Social
News 30/9
Ministry
brings attention to cracks in
The Ministry of
Construction has requested that the Ministry of Transport and the investor of
the newly-opened 245-km
According to the
Ministry of Construction, the State Agency for Construction Quality
Investigation has visited the site for investigation.
The ministry has
also asked that the Ministry of Transport instruct the investor, Vietnam
Expressway Corporation, to find out and divulge the causes these cracks and
work out the quickest solution.
The investor will
be responsible for frequent checks on the road to detect any problems that
could pose a threat to safety.
The Ministry of
Construction has also urged authorities of Hanoi and the other provinces the
highway runs through Hanoi, Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Yen Bai and Lao Cai, where
the highway cooperate with the investor.
On September 24,
management agencies found cracks at some sections of the
Initial drilling
seems to point to a geological cause.
The first phase of
the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Expressway cost a total of USD1.47 billion. The route was
opened to traffic on September 21.
Teacher
suspended for violence against a student
A high school
teacher in
Nguyen Van Tue, an
official from the Quang Ninh Department of Education and Training, confirmed
that Nguyen Thi Thuong from
The decision was
made after a clip of a teacher’s improper behaviour was posted on the
internet recently. In the clip, the teacher, who is pregnant, pulls the hair
of a boy and boxes his ears. She even scolds the student.
After learning
about the incident, the People’s Committee of Quang Ninh Province requested
the local Department of Education and Training to look into the case and
identify the teacher.
Tue said that
representatives from the department went to
According to
Thuong, the video was taken on September 20 in Class 11B3. Thuong asked the
student, Toan, to go to a platform to explain why he had been absent. It was
when Toan refused that the teacher lost her temper and became violent.
A student in the
class filmed and posted the video.
An official from the
Quang Ninh Department of Education and Training said that Thuong may be not
be allowed to work as a teacher again, but she could be given another job at
the school.
Vietnam
Airlines promotion marks Ha Noi Liberation Day
Viet Nam Airlines
has rolled out a promotion programme in the domestic market to mark the 60th
anniversary of Ha Noi Liberation Day on October 10.
It is offering
one-way tickets on flights linking HCM City to Da Lat, Buon Ma Thuot, Phu
Quoc and Nha Trang at fares starting from VND399,000 (US$18.8), while one-way
tickets on the Ha Noi – Chu Lai and HCM – Hue, Quy Nhon routes start at
VND499,000 ($23.5).
In addition,
promotional fares are also available on the Ha Noi-Da Lat, Buon Ma Thuot, Quy
Nhon, Tuy Hoa and Can Tho route as well as the
Booking should be
done between September 22 and October 7 for travel from September 26 to
November 30.
Locals work
together to save Hoa Binh's protected forests
Local residents
tell many stories about loggers and those who burn forest for cultivation,
but people in Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong Nature Reserve in the northern province of
Hoa Binh have done the opposite, joining hands to protect forest in the
reserve.
The reserve's
management board, the forestry self-management board and the communal
people's committee recently signed an agreement on forest protection and
development. Under the agreement, local households, mainly belonging to the
Muong ethnic minority, committed not to transport illegally chopped wood or
work with illegal loggers.
In addition to
protecting forests, the agreement helps local people by offering lending and
technological investment assistance, as well as giving them high priority in
local economic development projects and programmes, support in tourism
activities and land to cultivate.
"My family, as
well as many other local people's, started planting corn and cassava,"
said Bui Van Lin, a resident living in the reserve. "Our lives have
become more stable."
Lin is a member of
the forestry self-management board in the Ngoc Son – Ngo Luong Nature
Reserve. The reserve has diverse species of animals and plants, but until
recently was plagued by illegal logging.
Before the reserve
was established, the large, forested area belonged to local people. However,
when it became a protected area, the reserve's management board took it over.
Without much land to cultivate, local people cut down trees inside
special-use forest to sell. Thinking the land was not theirs, they were
unconcerned by the negative effects of these practices. The new preferential
policies provide them with land to cultivate so they no longer have to
exploit forest illegally.
"It took us
more than one year to campaign and explain to relevant agencies and local
people that the project could be implemented," said forest ranger Nguyen
Binh Dinh.
The five
participating hamlets organise regular group patrols. Households in the
hamlets must patrol one or two days per month with members of the forestry
self-management board.
Frequent patrols
allow the board to detect violations more quickly. Patrollers can immediately
stop violators, detain them and seize proof for a later investigation, or
they can allow the board and People's Committee to deal with the violators.
Bui Binh Yen,
director of the reserve management board, explained that while the project
was still in the pilot stage, raising local people's awareness about
protecting forests was an encouraging sign for the mountainous area.
Awareness was very
low years ago, said Bui Van Tuong, deputy head of the self-management board
in Khu Hamlet, Ngoc Son Commune, Lac Son District. People would sell wood,
knowing the high value of many of the trees around them, in addition to using
it for their own homes.
However, regular
patrols by board members and local people curbed deforestation and illegal
wood transportation. The forestry self-management board in Khu Hamlet seized
125 logs between April and June last year. The board in Roc Hamlet in Ngoc
Son Commune also seized 23 logs.
There are four
nature reserves in the
Nearly
33,500
A total of 33,480
Mekong Delta households have so far this year lifted themselves out of poverty,
decreasing the region’s poverty rate from 7.2 percent in 2013 to 6 percent
currently, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region.
The committee
highlighted the leading role of Can Tho City and Long An, Soc Trang, Hau
Giang, Dong Thap, and Tra Vinh provinces in the work.
Until the end of
this year, the region will undertake maximum efforts to help 11,000 families
escape from poverty.
According to Nguyen
Phong Quang, the committee’s deputy head, the achievements were attributable to
concrete measures undertaken by the regional localities, such as increasing
capital for vocational training from 10 percent to 12 percent, revising the
vocational curriculum in line with poverty reduction measures, and developing
a family-based economy and agricultural products.
In addition, the
farmer’s union at all levels coordinated with the agriculture and fishery
extension centre in providing training on farming and breeding techniques for
local people, he added.
Can Tho city
provided nearly 12,000 disadvantaged households with access to health care
and insurance, as well as electricity. It also built houses for 4,838 poor
families.
Meanwhile, An Giang
and Tra Vinh provinces handed over more than 2,500ha of farm land to ethnic
Khmer people.
In the near future,
the Mekong Delta localities will train specialised officials, mobilise
capital from different sources, promote technological transfers and create
more jobs for local people, especially farmers without land, in a bid to help
the rest of the population escape from poverty by 2020.-
Southern
youngsters respond to call for traffic safety
More than 2,000
young people in
The festival’s
highlight was a forum during which participants discussed appropriate
behaviours on the road, how to respond to accidents, and measures to improve
public awareness of commuting safely and the Law on Road Traffic.
A photo exhibition,
physical games and plays were held to convey traffic safety information to
the youth who also engaged in activities sharpening their skills of riding
motorcycles.
Organisers also
presented quality helmets to 150 motorbike taxi drivers and members of
volunteer teams to ensure local traffic safety.
On this occasion,
the organising board launched a traffic safety week calling on the young to
commute by buses and wear standard helmets.
As part of the
festival, 60 police officers and 100 young people proceeded on their bicycles
and motorbikes through
Quang Ngai
fishermen, poor patients receive donation
President of the
Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Dang Ngoc Tung has presented
580 million VND (27,260 USD) to six fishermen in Binh Son and Ly Son
districts in the central province of Quang Ngai, whose fishing vessels were
damaged during accidents at sea.
During his working
visit to Quang Ngai on September 27, Tung also handed over 300 million VND
(14,100 USD) to the provincial Fund for poor patients.
The two donations
are made by the “Golden Heart” Fund of Lao Dong Newspaper.
On September 28,
the local Fishermen Support Fund and the People’s Committee of Ly Son
district held a ceremony to hand over 136 million VND (6,392 USD) in
assistance to five local fishermen in An Hai and An Vinh communes.
The money is
intended to help the fishermen repair their ships and purchase fishing
equipment.
Previously, a ship
owner in Duc Pho district also received 15 million USD from the fund to equip
her ship with the positioning system.
Through the
activities, the fund hopes to help local fishermen become better equipped to
go fishing at sea.
The Airports
Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has started work on upgrading
As announced, the
airport’s runway, taxiway and parking space and other facilities will be
upgraded and expanded to the west.
Notably, the runway
will be expanded from 36m to 45m in width and from 1,830m to 2,400m in length
so that the airport can handle A321, Boeing 737 and equivalent aircraft.
The construction
project has an investment of 945 billion VND (44.5 million USD), co-funded by
the State budget, the ACV and Gia Lai’s provincial budget. The project is due
to be finished in 2015.
The upgraded
airport would contribute greatly to the province’s development in terms of
socio-economic growth and security, Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Public
Security, also Head of the Central Steering Committee for Central Highlands
region said at the construction start ceremony.-
Briton has
$37,000 Ford car stolen in
Police in
The car, worth
about VND800 million (US$37,800), is owned by Collins Sean Michael, 33, whose
wife is Vietnamese, 33-year-old Nguyen Phuong Khanh.
The couple lives in
Canh Vien 1 condominium in Tan Phu Ward, District 7.
The couple told
police that Khanh had left their Ford Everest on the grounds of the
condominium and went up to her apartment on Friday morning.
A while later, her
husband, Collins, arrived to take the car, but he could not find it.
He then told his
wife about the theft and asked her to report it to the district police for
help.
A social crime
investigation police team from the District 7 Police arrived at the apartment
to examine the scene and talk to neighbors to collect information related to
the theft.
Police have
launched an investigation and are searching for the culprit.
Campaign
calls for joint efforts to end gender imbalance at birth
A campaign was
launched in
Launched by the
Vietnam Farmers’ Association (VFA), the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the campaign is also to raise public
awareness of the causes and consequences of choosing the gender of baby.
In his opening
speech, VFA President Nguyen Quoc Cuong said the gender ratio at birth
remains high in
I f the situation
is not improved,
He attributed the
gender imbalance at birth to preconceptions that prefer son to daughter,
saying this brings about negative impacts on the country’s population
structure in the future.
Arthur Erken, UNFPA
Chief Representative in
This requires
measures to bring the equality to women and girls in order to ensure their
human rights and dignity, she said, noting that the men also need to get involved
in changing the social and cultural preconceptions.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet,
VWU Vice Chairwoman pledged to further increase communication efforts, thus
improving the role women in families and the society.
In the framework of
the event, several workshops and conferences will be organised in Hanoi,
northern provinces of Hai Duong an Bac Ninh to promote the campaign.-
Quang Ninh
launches tourism slogan competition
The
The province is
highly attractive for tourists, boasting Ha Long Bay, Bach Dang and Yen Tu
relic sites, and a number of international border gates.
This year, the
province is expecting 7.5 million tourists, including 2.8 million
international visitors. By 2030, the province hopes to become a world-class
tourism hub offering modern infrastructure and impeccable services.
The competition
runs until April 14, 2015, with the best 30-50 entries exhibited publicly and
put to a vote.
Recognised as one
of the seven natural wonders of the world in March 2012, Ha Long Bay has
recorded 28.8 million arrivals since 1996, including 14.2 million
international tourists and generating over 1.4 trillion VND (67 million USD).
To maintain Ha Long
Bay’s status, Quang Ninh has undertaken maximum efforts to protect the
surrounding environment. All industry, mining and mass transport are located
outside of Ha Long city centre.
Waste is taken
ashore for treatment, while cruise operators have become more
environmentally-conscious.
So far, the
province has implemented 65 environmental projects worth more than 500
billion VND (23.8 million USD), and most of them are proving successful.
The locality is
working on a detailed master plan on Ha Long Bay management and projects to
assess its water quality and biodiversity.
Recently, Quang
Ninh called for more foreign investment to protect the bay from pollution.
American
doctor returns to Vietnam, removes tumors from five patients
Famed
The patients
include Nguyen Hoang Thien An, a 19-year-old girl from the resort city of
Vung Tau, who had surgery on September 24; 32-year-old Le Hoang Em and
22-year-old Kieu Thi My Dung, who were operated on on September 25; and
Nguyen Thi Anh Thi, 26, as well as Nguyen Mai Tho, 17, who had surgery on September
26.
The operations were
led by Dr. McKinnon, and assisted by FVH’s medical team, including Dr. Nguyen
Quang Dai, head of the Otolaryngology Department; Dr. Gerard Desvignes, head
of General Surgery; FVH’s Medical Director, Dr. Roswitha Budge-Wolfram; and
Dr. Dao Thi My Van, head of Anaesthesia and ICU.
The first patient,
Thien An, was sent to the operating room at 3:00pm and was anaesthetized for
about an hour. The surgical team started operating on her at around 4:00pm,
and successfully finished their work at 8:30 pm yesterday.
According to
McKinnon, Thien An is expected to have a good-looking face, with the tumor
almost completely removed, and her nose and right eye reconstructed.
In July of last
year, An was operated on by the
An developed a
small lump on the right side of her face when she was nearly one year old.
The lump grew bigger and eventually turned into a large tumor which destroyed
her face, while An’s family couldn’t afford treatment.
When An was 12 years
old, her parents had collected enough money and took her to the a hospital in
Tien Giang for surgery, but the tumor grew quickly after the operation.
In 2008, the she
was admitted to the
In 2013, Thien An
was among several patients with serious facial tumors selected by the
VinaCapital Foundation, a charitable organization, to be examined or operated
on by American doctor McKinnon for free.
In early July, Thien
An had several health and facial examinations at FVH. On July 29, Dr.
McKinnon came for the last consultation and decided to operate on the patient
as soon as possible.
Thien An is a poor
student with good grades, so she was financially supported by Vovicare, a
charity society run by overseas Vietnamese in
Vovicare and the
Vinacapital Foundation jointly covered the cost of McKinnon’s charity trip to
Besides Thien An,
Dr. McKinnon removed 95 percent of a massive tumor from the face of Le Hoang
Em, a 31-year-old Vietnamese man, who had also been operated on by the doctor
previously.
On January 5, 2012,
Dr. McKinnon finished his massive operation on Nguyen Duy Hai and removed an
82-kilogram tumor on his leg, which had caused suffering for years.
McKinnon has long
been known as one of the best surgeons for complex tumor cases thought
impossible to remove. His best known cases include Lori Hoogewind, an
American woman with a 90.7-kilogram tumor; and Lucica Bunghez, a Romanian who
had an 80-kilogram growth.
McKinnon’s most
serious tumor cases are usually turned down by big hospitals, even in
America, who thought removing these extremely large lumps was too dangerous
for the patients. Over the years, the surgeon has saved hundreds of patients
and returned them to normal lives and appearances. Rarely giving interviews
about his work, he has quietly and tirelessly concentrated on his work, with
a confidence built by years of training and experience.
Ninety percent
goods that being sold at supermarkets in the Mekong delta province of Can Tho
are Vietnamese products including textile, household appliances, fresh foods,
vegetables…
Accordingly, in the
first eight months of 2014, turnover of eight supermarkets reached VND
1,572billion.
Can Tho has 31
enterprises and cooperatives that are able to supply goods for supermarkets
however, it seems not meet enough demand because reality, goods supplying for
local supermarkets are from Ho Chi Minh’s enterprises.
Ms Duong Thi
Mr Le Hung Dung,
Chairman of Can Tho People’s Committee has asked Can Tho Investment Promotion
Center to link supermarkets, commercial centers, enterprises and cooperatives
in the province, aiming to select the provincial typical and high quality
goods that meet the supermarkets’ demand in order to sell since now till
later on.
HCMC has no
report of surge of pinkeye patients
The Ministry of
Health has warned of spread of pinkeye in some northern areas, especially
Fortunately, Dr.
Nguyen Huu Hung, deputy head of the Department of Health in
Some pinkeye
patients were seen on the day in the
The Ministry of
Health has warned that patients would have pinkeye and rheum. The symptoms of
pinkeye differ based on the cause of the inflammation, but may include
redness in the white of the eye or inner eyelid; Increased amount of tears;
Thick yellow discharge that crusts over the eyelashes; and itchy eyes.
Normally, patients
can see as usual but if the disease gets worse, their visualizations will be
poor and bleeding will occur under the conjunctiva.
Accordingly, the
ministry asked departments of health and preventive medicine centers
nationwide to implement measures against the disease. Under the guideline,
hospitals and eye hospitals have to isolate pinkeye patients to prevent or
reduce the risk of spreading. Medical clinics have to provide patients with
hand sanitizer and disinfectants.
150 young
farmers honored in
The Central
Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union granted the 9th Luong Dinh
Cua Award to 150 outstanding young farmers in
The awardees
include 24 ethnics, one doctor degree, 22 owners of businesses in rural areas,
and cooperative chairmen. Among them are owners of 35 production and trading
modals yielding VND1-10 billion every year.
Stating at the
awarding ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh hoped that the Luong
Dinh Cua laureates would be the main factors of emulation movements in
good production and trading in the rural areas, contributing in the country’s
campaign of building new rural areas.
Besides, the
organization board offered certificates of merit by the Prime Minister to
four best young farmers including a Thai ethnic man, a bee farm owner in
Vietnam man
indicted for lacing shipments to Japan with raticide, human feces
A Vietnamese man
has been charged with “destroying and damaging property” for allegedly
putting human feces, rat poison, and other things into a local firm’s seafood
products, which were exported to Japan this year.
Between May and
June 2014, human feces and raticide were found in five of 887 seafood
packages that Rich Beauty
The scandal has
caused the exporter to suffer massive economic losses, postpone production,
and have its prestige damaged, the firm complained.
Suspect Tran Xuan
Trinh, 35, fled from the company after the incident. He was arrested on
September 17 while farming for a relative in Chu Pong Commune in Chu Se
District of the Central Highlands
Trinh confessed to
police that he was dissatisfied with the huge workload he had to do every day
at the company. He added that he was required to work 13 to 14 hours a day
and two Sundays per month.
For that reason, he
came up with an idea of putting human feces, rat poison, knives, and screws into
the company’s shipments to
He thought that if
the firm’s prestige was tainted, it would have fewer orders, leading to him
having more days off.
The man is now in
police detention.
Trinh could face a
jail term of up to 20 years or life sentence if convicted under the
Vietnamese Penal Code.
Public
concern banned chemical residues in animal meat, veggies
At a meeting on
September 25 in Hanoi presided by Agriculture and Rural Development Minister
Cao Duc Phat, many representatives of food safety management agencies said
that the threats of banned chemicals use in breeding and dangerous pesticide
on vegetables are alarming.
Agriculture and
Rural Development Minister Phat said that public gets angry over contaminated
veggies. Nguyen Xuan Hong, head of the Plant Protection Department, under the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, confirmed the situation adding
that his department is going to issue a circular to tighten control over
pesticide usage.
Moreover, not only
normal veggies but imported agricultural produces are soaped with
chemicals. Some importer countries have warned over pepper contaminated with
pesticide residues.
Following the
warning, the Plant Protection Department has taken 30 percent of pepper
samples for testing and discovering one sample has higher pesticide content
than the allowed rate.
Related agencies
also discovered through tests that 13 over 30 samples of pork meat from
nearby provinces such as Binh Duong, Ben Tre, Dong Nai and Binh Thuan
have excessive content of sulfadimidin.
The Animal Health
Department continued testing pork and chicken meat importing into HCMC. Tests
result showed that two samples are contaminated with banned chemicals
including one chicken meat with chloramphenicol and one pork meat with
salbutamol.
Second
information center in Hoi An opened
Hoi An Culture,
The new center is
located at an ancient house. Touring to Hoi An, tourists will not only visit
ancient houses but also discover Hoianese livings and take part in community
activities.
This is the second
information center in
The ten most
outstanding citizens of
Phu Quang is the
composer of many great songs about
Phu Quang wrote
many well-known songs about
Doctor Nguyen Tien
Quyet is head of
Tran Duc Long,
chief inspector of
The list of ten
most outstanding citizens of Hanoi also includes Duong Tuan Anh, a driver for
Hanoibus line 50; Lam Van Bang, curator of the Museum for Revolutionary
Prisoners; Nguyen Thi Hien, former teacher at Vietnam National University's
Hanoi College of Foreign Languages; Nguyen Thi Nga, chairman of SEABANK and
CEO cum chairman of BGR Group; Phung Manh Thuc, chairman of the Former Youth
Volunteers of Hoa Thach Ward, Quoc Oai District; artisan Nguyen Ngoc Trong;
and Ho Huong Nam, former teacher at Hoang Hoa Tham Primary School.
From now up to the
anniversary, many other art and cultural activities will be held in the city.
On the evening of Oct. 10,
Twenty-five other
locations are distributed throughout the districts such as Dong Da, Thanh
Xuan, Bac Tu Lien, Ba Dinh, Cau Giay, Phu Xuyen and Ung Hoa.
The Hanoi
Department of Health on September 27 ran an exercise to prepare medical staff
for a possible Ebola outbreak in case the virus, which is spreading rapidly
across West Africa, enters
A simulation
scenario was created in Uy No commune, Dong Anh district, implying that a
Vietnamese guest worker returned from Ebola-hit
Responses were
carried out with joint efforts by the patient’s family, local authorities and
hospital staff.
Speaking at the
event, Deputy Head of the municipal Health Department Hoang Duc Hanh called
upon the involved agencies to remain prepared to tackle the virus if it
occurs in the country.
A short training
course on preventive measures and responses against Ebola virus was organised
in the Central Highlands
The current
outbreak of Ebola, which is spread via contact with the bodily fluids of an
infected person, such as sweat and blood, has killed at least 3,091 people in
No Ebola infections
have been reported in
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