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Dong Nai
rioters imprisoned for disturbing peace
The People’s Court
of Nhon Trach district in the southern
The accused include
Nguyen Van Tri, 24 from Khanh Hoa province; Tran Ngoc Tha, 17 (Binh Dinh); Le
Van Sang, 24 (An Giang); Dinh Tuan Vu, 31 (Hau Giang); Vien Van Man, 24 (Bac
Giang); Le Van Dung, 19 (Phu Yen); Vu Viet Dinh, 29 (Binh Thuan); Du Quoc Ky,
22 (Ca Mau); Nguyen Huu Duc, 21 (Can Tho); Vo Ngoc Ba, 39 (Ho Chi Minh City),
Danh Dung, 19 (Kien Giang); Bui Tan Vu, 23 (Dong Thap); Hoang Minh Khai, 19
(Bac Lieu); Ly Huu Trong, 26 (Ca Mau) and Tran Van Khanh, 26 (Thanh Hoa).
According to the
verdict of the local People’s Procuracy, on May 13 the defendants took
advantage of a protest against
During the trial,
the defendants confessed their crimes and showed remorse.
Tran Van Khanh and
Tran Ngoc Tha were sentenced to 14 months and 9 months, respectively, while
Vu Viet Dinh and Vo Ba Ngoc were granted 10-month sentences. The rest were
sentenced to 12 months in prison.-
Nine
injured in lorry accident
Nine people were
injured when a lorry losing its control and crashed into two houses yesterday
evening in the northern mountainous
The two houses,
which are in Bao Thang District's
Witnesses at the
scene said that the lorry running at high speech, allegedly due to a broken
brake, and crashed into another lorry, two motorbikes and then the two
houses.
Five serious
victims were taken to the
Child dies
in Bao Yen flash floods
Heavy rain caused
flash floods in the north-eastern districts of
In the same
commune, at least two houses were washed away by floodwaters and a landslide.
Several cattle were also killed in thunderstorms in Tan Tien Commune.
Traffic was
suspended for many hours in Van Ban District due to the floods.
Last night, the
local authorities asked the concerned authorities to evacuate residents and
provide them shelter.
The French Agency
for Development (AFD) on September 30 signed a credit agreement in
The fourth
preferential loan of the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change
(SP-RCC) has lifted AFD’s total pledged capital for
Speaking at the
signing ceremony, French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean-Noel Poirier affirmed the
French government places a high priority on co-operation with
Ambassador Poirier
said since the programme first began in 2009, the programme has proven highly
effective, adding that his nation will continue assisting
Vietnamese,
Cuban news agencies enhance information exchange
Vietnam News Agency
(VNA) General Director Nguyen Duc Loi held talks in
General Director
Nguyen Duc Loi thanked the PL for its cooperation, support and assistance for
the VNA representative office in
The PL has annually
sent its experts to help the VNA’s Department for Foreign News Services
improve its Spanish bulletin and train sub-editors, he said.
Emphasising the
effective collaboration between the two national news agencies, President
Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta expressed his wish that the two sides increase
meetings and exchanges to improve their cooperation in the coming time.
On the same day,
the PL delegation was received by Vice Standing Chairman of the Vietnam
Journalists Association Ha Minh Hue, who said he hopes the journalists
associations of
BIDV grants
scholarships to 44 Cambodian students
The Bank for
Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) in
The scholarships
are pursuant to an agreement between BIDV and
Yok Nguy, Secretary
of State of Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, expressed his
sincere appreciation to BIDV for its contributions to support social welfare
in
In 2014-2015 academic
year, 55
Duong Quoc Trung, a
student from
Tran Thi Hoai
Phuong a student from
The contest was
open to all Vietnamese citizens residing in
The pieces were
evaluated based on the writer’s understanding of
Speaking at the
ceremony, Chargé d’Affairs of the Peruvian Embassy Luis Tsuboyama said the
writing contest was an opportunity to promote Peruvian culture to Vietnamese
people and further cement ties between the two countries.
Celebrating
40 years of Vietnam-Germany diplomatic relations
The German
Consulate General in
From now until
December 2015, an Oktoberfest beer festival, German/Bavarian band and
orchestra concerts, and ballet performances are just a few of the many
planned events for HCMC and the surrounding area.
In 2015, the two
sides will co-organize exhibitions on lacquer paintings, electronic music
performances and German Film Festival in HCMC.
German Consul
General in HCMC Hans – Dieter Stell also said it was his distinct pleasure to
announce a US$80 million 25-storey German House will soon kick off
construction.
Other joint
projects resulting from the strategic partnership between the two countries
that will get off the ground by 2016 include a metro project and a
Vietnam-German
diplomatic relations were established on September 23, 1975.
There are now 300
German firms operating in southern
Last Twin
Otter aircraft to land in October
Viking Air Limited
will deliver the sixth and final DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft on
order by
The aircraft, coded
MSN 887 VNT-773 (N900VK/C-GVAT), has the capability to land on short runways,
soft grounds (grassy, soil or sand), as well as on water.
In May 2010, the
Vietnam Navy signed a contract with the private aircraft manufacturer for six
DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 series aircraft, which are designed for maximum speeds
of 314 kph and have a flight range of 1,832 kilometres, powered by two high
performance engines.
The receipt of the
amphibious aircraft marks a new milestone enhancing
Vietnamese pilots
have trained in
The Belgian
Bilateral Scholarships enable young officials to pursue Master studies in
Deadline for
submission of applications is December 30.
Candidates living
in all provinces and regions across
For further
information, candidates can access the website
http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/vietnam/development_cooperation/
Unemployment
rate rising in urban areas
The unemployment
rate among young people aged between 15 and 24 saw a sharp increase of 6.31%
in the first nine months of 2014, three times higher than the country’s
average figure (2.12%), according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The GSO reported
that about 3.51% of workers in urban areas were unemployed in the nine-month
period, while the rate in rural areas was 1.56%.
There’s a widening
gap in unemployment among young people in urban (11.71%) and rural areas
(4.1%). The non-State and foreign-invested businesses experienced a slight
increase in employment, from 4.2% in January to 5.6% in September.
While the number of
employed workers in the mining industry decreased by 3.6%, businesses
operating in the fields of processing, manufacturing, waste treatment, and
electricity distribution generated more jobs (up 2.6-4.8%).
The northern
The GSO estimated
that
UK
Education Exhibition to open in Vietnam
The UK Education
Exhibition 2014 will see the largest ever number of participating
institutions - 73
Organised by the
British Council Vietnam, the exhibition will hit Melia Hotel in
Vietnamese parents
and students will find information on diverse pathways to university,
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, alongside information about 99
scholarship programmes.
A focus on skills
will be the highlight of this year’s exhibition. “Living Books” or Vietnamese
alumni will be invited to share with future UK-bound students their valued
experience in building a successful career, starting with the right choice of
what to study from undergraduate levels.
These alumni are
those who have landed jobs with global or local organisations in
Participants can
meet them in person or listen to a staged talk themed “Skills for a GREAT
Career,” where the “living books” are joined by a human resource expert.
Apart from this,
other workshops will introduce to prospective students a world of study
options in the
About 180 lucky
participants will have a chance to register for the free IELTS mock tests in
Around 70 Canadian
institutions will participate in the 6th Annual Canadian Education Week in
Highlights of the
week will be education fairs due to take place at the Melia Hotel in
Students and
families are encouraged to take this opportunity to meet directly with
Canadian institutions’ representatives, learn about
This year’s event
will see the participation of
A special seminar
on applying for student visas will be led by a Canadian immigration official,
aimed at providing the public with transparent and clear guidance on this
topic of concern.
Central
Highlands improves healthcare
All Central
Highlands communes have medical stations providing basic healthcare services,
according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.
As a result, more
pregnant women are visiting the medical stations for examinations and
progress has been made in treating common diseases such as malaria,
tuberculosis, goiter and cholera.
The number of
medical staff at commune-level infirmaries is now 18,325, approximately 3.5
times higher than in 2001. All the medical stations have paediatric nurses
and midwives and over 81 per cent have doctors. All provinces provide
community-based healthcare training for traditional midwives.
As a result, 30 per
cent of commune-level medical stations in the region meet the national
standards for healthcare. That percentage in
Local authorities
urged the Government, relevant ministries and agencies to increase investment
to repair and upgrade medical stations and train and recruit medical staff.
The
PM urges
efforts to spur growth
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday that drastic measures are needed to deal with
aggregate demand, spur production and ensure social protection.
Addressing the
concluding session of a regular cabinet meeting, he identified several
problems, including slow disbursement of investment capital, budget
imbalances, and several uncompetitive sectors, that needed to be addressed so
that the national growth target of 5.8 per cent can be met.
Dung called upon
relevant agencies to implement urgent and comprehensive measures to attract
more investment into the industrial, agricultural, services, and tourism
sectors, particularly rural areas.
Investment in
infrastructure development should also be given priority, he said.
The PM also called
for greater efforts to increase the export of Vietnamese goods to potential
markets.
Highlighting the
fact that Viet Nam's labour productivity of 61 percent is only average among
ASEAN members, and just slightly ahead of Myanmar and Cambodia, he asked the
National Council for Sustainable Development and Competitiveness Improvement
as well as other agencies to study the problem and find solutions.
He also called for
more efforts to meet the target of creating 1.6 million new jobs. So far, 1.5
million people have secured jobs this year, promoting sustainable poverty
reduction, he said, urging stronger focus on healthcare and education.
The PM said
At a press meeting
held yesterday, Head of the Government Office Nguyen Van Nen said that if it
happens, the easing of restrictions on selling weapons to
Responding to
questions on the crack found on the recently-opened
He said the
Transport Ministry had been assigned to inspect repair work currently
undertaken by subcontractors.
A plan to rebuild a
traditional market in
Le Son, deputy
chairman of Tan Binh District's People's Committee, said on Monday, that the
plan called for clearing the traditional 22,000-square-metre Tan Binh Market
and replacing it with a modern six-storey structure and 17-floor trade
centre.
He said despite
efforts made by the District Committee to hold negotiations between the shop
owners and the authorities, many traders had gathered in front of the
Committee's office to protest the decision, which was announced over a week
ago.
Le Ngoc Dao, deputy
director of the city's Industry and Trade Department, said the city
authorities had succeeded in moving many traditional markets thanks to public
relations activities.
She added that it
had been difficult to relocate the traders because of unfair compensation
rates, unsound policies and disagreement between the authorities and traders
on how to relocate shop owners and move the market.
Construction costs
are estimated at VND4 trillion (US$190 million), which will come from the Tan
Binh Phu Trading, Service and Real Estate Company, a joint-venture between
the Tan Binh District Public Service Co. and Tan Quang Co. Ltd.
Son told the media
at the meeting in early September that the 2,956 traders in the traditional
market would be allotted 3,336 kiosks.
Two temporary
markets were scheduled to be built at the site at a cost of VND272 billion
(nearly US$13 million). The traders would remain there until the new
buildings are completed.
Ensuring
food safety proves difficult for City officials
Most people in
District and
commune authorities should take the initiative for measures to ensure food
safety, she said, adding that they should not wait for instructions.
Le Thai Hoa, head
of the city Food Safety and Hygiene Division, said his and other relevant
agencies monitor food brought from other provinces and cities and sold in
wholesale markets and other places.
Safe food chains
where the quality of essential items was controlled from the farm to the
sales point have been set up, he said.
Yet unsafe foods
continue to be sold around the city, he admitted, adding that since 80 per
cent of all food is brought in from other provinces and cities, the number is
too large for fool-proof control.
He also blamed the
mushrooming of illegal markets for the difficulty in ensuring food safety and
hygiene.
Other violations
like adding excessive food additives and using those not allowed by the
Ministry of Health are also rampant in the city.
The risk of food
poisoning from street foods was high, Hoa said, pointing out that there were
more than 16,443 street food stalls in the city but communes and wards did
not have officials exclusively to monitor food safety and hygiene.
This year city
authorities checked 12,050 food stalls and found 57 per cent of them
violating safety and hygiene regulations, slapping fines of VND31.6 million
(US$1,504), according to a report by the city Steering Board on Food Safety.
Forty of them were also shut down.
Food manufacturers,
especially small ones, did not realise they were responsible for their
consumers' health, Hoa said.
But many poor
people could not afford to buy foods with clear origins, he said.
He said that his
division planned to step up inspection and oversight of food and propagate
information about food safety.
More officials
would be recruited at ward and district levels to oversee food safety, he
said.
Economics and
business students can consider journalism as their new career in which they
can utilise both their knowledge of economics and journalistic skills.
The idea was
stressed at the ceremony to award certificates of the Summer School:
"Investing in your future" organised by
At the ceremony,
KAS and FTU awarded certificates to 20 FTU students who have successfully
completed the summer school and displayed their potential to become economics
journalists.
Country
Representative of KAS in Viet Nam Rabea Bauer said, "The programme aimed
to strengthen public communication skills and provide intensive training in
economics and journalism to students of economics."
During the
programme, the students learned about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) and of the need to foster regional integration through media and
economics, she added.
The idea of
integration was presented in the context that
FTU students also
had the chance to improve their economics, business and journalistic
knowledge and skills during a study tour to
They had
discussions and talks on journalism with representatives from the media in
Project Manager of
KAS Viet Nam Dang Tuan Vu said, "The decisive criterion to admit a
student into the programme is the motivation letter which proves his
motivation and inspiration to become a journalist."
Other selection
criteria, including GPA, English skills and social engagement, are only
reference points to evaluate the competence of a student, Vu added.
Breast
cancer diagnoses often come too late to help patients
As much as 70 per
cent of breast cancer patients are diagnosed when they are already in the
final stages of the disease, said Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyen Thi Xuyen
at a recent breast cancer prevention event in Ha Noi.
The event was
organised by the Supportive Fund for Cancer Patients-Bright Future Fund, an
establishment under the Ministry of Health. The 5,000 person gathering aimed
to raise public awareness about breast cancer, the number one form of cancer
afflicting women in
Latest statistics
from the Ministry of Health showed that about 15,000 new breast cancer cases
are diagnosed annually in the country.
"Patients
diagnosed with breast cancer often came to the hospital late, and that made
the treatment result less effective," said Xuyen.
Breast cancer is
highly treatable if detected early. In developed countries, about 80 per cent
of women diagnosed with breast cancer survive due largely to early detection.
"If patients
get treated at late stages, stage 3 and 4, the survival rate ranges from 40
per cent to less than 10 per cent," said Le Hong Quang, Vice Head of the
Breast Surgery Department at the
Quang said that
there are three principal reasons for the high rate of late diagnoses, one of
them being lack of self-examination and detection.
Financial
difficulty was another cause, as poor patients feared that going to a
hospital would be too costly. Only once they could not stand the pain
anymore, in the later stages of the disease, did they go to see a doctor.
Lastly, lack of
proper knowledge about cancers in general also worsens the situation.
"Some women tend to give up and hide their sickness because they think
that cancers are incurable," said Quang.
Breast cancer is
the fifth most fatal cancer in the world, each year claiming about 521,000
lives.
Seminar
discusses greenhouse gas reduction in agriculture
The reduction of
greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in agriculture was the topic of a seminar in
MARD Deputy
Minister Le Quoc Doanh emphasised that it is important to come up with
solutions to mitigating CO2 emission in agriculture which produces
approximately 43 percent of the nation’s GHG emissions.
He said the MARD
has set up a working group in charge of pushing Nationally Appropriate
Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) to reduce GHG emission in agriculture.
The group is
working in the framework of the three-year project entitled “Enhancing NAMA
readiness: building capacity in integrated food and energy systems in
The UN One Plan,
the joint framework between the United Nations and the Vietnamese Government,
will provide 700,000 USD to the project while the remaining will be funded by
the Vietnamese government.
The project will
organise training courses for policy makers and experts in the sector on
developing NAMA plans.
A FAO
representative laid stress on stronger coordination between sectors and
strong will of managers for achieving the goal of reducing GHG emissions.
The agriculture
sector aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 5.7 million tonnes by 2020,
approximately 10 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.-
Free measles vaccination: no negative side effects reported
As many as 43,000
children aged 1-14 have received free measles-rubella vaccinations, with no
post-vaccination side effects recorded so far.
Prof. Dr Nguyen
Tran Hien, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
told a media conference in
Children in Thanh
Son district in northern Phu Tho province, Phu Vang district in central
Thua-Thien-Hue province, Cu Kuin district in the Central Highlands
Safety was ensured
throughout the vaccination process, from the initial consultation, check-ups
and injection to post-vaccination monitoring, Hien said.
The three-phase
campaign is expected to benefit 23 million children aged 1-14, increasing the
vaccination rate for children of this age group to 95 percent.
A measles epidemic
erupted in
As many as 5,031
cases of measles were recorded in the country during the first half of 2014.
Vaccination was proven to be the most effective response to the outbreak,
bringing the disease under control in May.-
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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