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Social News 13/1
Ministry warns of hand, foot, mouth disease
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned
northern and central localities about a high risk of foot-and-mouth disease
spreading during the cold weather.
The ministry said the cold weather created favourable
conditions for the disease to spread.
Statistics from the ministry's Department of Animal Health on
January 12 showed that foot-and-mouth disease had hit the provinces of Son
La, Thanh Hoa, Lao Cai and Ha Tinh.
Minister Cao Duc Phat has instructed authorities in the four
provinces to work with local people to avert the spread of the disease.
"Local breeders should be shown how to stop the disease
spreading through their animals," he said.
Phat also urged the localities to tighten inspections of
animal shipments and slaughter houses, as well as spraying chemicals to
sterilise affected areas.
The ministry previously supplied 5,000 litres of chemicals for
Second victim of tug boat blast dies
The second victim of a serious tug boat explosion on January
10 in
Quach Hoài
The incident took place in the oil cellar of a tug boat called
Kim An 06, numbered SG 1800. It exploded on January 10 when the boat was
docking at Vegeport J. Co.’s port near Phu My Bridge in District 7.
Le Quang Cuong, 25, from the
Quach Hoai
The cause of the incident was being further investigated.
Thousands of calls to healthcare hot line for poor service
There have been nearly 10,000 calls to a hot line of
healthcare, complaining poor service and bad behaviors of medical workers
after one year of setting up the hot line, said the Ministry of Health
yesterday.
The hot line was set up at offices of the ministry,
departments of health and hospitals. Most patients complained poor facility
of hospital and bad behaviors of nurses and doctors to patients and their
relatives, treatment procedures, hospital charges and paper formality
procedures as well as security in hospitals.
Patients also reported negative activities such as wheedling
money out of patients or patients’ relatives. However, there have also been
calls to appraise devoted doctors or teams of good medical workers.
In 2014, over 6.8 medical workers have been reminded of their
bad behaviors to patients; 137 others were reprimanded; 116 were cut salary
as a form of reprimanding; 18 were asked to do other jobs; 6 were dismissed
and 4 were chucked out of the job.
Two killed in car-motorbike collision
Two people were killed yesterday after a car collided with a
motorbike traveling in the opposite direction on
According to witnesses, the car was apparently traveling in
the south-north direction. It was not clear how many people were in the car
at the time. The name of the driver has not yet been released.
The two people on the motorbike, identified as Vo Van Dao and
Doan Van Trong from Ky Anh District, were both killed.
The Hanoi Air Traffic Control Centre (ATCC Hanoi) officially
commenced operation on January 13.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Transport Minister Dinh La
Thang said that
The new, modern, and globally relevant ATCC Hanoi will help
improve the country’s aviation infrastructure and ultimately increase the
quality of flight management services, he added.
The minister has asked the Northern Air Traffic Management
Company to ensure the safe and effective operation of the centre as a
contribution to strengthening fight safety and reducing the number of delayed
or cancelled flights.
Construction on the 750 billion VND (35.25 million USD) centre
began in February 2012 over more than 20,500 square meters in the Long Bien
district.
On January 11, flight control and administration was
successfully shifted from the previous Hanoi Area Control Centre to the new
Air Traffic Control Centre.
Their future collaboration will cover medical research,
transfer of latest medical technology, human resources training, and joint
treatment for patients.
AMDA, founded in
External relations significant to
External relations and people-to-people exchange contributed
significantly to
At a conference in the city on January 12 to review 2014
operations across Hanoi Union of Friendship Organizations (HAUFO) and
establish action plans for 2015, Son said the city’s main vehicle promoting
people-to-people exchange, the Union, maintains strong connections and
friendship with foreign embassies and international organisations in
He reported that so far
Son said HAUFO collaborated with the embassies of
According to the Vice Chairman, a seminar providing
information about the
Along with friendship exchanges, a series of cultural and
sporting events were also held throughout the year to celebrate the nation’s
holidays.
Speaking at the conference, President of the Vietnam Union of
Friendship Organisations Vu Xuan asked HAUFO to continue forging links with
relevant agencies in order to further promote its activities in 2015.
The HCM City Department of Transport has approved the May 19
Bus Cooperative to invest 23 buses using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
These new buses will ply between An Suong Bus Stop in Hoc Mon
District and the
Saigon Transportation Mechanical Corporation (Samco) will
produce buses worth VND2.75 billion of each and hand over the May 19 Bus
Cooperative in July and August.
CNG is considered a clean fuel and comprises of compressed
methane and ethane. The fuel has a high octane rating, meaning it is
compressed and not highly inflammable. It vaporizes in the air without
catching fire, thereby minimizing the risk of an explosion.
Municipal authorities hope that CNG-powered buses will reduce
pollution in the city and save at least 40 per cent in operational costs, as
compared to petrol-powered buses
Jetstar Pacific tops
Budget carrier Jetstar Pacific offered the fewest on-time
flights in the last month of 2014 among other airlines in
In December, the low-cost carrier operated 1,625 flights, 30.6
percent of which were delayed, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV)
said in a monthly report on flight cancelations and delays on Saturday.
Thirty-one Jetstar Pacific flights were canceled last month,
accounting for 1.9 percent of total flights.
The report covers the on-time statuses of four Vietnamese
carriers, including flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, the Vietnam Air Services
Co. (VASCO), which is a Vietnam Airlines Corporation subsidiary, and
no-frills airlines VietJet Air and Jetstar Pacific.
The CAAV also offers daily reports on the flight statuses of
the four carriers on its website.
The four airlines collectively operated 15,268 flights in
December 2014, with 2,399 flights – or 15.7 percent – failing to depart on
time, according to the CAAV. Only 130 flights were canceled during the month,
accounting for 0.8 percent of the total services.
The flight delay rate was 3.2 percent higher than in November.
Most of the delayed flights were caused by “late arrival of
aircraft,” which means a delayed flight will affect the schedule of the next
flights using the same aircraft, according to the CAAV. In the meantime, bad
weather and technical issues were blamed for most of the canceled flights.
VietJet Air was the second worst when it comes to on-time performance,
with 692 out of 3,662 flights departing behind schedule last month, or an
18.9 percent rate. The no-frills carrier had to cancel 37 of its flights.
Vietnam Airlines had a delay rate of 12.4 percent, with 1,202
out of 9,672 flights stuck on the tarmac longer than scheduled. The national
flag carrier canceled 56 flights in December, or a 0.6 percent rate.
VASCO, which flies between
Le Hong Ha, general director of Jetstar Pacific, said the
airline will receive more airplanes before the Lunar New Year, or Vietnamese
Tet, which could help lower the flight delay rate.
Tet falls on February 19 and it is
Jetstar Pacific is expected to have fewer delayed flights in
January and February than the final months of last year as its flight
schedule has been rearranged, Ha added.
The full-year flight cancelation and delay rate of all
Vietnamese airlines in 2014 was around 19.3 percent, approximate to the 2013
figure, according to the CAAV.
Expressway in section of An
Viet Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) officially opened for
traffic in the section connecting between An Phu Intersection in HCMC’s
District 2 and Belt Road No.2 leading to the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay
expressway yesterday before allowing vehicles to be able to use the
expressway next month.
The 26, 5-meter-wide road section was designed for vehicles
following urban station standards with maximum speed of 80 kilometers an
hour, including four lanes for vehicles and two emergency lanes.
According to Viet Nam Expressway Corporation, HCMC-Long
Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway connects with
Viet Nam Expressway Corporation said that HCMC -Long Thanh-Dau
Giay Expressway will be opened for traffic before Lunar New Year 2015.
Restricting personal vehicles indispensable trend: Deputy
Transport Minister
Restricting personal vehicles is an indispensable trend, said
Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong in an exchange with Sai
Gon Giai Phong Newspaper following public concerns over a
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong said that
restricting personal means of transport has been conducted in all countries
in the world to protect the environment, and improve local residents'
livelihoods.
“The rapid increase of personal vehicles in
If there is no measure to tackle the surge of individual
vehicles, it will be a threat to urban infrastructure and its consequences
are traffic gridlock and environment pollution, said Mr. Truong.
The Ministry of Transport has asked related agencies to work
out measures against personal vehicles in major cities.
One of the measures is to restrict individual means of
transport but it needs a proper roadmap in which public transport will
gradually replace personal vehicles.
The Ministry’s choice is to restrict individual vehicles
together with to develop public transportation to meet the public demands.
Once, public transport has yet meet the increasing demand, the ministry will
loosen restriction.
The Deputy Minister also said that residents should obey the
law and understand the policy to make the city more beautiful. Local
governments should increase spreading information to make people clearly
understand the benefit of new regulation for their better living environment.
Free medical check-up, drugs for poor Khmer people in
400 Khmer residents in the Mekong delta
The Bank for Social Policies and the
Moreover, in addition to receiving health examination,
inhabitants were given a medical box with 17 normal drugs worth more than
VND400,000 (US$18.7).
Before the medical worker team also provided medical check up
to nearly 500 Khmer inhabitants in An Quang Huu Commune in the Mekong delta
Total spending for the charitable mission in two provinces is
nearly VND500 million (US$ 23,490)
Voluntary health insurance via family package required for
individuals
The Law on Health Insurance, which takes effect on January 1
this year, has made life tough for individuals as they cannot purchase a
voluntary health insurance policy unless they get it via a family package.
In order to buy voluntary health insurance, people should come
to the authorities of the wards or towns where they reside to purchase it.
Local authorities check the number of family members and send the list of
buyers to district-level social insurance agencies for issuing health
insurance cards for them.
The fee of voluntary health insurance will change depending on
the number of family members. For example, the first member will have to pay
the fee equal to no more than 6% of the current base salary of VND621,000
(US$28.9) but the second, third and the fourth persons will pay 70%, 60% and
50% respectively of the fee paid by the first and the fee for the fifth buyer
is only 40%.
The law requires people who are employed by household
businesses or work as domestic helpers in cities to return to their hometowns
to buy voluntary health insurance together with their family members, and use
the insurance card for health checks and treatments at local healthcare
facilities.
The law also regulates that patients will have to fully cover
their expenditures when having health checks or medical treatments at
hospitals outside the localities where they have their permanent residence
registered and their health insurance cards issued.
Dang Huy Quoc Thinh, deputy director of the
Patients complained that it is unreasonable when the law
prohibits them from receiving medical treatments at hospitals in the areas
where they do not have permanent resident status. This means they will have
to cover all the expenditures if they get treatments at these hospitals.
Experts said the ultimate purpose of health insurance is to
encourage people to buy medical insurance, so favorable conditions should be
created for them.
Sunwah Group conducts social activities in HCM City
Over 1,000 people participated in the “Sunwah and Friends
Social Services and Creativity Day”, held by Sunwah Foundation, the public
services arm of Sunwah Group, in Ho Chi Minh City on January 11.
Themed “Together We Care”, the programme encouraged people to
work with youth and children to carry out social initiatives across the city.
A series of social and cultural activities took place during
the event, including an art exhibition showcasing 53 child-produced pieces of
artwork and a marketing competition for students designed to foster
creativity and innovation.
In addition, the organising board also launched a number of
projects to be implemented in 2015, such as sending cards to child patients
and providing meals to impoverished patients and their relatives.
Jonathan Choi, Chairman of Sunwah Group, pledged to contribute
to
For his part, Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship
Organisations’
“Sunwah and Friends Social Services and Creativity Day”
offered diversified social activities and set a precedent for the social
responsibility of large groups to the locality’s socio-economic development,
Quoc added.
Over the past few years, Sunwah, a Hong Kong-based Group, has
organised numerous social projects; sponsored educational, arts, and cultural
programmes, and provided scholarships for disabled Vietnamese children.
Activities organised to help the disadvantaged enjoy a happy
Tet
A variety of activities were held in cities and provinces to
support the poor and social beneficiaries enjoy a happy Lunar New Year (Tet)
holiday, which falls in mid-February, 2015.
The Binh Duong provincial Labour Federation said it would
present 1,400 bus fares worth over VND1.2 billion to help needy workers
return home for Tet.
In addition, many enterprises in Binh Duong have planned
support activities to help poor workers and disadvantaged people enjoy a warm
Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. Over 1,000 workers of Binh Duong Garment
Company and Thai Binh Holding & Shoes Manufacturing Company will be
transported home by buses free of charge.
On January 9, representatives from the South African Consulate
in
The central
Main commodities to be sold will include rice, foodstuff,
cooking oil, meat, eggs, sugar, vegetables and fruits.
Can Tho strives to reduce malnourished child ratio
The health care sector of the Mekong Delta city of
According to the municipal Department of Public Health, local
women will receive training on pre-natal and post-natal nutrition as well as
childcare methods.
Vaccination programmes for children will be sped up, Nguyen
Thi Be Nam, Director of the Can Tho Reproductive Healthcare Centre said.
Can Tho is now home to 80,800 under-five-year-old children,
making up 4 percent of the city’s population.
Can Tho and other 12 provinces form the Mekong Delta region,
which covers a total area of around 40,000 square kilometres with a
population of 18 million and is a major aquaculture region and the largest
rice production hub of
Problems block drainage system
A flood drainage system for the Duong De residential quarter
in
Worse still, additional work needed to address some major
shortcomings is estimated to cost more than the investment earmarked for the
entire project.
The flood drainage system project for the residential quarter
in Vinh Hoa District was approved by the Khanh Hoa People's Committee in
2002.
Essentially, it would build a 1.165-kilometre canal to divert
runoff from the
The Khanh Hoa Centre for Development of Land Fund was assigned
as investor of the VND20.2 billion (US$961,900) project.
But 12 years on, just 600m of canal has been built and the
project has been temporarily suspended.
Residents at the foot of the Hon Kho Mountain say that water
leaks from the project have become more and more serious over the last few
years.
Cap Van Luat, who lives in the quarter's Group 15, said that
during the rainy season last year, water from the canal leaked and overflowed
on to Trieu Quang Phuc Road.
The canal was also hit by a landslide, he said.
The residents are worried that the canal can break and water
would flow directly into their homes, Luat added.
Nguyen Tien Luu, director of the Khanh Hoa Centre for
Development of Land Fund, told the Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper that the agency
which designed the project, the Khanh Hoa Irrigation Consultancy Company, did
not take underground water into account, leading to the leaks.
In October 2013, the Khanh Hoa People's Committee asked the
project investor to carry out works to prevent any breach in the canal.
The centre hired the Khanh Hoa Irrigation Consultant Company
to formulate a project to carry out the needed repairs.
Last December, the company informed the People's Committee
that the repairs would cost more than VND23.3 billion ($1.1 million), which
was VND3 billion ($142,800) more than the investment for the entire flood
drainage system.
Le Duc Vinh, deputy chairman of the Khanh Hoa People's
Committee, said that the province cannot agree to pay such a large sum of
money to improve a project that had lasted for more than 10 years and had
many problems.
Besides, the province does not have the needed funds, he said.
Vinh asked the centre and the company to re-examine reasons
for the leaks and carry out repairs only at the vulnerable points. Both
agencies have been asked to submit a plan to complete the project by the
middle of this month.
Director Luu told Tuoi tre (Youth) that he was not sure when
repair work on the drainage system would begin.
Dien Bien: Poor people receive Tet gifts
The Steering Committee for the Northwestern Region on January
12 presented gifts to the poor, people who rendered services during wartime,
and some nursery schools in Dien Bien province’s Muong Cha and Nam Po
districts.
The presentation was held in the run up to the traditional Tet
(Lunar New Year) holiday, which will fall on February 15-23.
The gifts comprised 35 LCD televisions and 20 packages of
electric cookers, kettles, mosquito nets, and blankets totaling more than 100
million VND (over 4,760 USD).
They were part of more than 200 TVs and 100 gift packages
donated by social organisations and businesses.
Earlier, the committee also gave similar presents to people in
the neighbouring provinces of Lai Chau, Lao Cai, and Yen Bai.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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Thứ Ba, 13 tháng 1, 2015
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