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Drug
authority revokes Robinson Pharma’s operation license
The Drug
Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health September 7 fined the
US-invested Robinson Pharma, Inc for providing substandard to consumers.
The administration
has issued a fine of VND80 million (US$3,778) the
The pharmaceutical
company was requested to re-export all substandard medicines or destroy them
as per the country’s regulation.
Body of boy
swept into sewer in southern
After three days of
searching, rescuers have found the body of a boy who was swept into a sewer
on 22-12 Street in Thuan An Town, in the southern
The body of the
boy, nine-year-old La Van Ty, from southern An Giang province, was found at
midnight on in a manhole about 1 km away from the hole he was swept into on
September 6, when heavy rain flooded the area.
Hundreds of
firefighters and rescuers were mobilized for the search.
Ty’s mother, Nguyen
Thi Hang, 32, confirmed that the body is her son’s.
The boy’s body was
taken to a local morgue for necessary procedures before being transferred to
his family.
Hang said she had
not yet enrolled Ty in school since the boy spoke an idioglossia, or secret,
personal language.
She therefore would
leave her son under the care of his aunt every day before she went to work.
On Saturday
afternoon, she went out to search for her son after she got home from work
and couldn’t find the boy.
While searching for
her son, Hang asked a local boy about Ty’s whereabouts, and the boy said he
had seen Ty get swept into a sewer by floodwater while they played with each
other nearby.
According to local
residents, many manholes on the street were moved by the floodwaters, leaving
the sewer uncovered, posing a threat to people and vehicles.
Meanwhile, the
commune People’s Committee said that the street is part of a water drainage
project that has yet to be completed, causing the inundation that led to the
boy’s death
Tran Van Nam,
standing deputy chairman of Binh Duong Province People’s Committee, praised
the great efforts of the rescue force and offered them a reward of VND10
million (US$472).
The Thuan An Town
Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has given the boy’s
family VND5 million as initial support.
On the same day,
another boy, seven-year-old Le Van Manh, a grade-2 student at the
At 4:30 pm that
day, Manh and several other students got off a student transport van when it
broke down on Road DH409, which was badly flooded.
The boy was then
swept into a nearby sewer, and the other students in the van shouted for
help.
Local police and
rescuers were called to the scene to search for Manh. Rescuers found the
student’s body at 7 pm.
Ho Chi Minh City
will consider the building of six bus rapid transit (BRT) lines as an effort
to help ease traffic congestion, flooding and environmental pollution.
The information was
revealed by Luong Minh Phuc, head of the city’s Urban Civil Works
Construction Investment Management Authority (UCCI), at a seminar on
The first line,
linking Vo Van Kiet Avenue to Mai Chi Tho Road, will have a total length of
23.5 kilometres and will be built at an estimated cost of over VND3.2
trillion (US$152 million).
It will provide
public transportation by rapid busses, helping to improve the locality’s
traffic capacity and shorten the travel time between the west and the east of
the city, he said.
At present, a
feasibility study for the first BRT line has been completed and is waiting
for the WB’s verification, he added.
Once put into
operation in 2018, experts said the rapid buses can transport up to 31,600
passengers per day with the figure set to increase to 86,250 by 2020.
According to Colin
Brader, chief researcher of
Science and
technology innovation starts from policy innovation
President of the
Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, Nguyen Thien Nhan has
affirmed the need to innovate in science and technology, starting from policy
innovation and encouragement of effective scientific and technological
application models.
The VFF president
made this statement during a meeting on September 6 with 21 leading
professors who are head of association members under the Vietnam Union of
Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) on promoting development and
innovation of science and technologies, as well as promoting the contribution
of intellectuals to the national cause of construction and defence.
Hailing comments
from professors on strengthening co-ordination between VFF and VUSTA, Nhan
also agreed with them that young intellectuals are important drive for the
nation’s development in the current integration context. Therefore, it is
necessary to create favourable conditions for young intellectuals to assert
themselves via new scientific and technological projects, he added.
The leader urged
solutions to encourage enterprises to be aware of the importance of science
and technology application in sustainable development, along with forms of
honouring typical businesses with successes in research and application of
scientific and technologies, as well as scientists who have made great
contributions in the field.
Nhan also asked the
professors, VUSTA and its association and members to promote their role in
social supervision and criticism, particularly focusing on the issues of
monitoring public policies for national contributors, quality of industrial
inputs, seeds, animal feed, and plant protection products, healthcare
services quality, payment of insurance premiums for workers, and
implementation of the Law on Science and Technology.
A 250-bed
obstetrics and gynaecology hospital, the first of its kind in the Mekong
Delta, was launched in Can Tho City yesterday.
The new hospital
boasts 288 staff, 21 departments and a centre for prenatal and infant care to
cater to the area's 12 provinces and cities.
Nguyen Huu Du, the
director of the hospital, said its modern equipment and advanced technology
made the hospital a pioneering facility for in-vitro fertility treatments in
the Mekong Delta.
In an effort to
relieve the city's overcrowded childcare facilities, the hospital will also
provide medical check-ups and treatment for children.
Dong Hoi fire causes $9k in damages
A fire broke out
yesterday morning at a house on Ly Thuong Kiet Street of Dong Hoi City,
causing damage worth more than VND200 billion ($US9,090).
No one was injured.
At the time, three women were inside the house and apparently the source of
the fire was initiated from the ground floor of the house, which is used as a
shop.
The house-owner
said the fire may have been caused by an electrical malfunction.
Homemade
bridges used despite risks
Hundreds of
residents in the northern province of Phu Tho's Thanh Son and Tan Son
districts use homemade floating bridges to cross the Buc River, despite
repeated warnings that this practice was unsafe.
Nguyen Kien Cuong,
who lives in Tan Son District's Van Luong Commune, said that the seven
bridges were the fastest way to cross the river. If residents did not use
them, they would have to travel roundabout roads full of obstacles.
However, accidents
are common. Many have fallen off the bridge built to connect Minh Dai Commune
and Vinh Quang residential quarter in 2005, and four people died, said head
of the residential quarter Ha Dang Uu.
In 2013, a concrete
bridge was built about 1km from the floating bridges, but the 150 households
in Vinh Quang and Ben Dang residential quarters still used the floating
bridges, as they were nearer their homes.
It costs about
VND70 million (US$3,300) to make a floating bridge. Each person crossing the
bridge must pay VND2,000 ($0.09) and toll-takers collect about VND100,000
($4.7) per day.
The district had
not issued any certificates for the floating bridges to open for public use,
said Nguyen Van Manh, deputy chairman of the Thanh Son District People's
Committee.
He said the
district would check on the situation and warn local residents of the dangers
of crossing the bridges.
Deputy Minister of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep explained in a workshop in
However, employing
a child of 5-17 years of age to work more than seven hours a day is considered
illegal and classified as child labour, Diep noted.
Raising public
awareness of the issue was the key solution, he said, adding that it was
necessary to impose sanctions on employers of child labourers and provide aid
packages to encourage poor children to go to school instead of work.
He valued the
ongoing project funded by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the
US Department of Labour for its efforts in helping
According to the
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, nearly 1.8 million children
are forced to work illegally in
RoK NGO
offers eye-care for Ha Giang poor residents
Vision Care, a
non-governmental organisation from the
During the four-day
programme launched on September 9, doctors from Vision Care and the Ha Giang
Eye Hospital provided check-ups and prescribed glasses and medication for
more than 900 local residents, and conducted surgery on approximately 150
residents with cataracts.
The services
provided were covered by health insurance policies, but Vision Care donated
an additional 300,000 VND to every disadvantaged patient who had to be kept
in hospital for surgery.
The programme also
provided an opportunity for doctors at the newly-established Ha Giang Eye
Hospital to learn from their counterparts from RoK, thus improving their
skills and techniques.
Vietnam 2030
Report, a guideline for boosting rapid sustainable development in
The first meeting
on drafting the report took place in
According to the
WB,
In order to keep up
with other economies, like the
The bank also
warned that if economic growth stagnated at 5-6 percent,
Earlier this year,
Deputy PM Dam, who is also the Chairman of the National Committee for
Sustainable Development and Competitiveness Improvement, worked with the
Ministry of Planning and Investment, the WB and international organisations
to develop Resolution 19NQ-CP, which highlights the major factors influencing
the country’s business environment, including taxes, access to power and
trade.
The Vietnam 2030
report will review
An interactive
website will also be established for members of the public and academics to
provide input and feedback.-
The first ever
lighting show of boat parade, themed “Vibrant Ho Chi Minh City” held at
Ho Chi Minh City
Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism hosted the event with the aim of
highlighting the city’s river tourism.
Boats were lit with
different displays featuring
A big floating
state was erected on the
Addressing at the
event, Nguyen Thi Hong, Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s
Committee, said the city wants to make river tours a major feature in its
tourism sector.
The show is part of
activities to celebrate a decade of the International Travel Expo (ITE) in
Support
fund for cancer patients launched in HCM City
The
World Health
Organisation statistics show that every year 14.1 million new cancer cases
are recorded, while more than 8.2 million people die of cancer.
In
The
Deputy Minister of
Heath Nguyen Thi Xuyen said many patients from disadvantaged backgrounds
refuse treatment for fear of the costs or fail to follow medical
instructions.
Xuyen expressed her
hope that the Bright Future Fund in
The Supportive Fund
for Cancer Patients – Bright Future Fund, founded in June 2012 in
The fund plans to
open a
Soc Trang
intensifies resettlement of Khmer people
The local
authorities of the Mekong Delta province Soc Trang are accelerating the
implementation of a resettlement project for Khmer people in Vinh Chau town.
The project aims to
improve the living conditions for ethnic minority households in Vinh Hai
commune and provide them with a stable place of residence.
The resettlement
project covers an area of 89.51ha, focussing on the construction of
residential infrastructure, the re-arrangement of farmland, and the
development of irrigation systems.
The project is to
supply shelter, housing and arable land for local Khmer with low incomes,
said Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Trung Hieu said at
the September 8 meeting on the project’s implementation.
He asked Vinh Chau
town’s authorities and other relevant units to complete all the necessary
procedures and accelerate project implementation.
Soc Trang province
is home to the largest group of Khmer in the Mekong Delta. At approximately
17 percent, the household poverty rate remains high.
Profits
attract tobacco smugglers
Lured by the chance
to make high profits, more people are turning to tobacco smuggling.
Nearly 8,000
smuggling cases were discovered in the first eight months of 2014, according
to the Market Watch Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Authorities dealt with 4,700 cases, imposing VND14 billion (US$636,000) in
fines and confiscating one million packs of smuggled tobacco, in addition to
eight cars, 432 motorbikes and seven boats that were used to transport the
products. Only 21 cases were prosecuted, as those transporting less than
1,500 packs of cigarettes are not subject to criminal prosecution.
However, despite
these efforts by authorities, smugglers had found various ways to continue
their illegal activities, Chairman of the Viet Nam Tobacco Association Vu Van
Cuong said at a national conference in the central city of
"Profits from
smuggling tobacco have doubled in recent years, so more people do it,"
Cuong said, explaining that while one cigarette cost VND8,000 ($0.36) at the
border gate, the price increased to VND15,000-16,000 ($0.7) in Ha Noi and
Although smuggling
was still focused in border cities and provinces like Quang Tri, Tay Ninh,
Long An, Dong Thap, An Giang and Kien Giang, it had also spread to other
areas.
"Tobacco
smuggling used to happen only in border cities and provinces in the Mekong
Delta region, but now it is happening everywhere in the country," Cuong
said.
Representatives
from local market watch teams predicted that smuggling would increase in the
next months as the flooding season in the Mekong Delta (September through
November) submerged the region, making it easy for smugglers to take
advantage of waterways.
Nguyen Trong Tin,
Deputy Director of the Market Watch Department, urged local market watch
teams to co-ordinate with police, customs and border guard sectors and
regularly exchange information. In border cities and provinces, authorities
should set up mobile inspection stations, he said, while authorities in big
markets for smuggled tobacco like Ha Noi,
Dengue
fever cases skyrocket in southern region
Hospitals in
Hoc Mon District
was the hot-spot for the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in the city,
with dozens of infected people being hospitalised every day, the centre said.
A total of 4,500
people have contracted dengue fever this year in the city.
Last week, the
Dengue Fever Ward in Children Hospital No.1 received more than 200
in-patients.
Nearly 70 children
have been treated at the Children Hospital No.2 over the last two weeks.
About 150 people,
including 50 children, are being treated at the
The hospital has
treated more 2,500 patients with dengue fever this year, including 900
children.
Throughout
September, the centre is carrying a one-month campaign to spray insecticide
and clean up the environment to destroy mosquitoes and larvae at schools.
The southern
provinces of Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc have also recorded serious outbreaks
of dengue fever.
The number of
patients with dengue fever had increased steadily since the beginning of last
month, with more than 100 children receiving treatment every day, said Tran
Thi Minh Nguyet, head of
More than 250
in-patients were being treated at the hospital, doubling last month's figure,
Nguyet said.
The
Hanoians
care for giving up wildlife products
Most Hanoians were
willing to use alternatives to wildlife products if they were available and
proven to be effective, according to a survey released on September 8 by the
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences'
Of 1,000 randomly
selected respondents ranging in age from 20 to 69, 760 said they would choose
alternative products.
While most people
thought of wildlife products as expensive, they still wanted to use them
because they had "a strong and profound belief in their
effectiveness", said president of the institute Dang Nguyen Anh. About
69 percent of respondents had eaten wildlife meat, 70 percent had used wildlife
products to cure illness and 64 percent used wildlife products they received
as gifts.
However, the survey
highlighted that wildlife consumption was largely spontaneous. Many were
given wildlife products as gifts or invited to consume wildlife products by
family or friends.
Nguyen The Dong,
Deputy Director of the Vietnam Environment Administration, said there should
be more campaigns to raise awareness about the negative impact of
unsustainable and illegal wildlife consumption and encourage the use of
alternative products.
"Tapping into
the power of social influence and trying to change people's belief about the
effectiveness of wildlife products is one of the biggest challenges for
communication efforts today," Anh said.
At the conference,
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment also released a review of
the current policy and legal framework for the management and conservation of
endangered, rare and precious wildlife species.
The survey was
conducted between November 2013 and April 2014 as part of the project
"Wildlife consumption in
This move comes at
a time when numerous cities are struggling with environmental issues, such as
air pollution, poor sewage management and a lack of green space, a seminar in
Issues such as
green urban planning, and the management of waste and pollution produced by
transport, industrial production, businesses and households, have yet been
addressed properly or discussed by the public, experts said.
The Environment
General Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the
Environment issued a set of criteria to evaluate the level of environmental
sustainability in Vietnamese cities, Deputy Minister Bui Cach Tuyen said.
The indicators
facilitate the assessment and recognition of urban areas that prioritise
environmental protection in line with the global trend towards sustainable
cities.
The central city of
This move comes at
a time when numerous cities are struggling with environmental issues, such as
air pollution, poor sewage management and a lack of green space, a seminar in
Issues such as
green urban planning, and the management of waste and pollution produced by
transport, industrial production, businesses and households, have yet been
addressed properly or discussed by the public, experts said.
The Environment
General Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment
issued a set of criteria to evaluate the level of environmental
sustainability in Vietnamese cities, Deputy Minister Bui Cach Tuyen said.
The indicators
facilitate the assessment and recognition of urban areas that prioritise
environmental protection in line with the global trend towards sustainable
cities.
The central city of
Danang and the imperial city of
Thousands
mobilised to put out Danang forest fire
Thousands of
fire-fighters, soldiers, and local people have been mobilised to douse a
roaring fire that swept through five hectares of eucalyptus forest in the
central city of Danang on September 9.
It was reported
that the fire broke out at around 12am on September 9 sending plumes of thick
columns of black smoke into the air over the eucalyptus forest near Danang
international airport.
Fire prevention
police force has deployed more than 10 fire engines to keep the blaze under
control. They were supported by a large number of soldiers and local
residents fanning out to smother the blaze with water.
At around 8pm,
fire-fighters were still working hard to control the disastrous flame, while
more fire engines continued to be sent to the burning forest area.
Initial
investigations showed that the fire was caused by hot weather that led to an
explosion of phosphorus ammunition left from the past war.
Promoting
mercury monitoring in Asia-Pacific region
Asia-Pacific
scientists are gathering in
In his opening
speech on September 10, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and
Environment Bui Cach Tuyen said
Mercury monitoring
has not received due attention in
Currently,
After joining the
Minamata Convention on Mercury in October 2013,
The Vietnam
Environment Administration (VEA) will carry out more activities to exchange
information and improve knowledge of the issue for relevant agencies in order
to control mercury pollution and implement the Minamata Convention
effectively, Tuyen said.
The three-day
workshop is co-organised by the VEA, the US Environmental Protection Agency,
the US National Atmospheric Deposition Programme and the Taiwan Environmental
Protection Administration.
New
shopping center to go up at coach station
Mien Dong Coach
Station in Binh Thanh District will be replaced by a new complex of hotel and
trade center and other facilities.
Under the
scale-1/500 zoning plan approved by the HCMC government, after the bus
station relocation, over 62,600 square meters of land at the site would be
divided into two parts for construction of a parking lot and a commercial
complex. The building complex of 20 to 25 levels would consist of commercial center,
hotel and office space for lease.
The city government
has told related agencies to conduct studies and propose a reasonable
allocation for functional areas of the new coach station, making
transportation convenient to meet passengers’ needs.
Planning schemes
for the building complex will also need to be attractive to investors,
helping raise funds for the new Mien Dong Coach Station project.
Children’s
hospital operates 20 liver, kidney transplants in 10 years
Children’s Hospital
No. 2 in HCMC has successfully done kidney transplants for a dozen of
children and liver transplants for eight others with organs given by living
donors since it operated an organ transplant for a child in 2004.
Ha Manh Tuan,
director of Children’s Hospital No. 2, said organ transplant is an urgent
need to save many children with end-stage kidney or liver failures in
A study of
Children’s Hospital No. 2 indicated diseases relating to hepatobiliary
account for 8% of children coming to the hospital for health checkups and
treatments. In addition, studies at Children’s Hospital No. 1, Children’s
Hospital No. 2 and
At Children’s
Hospital No. 2, the first liver transplant operation was performed in June
14, 2004 and this case was also the first to be carried out on children in
the southern region.
The 12th liver
transplant was done last Thursday on a one-year-old baby having congenital
bile duct atrophy.
Truong Quang Dinh,
deputy director of Children’s Hospital No. 2, said there are many children
needing organ transplants but it is hard to seek donors, especially those
with brain death.
According to
experts in organ transplant, while kidney transplants are widely performed on
adults before on children, liver transplants see the reverse process.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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