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Social News 10/1
Facelift for
A facelift for
The building, at 2 Paris Commune in District 1 was built in 1886
by the French colonial government and, along with the Notre Dame Cathedral
and Saigon Tax Centre, is considered a symbol of HCM City, making it a
popular destination for foreign tourists and attracting thousands of visitors
a day.
Local authorities spent nearly VND5b to restore the façade,
the project starting in September 2014 and scheduled for completion ahead of
next month's Tet.
The post office is decorated mainly in orange-yellow with
white trim and highlights, which was its original colouring and symbolised
the colours of the
On January 6, the building’s front has been completed while
refurbishment of the surrounding area continues.
With the facelift, the building has attracted much attention
from local residents as well as domestic and foreign visitors.
While many are pleased with the fresh face, some say it is too
showy and dazzling.
One member of the public said the colours are too gaudy, and
say it is out of harmony with neighbouring buildings.
“The building has lost its unique and ancient beauty,” one
member of the public said.
Foreign professor awarded
Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Vu
Xuan Hong presented the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to
Professor Frederick Brown from the US’s School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) in
The insignia was given in recognition of his contributions to
reconciliation, healing the wounds of the war, and the normalisation and
development of bilateral relations between
The professor expressed his honour to receive the award and
promised to continue to support for
Born in 1928, the professor has shared many ideas to promote
the Vietnam-US ties as the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs under the US Department of State in the late 1970s.
Many years later while working in the education field, the
professor supported Vietnamese students to pursue learning at the
Jetstar Pacific offers cheap tickets at VND5
The low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific is offering cheap one-way
tickets starting at just VND5 on local routes from 12 p.m. of January 8 to
11.
The special rate will be applicable for flights departing in
March, April, May, September and October on routes including Thanh Hoa-Buon
Ma Thuot; Buon Ma Thuot- Hai Phong; HCMC-Quy Nhon; HCMC-Dong Hoi and HCMC –
Tuy Hoa.
The price will be also applied for flights from Quy Nhon/Dong
Hoi to HCMC; Hai Phong/Thanh Hoa to Buon Ma Thuot from February 1-19.
The carrier is also selling cheap airfares at
VND155,000-VND355,000 on domestic routes from the North to the South.
The Farming Kindergarten project in Dong Nai Province designed
by Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia and his associates was voted to be in
the top 10 buildings by social values of 2014, reports Thanh Nien newspaper.
The list was selected by Designboom, one of the most famous
websites on art and architecture in the world.
The chosen buildings from kindergartens to universities are a
combination of native elements and nature. Most importantly, they help to
improve the surrounding living environment.
Farming Kindergarten is expected to solve the problem of
climate change and educate children about the importance of agriculture. The
construction not only creates a flexible playground for children but also
helps them understand and come closer to nature.
Two year old stabbed baby saved
Surgeons of the
The boy from the southern
The size of injury in the breast is 4 cm and the point of
the knife went through the breast causing an injury of 3 cm in spleen.
The toddler lost 500ml blood. Though he went through the
severe condition, he was still unconscious and put on ventilator.
Doan Van Truong, grandfather of the boy said that the boy’s
father stabbed his wife and son and committed suicide. The mother died, the
boy was in critical and the father was being treated in a hospital in
Twelve
injured in coach accident
Twelve people were injured in a coach accident in the southern
The 16-seat coach collided with a tanker truck while
travelling from Bien Hoa to the southern
The victims are being treated at two local hospitals, where
five of them are in a serious condition.
The case is under investigation.
Baby chokes on seed, suffers brain damage
The HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No.1 is treating a
15-month-old child from Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, who is in a vegetative
state after a kumquat his mother squeezed into his mouth when he was
convulsing due to high fever squirted a seed into his bronchial tube, causing
him tochoke.
Truong Huu Khanh, head of the hospital No.1's neurology and
infectious diseases ward, said on his Facebook page that "dropping a
kumquat seed into the bronchial tube leads to a shortage of oxygen to the
brain" with reference to the child's vegetative state.
Though the seed was taken out of the bronchial tube, the
damage had been done because of the prolonged shortage of oxygen to the
brain, he said.
His hospital gets many emergency cases caused by squeezing
kumquat or lemon into the children's mouth to stop convulsing, he said.
Parents should never do such a thing because it is unscientific
and often deadly dangerous, he added. Instead, they should observe what
exactly
happens to the child to describe to the doctor later when they
take them after they stop convulsing, she added.
Firecracker smuggler arrested in Quang Ninh
Border police at the Hoanh Mo Border Gate in the
Bui Duc Thanh, 25, was arrested in Hoanh Mo Commune with the
smuggled firecrackers on his motorbike.
All the firecrackers have been seized.
Two heroin traffickers arrested in Thanh Hoa province
Police of the central province of Thanh Hoa detained two
individuals who trafficked two bricks of heroin (about 350gr each) and
injured three police officers on late January 7.
Local police said on January 8 that the arrested were Thao Van
Di, born in 1961, from Viengxay district,
They used a gun and knives to resist on-duty police officers
after being stopped in Nhi Son commune for violating traffic rules.
Apart from the heroin bricks, police also seized one CKC
rifle, 11 bullets, two knives, and many other objects.
The duo later admitted that they brought the drug from
The case is under further investigation.
Unseasonable rain harms farmers in Ca Mau
Watermelons grown across 1,200 hectares of land in Ca Mau, the
southernmost province in
The damage from the atypical rains was estimated at over 3
billion VND (141,000 USD).
A local farmer in Cai Nuoc district, Tran Thi Thoi, said
hundreds of watermelons, destined to serve the increasing demand of upcoming
Lunar New Year (Tet) and expected to substantially boost her family’s income,
were all destroyed.
The rain also flooded an additional 3,000 hectares of other
agricultural products, including a significant loss of shrimp, in the
province.
Tran Chi Thao, another local farmer living in Phu Tan
district, said he lost 250 million VND (11,650 USD) invested in shrimp
raising after his shrimp farm was wiped out.
The unprecedented damaging weather patterns has left huge
farming losses, floods, and traffic congestion.
Vinpearl Phu Quoc wants to join conservation of Dugong
The Vinpearl One M ember Company Ltd Phu Quoc , owner of a
recently-opened five-star resort on the country’s largest island Phu Quoc,
has asked for permission to take up the rescue and care of Dugongs, a rare
marine mammal species.
According to Huynh Vinh Lac, vice head of the Kien Giang
provincial People’s Committee Office, the company said it is ready to receive
and take care of Dugongs captured by fishermen or those rescued by relevant
authorities.
The company will also conduct communication activities to
raise public awareness about the rare species and conservation work.
Dang Thanh Thuy, director of the company, said that with
modern facilities of its aquarium and nearly ten years of experience in
taking care of sea creatures, the company is capable of taking good care of
the animal, which is facing high danger of extinction.
The Dugongs are herbivorous marine mammals that spend their
entire life at sea and are better known as “sea cows” for their habit of
grazing on sea grass. In
They are hunted for food, oil, traditional medicine and
jewelry, and listed globally as vulnerable to extinction.
The Red Book of Vietnam has also put the Dugong on the list of
“critically endangered” animals as the population is less than 100 around
both Phu Quoc and Con Dao islands.
Students’ Day celebrated in Hanoi
A ceremony was held in
Over the past 65 years, under the leadership of the Party and
President Ho Chi Minh, student movements and the Vietnamese Students
Association (VSA) have grown and developed substantially during revolutionary
periods, stated Le Hong Anh, Politburo member and standing member of the
Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.
Hailing the achievements made by generations of students, he
urged the VSA to continue promoting tradition and enhancing unity among
students.
He also urged Party and Government agencies, as well as the
Vietnam Fatherland Front and the entire society, to work with the VSA to
develop a generation of knowledgeable and virtuous students.
According to Le Quoc Phong, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union Central Committee and President of the VSA Central
Committee, the association currently has over 1.3 million members.
In keeping with their values of solidarity and mutual support,
Vietnamese students have developed a positive reputation within society
through numerous social movements, including blood drives and summer
volunteer campaigns, he noted.
During its development, the VSA has actively served as a
bridge between the Party and State and students, an important force in all
schools, he said.
At the ceremony, the VSA present the Five-Virtue Students
award to 41 outstanding students who showed good morality, high academic
achievement, good health, exemplary voluntary service, and impressive
community engagement.
As many as 100 students with excellent academic achievements
were also presented with the January Star award, initiated in 2000.
Minister of Public Security, General Tran Dai Quang has asked
the public security force of
General Quang made the request during a conference held by the
Hanoi Department of Public Security on January 6 to sum up the department’s
performance in 2014 and devise a working plan for 2015.
He urged the force to consult the capital authorities
regularly on measures to ensure security and order, particularly safety for
important events in the capital and the country.
Speaking at the conference, Secretary of Hanoi Municipal Party
Committee Pham Quang Nghi praised the efforts of the city’s public security
force in ensuring political and social security. He asked the force to
regularly launch campaigns against crimes, especially at public places, for a
happy and safe Tet festival.
In 2014, the public security force worked closely with the
capital’s agencies, authorities and people to ensure security and order,
control crimes and prevent activities of criminal bands. Nearly 4,000 cases
and over 5,700 criminal violations were detected and investigated while 1,236
criminal gangs were dismantled.
They thwarted those abusing patriotism to provoke protests and
riots, particularly in industrial and processing zones, contributing to
ensuring the capital’s business and investment environment.
Seizing the social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC)
technology will help create value and stimulate growth for Vietnamese ICT
businesses, according to FPT Software Chairman Hoang Nam Tien.
Speaking at a recent seminar at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in
He also revealed that his compnay will need at least 600 IT
workers this year, 100 of which will be comprised of engineers with expert
understandings of SMAC testing.
Neopost Software Community Director Jerome Modolo said SMAC
and SMACT (social, mobile, analytics, cloud, internet of things) are new and
rapidly growing trends.
However, SMAC testing is still in the early development
stages, with suppliers only using existing resources and gradually adjusting
their products and services to meet modern trends and customer needs.
He added that very few companies have made breakthroughs in
the field of SMAC testing, which creates an opportunity for young IT workers
to find creative solutions through knowledge and ingenuity.
According to IDG and Gartner reports, there will be 2.18
million “social” users by 2015, bringing in 34 billion USD, with the number
of "mobile" users expected to increase to 1.3 billion, generating
735 billion USD.
Two of the largest corporations working in the “cloud” sector,
Big Data and Cloud, predict large returns and are preparing for increased
demand. Big Data intends to hire an additional 4.4 million engineers and
expects to earn 232 billion USD, and Cloud hopes for 207 billion USD.
In
Between 2014 and 2016, mobile phone usage, including the
number of 3G users, is expected to increase dramatically. Services, such as
OTT (over-the-top) and social, will contribute over 80 percent of online
communications, online video, and mobile digital content.
These will help enhance multimedia communications via personal
computers, smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Recent booms in multimedia communications - now covering more
than 50 percent of the Vietnamese population – will present new opportunities
to expand and conduct SMAC testing.
Technological innovation vital to increase competitiveness
Technological innovation is important to help Vietnamese
businesses enhance their competitiveness and create new, high-quality
products and services, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.
He was addressing a ceremony in
He hailed the ministry’s efforts to set up the fund which
serves as an important financial institution of the State to boost
technological innovation among businesses.
The establishment of the fund also illustrates the Vietnamese
Government’s resolve to boost economic growth and renovate growth models
based on science and technology.
With the chartered capital of 1 trillion VND (46.7 million
USD), the fund aims to promote businesses’ creation of new products and
services that have a high level of technology and added value.
It was set up in accordance with Decision 1342/QD-TTg issued
by the Prime Minister in August 2011, and Decision 1051/QD-TTg in July 2013.
Fauna & Flora Int’l programme helps reduce deforestation
in Kon Tum
A programme implemented by Fauna & Flora International
with sponsorship from the European Union since January 2012 has yielded
positive conservation results in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.
The 251 million VND programme (11,797 USD), part of the
Asia-Pacific Community Carbon Pools Programme on Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ CCP), has helped reduce
deforestation and forest degradation, as well as decrease the number of
forest fires in Hieu commune of the Kon Plong district.
At the same time, it improved the livelihood of locals, who
depend on forest resources for their living.
All major forest areas have been allocated to locals for
management, in return they are paid for their forest care. As a result,
forest protection has improved remarkably and illegal timber exploitation
cases are detected and handled in a timely manner.
Locals were also provided with training on managing forest
areas and to use forest resources effectively.
The Hieu commune has nearly 17,900 hectares of forests, home
to numerous rare flora and fauna species, including the grey-shanked douc
langur and yellow-cheeked gibbon.
Between 2002 and 2011, over 1,600 hectares of forests in the locality
were lost.
Fertilizer plant in Bac Giang poisons river
A fertilizer plant in
Authorities said tons of dead fish were found floating in the
The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment
launched an investigation and preliminary findings are that the company
discharged untreated wastewater into the
On January 5, the company explained it had been testing an
expanded urea production chain on December 30 and some valves in the system
leaked. The chain was shutdown for maintenance.
A day later, the company resumed testing the chain, but said
the pumping system broke down on the morning of January 1, prompting a second
halt. Wastewater from the cleansing of equipment, including ammonia, flowed
into the common drainage system in
The company did not deal with the breakdown until the morning
of January 2.
The department concluded that the company did not have a
contingency plan for its wastewater treatment system before testing its
expanded production chain, nor did it have a plan to deal with urgent
environmental incidents.
Results from wastewater tests showed that the company violated
regultions on environmental protection, with several indexes in safe
wastewater 30 times higher than acceptable levels.
Thousands of households in
The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment
has asked the company ordered the company to draw up response plan for
environmental incidents and submit it to the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment for consideration.
Local authorities will closely monitor the company to ensure
it complies with environmental protection regulations.
Hanoians avoid coldness at tunnels
Many people in
Over the past few days, many people have gathered at Nga Tu So
tunnel in Dong Da District to walk and cycle. Lots of people said that they
felt warmer when doing physical exercises at tunnels.
Chu Thi Qua, 60 years old, in Tay Son Street said that she
came to the tunnel to avoid the cold and rainy weather. The tunnel is quite
open and has enough light as well as safe, particularly for elderly people.
However, another resident Vu Duc Thao, 68 years old, said that
the tunnel gate on
The Australian consul general in HCMC, John McAnulty,
yesterday awarded funds through the Direct Aid Program (DAP) 2014-15 to 14
projects in 11 southern cities and provinces.
These projects are varied from community healthcare to
small-scale infrastructure works. Further DAP funds have also been awarded to
projects in
DAP is a small-scale community based grants program designed
to assist individuals, community groups, NGOs, and other organizations that
do not have access to large-scale aid programs. Every year the Australian
Consulate General receives a number of applications.
“Over the past three years I have visited a number of DAP
projects throughout central and southern
Child Friendly Programme benefits disadvantaged children,
mothers
The care and protection of children and mothers in the coastal
central
The 5.3 million USD project, which is being implemented for
the period 2012-2016, has five components covering education for children;
children protection; children’s survival and growth; social policies and
administration; and the health of mothers.
Vu Minh Tuyen, deputy director of the project’s management
board, said some initial results have been achieved in devising, supervising
and assessing child-friendly social-economic development plans.
Authorities at grassroots level have become more active in
establishing a safe environment for children, helping reduce negligence,
abuse and exploitation of children, particularly those from disadvantaged
backgrounds, the disabled, the poor and ethnic minority children.
The project has to date completed 133 out of 164 planned activities,
reducing the rate of malnutrition among under-five children to 18.8 percent.
The rate of drop-out in three target districts has dropped to 0.3 percent.
At the same time, outdated marriage practices such as child
marriage has decreased remarkably among local ethnic minority community,
especially the Raglai.
300 workers hospitalized after lunch at factory
More than 300 workers in Nam Sung Vina factory in Thap Hong Ky
Industrial Park in the central province of Nghe An are being treated in many
hospitals in the province after suffering from food poisoning symptoms
yesterday.
Nam Sung Vina Company produces outdoor hand-made clothing and
employs hundreds workers. According to the victims, after having lunch at the
company yesterday, many of them developed belly pains, vomiting, diarrhea,
and headache. They were rushed to the
As the two hospitals were full and could no longer receive any
victims, so many patients were being treated in the factory. Workers said the
foods which they ate yesterday include meat, vegetable soup, and mixed
vegetable. Most of victims are female workers.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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Thứ Sáu, 9 tháng 1, 2015
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