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Guard dies
after falling down elevator shaft
The guard of an
11-storey apartment building in Ha Noi's Trung Hoa- Nhan Chinh area died this
morning after he fell down into an open elevator shaft.
The 50-year-old
victim, Tran Anh Tuan, reportedly went to the seventh floor of building N5A
with some others to check the elevator which was not working. He entered the
shaft without realising that the elevator cabin was not there, but on the
first floor, and fell into the shaft. Tuan was declared dead at the scene.
The building, which
opened in 2005, has two elevators. The residents said that the elevator where
the accident took place has been under maintenance for several months. They
said that the managing company had ignored the problem despite complaints
from the residents.
The concerned
authorities are investigating the accident.
Ha Long
Shipbuilding Co, Ltd handed over fisheries surveillance ship KN-781 to the
Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Force in northern Quang Ninh province on June
30.
The fisheries
surveillance ship KN-781 has been designed by Damen Group from the
The vessel can
operate continuously in normal conditions on an area of 5,000 nautical miles
and can endure the toughest of seas.
The ship 90.5 metre
long, 14 metres wide, 7 metres high and has a loaded capacity of 500 tones
putting out12,016 of horse power.
The completion and
handover of the ship will help the fisheries surveillance forces to
strengthen its presence at
The
Speaking at the
inauguration ceremony the capital city’s Transport Department Deputy Director
Nguyen Hoang Linh voiced his appreciation for the French
The project marks a
turning point in the friendship and cooperation between Hanoi People’s
Committee and
Hanoi People’s
Committee Vice Chairman Nguyen Quoc Hung said that in the bilateral
cooperation framework, the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Ile de France
province have agreed to cooperate to share experiences and improve capacity
in planning and urban management.
IIe de France has
been instrumental in assisting the city develop its infrastructure on a
number of bus routes, Hung said, specifically noting their assistance in
erecting a bus route on Hoang Quoc Viet road.
Ha Noi
calls for medical fee increases
The Ha Noi People's
Committee has asked for a 20-per-cent increase of fees applied to 1,300
categories of medical services at public hospitals in its proposal to the
municipal People's Council.
The services listed
are those that were not subject to changes in the recent round of adjustments
to medical fees for nearly 1,350 other services last August.
Under the proposal,
the hospital fees at first-tier public hospitals will be raised from 80 per
cent of the maximum levels regulated by the Ministry of Health to 100 per
cent. In second-tier public hospitals, the fees will be raised from 75 per
cent to 95 per cent. General public clinics at district levels and maternity
hospitals will see the increases of fees from 70 per cent of the regulated
maximum levels to 90 per cent.
The proposal also
includes the regulated fees for 135 medical services that were previously not
subject to the regulations.
Vice Chairman of
the Ha Noi People's Committee Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc told Cong Thuong (Trade
and Industry) newspaper that Ha Noi would continue to improve the quality of
medical services, promote ethical standards among medical staff and increase
investment in facilities after the fee hike.
Earlier in April,
Deputy Director of the Ha Noi Department of Health Luu Thi Lien said the
medical fee increases were necessary and urgent.
She said many
hospitals currently did not have enough funds to buy medicine, materials and
equipment.
While it is
regulated that hospitals should pay for medicine they bought within 30-50
days, many hospitals took four to five months to pay the bill due to the
shortage of funds, she added.
Russian oil
firm provides $60k grant
Russian oil company
Rosneft
Rosneft
Railway
sector to cut transport fees
The Viet Nam
Railway Corporation will reduce the transportation fee for goods by 2-5 per
cent between July 11 and September 30 to increase the volume of goods
transported by rail.
As scheduled, the
fee will be reduced two per cent for goods transported from
The transportation
fees for cargo trains running on fixed routes would be reduced by up to five
per cent.
Loyal customers of
the corporation would be given priority, the corporation said.
Nghe An's
abandoned train route racks up massive annual losses
Abandoned for five
years, a 32-km long train route connecting Quynh Luu and Nghia Dan districts
in central Nghe An Province, is causing huge losses for the railways.
Each year, the Viet
Nam Railway Corporation spends about VND7 billion (US$328,500) to maintain
this route.
Pham Hong
The results of a
survey undertaken at that time by the enterprise, showed that almost all
businessmen complained that trains carrying goods via the route ran very
slowly – about 15 km per hour, Nam said.
Therefore, goods
were not being delivered on time, he said, adding that high transportation
fee was also believed one of the main reasons.
So, businessmen
began transporting their goods by road instead of the rail, he said.
Cao Tien Hung,
Deputy Director of Nghe Tinh Railway Management Co Ltd, told the Lao Dong
(Labour) newspaper that although no trains ran on this route for the past
five years, the corporation still assigned their company to maintain the
route to ensure its safety in case any train ran on the route.
Recently, when the
Ministry of Transport tightened loading capacity on road transport, several
companies which exploited minerals in the districts of Nghia Dan, Quy Hop and
Quy Chau, had considered transporting their goods via the train route, Hung
said.
The train route was
built in 1966 with the aim of strengthening socio-economic development in the
west of the province.
Tay Ninh:
more soldier remains brought home from
A ceremony was held
at the Xa Mat international border gate in Tan Bien district, southern Tay
Ninh province on June 30 to welcome home 143 sets of remain of Vietnamese
volunteer soldiers who died in
They will be laid
to rest at the Hill 82 War Heroes Cemetery on July 27, the commemorative day
for war heroes and invalids.
The remains have
been found and repatriated by search teams of the Military Zone 7 and the Tay
Ninh provincial Military Command in the Cambodian provinces of Kampong Cham
(74 sets), Pailin (14 sets), Siem Reap (28 sets) and Tbaeng Meanchey (27
sets).
From the 2001-2002
dry season to now, 2,785 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers
died in
Irrigators
told to prepare for storms
Ha Noi Irrigation
Works Department told irrigation companies to dredge and clean up rivers,
lakes and other streams to supply water for agricultural production and flood
prevention during this storm season.
The department has
asked five irrigation enterprises to prepare machines to do the job.
The department will
also inspect irrigation facilities in Me Linh, Phuc Tho and Phu Xuyen
districts that have been encroached on by local people.
Ha Noi has 15
irrigation facilities, including 96 reservoirs and about 1,920 pump stations.
In addition to being degraded after a long time of use, they have been
seriously encroached on.
Seminar
discusses policies for AO/dioxin victims
A seminar was held
in
Ass. Prof. Dr
Nguyen The Luc, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam
Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) has affirmed that toxic
chemicals sprayed by the
Over the years, the
Party and the Government have paid special attention to devising policies to
deal with the environment in areas having high levels of dioxin, as well as
supporting AO victims in their struggles.
However, there are
some deficiencies in implementing policies for Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims,
which should be perfected in accordance with the real situation, Luc said.
Lyon city
helps
Leaders of Lyon
have affirmed their willingness to aid
Vice Mayor of Lyon
city Max Vincent and other officials of Lyon and the Rhone-Alpes region made
the pledge during a recent meeting with Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s
Committee Le Hoang Quan, who led a delegation on a working trip to France in
the last week of June.
The host also said
they will work to further all-round links with
Leaders of the two
metropolises have also agreed to work closely together on heritage
preservation, urban planning and green growth, which are fields of mutual
interest.
A Vietnamese
delegation recently visited
During their June
21-29 visit, the delegation held working sessions with the Ministry of
Children, Equality, & Social Inclusion, the Ministry of of Justice &
Public Security, the KUN centre for gender equality (KUN), Legal Advice for
Women Centre (JURK), some non-governmental organisations (NGOs), religious
organisations and other agencies.
They discussed
issues related to legislation, policies, cooperation and mobilisation of
sources for social affairs and gender equality. They also examined measures
to raise public awareness and capacity for domestic violence prevention and
protection.
The two sides
shared experiences in developing grassroots-level networks, NGOs’ social
affairs in
They agreed that
the two governments are determined to resolve gender inequality and domestic
violence through building legislation to ensure human rights.
While staying in
Ambassador Le Thi
Tuyet Mai talked about the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in
implementing cooperative development projects in gender equality within the
framework of the
She emphasised that
the embassy serves as a bridge to support domestic delegations in working
with partners in
Football
festival for Vietnamese students in RoK
The fifth IC Food
Cup for Vietnamese students in the
The annual event,
hosted by the Association of Vietnamese students at the University and
sponsored by the ICFood company, attracted eight men’s and eight women’s
football teams, competing as of June 28.
Alongside the
tournament, the students also participated in various outdoor activities such
as cultural exchanges, a campfire, a kimchi (a traditional Korean dish)
making contest, and a lucky draw. Draw winners were awarded valuable prizes,
including a mountain bike, airfares to
“The festival
was a good chance for students to relieve their stress by playing together
and refreshing themselves,” said Park Kyun-ik, Chairman of ICFood. He hoped
that the event would come to
For his part,
Vietnamese Minister Counsellor Nguyen Manh Dong thanked ICFood for supporting
the Vietnamese Students’ Association in RoK, and said the tournament helped
not only improve the students’ physical health, but also connect with each
other, contributing to strengthening friendship between the two counties.
MoH urges
vaccinations against encephalitis
The Ministry of
Health is urging all parents to get their children properly vaccinated
against Japanese encephalitis in time, stressing that the vaccine is being
supplied free in all districts across the country.
Local reports have cited
a ministry advisory as saying the vaccination should be done at least thrice:
first when the child is a year old; the second one to two weeks after the
first; and the last a year after the second shot. Subsequently, the vaccine
should be administered every three to four years until the child is 15 years
old.
Nguyen Tran Hien,
director of the national immunisation programme, said that this year was the
first time the vaccine against Japanese encephalitis was supplied
free-of-charge in all districts in the nation's 63 provinces and cities. Last
year it was supplied free to about 90 per cent of the districts.
A total of 80,000
children in Ha Noi received the vaccine last week.
According to the
Ministry of Health's Department of Preventive Medicine, the country has
recorded 319 cases of encephalitis and four deaths so far this year. Nine per
cent of the cases were Japanese encephalitis.
The
To prevent the
spread of this disease, the ministry has advised that people keep their homes
clean, place livestock cages a good distance away from their homes and
children, and use mosquito nets while sleeping.
Japanese
encephalitis is caused by a mosquito-borne virus that can spread the disease
throughout the year, but the peak season is summer. The disease is more
common among children under 15. Pigs and birds are virus carriers. High
fever, headache and nausea are early symptoms of the disease.
Meanwhile, the
incidence of hand-foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has increased in some
southern localities in southern area, health experts say.
Tran Dac Phu,
Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, said that at 2,000 new
cases, the number of hand-foot-mouth patients in the last week of June
increased by nine per cent over the previous week.
During this period,
there was a 30 per cent increase in
Phu said that as a
preventive measure against HFMD, people should focus on children's hygiene,
including their toys, houses and schools.
Transport
firms shut down for violations
Fifteen per cent of
the nation's bus and cargo transport companies have been thrown off the road
for violating traffic safety rules.
This follows recent
checks on transport firms in 63 provinces and cities across the country.
The Ministry of
Transport, in a report to the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, said it had
withdrawn business licences from the companies because of the loose way in
which they operated.
It said that while
management had improved in many places and supervision devices installed in
commercial coaches and buses, the situation was still out of control.
The ministry also
accused many local departments of transport of not seriously cracking down on
speeding bus and truck drivers. It said that after issuing licences, the
local departments paid little attention to the rules.
Most of the
violations were found in small-scale transport firms with only a few buses or
trucks.
The report said
many transport firms operated without a business manager or employed those
who were sub- standard. Some firms were caught hiring their business licences
to others and doing none of the real business themselves.
The report also
said that inspection team discovered and recommended administration fines
with 636 violations with the total fine reaching VND2.3 billion (US$108,000).
A total of 53 of
350 transport firms had their business licences withdrawn; 113 firms had
their business licences suspended. The ministry also withdrew registration
badges for more than 1,300 vehicles.
The ministry told
the Prime Minister that the standard of transport control was high in the
provinces of Hai Duong, Ha Giang, Thai Nguyen, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Nam,
Gia Lai, Kien Giang and in the city of Da Nang.
The inspection was
carried out on 350 of the nation's 1919 transport firms, which control a
total of nearly 12,000 vehicles.
Remove
stinking chicken farm: residents
Environment
pollution caused by a chicken farm in Thu Thua District of the southern
According to local
residents, the chicken waste of Minh Dung farm causes a stink while
attracting a large number of flies.
The privately run
Minh Dung farm is currently raising 30,000 chickens.
Pham Thi Tam, a
resident, said there were so many flies because of the environmental
pollution from the chicken farm and the situation had existed for years.
Many of the roughly
200 households have to hang up mosquito nets when they have meals to keep out
the flies, she said.
The smell from the
chicken waste was really terrible, she added.
"We asked
local authorities on numerous occasions to remove the chicken farm to
safeguard the health of residents, but no measures have been taken yet,"
she said.
Chairman of the
People's Committee of Binh Thanh commune in Thu Thua District, Le Quoc Viet,
said the chicken farm owner promised to handle the environmental pollution
and remove the farm before today following the provincial People's
Committee's order.
However, he said,
during a recent inspection it was discovered that the farm owner had failed
to keep his promise.
The provincial
Department of Natural Resources and Environment has done regular inspections
and asked the chicken farm owner to deal with the environment pollution, but
the situation had not improved much, said the department's Deputy Director
Huynh Thi Thep.
If the farm owner
did not co-operate with local authorities in removing the farm, the
department would propose stricter measures, she said.
Workshop
heeds poverty reduction in central, central highlands
A workshop on
promoting poverty reduction for ethnic minority groups in the central and
Central Highland regions was held in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak
on June 30 by the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs.
It was reported at
the event that despite a rapid reduction of 3-4 percent each year in the
regions’ poverty rate, the number of poor and near poor households,
especially those of e thnic minority groups remains high.
Reports of relevant
ministries, agencies and localities pointed to difficulties and obstacles in
the process of implementing policies on poverty reduction for people from
ethnic minority groups in the regions.
Participants
underlined the need to put forth consistent policies to raise efficiency of
poverty reduction programmes. They also made detailed recommendations about
what the localities in the regions should do to help their people escape from
poverty sustainably.
The central and
central highlands regions have received considerable attention of the Party
and State, benefiting from important policies and programmes to foster
socio-economic development in areas inhabited by ethnic minority groups in
general and those designed specifically for the two regions in particular.
The policies
include the Prime Minister’s Programme 755 on providing housing and farming
land and clean water for poor ethnic minority households and Programme 135 on
supporting socio-economic development in poorest communes and villages.
As of June 30, the
working age population in
The paper quoted
Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai, head of the Population and Employment Department under
the General Statistics Office as saying that the total number of working
people, including those who are still working in spite of their old age, is
estimated at 52.7 million, up 300,000 year-on-year.
Meanwhile, the
unemployment rate among people of working age is 2.14 percent, with the rate
in urban areas higher than that in rural regions (3.62 percent against 1.47
percent), said Mai.
She added that 6.32
percent of youngsters aged from 15 to 24 are out of work. The rate is 11.87
percent in urban areas and 4.54 percent in rural ones.
However, Mai noted
that
The structure is a
chance to utilise the plentiful human resources for socio-economic
development and improvement of the human resource for better social welfare,
health care, education and jobs for the future.
Motorbike
drivers wearing helmets unsafely to be fined
Drivers of
motorbikes and electric bicycles who wear their helmets incorrectly will be
fined up to VND200,000 (US$9.4) as of July 1, 2014.
Administrative fine
of VND100,000-200,000 will be applied to those who drive or riding motorbikes
with substandard helmets or with helmets worn incorrectly.
Traffic Safety
Committee in
Deputy head of the
committee Nguyen Ngoc Tuong said that the city has strived to reduce traffic
accidents and facilities. Especially, after drivers are forced to wear
helmets on motorbikes, the number of deaths from traffic accidents is below
900 people a year.
A motorcycle helmet
is designed to protect a motorcyclist’s head in case of an accident.
Accordingly, a helmet should meet the mandatory safety standards. Good
motorcycle helmets feature a hard outer shell capable of resisting
penetration, soft inner shell to absorb 'impact energy', and retention
system, which is usually a strap fitted to the lower jaw area, that ensures
the helmet stays in place.
Education
Ministry to send masters, graduates for Ph.D program in abroad
The Ministry of
Education and Training has announced its plan to send masters and graduates
to developed countries for postgraduate education as per Project 911 for the
year.
1,200 entrants will
be sent to the
Candidates are
full-time university lecturers, lecturers who work on long-term contract or
permanent employment contract, postgraduates or graduates who have just
finished higher education within 12 months.
For newly-graduated
students, they must achieve good performance during studying in universities.
If being selected
for the postgraduate education in abroad nations, they have to make a pledge
of working for the university which sent them.
Moreover, entrants
must be under 45 years of age and meet foreign language standard.
Ha Tinh
opens medical clinic sponsored by US Pacific High Command
A medical clinic
sponsored by the US Pacific High Command yesterday was inaugurated in Vu
Quang District of the central
The construction of
clinic started in April, 2013 costing nearly VND9 billion (US$422,436).
The two-storey
clinic, covering an area of 2,400 square meters will offer a range of health
services expecting to improve healthcare quality for local people in Huong
Tho Commune. It is also a safe accommodation for residents in flooding
season.
Subsidence
provides sinking feeling
Subsidence has
caused serious headaches for contractors as well as transport authorities.
“Subsiding road
surfaces have occurred with increasing frequency. It’s leaving me with
sleepless nights,” said Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang in a recent
meeting to discuss the issue which brought together leading industry experts,
major contractors and asphalt concrete suppliers.
This is the second
meeting of its kind within a month to seek remedies for the growing frequency
of subsidence in highway construction projects across the country.
“We’re confused by
this continuing problem, given the fact that we have tightened the control of
input material quality and project execution,” said Le Ngoc Hoa, general
director of Ministry of Transport (MoT)’s Civil Engineering Construction
Corporation 4 (Cienco 4).
Cienco 4 is
currently regarded as one of best performers in the transport sector.
However, construction on Highway 1’s Vinh-Ben Thuy section in the
north-central region as part of a build-operate-transfer (BOT) project has
experienced the problem along a four-kilometre stretch of this road.
According to a
report by the MoT’s Transport Engineering Construction and Quality Management
Bureau, subsidence has been reported in at least seven highways where the MoT
has acted as the developer.
The number of
recorded roads suffering from technical faults would soar if all the projects
managed by local governments were also taken into account.
Minister of Transport
advisor Trinh Xuan Cuong attributed these technical faults to human
shortcomings.
This argument
seemed reasonable following inspections made by the MoT’s Institute of
Transport, Science and Technology at four sites belonging to National Highway
18’s Uong Bi-Ha Long section in northern Vietnam which indicated poor quality
construction due to lack of materials.
Deputy Minister of
Transport Nguyen Hong Truong said subsidence had grown into a critical issue
and would potentially become a disaster unless remedies were rapidly found,
especially when construction of nearly 2,000km of national highways 1 and 14
would soon begin.
Thang demanded
greater commitments from consultants, contractors and project management
units on the issue.
MoT executives also
required the development of technical blueprints suitable to terrain,
geological and climatic features of different regions; the testing of diverse
road structures for best use, testing of surface materials and the ending of
multiple contractors working on the same projects. In addition, closer checks
should be made on vehicle loads.
For affected roads,
Thang ordered that immediate measures needed to be taken to ensure road
safety in the meantime, before a long-term solution was found.
“The specialist MoT
team needs to scale up efforts to find the real cause to be able to radically
address this phenomenon before the end of this year,” Thang stressed.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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