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Vaccinations
for hepatitis B drop
The number of
children receiving hepatitis B vaccine within a day of being born has fallen
sharply, said professor Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the
Hien warned that
the low rate meant it would be difficult to control any outbreak of hepatitis
B.
In the first six
months of this year, only 20 per cent of new-borns in the country received
the vaccine, whereas the rate in 2012 was 75 per cent and last year was 56
per cent.
Hien said that the
rate of children receiving the vaccine fell sharply after three children in
the central
The tragedy
happened when a nurse at
When she went to
collect the vaccine from the refrigerator, there was a power cut and she
mistakenly picked up the wrong medicine, an anaesthetic called Esmeron.
The refrigerator
was meant to be used solely to store the hepatitis B vaccine, but a doctor,
Le Truong Son, used the refrigerator to store the anaesthetic without telling
anyone.
When given in
sufficient time, the vaccine can reduce transmission of the disease from
mother to child by 85-90 per cent.
Hien said that
giving new-borns hepatitis B vaccine was a global campaign. In
He said hepatitis B
was a safe vaccine and was not contra-indicated for children born
prematurely. The rate of accidents after injection is one or two cases per
million doses.
More roads in HCMC
will be closed or narrowed to make room for upgrade and construction
projects, leading traffic congestion to worsen in many parts of the city.
The HCMC Department
of Transport on July 21 said work on five major projects would begin in the
coming time.
The department said
a project to upgrade an eastern belt road section from Phu My Bridge to
During the upgrades
of the two road sections, vehicles are banned from Luong Dinh Cua and Nguyen
Thi Dinh streets. The alternative route is Mai Chi Tho – Cat Lai port (or Mai
Chi Tho - Dong Van Cong) – Mai Chi Tho – Luong Dinh Cua or Nguyen Thi Dinh).
In the past week,
traffic construction has been ongoing on the approach road to Phu My Bridge.
The department warned of more jams in the east of HCMC in District 2 when the
Construction work
at the intersection of
Traffic jams are
forecast on the streets in HCMC’s District 1 when work on Metro Line No. 1
begins later this month and lasts around two years. During this period,
vehicles will be prohibited on some street sections in the downtown area and
cars will not be allowed to park on Nguyen Hue and Le Loi boulevards.
The water drainage
project is being implemented at the Le Duc Tho Road section from
Dau Anh Phuc of the
HCMC Department of Transport said as implementation of the projects will
result in traffic congestion at many places and affect people’s daily
activities, the agency has mapped out alternative routes in the hopes of
easing traffic jams around the construction sites.
Vietnam's
per capita income should be USD7,000: economist
An economist from
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said
A report from the
World Bank, called "Doing Business 2014" indicates that
The time necessary
to comply with all required procedures to export goods across the border is
about 21 days. According to McGill, this amount of time is too long and
increases the cost of trade. He added that, if the now separate processes for
business and tax registration were to be merged, it would save a large amount
of money for businesses.
Nguyen Dinh Cung,
Acting Head of the Central Institute for Economic Management agreed,
commenting that, if the time it takes to export were reduced,
Despite a weak
business environment compared to neighbouring countries such as
As an example, Doan
pointed out that that investments were being poured into the
He said, "Some
enterprises also take advantage of our weak management to evade taxes. In the
end, we will gain nothing but pollution and outdated technology without the
proper reforms."
Passengers
pay for flight delays
Most airlines have
been accused of dodging compensation for passengers held up by delayed or
cancelled flights, a Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam (CAAV)
inspection team said yesterday.
Figures from the
CAAV show that between July 13-20, more than 890 out of 3,415 flights were
delayed, accounting for 26.12 per cent of total. The number of cancelled ones
was 76, making up 2.18 per cent of total.
The CAAV inspection
team reported on the findings from a survey of flights at
CAAV deputy
director and head of the inspection team Vo Huy Cuong said that the team
found shortcomings on service quality, which could have delayed or led to the
cancellation for flights.
During the
inspection at
Some passengers who
had to wait for hours for a reconnecting flight did not even receive a meal
while waiting.
The team found
signs of understating delay periods to avoid having to pay for meals.
Both carriers had
no staff in charge of resolving unexpected issues on that day.
In terms of delayed
and cancelled flights, the team found that at Noi Bai airport, the
preparation work on flights before 8am was poor. There were few reports about
flights forced to change their routes through bad weather, Cuong said.
At
Cuong said there
were also delaying problems caused by runways, parking lots, and plane
elevators.
For example, some
planes took 20-30 minutes to leave the runways at
He said poor
cooperation between agencies, businesses and units also contributed to the
issue.
Cuong said the
inspection team would ask the CAAV to establish an ad hoc group to find the
key reasons for the delays.
The team has asked
airlines to re-calculate flying times and report to the CAAV before August
15.
The team also asked
the CAAV to quickly verify the reason for the cancellations of Dong Hoi-Ha Noi
flight on July 11 and July 17 because some reports suggested they were cut
for profit reasons.
Cuong said the team
asked the CAAV to organise one more inspection on the three airports next
week.
English
teachers share innovative methods
Nearly 1,000 teachers
from
Innovative teaching
methods at primary schools were discussed, including teaching English using
traditional Vietnamese tales, story telling and reading, reading circles, and
teaching English through activities such as weather reports.
Nearly 70 per cent
of primary-school students in the city learn English in school, he said.
Bomb from
war found in Quang Binh
A team from the
Mines Advisory Group (MAG) defused and removed a bomb from a construction
site at Long Dai Commune in
The bomb, weighing
around 150 kilogrammes, with an active fuse, was unearthed during excavations
at the ferry station construction site in the commune.
The bomb was
defused and removed safely for detonation.
Names of
food code violators announced
The Viet Nam Food
Administration (VFA), has released the names of seven companies that violated
regulations on advertisement of functional food and 10 others for violating
food safety standards.
Tran Quang Trung,
director of VFA, said the administration had collected a total fine of VND211
million (over US$10,040) from the violating companies during inspections
during the first half of the year.
Hannex Ltd Co, Thuy
Ta Joinstock Company and An Ky Ltd Co are among those fined for violating
standards in preserving food additives.
Coach
catches fire inside Hai Van Tunnel
A coach carrying 35
passengers from
The driver failed
to extinguish the blaze with the help of a mini fire extinguisher. The Hai
Van Tunnel Management and Operation Company detected the incident via the
security camera and sent fire engines to get the blaze under control after 40
minutes.
All the passengers
of the coach, including five children, were rescued, while eight vehicles and
95 people also managed to escape from the tunnel.
Eight people have
been diagnosed with dengue fever in the latest breakout of the mosquito-borne
tropical disease in Yen Hoa ward, Cau Giay district, Hanoi, said Nguyen Nhat
Cam, director of Hanoi Preventive Medicine Centre.
The city has
recorded 86 cases of dengue fever since the beginning of the year, a decrease
by half compared from same period last year, according to statistics from the
Hanoi Preventive Medicine Centre.
The complicated
development of a new outbreak with numerous patients forebodes an epidemic is
likely to reoccur in August, September and October. Last week, the city also
recorded a rise of 11 new cases of dengue fever over the previous week.
The central city of
The system
comprises a range of infrastructure, policies, and mechanisms of information
technology (IT) and communications, and IT manpower resources.
The city's
synchronous and updated e-government system will allow greater transparency
and efficiency among State agencies while minimising bureaucratic delays,
said Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications
Pham Kim Son.
It also helps
connect all city agencies, grassroots administrations and online public
services, he added.
Last August,
So far, the city
has offered wireless internet free services, with a maximum of 20,000
connections at major centres and streets, including living quarters, schools
and beaches.
These services are
available at tourist sites, hospitals and shopping malls, apart from bus and
railway stations, airport and entertainment complexes.
With the
construction of the 341-ha Da Nang IT park in April 2013, US investor Rocky
Lai & Associates Inc expects to turn it into a hi-tech industrial
development modeled after the Silicon Valley in the US and Hsinchu Science
Park in Taiwan, targeting to attract small, medium and large companies
engaging in technology-intensive industries.
HCM City
primary schools to utilise TOEFL Primary
The HCM City
Department of Education and Training revealed plans for implementing TOEFL
Primary, throughout the City’s primary school system in the 2014-2015
academic year at a seminar on July 22.
TOEFL Primary is a
series of highly researched tests designed specifically to develop and
evaluate young learners (primary school students) English proficiency and
thinking skills both academically and socially.
Nguyen Quang Vinh,
head of the department’s Primary Education Division said the enhanced English
programme has been introduced at primary schools in the city since 2000.
The programme has
been tremendously successful with around 300,000 primary students having
participated, Vinh said. During the seminar, teachers shared experiences in
teaching English for primary students through diverse activities such as
maths and science, culture and story-telling.
In addition,
representatives from IIG Vietnam – an officially-authorised unit of the
Education Testing Service (ETS) introduced issues related to TOEFL Primary
and committed to supporting teachers in teaching primary English.
Summer camp
for OVs youth kicks off in HCMC
Over 60 Overseas
Vietnamese (OVs) students from 10 countries around the globe are attending a
youth summer camp which opened in
On opening day of
camp, the youth participated in a wide variety of interesting activities
including the offering of incense to a statue of late President Ho Chi Minh
and a challenging chess competition with students from
They also learned
about Don ca tai tu (southern folk music) with Prof. Dr Tran Van Khe, held an
exchange with 171 naval soldiers and joined in traditional games in Vung Tau
city.
The youth camp,
organised by the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs in co-ordination
with the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, lasts through July 25.
Requiem to
commemorate fallen soldiers
A requiem will be
held at the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in the
outlying district of Son Tay on July 27 to commemorate war heroes who
dedicated their lives to the nation.
At the event, which
is part of activities to mark the 67 th anniversary of the War Invalids and
Martyrs Day, Buddhist monks and nuns will also chant prayers for the souls of
the deceased in the recent military helicopter crash in Hoa Lac district.
On July 22, Deputy
Minister of Public Health Nguyen Viet Tien visited and presented gifts to
wounded soldiers at Thuan Thanh nursing centre in the
The centre is now
home to over 1,000 seriously-wounded soldiers across the country, 90 percent
of them are now confined to a wheelchair while the rest suffer limb and
facial lesions.
In the southern
The provincial
Department of War Invalids and Social Affairs also visited and granted gifts
to over 1,300 disabled soldiers and their relatives.
The locality will
honour 208 as heroic Vietnamese mothers.
Similar activities
are underway in the southern
The same day, the
Military Command in the Central Highlands
In the coming days,
they will also hand over books, stationeries and scholarships to outstanding
students living in need.
In the meantime,
activities honouring soldiers and officers who sacrificed their lives for the
national liberation are taking place across the country.
Thousands
of Ca Mau rural households access clean water
A project partly
funded by the World Bank is expected to ensure clean water for 4,500 rural
households in the southernmost
The Ca Mau Clean
Water and Environmental Hygiene Centre reported that the project has a total
investment of 88 billion VND (4.2 million USD), 61 billion VND (2.9 million
USD) of which was financed by the WB.
In more than one
year of implementation, it has built water facilities in six rural communes,
supplying clean water for local daily lives and production.
There are 82 rural
communes in the province, but only 42 of them have gained standard access to
clean water.
Ca Mau is promptly
implementing six other programmes from now to 2017 to supply clean water to
the rest 40 communes.
It plans to
mobilise 350 billion VND (16.7 million USD) from international organisations for
the programmes, worth 500 billion VND (23.8 million USD) in total.
Workshop
marks trade union’s founding anniversary
The
The event focused
on clarifying great contributions by the organisation to
Reports delivered
by VGCL President Dang Ngoc Tung and other speakers at the event stated that
over the past 85 years, the VGCL and trade union organisations at grassroots
levels have made the protection of legitimate rights and interests of workers
and labourers nationwide their main task.
At the same time,
trade unions also encourage and assist their members in enhancing their
professional skills, while educating them on law and patriotism.
The speakers
affirmed that the VGCL’s 85-year history proves that it is the only
organisation capable of representing and protecting the legitimate rights and
interests of working people in the country.
Besides sharing
their experience in trade union activities, participants also suggested trade
union organisations should coordinate with ministries and sectors in the
process of making, revising and enforcing laws and policies on labour and
workers.
The VGCL now has
around 8 million members.
Fallen
soldiers laid to rest in An Giang province
A reburial was held
at the Doc Da Bac Martyrs’ Cemetery, the Mekong Delta
The remains were
among the 187 sets of bones found during an eight-month search. The remaining
four were brought back to their home villages.
Search teams found
123 sets of remains at border areas in Tri Ton and Tinh Bien districts and 64
in
Colonel Pham Quang
Trung from the An Giang Military High Command said the remains of thousands
of soldiers who fell down in the province and
He said the search
faces an array of difficulties as landscape has changed and a lot of
witnesses have passed away.
Scholarships
accompany children to school
Vice President
Nguyen Thi Doan, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Children Support Fund Council, on
July 22 presented 150 scholarships to students in the central coastal
Of the recipients
are 110 from low-income families while the rest are offspring of officers and
soldiers who are safeguarding the nation’s sea and island sovereignty. Each
scholarship is worth 3 million VND.
Launched in
September 2012, the programme has granted scholarships worth nearly 19
billion VND (897,200 USD) to more than 6,500 children in 48 out of the 63
provinces and cities nationwide.
The Vietnam
Children Support Fund has raised over 4 trillion VND (188.67 million USD) to
assist more than 28 million disadvantaged children over the past 22 years,
said Deputy Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau
Diep.
According to the
ministry, more than 200,000 children in Vietnam drop out of school each year
with reasons varied, including to live too far away from school, with many
from remote and mountainous areas having to walk around 5-10 km or even
further to reach their school.
Nearly 1.5 million
children are living in disadvantageous living conditions and more than 2.5
million others are likely to fall victim to economic difficulties.
Oceanography
sector active in international integration
The oceanography
sector should active join the country’s international integration process,
said Dr. Vo Si Tuan, Director of the Institute of Oceanography under the
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, adding that the sector has engaged
in international cooperation since its early days.
Vietnam’s
oceanography sector came into being with the establishment of the “Indochina
Department of Oceanographic Fishery” in September 1922 under the decision of
the Governor-general of Indochina.
The department was
the predecessor of the Oceanographic Institute of Indochina (established in
1930) and the Nha Trang Institute of Oceanography (founded in 1952), which is
currently the “Oceanography Institute.”
Immediately after
its formation, the department organised research trips on the ship De Lanessan
to the Gulf of Thailand in 1925, the Gulf of Tonkin in 1925, and Hoang Sa and
Truong Sa archipelagos in 1926 and 1927. It also set up 572 stations for
periodical survey, including a permanent station in Hoang Sa archipelago.
From 1925 to 1953,
seven survey trips to Hoang Sa and Truong Sa were organised, focusing on
geography, geology, hydrodynamics, sea creatures and maritime resources
potential.
Vietnam also teamed
up with other countries to carry out multilateral scientific research in the
Gulf of Thailand and the southern waters in the framework of the NAGA
(1959-1960) and the CSK (1965-1977) programmes. The NAGA programme resulted
in 17 research works on hydrological physics, geology and biology, while the
CSK issued seven atlases, and more than 400 reports on surveyed data, among
others.
In addition, during
the 1960s, the country cooperated with China and the Soviet Union to conduct
surveys in the Gulf of Tonkin, collecting a large volume of data on
hydrometeorology, environment and natural resources.
From 1981-1985,
Vietnamese experts were joined by their Soviet Union counterparts in survey
trips on board the Berill and Kallisto ships of the Soviet Union to waters
offshore the southern central, southeastern and western regions, and Truong
Sa archipelago.
Between 1986 and
1990, more trips were organised on board the Shirshow and Ocean ships of the
Soviet Union to collect oceanographic data on Vietnam’s continental shelf and
offshore waters in the East Sea.
Vietnam started a
bilateral cooperation on marine research with Germany in 2003 which lasted
until 2009. During the period, a total of 17 survey trips were organised,
focusing on research on upwelling and related phenomena in Vietnam’s southern
waters.
As part of the
policy on regional integration, Vietnam has also worked with the Philippines
to carry out the Joint Oceanographic and Marine Scientific Research
Expedition in the East Sea ( JOMSRE) since 1996. Under the programme, the two
countries’ scientists, diplomats and military officers conducted four joint
surveys in 1996, 2000, 2005 and 2007 in waters surrounding islands in the
Truong Sa archipelago.
Cooperation with
Russia has resumed, with several joint surveys made in 2005, 2009, 2010 and
2011.
The country has
also joined Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and
Thailand in a project funded by the United Nations Development Programme’s
Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project aimed to avert the
environmental degradation in the East Sea and the Thailand Gulf and build
action plans for each of the involved countries and a regional strategic
action plan.
Candles to
be lit to remember war heroes
Candles will be lit
at 3,000 cemeteries nationwide on July 26 in a collective moment to
commemorate heroic soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to the national
liberation, and to mark the 67th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs
Day (July 27).
The candle-lit
honour event hosted by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union turns to the
seventh year this year.
In the northern
mountainous province of Ha Giang, nearly 1,000 students will offer incenses
and light candles at graves of 2,000 war heroes.
While in the
central city of Hue, tribute will be paid to 2,100 fallen soldiers.
On the occasion,
gifts will be presented to heroic Vietnamese mothers in Ha Giang. Some 500
heroic mothers and ex-revolutionaries will also enjoy free medical check-ups
and treatment.
Nguyen Thai Binh
and Vu A Dinh scholarships worth (1,600 USD) will go to 50 outstanding
students of families that rendered services to the national liberation.
Similar
commemorative activities will also be held in Thua Thien-Hue and Ho Chi Minh
City.
Among cemeteries
dedicated to war heroes nationwide, the Truong Son National Martyrs Cemetery
is the resting place of 10,263 fallen soldiers hailing from across the
country.
Meanwhile, over
10,000 soldiers who laid down their lives during fierce battles in the
American war were laid to rest at the Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery.
Vietnam
driver involved in April accident that killed French couple innocent: police
Police in southern
Tien Giang Province have concluded that the driver of the tree-watering truck
involved in April’s accident committed no fault in the fatal accident that
left seven people dead, including a French couple, and 10 others injured,
police said.
According to the
police’s conclusion that was issued Monday, driver Tran Thanh Phong, 35, of
Ben Tre Province, was driving a Thao Chau Company bus with 14 passengers,
including the French couple, from the province to Ho Chi Minh City on April
16.
Before the accident
occurred, Phong was driving the bus at 92 kph in the 80-100 kph lane.
His bus was only
30-40 meters behind another bus, while the distance required for safety is
100 meters, police said.
Therefore, when the
other bus switched to the 60-80 kph lane to avoid the tree-watering truck in
front of it, Phong failed to do the same and crashed into the truck from
behind, causing the deadly accident.
At that time, the
truck, managed by the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway Management Center, was
traveling at only 10-15 kph.
Such a low speed is
less than the minimum speed required for vehicles to travel on the
expressway, but tree-watering trucks are allowed to travel on expressways,
under the Vietnam Road Traffic Law, police said.
There is no
evidence to prove the watering truck committed a fault in this case, police
concluded.
Meanwhile, evidence
shows that Phong “violated the regulations on operating a means of
transport,” but as he already died in the accident, police did not carry out
legal proceedings for the case.
The HCMC-Trung
Luong Expressway Management Center and Thao Chau Bus Company came to an
agreement with the families of the dead victims, to whom they paid
compensation for their loss.
Regarding the two French
victims – Loreal Jacques Jean, 64, and his wife Loreal Boussiron Nicole, 60 –
police did not invite their families to come to Vietnam to discuss
reparations with the center and the company.
Instead, police
allowed the center and the company to settle an insurance compensation with
the foreigners’ families.
At an earlier
meeting with competent agencies from Tien Giang Province, a representative of
the French Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City asked about procedures to
take legal action against the truck driver.
In reply, the
provincial police said that if the Consulate General does not agree to the
police’s conclusion, it could take legal action in accordance with the laws
of Vietnam.
13,873
traffickers arrested in first half
Police forces
uncovered 9,214 drug trafficking cases and arrested 13,873 traffickers in the
first six months this year, reported Deputy Minister of Public Security,
Lieutenant-General, Le Quy Vuong in Hanoi on July 22.
He was speaking at
a national online conference, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan
Phuc, of the National Steering Committee for Crime Fighting and Prevention.
Police officials
seized 246,039 kilogram heroin; 103,462 kilogram synthetic drugs &
302,048 drug tablets; and 656,893 kilogram marijuana, said Mr. Vuong.
Drug trafficking
and transport in the border area between Vietnam and Laos were very
complicated. Criminals were armed and willing to fight against the police
when being spotted, added Vuong.
On July 19, while
besieging an armed gang who was transporting the banned substance, the police
faced fierce opposition killing one official and injuring another.
In the end, two of
the criminals were annihilated, three were arrested and 108 heroin cakes,
guns and other exhibits were seized, he concluded.
Deputy Director of
HCMC Police Department Phan Anh Minh said that they had found some subjects
transporting drug in large volume from the north, showing increasing demand
in the city.
Quang Nam
authorities seek earthquake forecasts
Quang Nam
provincial authorities have asked other agencies to help with an earthquake
forecast for the region around Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant, which has
experienced repeated quakes recently.
On July 27,
authorities in Quang Nam Province said they had sent official requests to the
Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Construction, the
Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Vietnam Academy of Science and
Technology, the Institute of Geophysics and Vietnam Electricity (EVN).
In the documents,
they asked these agencies to carry out research to make an assessment of the
hazards posed to the area by earthquakes before proposing any solutions to
the prime minister.
The municipal
authorities also said they would make public information about the hydropower
plant and the earthquakes that have affected it. Since May, there has been a
series of quakes near Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in Bac Tra My District.
About 10 occurred
in June and early July. The strongest was on July 8, measuring 3.6 on the
richter scale, and the latest, on July 17, was 2.5 in magnitude.
It is said that
water levels at the plant's reservoir have been low, however the frequency of
the earthquakes is not diminishing, which worries those living in Bac Tra My
District.
In 2012, a number
of discussions were held concerning the earthquake problem at Song Tranh 2
Hydropower Plant. According to experts, Song Tranh 2 was left vulnerable to
damage from earthquakes as a result of an ill-conceived water storage system.
Last year, municipal authorities held earthquake readiness exercises for all
residents.
Mobile
operators deny responsibility for cellular spam
Investigators who
busted a large cellular spamming case, said that mobile network operators
should take some responsibility because they profit from the junk messages.
Ministry of Public
Security's Anti-Hi-tech Crimes Police Department (C50) and police from Dong
Da District, Hanoi recently broke the case.
A man named Le Ngoc
Tien hired individuals to set up three separate companies so he could send
out spam ads to mobile phones using the carriers Vinaphone, Mobiphone and
Viettel.
Most of the texts
are for gambling and fortune-telling services. When the user replies to a
text message, VND500 to VND15,000 will be subtracted from their account. From
June 2013 to June 2014, millions of spam texts were sent out, bringing in
around VND22 billion (USD1million).
After this case,
police decided to expand their investigation and discovered a company called
Thien Ngan, which had a similar spam scheme.
According to advertisement
contracts, the network operators would earn 55% of the total revenue from
such schemes. When the investigators asked the operators to take
responsibility, they answered that enforcement would be impossible because
millions of text messages would have to be sorted through and read before
they send them on to users.
Colonel Le Hong
Son, Head of Anti-Hi-tech Crimes Police Department, said the Ministry of
Information and Communication should place tighter regulations on operators
or the consumers would be the ones to suffer.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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