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Ventilator
donated to City hospital
The New
Zealand-based Julie Ferne Memorial Trust donated a
The
Since 2012, the
Julie Ferne Memorial Trust has raised funds from around the world to advance
pediatric care in
Students
test computing skills
As many as 400
Vietnamese students from 67 local colleagues and universities are taking part
in the 23rd Olympics Computing for Students, which opened yesterday in
Individual
candidates will compete in several categories, including the Olympic Super
Cup, computing study and open source.
Another contest, an
international programmer contest, the Association for Computing
Machinery-International Collegiate Programming Contest – Asian region, is
also being held with 107 teams.
After the contest,
the 10 top teams will travel to
Wild boar
kills woman on rice farm
A wild boar
attacked a woman on a rice farm in Pho Hoa commune in central
The victim, Pham
Thi Hong Hanh, 39, was attacked by the boar while working on the farm in the
morning, according to local police.
It's the first case
known of a wild animal attacking a resident in the province, said deputy head
of communal police, Nguyen Van Bang.
He said the boar
was probably trying to escape from a hunting group in forest a few kilometres
away.
Police bust
online gambling ring
The members of an
online gambling ring, who spent billions of dong betting on football matches,
have been arrested by the Bac Tu Liem District police in Ha Noi.
The police
announced this morning that they have also seized dozens of mobile phones,
laptops and iPads from the spot.
The 11-member gang
was led by Nguyen Anh Tuan, 25, of Co Nhue 2 Ward in the district.
According to the
initial investigation, Tuan admitted to the police that he was operating two
accounts on the 32bet.com website since July to accept bets from gamblers.
The case is under
investigation.
Driver,
assistant die as truck brakes fail
A truck fell into
an abyss while crossing a mountain pass in the central
The accident was
believed to be caused by brake failure.
The victims, both
from the
The case is under
investigation.
Free car
tests in road safety campaign
The fifth annual
Road Safety Campaign will offer free car tests and traffic safety information
to about 8,000 people in Ha Noi,
Sponsored by French
tyre manufacturer Michelin, the two-week campaign was organised in
collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee.
It aims to
reinforce key road-safety messages, especially for youth, in highly populated
cities and provinces. As a follow-up, the Michelin Road Safety Comic will
illustrate aspects of road safety for people of all ages.
Vietnam-Philippines
Friendship Association makes debut
A congress was held
in
The congress also
elected a 29-member executive board led by Deputy Minister of Agricultural
and Rural Development Vu Van Tam.
Speaking at the
event, VUFO President Vu Xuan Hong stressed that the Vietnamese Party and
State attach importance to strengthening the friendship and cooperation with
Southeast Asian nations, including the
The establishment
of VNPFA marks a new development in the friendship, cooperation and
people-to-people exchange between the two countries, he said.
Philippine
Ambassador to Vietnam Jerril G. Santos said that bilateral cooperation,
especially in economy and education, has developed fruitfully in recent
years, with increasing numbers of Vietnamese studying and working in the
Vietnamese,
President of the
Both sides
introduced their respective unions’ structures and activities, and expressed
their hope to increase cooperation in the field via delegation exchanges and
sharing experience.
The host stated
that the Law on Trade Union and the Law on Labour, approved by the National
Assembly in June 2012, have brought the interests and rights to Vietnamese
trade unionists.
The VGCL is
accelerating the development of trade unions in businesses, especially
private and foreign invested enterprises.
The confederation
currently has over 8 million members.
HCMC hosts
ACM Int’l Collegiate Programming Contest
The 23rd Vietnam
Informatics Olympic Contest for Students (OLP’14) and the ACM International
Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC) in Asian region opened in
The OLP’14 draws
the participation of 400 Vietnamese students. It aims to honour talents and
encourage researches and creativeness in the field of information
technology-communication among Vietnamese students.
The ACM/ICPC in
Asian region attracts 107 Vietnamese teams and 316 students. The best ten teams
will fly to
The ACM/ICPC 2015
World Finals will be held in
The OCP’14 and
ACM/ICPC held in
The contests will
last through to October 31.
Cambodian,Vietnamese
localities establish twin relationship
Memoranda of
understanding on the establishment of a twin relationship between southern
Binh Phuoc province and its Cambodian neighbors of Kratie and Mondulkiri were
recently signed in Binh Phuoc.
The documents
provided a foundation for border villages to enhance the traditional
friendship, defend the common borderline, combat cross-border crimes and
stimulate the local economy.
Under the
documents, Binh Phuoc's two villages are twined with Kratie’s localities and
one with Mondulkiri’s.
Cambodian officials
said they hope the documents will enable them to to share economic
development experience with Binh Phuoc.
The signing of
documents on the twin relationship among villages is set to transpire in
November 2014.
Earlier in June,
Binh Phuoc also signed partial memoranda of understanding with five Cambodian
provinces of Kampong Cham, Kratie, Mondulkiri, Steung Treng and Tbong Khmum
to step up cooperation across the board.
Gender
equality crucial to development
Chairing the
informal discussion group on gender equality, the legislator said the
Vietnamese parliament has made great efforts in making policies and a legal
framework that promote the implementation of human rights, gender equality
and the eradication of violence against women. She noted that the 2013
Constitution designated a whole chapter on human rights, including those of
women.
However, she
admitted
In 1997, the
country was among the ten countries with the highest percentage of women in parliament.
However, it dropped to the 44th place in the world in 2012 with the
percentage reducing to under 30 percent. The NA Vice Chairwoman added that
the respective targets of 35-40 percent of seats in the NA and local People’s
Councils occupied by women by 2020 are a real challenge.
Head of Vietnam’s
Female NA Deputies Group Truong Thi Mai and Vice President of the Vietnam
Fatherland Font’s Central Committee Vu Trong Kim pointed out the fact that
voters tend to choose male candidates instead of women who have the same
qualifications under the impact of the deep-rooted preference for men in the
country.
United Nations
Resident Coordinator Pratibha Mehta spoke highly of
Pratibha Mehta, who
co-chairs the Informal Ambassadors and Heads of Agencies Coordination Group
on Gender, suggested
Vietnamese and
foreign participants proposed measures to raise the number of women winning
elections such as raising local officials’ awareness of the role of women,
improving the capacity and the number of female candidates, and encouraging
women to vote in elections.
US supports
Thua Thien-Hue’s natural disaster response
The United States
Pacific Command (USPACOM) has decided to provide Thua Thien-Hue province with
communication equipment worth nearly VND4.6 billion to cope with natural
disasters.
The provincial
Natural Disaster Prevention Centre (NDPC) will install the equipment at its
new facilities, which are currently under construction.
Earlier, in
February 2014, the USPACOM also granted more than VND8.5 billion worth of
non-refundable aid to the central province to build the NDPC.
The three-storey
centre is being built in
The Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) on October 28 announced the ASEAN great
unity days are set to take place at the
The event themed
“One Vision, One Identity, One Community” aims to introduce the culture of
ASEAN member countries and strengthen mutual understanding and connectivity.
It also targets
building an ASEAN community of solidarity, dynamism, peace and prosperity, to
help
Under framework of
the event, six main activities are planned, including an opening ceremony on
November 21, hoisting ASEAN flag and a closing ceremony on November 23.
A gala and art
performance for ASEAN countries to present their intangible cultural values
are also planned, including Ca Tru (ceremonial singing), Quan Ho (traditional
love duet singing) and Hue royal court music from Vietnam.
A host of other activities
promoting ASEAN land, people, tourism, heritage and traditional sports are
also on the agenda.
Huge
amounts of personal data stolen, offered for sale in Vietnam
The personal data
of hundreds of thousands of people has been stolen, classified, listed and
then offered for sale on the Internet for up to US$1,650 per database.
An employee at an
advertising company in
The email included
an attachment with a demo version of nearly 200 lists of millions of people
working in various fields across the country.
Such lists are
being publicly offered for sale online, but when Tuoi Trecorrespondents
contacted the people in charge and asked to meet them, most refused and said
deals should only take place online and payments should be made by bank
transfer only.
However, a dealer
named Nha agreed to meet Tuoi Tre at his home in Thu Duc District on October
23.
Nha, 25, showed
your correspondents a series of lists of directors, mobile phone subscribers,
bank deposit account holders, and shoppers who are members at supermarkets,
among other details.
These lists include
full basic information about the people named on them.
Notably, among the
lists is one that includes 3,400 people with a savings account at a major
bank, showing all of their deposits and the balance.
Nha said he had
more than 130 lists updated annually to provide to his customers.
Lists are offered
for sale at different prices, Nha said, adding that a list of savings account
holders costs VND700,000 (US$33), while another list cost VND2 million
($94).
Nha, a college
graduate, said he has engaged in “this line of business” for a year and has
obtained the lists from people working at different firms including banks,
companies and agencies.
Nha can earn VND7-8
million per month through selling personal information, he said.
Another seller of
personal data reached by Tuoi Tre is Tuyen, 33, who worked at an insurance
company for five years.
Tuyen, a resident
in
He said all these
lists were updated in April so the information is highly accurate. He added
that his lists are updated every six months.
Like Nha, Tuyen
offered his lists at different prices, from VND1.2 million ($56.5) to VND10
million ($470) per list.
Tuyen revealed that
he had to pay staffers at the banks, companies and other entities who
provided personal data from their organizations to him.
If they were caught
stealing internal information they would be dismissed, Tuyen said.
Another dealer
named Long told Tuoi Tre that he owned a database containing 600,000 postpaid
mobile phone subscribers and another database of over 4,000 pre-paid cell phone
subscribers.
Long offered to
sell the postpaid subscriber list for VND7 million ($330), while he set the
price of the latter one at VND35 million ($1,650).
He claimed to be a
database administrator and affirmed that his lists were updated earlier this month
and were 100 percent accurate.
These dealers of
personal information have left many people whose date was stolen disturbed.
Purchasers of this
stolen information have called or texted the people whose data they have to
offer to sell them different things, including houses and phone numbers, or
insurance products, among other cases.
People who steal
and trade personal information can be sentenced up to seven years in prison,
pursuant to Article 226 of the Vietnamese Penal Code, said lawyer
Nguyen Huu The Trach, from the HCMC Bar Association.
Under Article 38 of
the Civil Code, an individual's rights to personal secrets shall be respected
and protected by law, Trach said.
The collection and
publication of information and materials on the private life of an individual
must receive consent from that person; in cases where that person has died,
lost his civil action capacity or is under fifteen years old, the consent of
his/her father, mother, wife, husband, adult children or representative is
required, except for cases where the collection and publication of
information and materials are conducted through the decision of a competent
agency or organization, he added.
Letters, telephone
numbers, telegrams, and other forms of electronic information on an individual
shall be safely and confidentially guaranteed, Trach said.
The inspection of
an individual's letters, telephones, telegrams and/or other forms of
electronic information may be performed only in cases where it is so provided
for by law and decided by competent state agencies, the lawyer added.
Thanh Hoa’s
airport ready for night flights
Passengers can take
night flights to Tho Xuan airport in the
Vuong Van Viet,
Thanh Hoa’s deputy chairman, said aviation agencies are installing an
automatic control system for airplanes to take off and land, as well as a
light system that allows for night landings.
Apart from this
investment, there will be two new air links between Thanh Hoa and the central
coastal city of
“Airport
infrastructure upgrades and forthcoming air services will make it more
convenient for passengers to travel, thus helping the province attract more
visitors,” Viet told a meeting held last week to introduce the National
Tourism Year 2015 in Thanh Hoa.
Currently, Tho Xuan
Airport serves Thanh Hoa-HCMC flights only. National flag carrier Vietnam
Airlines and low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific operate 14 weekly services.
Viet said those
flights have average seat occupancy of around 85-90%.
The National
Tourism Year 2015 with the theme “Connecting World Heritage sites” will be
opened in March next year with a series of cultural and tourism activities,
with 15 other cities and provinces taking part.
Particularly in
Thanh Hoa, tourism events will be held to attract 5-5.3 million visitors next
year compared an estimated four million this year.
62 teams register for national robothon contest
The 2014 National
Robothon Contest is set to kick off in
Under the theme
“urban waste management”, contestants must use robots for waste transport and
treatment. The best three teams will advance to the International Robotics
Competition, scheduled for
The robothon
competition, the second of its kind so far, aims to create a good playground
for kids to apply information technologies and scientific advances in the
spirit of creativity and teamwork.
Jetstar
Pacific launches new air routes
The low-cost
airline Jetstar Pacific launched its international flights between
The new route will
operate one daily return flight, which is scheduled to take off at 7:05am
from
On the same day,
the carrier also officially inaugurated a service using Airbus 320 aircraft
between
Vietnam
seizes 1 tonne of elephant tusks, 6kg of rhino horns
Customs officers in
northern
The container was
shipped to the northern city of
As shown on the
shipping documents, the container is part of a shipment of two containers of
rubber gloves that were sent to Huy Tuan Joint Stock Company, located in Ha
Long City, the capital of the
Customs officers
inspected both containers and found elephant tusks in one of them, said
Nguyen Sy Trang, deputy head of the Hai Phong City Customs Sub-Department.
Huy Tuan had
earlier submitted to the agency a customs declaration for the import of two
containers of rubber gloves, which would then be exported to a third country,
Trang said, without naming the specific country from which the Vietnamese
firm had imported the goods.
The agency is
coordinating with a Vietnam-based wildlife protection organization to
identify the origin of the tusks and estimate their value, he added.
The international
trade in elephant tusks has been prohibited since 1989 after the population
of the African giants sharply decreased to some 600,000 by the end of the
1980s from millions in the mid-20th century, AFP reported.
Also on Monday,
customs officers at
After finding
suspicious signs in Tu’s suitcases through scanning, customs officers decided
to open them for examination and discovered many animal horns, suspected to
be from rhinos, concealed inside.
Tu was questioned
and she then admitted they were rhino horns, which weighed about 6kg in
total.
The woman told
customs officers that she was hired by a person in
Tu was handed over
to
The total value of
the horns is estimated at about VND4 billion ($188,120), police officers
said.
The Vietnamese
government recently issued a directive banning specimens of rhinos and
several other wild animals from being traded, exported or imported.
Specifically,
specimens of white and black rhinos and elephants, as well as products made
from their horns, are banned. Any other animals included in the list of the
appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Flora and Fauna are also not to be traded.
HCMC hosts
week of listening to tax payers
Ho Chi Minh City
Taxation Department and sub-departments in 24 districts have hosted a week of
listening to tax payers from October 27 to November 2.
During the week,
the department and 24 sub-departments arrange three to five officials at the
most advantageous positions in front of their headquarters for answering tax
payers' questions and complaints.
Businesses and
residents can talk about difficulties they met in tax payment. Tax cadres
will solve their difficulties in time or propose authorized agencies to
consider solutions.
A direct dialogue
will be organized so that tax payers can query tax officials about tax
policies and related administrative procedures.
People can also
send their questions via websites of the HCMC Taxation Department and media.
Health
departments asked to supervise immunization campaign
The Department of
Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday sent an urgent
dispatch to its municipal and provincial sub-departments on strengthening
supervision on free massive vaccination campaign.
The Department of
Preventive Medicine issued the urgent dispatch after an incident of injecting
distilled water instead of vaccine against measles and rubella at a preschool
in the Mekong delta
The Department of
Preventive Medicine ordered the departments of health to supervise whether
medical workers follow the vaccination procedures issued by the Ministry of
Health. Only carefully trained medical workers are allowed to administer
the injection.
Local health sector
should coordinate with schools and authorities to encourage parents to take
their children for vaccination against measles and rubella; accordingly
they should issue information of benefits of vaccination and explanation of
possible side-effects of immunization. Experienced medical workers should
supervise injection procedures as well as help treating cases of bad
reactions soon.
Upon the incident
in Dong Thap, Professor Tran Dac Phu , head of the Department of Preventive
Medicine said no serious consequence was reported. Right after the incident
was reported, medical workers from the Pasteur Institute in HCMC arrived in
the preschool to examine the cases. Medical workers who made misstate have
been tranfered to do other mission.
60 children who
were injected with distilled water have been injected with measles and
rubella vaccine soon under the supervision of staffs from the Department of
Health in
Therefore, the
Ministry of Health asked local governments to ensure providing training to
all medical workers who must examine children before injection.
Mo Lao
awaits new water pipe system
The Fresh Water
Business and Construction Investment Joint Stock Company (Viwaco) planned to
rebuild the Construction-College residential building's water pipe system
next month in Ha Dong District's Mo Lao Ward in Ha Noi.
Since early
September, thousands of the building's residents have suffered tap water
shortages. The water piping system from Da River to Ha Noi has repeatedly
ruptured in recent months, causing interruptions in water supplies, said a
company representative.
Each household will
pay Viwaco VND4 million (US$188) to rebuild the water supply pipe system, but
the amount will be refunded through discounts on water bills in the coming
months.
Dao Thi Suu, a
resident of the building, said her apartment went without tap water about one
week per month for the past year.
The shortage
disrupted the residents' daily lives, she said. Some went to live with
relatives when the water was off, and others bought hundreds of metres of
pipe to bring water from other places.
The ward's People's
Committee worked with authorities to temporarily provide tap water for the
residents until the pipe system was rebuilt, said Nguyen Van Long, the
committee's chairman.
The People’s
Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has instructed relevant sectors to continue to
keep a close watch on the Ebola epidemic situation in
The Department of
Health was asked to step up efforts to early address cases of exposure to the
deadly virus which has affected 10,114 people and killed more than 4,900 so
far.
It is, together
with other agencies like the police and the Department of Tourism,
undertaking the strict observation of those travelling from Ebola-hit regions
for three weeks upon arrival.
Meanwhile,
healthcare facilities were requested to be fully prepared for a potential
outbreak, with regards to equipping treatment and isolation wards and
providing sufficient personal protective gear for medical workers.
As the country’s
largest economic and business hub that welcomes a large number of foreign
visitors on a daily basis, the City has requested individuals coming in from
Ebola-affected areas to undergo temperature measurement and declare their
health status at international airports.
Ebola is spread
through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, such as sweat and
blood.
To date,
Bac Giang
strives to protect Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve
A number of
projects are being implemented in Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve in Son Dong
district, northern Bac Giang province in a bid to protect and increase its
biodiversity, which is representative of the northeastern region.
The projects aim to
involve residents in environmental protection, improve the reserve’s
infrastructure, and protect its rare flora and fauna species by 2020, at an
estimated cost of 19 billion VND (905,000 USD), 55.6 billion VND (2.65
million USD) and 16 billion VND (762,000 USD), respectively.
Additionally, in
2015 a project will relocate residents to areas outside of the nature reserve
at a cost of more than 3.6 billion VND (171,400 USD).
In 2010-2013, more
than 37,170ha of forest were designated for protection by local residents,
and more than 200ha of the buffer zone was reforested. In the same period, a
number of international and domestic projects were implemented in an effort
to protect and develop forests and biodiversity.
The Tay Yen Tu
Nature Reserve was established by Bac Giang’s Provincial People’s Committee
on 22 July 2002 with the issuing of Decision No. 117/QD-UB.
The locality aims
to expand the nature reserve to more than 12,172ha, with a 5,448ha core zone,
nearly 6,524ha of ecological rehabilitation zone and a buffer zone of more
than 6,618ha.
Dormant
park plan stifles residents
Residents living in
Tan Chanh Hiep ward in
About 100 families
have been unable to take advantage of their legal property rights because of
a plan by District 12 People's Committee in 2004.
The plan set aside
310 hectares for a public green park, including the land of the residents.
"The
authorities said that my land was to be used for a park, but they have not
done anything in the last 10 years," said resident Vo Van Ghe. "I
wanted to rebuild my house as it is derelict, but they won't let me."
Ghe tried three times
to build a small house for his newly married son on his 8,000 square metres
of land, but authorities bulldozed them every time.
Another resident Do
Van Tai said that authorities would not allow him to build a house or do any
business on his land.
"I wanted to
earn some money, so I asked the authorities to let me build a greenhouse to
grow orchids. But they refused," he said. "All the banks turned
down my loan requests to grow orchids as my land registrations showed that
the land was planned for public use."
Resident Do Van Luu
said his son could only earn VND5 million (US$240) a month to raise his
family of four.
"I wanted to
sell my 5,000 square metres, but no one dared to buy," he said. "I
just hope that the Government implements the plan soon so that I can receive
the compensation money."
HCM City Department
of Planning and Architecture Vice Director Nguyen Thanh Toan said that the
reason for the 10-year-delay in building the park was mainly a shortage of
money.
He added that the
plan was now actually under modification due to changes in the monorail route
that runs through the ward.
"The
department is still awaiting the new draft plan for the district to start
evaluation work," said Toan.
Vice-head of
District 12's Division of Urban Management, Luong Ngoc Oanh, admitted that
the district was working on a new draft plan for the park but was unsure when
it would be finished.
However, there is
some hope. Toan said that in the meantime, the city had recently decided to
support residents owning land taken for public use.
According to new
construction regulations, residents that have land-use permits before their
land is taken for public use can construct buildings to the maximum of three
floors.
The city
administration also insisted there be no indication the land was to be later
set aside for public use so that residents could get loans from banks.
Dozens of
petrol stations fined for cheating drivers
The provincial
Market Watch Department will tighten the control of petrol stations to make
sure they do not sell illegal fuel.
Deputy Director of
Quang
He said that petrol
and oil were big money spinners for criminals.
Recently, a fuel
station in Tuan Quyen's Nui Thanh district allegedly sold non-standard
petrol.
Consumers said that
they had difficulty starting their engines with the fuel.
Tests showed that
its octane rating was well below standard.
The Deputy Director
said his Department had proposed the provincial authority impose a fine of
VND152 million (US$7,200) on Tuan Quyen gas station.
In addition, Quang
During the first 10
months of this year, Quang Nam's Market Watch Department has carried out
2,260 inspections throughout the province, completed 1,800 cases of trade
fraud and claimed a total of VND4 billion ($190,476) for the State budget.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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