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Vietnam
plans World Day of Road Traffic Victims
From November 3-8,
the National Committee for Traffic Safety will set up five working groups
which will visit the families of road traffic victims in
The Vietnam
Buddhist Sangha will host a memorial ceremony for the deceased at Vinh Nghiem
pagoda in
A media campaign,
workshops and forums are also planned.
Road accidents kill
1.3 million people every year the world over, a figure which is forecast to
climb to 1.8-1.9 million in the near future. In Vietnam, 9,000 people die in
road accidents every year, more than 20 per day on average, Transport
Minister and Vice Chairman of the committee Dinh La Thang said.-
An Giang
province, Cambodian localities establish twin villages
The southern
An Nong and An Phu
communes and Tinh Bien town in
The signing
ceremony in An Giang on November 3 is part of a memorandum of understanding
between the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and the Governor of
Takeo province.
From now on, the
two sides will be able to coordinate trade and cultural exchanges better in
order to increase mutual understanding.-
Vietnam
seeks to enhance Geographic Information Systems
An international
symposium on geographic information systems (GIS), which are advanced forms
of technological software used to analyse and present geographical data, took
place in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on November 3-4.
GIS is a computer
system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage and present
all types of spatial or geographical data. Its applications and technologies
are popular around the world in a number of fields, including national
defence, the environment, healthcare, economic development, agriculture and
forestry, tourism, urban and traffic management, natural disaster warning and
climate change response.
Vietnam started
researching GIS in the 1980s and a number of its top-rated tools are applied
in agriculture and forestry planning, forest management, maps and surveys,
land registry, information and transport management, tourism and climate
change adaptation.
The
At the symposium,
scientists submitted more than 30 papers on GIS in remote sensing,
information technology and communications, medical techniques, climate change
response, and sustainable agriculture and forestry development.
On the occasion,
the UICT announced the establishment of a GIS research centre which is expected
to open up cooperation opportunities with scientists throughout the region.
The event was
co-hosted by the UICT and Feng Chia University of Taiwan (
Excellent
Bac Giang students honoured
Thirteen students
of northern Bac Giang province who obtained outstanding achievements in study
and university entrance exams in 2014 have been granted awards by the
locality’s Hoang Hoa Tham fund of the provincial Youth Union.
Initiated by the
union’s Fund for Supporting and Developing Young Talents, the fund aims to
honour union members and young local residents who achieve excellent
academic, professional and research results.
So far, the fund
has granted awards to 400 local pupils and students, supporting them in
pursuing their dreams.
During the award
ceremony on November 3, the provincial Youth Union also held a seminar on
hero Ly Tu Trong, the example he set for today’s youth, and new youth
development models.
Ly Tu Trong, the
first communist adolescent in the Vietnamese revolution, was arrested by the
French army in February 1931 and executed in November at the tender age of
17.
Bac Giang
focuses on building learning society
The
Vice President of
the provincial Study Encouragement Association (SEA) Giap Minh Quang said his
organisation has set up its branches in 230 communes and wards, over 1,600
agencies and businesses, and 737 schools.
The association at
all levels has significantly contributed to building up a healthy education
environment without drug and violence as well as encouraging tens of
thousands of disadvantaged pupils to go to school.
The SEA has
cooperated with the Training and Education Department in building many
community study centres in remote areas in a bid to help local people improve
knowledge, thus reducing poverty and eliminating illiteracy.
It has raised
nearly 73 billion VND (3.4 million USD) in funds to reward more than 719,000
outstanding pupils and those from difficult circumstances.
Thanks to these
efforts, the province now has 3,990 “studious family lines” and 70,870
“studious families”, Quang said.
In time to come,
Bac Giang will pay more attention to raising public awareness of building the
learning society, improving the quality of the activities of the SEA at all
levels, and bettering education and training consultancy.
Website
helps improve educational management
The Ministry of
Education and Training launched a website at http://truonghocketnoi.edu.vn ,
aiming to aid the organisation and management of professional activities in
the educational and training sector. The site, supported by a modern IT
infrastructure built by the military-run telecom group Viettel , is expected
create a dynamic and effective education environment to facilitate easier
access to education programmes for everyone.
At the launch
ceremony held in the
Minister of
Education and Training Pham Vu Luan emphasised the significance of the
network in not only serving the organisation of further training for teachers
but also in arranging “creative experience” didactic activities for students
at schools.
Accordingly, the
Ministry, along with educational departments and offices and schools, will be
responsible for managing and running the website and monitoring activities
and related results of the system’s users at their management-level.
Teachers, who are
members of the network, will have online training courses to better their
professional skills. Meanwhile, member-students will implement assignments
tasked by their teachers as well as taking tests available on the site.
Bac Ninh:
Canon renovates kindergarten in poor rural commune
Canon Vietnam
Limited Company has built new classrooms and toilets for Phu Lam 2
kindergarten in An Phu village, Phu Lam commune, Tien Du district, the
During the handover
ceremony on November 1, Canon
Principal Do Thi
Xuan expressed her gratitude to the company for providing 120 children in An
Phu village and surrounding areas with better facilities and learning
conditions.
The project “Canon
Friendship Schools Chain” aims to foster educational environment for teachers
and students living in poor mountainous regions.
It has been
supporting 38 schools in 17 northern and central provinces since 2009 by
funding the construction of new classrooms, teacher’s rooms, restrooms,
hand-washing stations and gifting books, bicycles, beds, cameras, printers
and computers to the students.
In September this
year, it launched a bicycle donation programme in Bac Giang province, aiming
to support outstanding disadvantaged students through the donation of 140
bicycles, worth 154 million VND (7,700 USD) in total.
Under the
programme, called “Canon - With you to school”, 100 bikes are to be
distributed to four schools participating in the programme for the first
time, while the rest will be given to four schools that joined last year.
Canon
Since the project
commenced in 2013, the company has invested 600 million VND (28,500 USD) in
lighting up over 28 km of roads in four districts in Bac Ninh province and two
others in Bac Giang province.
Patients
still wait hours for medical exams
Patients still have
to wait long, normally four to eight hours, for their turn to take medical
checkups despite reduced administrative procedures, according to a survey of
the city’s health department.
The survey took
stock of the actual performance of public hospitals in HCMC that are
reforming medical examination and treatment procedures.
Earlier, many
hospitals required patients to take eight to 12 steps to register for medical
checkup or treatment. The number has fallen by half now.
Meanwhile, the
waiting time has decreased slightly to two hours at many healthcare
facilities. Previously, patients had to wait four to six hours on average to
see the doctor; and the waiting time even surged to eight or 10 hours at some
places.
According to the
HCMC Department of Health, this is a step forward in the administrative
reform as it has helped reduce inconvenience for patients and ward off
corrupt practices at hospitals.
However, there is
still no improvement in Tu Du Maternity Hospital,
Only 10 out of 51
hospitals in HCMC have cut down on procedures, waiting time and other demands
for medical checkup or treatment. Most healthcare workers in public hospitals
have been reflected as slow and unprofessional in terms of service and
attitude.
At hospitals in
districts 3, 5, Tan Binh and Thu Duc, people have to complete 10 to 12
procedures and wait six to seven hours for their turns. They also have to go
through three or four stages to get tested or wait an hour to pay hospital
fees.
Besides, hospitals’
leaders are also reluctant in cutting unnecessary procedures to boost the
process. Especially, some healthcare workers are neglectful in serving,
making life difficult for patients and their relatives.
In the coming time,
the city’s health department will step up administrative reforms, reducing or
combining redundant procedures to achieve the health ministry’s objective on
reducing waiting time and overload at hospitals.
The department will
open more access points to receive medical checkup and treatment records, as
well as invest heavily on equipment, waiting rooms and staff. Doctors,
laboratory, pharmacy and fee collection departments will be connected to
hospital leaders and relevant offices to reduce waiting time.
The HCMC government
has sought Government approval for starting work on a new Thu Thiem bridge
project in the downtown area next year as scheduled, instead of delaying it
until 2018 as proposed by the Ministry of Defense.
According to a
document the city sent to the Government Tuesday, the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge is
among the 14 over the
Thu Thiem 2 will
pass through Ba Son Shipyard under the administration of the Defense Ministry
when it is completed in 2017 as planned by the city government.
The city
authorities noted that early work on the new bridge would help bolster the
development of the new urban area, and ease traffic congestion in the city.
Project owner Dai
Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Company has finalized the feasibility
study. The city will submit the design of the project to the Ministry of
Transport for approval next month.
After that, the
city government will complete the project evaluation, break ground for the
project next year, and finish construction work within two years as expected.
Earlier, the
Defense Ministry asked the central Government to delay the project until 2018
to allow Ba Son Corporation to fulfill its defense contracts by the end of
2017.
The building of the
bridge, the ministry reasons, will occupy around 12,000 square meters of land
at Ba Son Shipyard, and directly affect the firm’s shipbuilding operations.
It can even stall entire operations of the shipyard due to an 10-meter
clearance of the bridge.
The VND2.3-trillion
Thu Thiem 2 Bridge is designed to be 852 meters in length, excluding access
roads at both ends, and 19.3 meters in width. The investor has adjusted the
1.2-kilometer bridge from four lanes to six lanes.
At least 1
million poor people to receive free health check-ups
A humanitarian
campaign launched by the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) and the Ministry of Health
aims to provide free health check-ups and treatment for over one million poor
people each year in
The campaign’s
launch ceremony will be held in
Red Cross Societies
and health sectors in 17 out of the 63 cities and provinces throughout the
country will participate in the campaign, which calls for community
engagement in taking care of individuals from disadvantaged and socially
challenging backgrounds, prioritising those in remote areas and border and
island localities.
A review workshop
is scheduled to take place on the occasion of the Vietnamese Doctors’ Day on
February 27, 2015.
Under the theme
“Joining hands for community health”, the campaign will focus on increasing
local residents’ awareness of personal hygiene and environmental sanitation,
as well as equipping residents with essential skills in first aid, natural
disasters response, and emergency rescue efforts.
The organisation
board will provide houses, cows, and health insurance for those living under
the poverty line and encourage people to participate in blood donation
programmes.
The campaign is
part of the 2014-2017 collaboration programme signed this July between the
VRC, the Ministry of Health, the Vietnamese People’s Army’s General
Department of Politics, and the Vietnamese Young Doctors Association.
USAID keen
to include private sector in HIV-related market
The US Agency for
International Development (USAID) launched a programme to stimulate a market
for HIV-related goods and services with the involvement of the private sector
in
The project will
provide financial support and incentives to encourage the involvement of
private enterprises in importing, producing and distributing HIV-related
goods.
Addressing the
launch ceremony, the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID,
Ariel Pablos-Mendez, highlighted the role of the private sector in
facilitating access to HIV-related goods in
Meanwhile, Director
of the
The project will
run until 2019 with a total investment of 15 million USD. It will be
implemented by Path International Vietnam, a health non-governmental
organisation, and the Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and
Population.
The Da Nang
People’s Committee and the French Development Agency (AFD) jointly held a
conference last week to review a project on mitigation of climate change
impacts in the central city’s urban areas.
The event aimed to
promote support solutions for dealing with natural disasters and implement a
national strategy on green growth with the goals of reducing greenhouse gas
emissions by 8-10 percent and those from energy consuming activities by 10-20
percent by 2020.
Data from the
municipal electricity department in 2013 showed that
Project specialist
Vu Thi Mai Huong emphasised the need to improve public awareness of risks
from greenhouse emission from energy consuming activities and encourage
people to use energy-saving equipment
A representative
from ADF said the organisation pledges to continue support for
Wild
animals released back to nature
The Hanoi Wildlife
Rescue Centre has released 331 wild animals into Tay Yen Tu nature reserve in
the
The released
animals include 275 red-whiskered bulbuls, 14 Bourret’s box turtles, 15
stripeneck leaf turtles, 22 keeled box turtles and five wild cats.
The centre said
this month it has received 217 animal individuals including four sunda
pangolins, 210 red-whiskered bulbuls, one wild cat and two stump-tailed
macaques.
The State-run
centre is housing many wild animals rescued from poachers and illegal
traders.
Also in October
2014, the Hanoi Forest Ranger Department detected and punished seven cases of
violations to the law on forest protection and development.
Hau Giang
to devise planning for biomass energy
The southern
Hau Giang relies solely
on agriculture for economic growth with 200,000ha of rice and 12,000ha of
sugarcane, generating tens of thousands of tonnes of straws and bagasse – key
materials for producing power.
At a workshop to
launch the work on the master plan in Hau Giang on October 29, Director of
the New and Renewable Energy Department, an arm of the Ministry of Industry
and Trade (MoIT), Pham Trong Thuc said the plan should be completed by
February next year.
The plan will
assess the potential of the existing biomass, outline the rule to use this
source of energy and consider possible impacts on greenhouse gas emission, he
said.
During the
workshop, technical experts from GIZ presented an overview of the
Nguyen Duc Cuong,
Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Clean Development Mechanism
under the
The country is also
seeking to develop other sources of renewable energy, such as bio-gas and
waste energy.
Over 700
students take part in Informatics Olympic Contest
Ministry of
Education and Training in collaboration with Vietnamese Informatics
Association hosted an opening ceremony of the 23rd Vietnam Informatics
Olympic Contest and the 2014 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
(ACM/ICPC) at Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City on October 29.
This year’s contest
attracted the participation of 702 Vietnamese students from 66 academies,
universities and colleges. The ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest aims to select best contestants to attend in the 2015 ACM/ ICPC World
Finals in
The contest takes
place at Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City from October 29-31.
At the opening
ceremony, the organizers awarded first, second, third winners and
championship at the 2014 online national ACM/ICPC contest.
Newborn
baby ejected from womb in accident no longer uses ventilator
The newborn baby
who was flushed out of his mother’s womb right after a traffic accident in
the Mekong delta
Doctors are
checking his organ function. They fretted about infection in right leg.
Best antibiotic kinds have been used to treat the infection to save his life.
The Hospital and the Insurance Company will cover his treatment fee.
The pregnant young
woman was driven to hospital to deliver her second child in An Giang Province
by his husband on October 25.
However when they
were driving along the National Highway No 91 near the construction site of
The mother was
crushed by the truck and was killed instantly. The impact also forced her
unborn son out of her womb. The infant got one of his legs crushed while his
father had one of his legs seriously broken.
The newborn baby
was soon transferred to the Children Hospital No.1 in
The father is being
treated at An Giang General Hospital. He also had one third of his right leg
amputated.
Forest
rangers suspected of complicity in illegal logging
On October 27,
during the meeting on the illegal logging, at Ba Na-Nui Chua's special-use
forest, many officials suggested that illegal loggers could be getting help
from forest rangers. The issue was brought up in the wake of an incident in
which 43 cubic metres of timber were found near the station of forest
rangers.
Pham Ngoc Su,
director of the Ba Na-Nui Chua Forest Management Unit, said, "We've
tried to extract explanations from those employed at the Ca Nhong Forest
Protection Department, and those found to have been involved will be replaced
with more capable officials."
Tran Van Luong,
head of the Danang Sub-Department of Forest Protection, said, "We have
no intention of covering up for corrupt officials or loggers. Corrupt
officials will be prosecuted." A number of other officials agreed that
the amount of timber discovered was due cause for prosecution.
The vice chairman
of Danang People's Committee also agreed that it was a matter to be taken
seriously and asked agencies to strictly deal with violators.
On routine patrol,
a team from the Quang Nam Province Department of Forest Protection found over
10 cubic metres of illegally-cut timber at two carpentry workshops on October
24. On expansion of the investigation, they found more wood that had been
buried. This wood was in close proximity to the district's administrative
area as well as the Ca Nhong Forest Protection Department.
Last week, dozens
of cubic metres of illegal timber were also found near Ba Na-Nui Chua
special-use forest.
Five officials at
the Ca Nhong Forest Protection Department have been called to testify in the
investigation.
The HCMC government
has asked the People’s Council for approval to revise up tolls on the
National Highway 1 section in the city by 30% to 100% from next year.
The new tolls, if
endorsed, would apply to the 14-kilometer section of National Highway 1
running from An Suong Intersection in District 12 via Binh Tan District to An
Lac Roundabout in Binh Chanh District.
Those using this
highway section now pay tolls at An Suong-An Lac Toll Station in Binh Tan
District.
Infrastructure
Development Investment Joint Stock Company (IDICO) has been upgrading this
stretch of the cross-country highway under the build-operate-transfer (BOT)
format.
In a recent
document sent to the council, the city government proposed IDICO be allowed
to adjust up tolls to the minimum rates provided in Circular 159/2013/TT-BTC
of the Ministry of Finance and those approved by the People’s Council of the
city for the
The new tolls would
come into force from January 1, 2015.
The highway upgrade
project is being implemented in three phases. The widened section of the
first phase worth over VND831 billion was opened to traffic in December 2004
and the investor started to collect tolls on this section in January 2005.
In the second
phase, IDICO built two interchanges and overpasses between National Highway
1, and provincial roads 10 and 10B as well as a divider between lanes for
autos and motorcycles at a total cost of VND705 billion.
The company is now
constructing an interchange between National Highway 1 and Huong Lo 2 in the
final phase with total investment capital of VND407 billion.
Aside from the toll
hike proposal, the city government has suggested a road map for toll
increases at the An Suong-An Lac station in 2020, 2025 and 2030 to help the
investor recover capital by 2033.
The An Suong-An Lac
section of National Highway 1 links HCMC and provinces in the southeastern,
southwestern, central and northern regions.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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Thứ Ba, 4 tháng 11, 2014
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