nearly 200 scientists, researchers, policy-makers and businesses representatives
who have directly managed forest protection in five central highland
provinces.
The event offered
an opportunity for participants to share forest protection and climate change
adaptation experiences.
Addressing the
forum, National Agriculture Promotion Centre Director Dr. Phan Huy Thong,
emphasized that
During the forum,
delegates also shared some solutions for climate change response and
experiences from the UNs Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.
Seminar boosts
Korean studies in Vietnam
Nearly 100
scholars, scientists and lecturers from leading universities in
The seminar was
jointly organized by the HCM City-based University of Social Science and
Humanity (
Dr. Vo Van Sen,
Rector of HCM City University of Social Science and Humanity, said the seminar
aimed to highlight the important achievements and lessons learned in Korean
language teaching and other fields of Korean studies over the past two
decades.
Roughly 18 months
after the two countries officially established diplomatic ties in 1992, a Korean
study faculty was set up at the
“Since its
inception, the faculty has been instrumental in helping strengthen bilateral
relations in both scope and scale,” Dr Sen said.
Many
Vietnamese students are keen on Korean studies
In 2011 the
Association for Korean Studies was established, which marked a significant
turning point for the betterment of Korean studies in Vietnam, Dr Sen said,
adding that, a present 15 universities and colleges in Vietnam are teaching
the Korean language.
Professor Mai Ngoc
Chu, Korean Studies Association Chairman, in turn emphasized the need to
conduct an overall assessment on
It is essential to
study deeply into Korean history, culture, philosophy and religions as well
as the country’s political and socio-economic areas, he added.
Other delegates at
the seminar also suggested developing a broader network in
Green
tourism festival kicks off in
More than 300
people attended the opening day of an open air green tourism festival in
Danang city on July 20 as part of activities to promote eco-tourism in the
city.
Opening day
featured 20 outstanding artworks from a photo contest themed around travel.
Attendees also had a chance to hear leading tourism industry experts opine on
the importance of green tourism and conservation as well as to participate in
innovative games to learn about green tourism.
The event was
organized by the Centre for Development of Community Initiative and
Environment (C&E) with the support of the UNDP-funded project on
strengthening capacity to integrate sustainable development and climate
change into planning process.
The event was an
ideal place to exchange information among organizations and individuals who
are keen on responsible tourism, and promote mutual understanding, especially
among youth, about issues relating to climate change, a ‘green’ lifestyle,
biodiversity conservation, and preservation of regional cultural
characteristics through tourism experiences.
Drug
traffickers charged in Nghe An
Nghe An Province
police have launched criminal proceedings against three people detained for
alleged drug trafficking.
The men are Nguyen
Huu Song, 35, and Nguyen Van Tuan, 44, of Vinh city and Tran Quang Anh Dung,
48, of
According to police
officials, Song had trafficked heroin from an area bordering
Song told police
that he had been hired by Tuan to carry the drugs to Dung in
An hour later, Nghe
An police arrested Tuan.
Dung was later
arrested by the
The three also
confessed to trafficking 70 packs of illicit drugs to
Commercial
drivers fail health tests
Nearly 1,800
drivers with commercial driving licences failed their health checks in the
first half of this year, according the Transport Ministry.
At a conference
held in Ha Noi last week to review transport safety control in the first six
months of the year, the ministry said that 381 of the drivers tested positive
for illegal substances and 1,388 others had other health problems.
More than 129,100
out of 136,130 drivers with commercial driving licences in the country
underwent the health examination.
The northern port
city of
It said the Ha Noi
Department of Health asked construction companies to suspend work of drivers
who did not undergo the health examination.
Representatives of
several transport and health departments proposed the establishment of
multi-sector inspection teams to conduct random checks on drivers' health so
that those taking illegal drugs can be detected early.
They also suggested
control stations be set up along highways to check the drivers' health.
The Transport
Ministry recently sent a document to provincial and city administrations to
check the records of trainees at driver training centres. Trainees' health
certificates issued by unrecognised medical facilities must be rejected, it
said.
The list of drivers
using banned substances must be sent to the police for supervision and they
must be banned from driving. If they are found using banned drugs while
driving, their driving licences can be revoked for two years.
Those who have
tested positive for banned substances will be allowed to drive again after
passing tests done by competent medical facilities.
Vu Van Trien,
director of the Health Authority under the Ministry of Transport, said that
to improve the effectiveness of drivers' health examinations, they should be
carried out under the supervision of concerned agencies.
Stricter
measures required to stop highway accidents
The National
Traffic Safety Committee has instructed relevant ministries and agencies to
strengthen measures to prevent traffic accidents, particularly along national
highways.
The move was made
following a series of recent serious traffic accidents.
The latest case
occurred on Thursday when a 16-seater coach and a lorry collided on the Ho
Chi Minh-Trung Luong Highway section in the southern province of Long An,
killing four people and injuring eight.
The accidents were
mainly caused by traffic violations such as speeding, driving in the wrong
lane or changing lane without signalling, according to the committee.
Data from the black
box revealed the driver of the coach in the Long An accident was going at
speeds of 111km per hour, said chief of the secretariat of the committee,
Nguyen Trong Thai.
He added that this
was not the first time a serious accident had occured along the
On the day the
accident happened, traffic police caught 13 traffic violations along the
highway, including eight cases of speeding.
The committee's
Standing Vice Chairman Dinh La Thang said the Ministry of Public Security
should guide traffic police to increase supervision and patrols to prevent
and detect traffic violators and strictly punish them.
He urged relevant
agencies and authorities to tighten management over transport businesses and
ensure drivers follow traffic regulations.
He asked the
Highway Management Department under the Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam to
provide enough black boxes for transport departments to install on trucks to
monitor their journeys.
He also asked for
national highways to be upgraded and regular safety-checks on vehicles.
Doctors get
training in breast cancer treatment
Hundreds of doctors
attended a training programme in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment,
especially for women who are HER2-Positive, in Ha Noi today on July 17.
The participating
doctors came from different hospitals, including the Ha Noi-based K Hospital
which specialises in cancer treatment, and the
The training
programme is the third phase of a four-phase project, "We Care for
Her," planned for the 2013-2015 period, and includes actions plans
developed by the Ministry of Health, the Supportive Fund for Cancer
Patients-Bright Future Fund and the Roche Company.
The project was
initiated with the slogan, "Together we care for women and prevent
breast cancer" through the media and celebrities, as well as the
project's major partners, and was conducted in Ha Noi, HCM City, Da Nang, Hue
and Can Tho.
The first phase of
the project included dissemination of information about early prevention and
treatment, while the second phase provided specialised knowledge to advocacy
groups that will be trained by instructors from the three project partners.
In the fourth
phase, free clinical exams will be given to women in five cities.
Every year about
150,000 new cancer patients are registered in
About 7,000 new
breast cancer cases are diagnosed annually in the country, with 35 per cent
of them succumbing to the disease.
Nguyen Thi Xuyen,
Deputy Minister of Health, said that globally one million new breast cancer
cases are detected each year.
"Due to low
levels of awareness and lack of resources, people do not know enough about
the disease. That's why we hope this project will lead to new results and
help people live a healthier life," she said.
Water
pollution disrupts lives of Phu Tho residents
Water pollution has
disrupted the daily lives, as well as agricultural production, for over 1,200
households in My Lung Commune.
For over a year,
residents have had to use polluted water from
Ngoi Lao is a
river, 76km in length, running through two
Le Van Luu, of the
commune, said "Rice production in our field has been reduced by
half."
"In the past,
we harvested about 400 kilos of rice in our 1,080-square-metre field each
year, but now it is only 200 kilos," Luu noted.
Water was found to
contain mud, oil and impurities, he said.
Tran Van Nguyen,
another resident, said his family had to purchase water for drinking and
preparing food.
"We have to
put a layer of gravel into the bottom of our water tank to filter water for
bathing and washing," he added.
Tran Kim Son, vice
chairman of the People's Committee of the commune, said that water pollution
was causing a major impact on the local people.
Following a recent
evaluation by the provincial environment department, the contents of the
chemical oxygen demand (COD) was found to be 2.4 times, and biochemical
oxygen demand for the five-day test (BOD5) 1.8 times the allowed levels.
The provincial
Natural Resources and Environment Department said mineral exploitation and
processing along a stretch of river running through nearby
Bui Tien Vy, vice
chairman of the People's Committee of Yen Lap District, said that two
environmental departments of Phu Tho and Yen Bai had together created
solutions to remove water pollution last October.
"But nothing
has changed now," he said.
Vy said the
district and local residents wanted the situation to be brought under control
as soon as possible.
Bac Ninh:
“Milk for schools” benefits 12,000 children
A pilot “Milk for
schools” programme in the
Do Thi Diep, head
of the Nursery Education Office under the provincial Department of Education
and Training, said the programme, launched last September, was realised at 24
local nursery schools in a number of districts, including Thuan Thanh, Gia
Binh, Que Vo, Yen Phong and Luong Tai.
Under the
programme, each child was offered with 200 millilitres of milk free, three
times a week, nine months a year.
As a result, the
rate of stunted children at the schools dropped to 4.37 percent against the 8
percent rate reported before the programme, while that of weight malnutrition
among the group was down to 3 percent.
Bac Ninh plans to
expand the programme to all of its nursery schools between 2014 and 2017,
with the number of beneficiaries reaching up to 230,000.
The “milk for
schools” programme, which has run from 2013 through 2017, costs some 178
billion VND (8.39 million USD), of which 50 percent has come from the local
budget, 25 percent from the milk suppliers and the rest from children’s
parents and social funding.
Bac Ninh
now has a total of 155 nursery schools.
According to the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), one-third of Vietnamese children
under the age of five are stunted as a result of malnutrition. However,
Data from the
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) initiative shows that the
rate of child malnutrition in
The Military Region
3 of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and six provinces in the region have
pledged to continue supporting the search for and repatriation of remains of
Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died in
At a working
session with a Vietnamese defence attaché delegation in
Deputy Governor of
Kampong Speu province Pen Sambo affirmed that the local administration always
considers the search for and repatriation of Vietnamese soldiers’ remains as
an important and essential task so as to express their gratitude to
Vietnamese martyrs for their sacrifice for
On this occasion,
Vietnamese Defence Attaché Colonel Nguyen Anh Dung presented 58,000 USD to
representatives of the Military Region 3 and the six provinces, which will be
spent on the search work.
From 2001 to now,
in the six provinces of Kampong Speu, Takeo, Kampot, Kep, Preah Sihanouk and
Koh Kong, search teams from
By 2020, the two
countries plan to bring home the remains of 4,500 Vietnamese soldiers.-
Project
launched to upgrade Phap Van-Cau Gie highway
Deputy Prime
Minister Hoang Trung Hai on July 20 attended a ceremony to launch a project
on upgrading the Phap Van-Cau Gie highway, the southern gateway to
The four-lane Phap
Van-Cau Gie highway now sees the largest traffic flow in the northern region,
which frequently causes traffic congestions.
The upgrade is the
second BOT highway project, to be carried out by the Minh Phat Investment and
Development Joint Stock Company and the Phuong Thanh Transport Construction
and Investment JSC. It will be implemented in two phases with a total capital
of over 6.7 trillion VND (315 million USD).
Addressing the
event, Deputy PM Hai said once completed in early 2018, the upgraded highway
will have six lanes and can serve 60,000 vehicles per day, doubling the
current 30,000.
At the same time,
the new road will be connected to the Cau Gie-Ninh Binh highway, allowing
vehicles to travel at a speed of 100-120 km per hour on the entire route.
Poor kids
in Quang Tri receive free milk
The
Vice Chairwoman of
the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Minister of Labour, War Invalids
and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, Chairman of the National Assembly
Office Nguyen Hanh Phuc and General Director of Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
handed over the milk at a ceremony in the locality on July 20.
On the occasion,
the fund granted 100 scholarships to local underprivileged kids, whose
parents are wounded soldiers and revolutionary martyrs.
The Vietnam
Children Sponsor Fund also donated 1.6 billion VND (75,200 USD) to needy
children and social welfare beneficiaries in the locality, while the VNA
presented 50 million VND (2350 USD) to children of local military men and
fishermen.
Established in
2008, the
It has provided
free milk worth nearly 83 billion VND (3.9 million USD) to about 307,000
disadvantaged children nationwide, contributing to improving their physical
and mental condition.
Fatherland
Front President visits Ly Son Island
President of the
Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan on July 19 had a working session
with leading officials of Ly Son Island district, central Quang Ngai
province, on the implementation of policies supporting aquaculture and
fishing activities in the locality.
He talked with
local authorities on issues relating to policies on seafood development,
credit for upgrading fishing boats and ship shelter on the island.
Nhan acknowledged
Ly Son people’s resolve to go out to the ocean, thus contributing to
safeguarding the country’s sacred sea and islands.
He also visited
garlic farms on the island and encouraged farmers to develop the Ly Son
garlic specialty.
On this occasion,
the Fatherland Front gave 2,000 national flags to the fishermen to fly on
their ships, 200 gift packages to families on Ly Son Island and 300 million
VND (14,000 USD) each to five fishermen to build new ships. It also presented
300 million VND to the Ly Son Border Guard to build five houses for soldiers
with difficulties.
Nelson
Mandela int’l day marked in Vietnam
Representatives from
the South African Embassy in
The gifts include
one tonne of rice, food, clothing, candy and television sets.
It is the first
time the day has been celebrated since the death of the South African
President, an anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist, on December 5,
2013.
Approved by the
United Nations General Assembly in 2009, the day is to honor Mandela and
inspire others to carry on his efforts to "take responsibility for
making the world a better place, one small step at a time," according to
a statement from the Nelson Mandela Foundation Initiative.
The running slogan
for this year’s day is “Take action, Inspire change. Make everyday a Mandela
Day".
On August 15, the
embassy representatives will make a charity trip to Thien Giao centre in the
northern city of
Naval force
equipped with modern vessels
The High Command of
Naval Zone 2 on July 17 received two modern made-in
According to Luong
Viet Hung, Commander of the unit, ships HQ-377 and HQ-378 are part of efforts
to modernise the fleet of vehicles run by the High Command of Naval Zone 2 as
well as the Naval Force in general.
He also asked
Brigade 167, which manages the vessels, to master the vehicles and put them
into use as soon as possible.
Measures to
curb traffic accidents intensified
Deputy Chairman of
the National Traffic Safety Committee Dinh La Thang has asked relevant
agencies to intensify measures to curb traffic accidents, especially on
highway black spots.
In his dispatch on
July 18, the Highway Management Department is asked to provide data from the
camera system to the traffic police to handle traffic violations while the
Ministry of Transport enhances inspection of highway infrastructure
management to ensure safety and rescue efforts whenever the accidents occur.
Municipal and
provincial departments of transport must intensify management on the
operation of transport businesses, and update regulations for their staff.
The request came as
a number of severe highway accidents were reported nationwide in recent time,
mainly due to speeding, driving in wrong lanes or under the influence of
alcohol.
In the first half
of this year, more than 10,700 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, killing
over 3,900 people and injuring over 10,500. Traffic police handled nearly 1.8
million road traffic violations.
Last year, the
country recorded nearly 29,400 traffic accidents that claimed the lives of
9,369 people and injuring 29,500 others.
Vocational
training for ethnic minority youths
More than 7,000
young ethnic minority people have been provided with vocational training at
the
Rector of the
School Nguyen Khai said the students registered to learn professions such as
brocade weaving, animal husbandry, and cultivating in over 200 classes.
To save time and
money for farmers in poor and remote areas, teachers have made tours of
villages, communes and districts to provide them with farming techniques.
According to the
provincial Youth Union, the Central Highlands Dak Nong province has 132,000
youngsters, 27,340 of whom are ethnic minorities.
Since 2008, the
province has offered training courses for over 9,000 rural people, mostly in
ethnic-inhabited areas.
The capital city of
Of the sum, 13.4
trillion VND was sourced from the budget of the city, districts and communes
and 3.65 trillion VND mobilised from society.
The programme’s
criteria on transport were fulfilled by 140 communes, while 103 communes
completed irrigation requirements, 355 communes finished electricity
criteria, and 350 others successfully set up post offices systems.
The building of
new-style rural areas nationwide has recently been asked to speed up.
In his recent
Directive 18/CT-TTg on the issue, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung clarified
that localities should allocate an adequate amount of budget for the
programme. They are also banned from requiring local people make compulsory
contributions to the programme.
The national target
programme on new-style rural area building, which was launched in 2010, has
set 19 national criteria for new rural areas, which cover building
infrastructure, improving production capacity, building public works,
protecting landscape and environment, and promote local traditions and
cultural identities.
So far, 185
communes nationwide have achieved all 19 criteria for new rural areas and
nearly 600 others have met between 15-18 criteria. On average, each commune
has fulfilled 8.47 criteria compared to 4.7 in 2011.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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