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Drug
smuggling ring brought to light
The police said
they opened their investigation last month after discovering a man named
Nguyen The Manh in Tan Binh district selling drugs to small dealers in
From Manh, the
police tracked down more suppliers and finally reached the ring leader,
36-year-old Vu Xuan Nhat from the
The police arrested
Nhat on October 29 and seized 232.7 grammes of methamphetamine. They later
found 3.6kg of meth at his temporary residence in Binh Thanh district.
Currently, they
have jailed the gang’s members as well as seized more than 4 kilos of crystal
meth, a small quantity of heroine and a gun.
Olympiad
winners, excellent students honoured
Fifty international
Olympiad medallists and students who achieved the best results in the 2014
university entrance exam were honoured at a ceremony in
Over the past two
years, all Vietnamese representatives at regional and international Olympiad
contests have brought home glory. This year, they won 12 golds and 21
silvers, said Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan.
The Prime Minister
awarded certificates of merit to 11 Olympiad gold medal winners.
Other prize-winners
and the 10 students with the best scores among 1 million high school
graduates sitting for the university entrance this year were granted
certificates of merit by the Ministry of Education and Training.
All the students
also received rewards from the ministry and several donors.
President of the
Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan took the podium
and told the audience that based on nation-wide support, the process of
overhauling education-training radically and thoroughly is sure to be a
success.
He urged the
students to make further efforts, well equipping themselves for professional
careers in the future and contributing to the nation.
Vietnamese women benefit from vocational training support project
Officials of the
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the
At a workshop in
the central province of Quang Nam on November 4, it was reported that the
project had set up employment support centres and a number of helpful
services such as employment consulting hotlines, childcare centres and
vocational courses targeting women in the three target localities – the
northern province of Thai Binh, Quang Nam province and the Mekong Delta city
of Can Tho. It also boosted the management and leadership skills of local
officials in running the support centres.
In Can Tho City,
besides opening courses on soft skills and Korean language learning, the
centre gave useful advice for more than 4,000 women each year in terms of
labour law, procedures to work overseas and unemployment benefit policies.
The centre has helped 730 female workers find jobs in 2014.
Quang
Oh Min Ok, a senior
official from International Cooperation Division under the RoK’s Ministry of
Gender Equality and Family, said her ministry will continue cooperating with
Methadone
treatment for drug addicts boosted
The Prime Minister
has freshly issued Direction No. 32/CT-TTg requesting relevant agencies and
localities work together closely to maximize the use of Methadone in
detoxifying drug addicts.
The crucial role of
alternative therapies in preventing HIV/AIDS and reducing addicts’ drug
demand to help ensure security and social order was underlined in the
direction.
Methadone has been
widely used to assist addicts in weaning off taking in drug since 2012 after
the Government issued Decree No. 96/2012/ND-CP that stipulated the treatment
of substance abuse by alternative medicines.
By October 15,
2014, however, only 38 out of the 63 provinces and centrally-run cities
applied the therapy, benefiting 21,613 addicts, who accounted for 12 percent
of the recorded drug users and 27 percent of the targeted 80,000 by the end
of 2015.
In the new
direction, the PM asked the provincial and municipal People’s Committees to
promptly update the number of drug users and set up adequate Methadone
treatment centres while requesting the centres currently providing Methadone
treatment accelerate therapy admissions for drug addicts.
Local authorities
are also required to further simplify administrative procedures to make it
easier for drug users seeking alternative therapies, and coordinate with
relevant agencies to provide advice and vocational training to the
detoxified.
The Ministry of
Health is tasked with directing and working with relating agencies to
safeguard the sufficient provision of Methadone.
Methadone
maintenance treatment (MMT) has long been carried out in more than 80
countries and territories, benefiting over 1 million drug users.
Plan
The northern
midland
Carried out by Plan
It is to help local
authorities realise a community-based project on improving awareness of
disaster risk, part of a national action plan on disaster risk mitigation and
climate change adaptation.
At the same time,
vulnerable communities are expected to be equipped with knowledge and skills
in coping with natural disasters while teachers at local elementary and
secondary schools will be able to arrange syllabi on disaster risk mitigation
for their students.
Lessons drawn from
the project will be published and shared with other localities in the
implementation of the national action plan.
The project is
slated for completion by December 2015.
Son La
provides rice for poor students
The northern
mountainous
The rice is part of
the more than 6,000 tonnes of rice to be supplied by the national reserve for
the purpose in the 2014-2015 academic year.
Under the PM’s
decision, each student will receive 15 kilogrammes of rice each month for a
period of five months. The assistance has helped reduce the number of
students leaving school in
In the previous
academic year, the province distributed 5,340 tonnes of rice for 43,464
students living in disadvantaged areas.
Dengue
vaccination proves effective
A dengue
vaccination trial conducted by
The vaccination
also prevented 67 percent of the sufferers from being hospitalized, heard a
conference reviewing the efficacy of the vaccination in the community in
The trial was
undertaken on 10,275 children and teenagers aged 2 to 14 in
In
At the conference,
director of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu
noted that a lack of dengue vaccine is a huge burden on not only
The dengue vaccine
research programme has been conducted by Sanofi Pasteur over the past 20
years, with the participation of
According to the
World Health Organisation, each year, an estimated 50 million people contract
dengue, of whom 500,000 require hospitalization and 25,000 die.
Sanofi Pasteur, the
vaccines division of Sanofi, provides more than one billion doses of vaccine
each year, making it possible to immunize more than 500 million people across
the globe.
A world leader in
the vaccine industry, Sanofi Pasteur offers the broadest range of vaccines
protecting against 20 infectious diseases.-
Lam Dong
launches biodiversity conservation action plan
The Central
Highlands
The action plan
focuses on effective management, conservation and sustainable development,
including communication and educational campaigns to increase communities’
awareness of protecting and sustainably using biodiversity in line with
socio-economic development.
The province will
also increase communities’ role in managing and developing biological
resources.
A number of
projects will be implemented with support from the State, non-governmental
organisations and local authorities’ fund.
Two projects to
protect and develop the red pine tree, one of the most valuable medicinal
plants in the province, will also be carried out as part of the action plan.
Accordingly, the red pine tree’s distribution will be researched and mapped
out, natural regeneration will be fostered, and seed germination and
protection measures will be implemented.
Lam Dong is the
most biodiversity-rich province in the
Hanoi hosts
SMAC Challenge Finals
The final round of
SMAC Challenge 2014 – a Mobile Robot programming competition was held at the
Cau Giay Gymnasium in
The four teams
competing in the contest included FU-Agile (
The final round
consisted of 3 parts including Art, Intelligence and Strength.
FU-Agile pocketed
the first prize worth VND15 million with its Robot performance dancing
“Bonjour
The second and
third prizes went to UET-Invincible and Trying_PTIT, respectively. SMAC-MTA
bagged the consolation prize.
The contest aimed
to create a useful playground for Information and communications technology
(ICT) students and encourage the spirit of study and research for the youth.
Visitors to
All visitors coming
to
All visitors coming
to
The double check
will help better identify suspects of Ebola inflection, Tran Dac Phu, head of
the ministry’s Preventive Health Department told Tuoi Tre yesterday.
The ministry will
send a document to the Ministry of Public Security asking for coordination in
giving two-round checks to those visitors.
And all people
coming from the Ebola-hit areas in
Remote temperature
sensors are being used at airports to detect those who have fever, a sign of
Ebola infection.
Those detected with
fever will be isolated while those who go past the machines without fever
signs will also have their passports checked again.
In case they left
the Ebola-hit areas within 21 days, they will be sent to the airport’s
international health quarantine center for another check.
At the center,
those visitors will be examined carefully for signs of Ebola infection, and
all of them, whether having signs of Ebola or not, will be monitored for 21
days from the date they left the Ebola-hit areas.
Such monitoring is
necessary as the Ebola virus disease (EVD) has an incubation period of 2 to
21 days, the department said.
Over the past two
months, over 270 people from Ebola-hit countries have visited
Of these visitors,
about 240 arrived at
On last Sunday, a
26-year-old Vietnamese man, Chu Van Chung, suspected of having Ebola after
returning to
Ebola is a highly
dangerous virus that can kill 90 percent of infected people, the department
warned, adding that it is transmitted by direct contact with the blood,
bodily fluids and tissues of infected animals or people.
As a severe acute
viral illness, EVD is often characterized by the sudden onset of fever,
intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat, according to the
WHO.
The World Health
Organization (WHO) announced on last Friday that there have been 13,567
reported Ebola cases in eight countries since the outbreak began in March in
The latest figures
show that
HCMC
petitions to establish center for compulsory treatment
Representatives
from People’s Committee in HCMC petitioned at a meeting yesterday that while
waiting for the issuance of the new drug-related regulations, HCMC asked for
the permission to establish a center for compulsory treatment of drug
dependence.
Though the drug
detoxification and management have achieved good results, there have been
difficulties in detoxification and post-drug detoxification management, said
leaders of many sectors at a meeting presided by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung yesterday.
According to the
Ministry of Public Security, drug addicts have been found in all provinces
and cities across the country;
Basing on the
proposal of HCMC, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered related agencies to
set up a center for compulsory treatment of drug dependence and the
suspension of regulations to impose administrative fines on drug addicts.
PM asked ministries
and agencies to continue implementing Government guidelines on drug
detoxification and post-drug detoxification management. He asked related
agencies to fix shortcomings remained in drug detoxification and post-drug
detoxification management, including incomplete legal documents, lack of
finance and lack of co-operation between relevant ministries, agencies and
localities; saying that local authorities should improve communications and
education on drug prevention and persuade addicts to enter centers for
voluntary detoxification.
Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Duc Dam, representatives from the National Assembly’s Committee
on Law and the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs; related
ministries, agencies and People’s Committee in HCMC and Hanoi attended the
meeting.
Medical
clinics in HCMC’s urban districts gloomy
Since 2012,
Spacious medical
clinic in Nhon Duc Ward in Nha Be District of HCMC was built on the area of
5,000 meter square with many rooms including lab, vaccination, maternity
examination, and herbal medicine.
However, some of
them are locked as there is no patient though the clinic has received health
insurance card holders since 2011, said a doctor of the clinic.
One or two patients
come to the clinic for medical check-up per day; most of local residents have
registered to receive treatment at big public hospitals for better quality,
said a resident.
The city insurance
company said that just a few people register to receive treatment in local
medical clinics. Luu Thi Thanh Huyen, the city Social Insurance Company’s
Deputy Chief, said that many big hospitals are not far from here therefore
local residents do not go to small clinics.
It is a real
waste to build clinics in urban districts, Huyen added.
Experts said that
teams of medical workers and equipments in clinics can not meet residents’
demand of high quality treatment. In addition, health insurance holders’
rights are not be ensured in such clinics
The municipal
Department of Health said that every year it has approved the allocation of
around VND30 billion (US$ 1,410) funding to upgrade and purchase equipment
for clinics but it seems clinics have still not met the current demands.
Maximum
speed on Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway
Automobiles have
been allowed to run at a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour on the
20-kilometer-long section of HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway already
opened to traffic since last Saturday.
Nguyen Viet Tan,
director of Vietnam Expressway Services Engineering Joint Stock Company
(VECE), the operator of HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, said the company
has set up new speed instruction signs to guide drivers and ensure traffic
safety on the expressway connecting localities in southern
Drivers are advised
to check the tires of their vehicles carefully before entering the expressway.
Last month, the
Ministry of Transport approved plans for vehicles to move at a maximum speed
of 120 kilometers per hour on HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway and Thang
Long Avenue and 100 kilometers per hour on the Belt Road No. 3 section from
the north of
Commenting on the
higher maximum speed on the southern expressway, transport expert Pham Sanh
is concerned about the safety because traffic order is not good on the
expressway. He suggested the Ministry of Transport carry out a thorough study
and check on the safety of the vehicles when they ran at such a speed.
“Safety on
expressways is not well controlled at the moment. An accident involving a
coach and a watering vehicle on the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway that killed
seven people in April proved this,” Sanh said.
He proposed the
maximum speed will not be raised to 120 kilometers per hour until a safety
study is conducted.
Vu Xuan Hoa,
director of Bach Khoa Construction Consulting Co., said the transport ministry’s
decision to approve the maximum speed as designed for certain expressways is
reasonable. However, further calculations should be made first.
In addition,
expressway management units must guarantee the highest quality of expressways
to avoid serious accidents when vehicles run at 120 kilometers per hour.
Previously,
transport authorities gave nod to a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour
on the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway, but later reduced it to 100 kilometers
per hour following several tragic accidents caused by tire blowouts.
The 20-kilometer
section of HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay from Belt Road No. 2 in HCMC and to
National Highway 51 in
The section
stretching 30 kilometers from Long Thanh to Dau Giay is still under
construction and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2015.
VN schools
to attend robotics competition
Nguyen Tat Thanh
Secondary School of Ha Noi and
The three won the
National Robotics (Robothon) Competition for primary and secondary students
held last week in
The event,
organised annually by DTTEduspec Joint Venture in co-operation with the local
education department, this year attracted 62 teams from 16 primary and
secondary schools from major cities and one centre for robotics training in
Ha Noi's
Agricultural and Rural Development Department has kicked off a project to
boost the quality of meat and poultry by starting a supply chain to provide
hygienic meat to local residents.
The project targets
that by 2020, at least 80 per cent of meat and poultry meat will meet food
safety and hygiene standards.
Vice chairman of
the capital's People's Committee Tran Xuan Viet, said that under the project,
the city would subsidise farmers that used modern abattoirs by paying half of
the fees incurred to slaughter animals and poultry in the first year, 40 per
cent in the second year and 30 per cent in the third year.
It aimed to
encourage companies to invest in modern abattoirs, Viet said.
Tran Van Quan, a
representative from the Me Linh Modern Abattoir on the outskirts of Me Linh
District, said the city had issued a range of policies to encourage companies
to use modern abattoirs, but they had proven ineffective.
The city has seven
modern abattoirs and over 2,500 traditional slaughterhouses.
Modern abattoirs
could not compete with traditional slaughterhouses, so the city needed to
close them down, he said.
Statistics show
that 750 tonnes of meat is consumed in the city each day.
Vocational
training falls short on skills
Most graduates of
vocational training institutions lack the skills companies require, creating
a gap in the country's workforce quality, according to a 2013 World Bank
survey.
Using this data,
the Japan International Co-operation Agency office in
The bank survey found
that about 80 per cent of the more than 100 companies operating in Ha Noi and
"Despite the
Government's efforts, as well as those of vocational institutions and the
industry sector, the supply of skilled workers in
"
A survey the agency
did this year of more than 100 Japanese firms in
"Although we
have established a linkage between vocational institutions and the
enterprises, the supply and demand in vocational training still poses some
problems," said Cao Van Sam, deputy director of the Vocational Training
General Department.
The institutions'
lack of information also confuses students. They don't have reliable sources
for learning about the needs of their chosen industries, so it is difficult
for them to prepare for job applications.
The survey by the
World Bank also showed that 40 per cent of firms described the lack of
quality vocational training as a major problem.
"The low
social status of technicians creates low motivation and a high rate of job
hopping, which lead to skills shortages," Junichi said.
To close the gap,
conference participants proposed a tripartite partnership between the
vocational training institutions, industries and Government. Some also
proposed specific actions, like an employment support system and skill
evaluation tests.
Indolent
lifestyle blamed for alarming rise in diabetes
Diabetes has been
rising at an alarming rate in Viet Nam because of obesity and lack of excise,
health experts said yesterday said at a press conference to mark World
Diabetes Prevention Day (November 14).
A survey by the
More than five per
cent of Vietnamese had the ailment in 2012 compared to nearly three per cent
in 2002.
Hospital deputy
director Phan Huong Duong said
"Out of every
10 diabetes cases in
"Diabetes can
be identified and treated if discovered at an early stage," he added.
Vice Minister at
the Ministry of Health, Nguyen Thi Xuyen, said that complications such as
stroke and eye, kidney and heart diseases could also be prevented.
"Diabetes and
its complications can be prevented through dieting and a healthy
lifestyle," said Xuyen.
According to
This was blamed on
a lack of human resources at grass-roots and district levels and a lack of
collaboration between ministries and sectors.
"Practising
exercise or walking 30 minutes daily can reduce diabetes risks by 40 per
cent," Xuyen said.
Other experts said
strengthening community awareness on disease prevention could help. Priority
should be also given to early detection and treatment system.
To mark World
Diabetes Day, a communication campaign will be promoted nation-wide to
encourage healthy lifestyles and diets.
Endocrinology
hospitals will also provide free check-ups to people at risks of diabetes.
Tuna
processing centre located
The province
produces between 180,000 and 200,000 tonnes of fish per year, including
10,000 tonnes of tuna. However, most of the tuna is processed and exported as
cheap fillets.
In August,
fishermen from the province exported the first-ever batch of 10 whole tuna to
the
Fishermen
to get modern boats
No provinces or
cities have completed lists of fishermen who would benefit from the
Government's support programme on building new high-capacity, steel boats for
offshore fishing.
The information was
provided by Pham Ngoc Tuan, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development at an online discussion yesterday.
The discussion
aimed at providing detail information and explaining Government Decree
67/2014/ND-CP under which policies were introduced to boost the development
of fisheries, including a programme on building high-capacity, steel boats
for deep sea fishing.
To be able to
benefit from the programme, fishermen must be approved by local People's
Committees.
Commercial banks
nationwide have pledged about VND14 trillion (US$658 million) in loans for
organisations and individuals wishing to build new vessels or upgrade their
fishing vessels under Decree 67.
Tuan said the
slowness in approving the lists were due to lack of efforts from local
authorities nationwide.
"Local authorities
have not been active and helpful in providing information to their local
residents about the policies," Tuan said.
Speaking at the
online discussion, speakers talked in detail about requirements for fishermen
and firms to benefit from the decree.
The State Bank has
asked commercial banks to set up hotlines to receive inquiries from fishermen
about the issue.
Under present
plans, the number of fishing boats in
Le Trung Thanh,
vice-general director of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam,
said the bank had asked its credit officers to actively provide information
to farmers in order to timely reimburse the Government's funding for the
programme.
BIDV and other commercial
banks have set up a loan form which is short and easy to understand for
farmers.
Fishermen
access boat loans
Forty fishermen in
central
Under Government
Decree 67/2014/ND-CP, basic policies were introduced to boost the development
of fisheries, including building high-capacity, steel boats for deep sea
fishing.
The move is
expected to increase the tonnage of fish caught and lift the incomes of
fishermen.
The eligible
fishermen plan to build 15 ships, two composite mother ships and 23 wooden
boats.
This information
was revealed at a meeting of the Quang Ngai provincial steering committee
chaired by director Pham Truong Tho, who is also vice-chairman of the
provincial People's Committee.
Tho has told
commercial banks to simplify procedures to make it easier for the fishermen
to access loans.
He also suggested
agencies hold communication campaigns to help local fishermen fully
understand their rights and obligations as Decree 67 beneficiaries.
Commercial banks
nationwide have pledged about VND14 trillion (US$658 million) in loans for
organisations and individuals wishing to build new or upgrade their fishing
vessels under Decree 67.
As many as 2,079
new off-shore fishing ships and 205 logistics ships will be built under this
decree, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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