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Social News 17/1
Fishing boat rescued near Truong Sa
A fishing boat and its 13 crew members were rescued at sea
near
The boat's crew belongs to Ly Son Island's An Hai Commune in
the central
Nguyen Quoc Chinh, head of the An Hai Commune Fishing Union,
confirmed yesterday that the union had received an SOS from fishing boat QNg
96156 TS, which was stranded off the
Other fishing boats nearby failed to approach the boat due to
big waves and the rough sea. However, ship HQ561 from Navy Zone 4 was able to
tow the fishing boat to anchor on
The sea around the Truong Sa Islands has been choppy over the
last few days with 3-4m high waves.
Two arrested for trafficking women in Son La
Two persons were arrested for cheating andtrafficking
Vietnamese women near the Viet Nam-China border onTuesday, said the Son La
Border Guards Headquarters.
The two persons were identified as Sung A Denh, born in 1993,
and Thao A Muoi, born in1991. Both are residents of the northern Son La
province.
They were caught while trying to transport two local women
whom they planned to sell in the Lao Cai border area.
They had already sold three women for VND30 million (US$1,400)
each, by luring them with promises of well-paid jobs.
The authorities are investigating the case further.
Police bust lorry driver for trafficking IT parts
The Ha Noi Police on Wednesday discovered lorry full of
trafficked computer parts at Thach Ban-Nguyen Van Linh, a three-way crossroad
which connect the northern port city of
The spare parts, including more than 2,600 speakers, 200
microphones, 100 earphones and hundreds of charging wires.
The lorry driver admitted to the police that he was hired to
transport the goods and failed to show any papers related to the goods.
Unregistered mobile phones seized from bus
The Ha Noi market watch department's division 13 yesterday
seized 500 unregistered mobile phones from a bus travelling from Mong Cai
district of Quang Ninh province to Ha Noi.
The 42-year-old driver, Giap Manh Hung, a resident of Ha Long
city in Quang Ninh, and his co-driver, Cao Xuan Khoi, a resident of Ha
Le Quang Trung, the bus owner, told the market watch
department that he was hired last Tuesday to transport 500 mobile phones from
Mong Cai district to My Dinh bus station in Ha Noi for VND3.5 million ($166).
Trung put the phones in the customised cargo hold to hide them
from the police, and did not let the drivers know about the mobile phones.
He added that he had re-designed the cargo hold of the bus to
carry more goods and earn more money, because he had to pay the Ka Long
Transport Co-operative VND30 million (US$1,400) each month for using the bus.
The case is being investigated further.
US Ambassador donates blood ahead of Tet
The US Embassy in
Those participating in the event included the
This is the first time the newly appointed
Ambassador Ossius said he and the diplomatic staff consider
themselves part of the Vietnamese community and called on more people to
donate blood to save lives nationwide during the upcoming TET holiday.
The
Vietnam-Laos association's activities under review
The Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association (VLFA) Central
Committee reviewed its friendship activities in 2014 and outlined action
plans for 2015 at the second conference in
In his statement, VLFA President Vu Trong Kim, who is
also Vice President and Secretary General of the Vietnam Fatherland Front
(VFF) Central Committee suggested VLFA chapters should intensify their
activities to deepen mutual understanding and bilateral relations.
He also praised the association for launching a host of
exchange activities in 2014 to strengthen the time-honoured friendship,
solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation.
In 2015, the VLFA will diversify its operation methods, step
up communications to educate the people of both nations, especially young generations,
about Vietnam-Laos special relations, Kim added.
In addition, VLFA’s chapters will work with their Lao partners
to bolster all-around cooperation, principally in education, training,
economics, culture, science and technology, tourism, and sports.
Last year’s two-way trade turnover hit US$1.58 billion, up
34.5% on-year.
RoK funds US$3 million e-learning project
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will
provide US$3 million in non-refundable aid for the period 2015-2016 to
develop an e-learning system at Hanoi Open University and share the Republic
of Korea (RoK)’s experience in the field with Vietnam.
Addressing the launching ceremony for the e-learning platform
improvement project in
Director of the Information and Technology Agency under the
Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) Dr. Quach Tuan Ngoc confirmed that
Hanoi Open University will become the vanguard of e-learning in
In the context when
Chang Jae Yun, KOICA Chief Representative said the project is
expected to offer plentiful opportunities for 33,000 people to get access to
e-learning model. Experiences in the field will help lure investment from
Korean businesses into
Five providers of guest workers to
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has issued
a decision to suspend five labour export companies who have committed
violations in sending Vietnamese workers to
The decision is effective for the period January 10 to
February 10, 2015 and applies to Coma, Traenco, Tracimexco, Halasuco and
Cefinar who have been found guilty of overcharging for workers.
The Ministry has also asked the five companies to timely
report back on measures they have implemented to prevent future reoccurrences
of these or similar violations.
Earlier, the department issued a decision to suspend the Vietnam
Leather and Footwear Joint Stock Corporation (Leaprodexim) from sending
labourers to the Taiwanese market for a period of 45 days since late 2014.
Schools ordered to check students' medical history
Following the death of a sixth grader in Ho Chi Minh
City fainted and died a while after being hit with rulers by her teacher
earlier this week, the department of Education and Training in HCMC's
District Tan Phu January 13 ordered schools to pay attention to students'
medical history.
In a meeting with school principals, the department
representative stressed that schools must give a hoot to students' medical
history to avoid such similar mentioned-above regrettable incident.
The department also sent a document to pre- schools and junior
high schools in the district asking to ensure students' safety while they are
in schools.
The regrettable happened in
The teacher asked H. to lie on a table and used a bunch of
student rulers to strike her buttocks. After four blows, the teacher asked H.
to move back to her seat, but she lay on the table and did not move.
Thinking that H. was pretending, the teacher asked a student
to lift H. up and discovered that she had fainted.
H. was brought to the school’s health office, then transferred
to Tan Phu District’s Center for Preventive Medicine and eventually the
After the incident, the district education strictly forbids
all punishment forms including insult students and students' physical harm.
Any teachers violating the sector's regulation will receive fine. Teachers
should understand student family's medical file and students' psychology to
have proper discipline.
In addition, schools must guarantee students' safety while
they are attending in extra-activities.
Vehicles to be charged toll fee of VND 60,000- 240,000 on
Highway 51
After opening to traffic of remaining 31 kilometers of Ho Chi
Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Highway on February 8, Vietnam Expressway
Corporation (VEC) said traffic fee on the section will be collected starting
January 15.
Earlier, Vietnam Expressway Corporation proposed toll fees on
vehicles plying Highway 51, including:
Vehicles with 12 seats and bus, trucks with loads of 2
tons will be applied fee of VND 60,000 per vehicle.
Vehicles with 12 - 30 seats and trucks with loads of 2 -
4 tons will fee of VND 90,000 per vehicle.
Vehicles with 31 seats and trucks with loads from 4 up to 10
tons will be charged VND 160,000 per vehicle.
Trucks with loads of 10- 18 tons capacity and on 20 feet
container trucks will be charged VND 150,000.
Trucks with loads of more than 18 tons and 40 feet container
trucks, the charge will be VND 240,000.
Foreign affairs agencies, media strengthen information sharing
About 50 reporters and editors from local and central press
agencies in
Addressing the event, Doan Tuan Linh, Vice Director of the Ho
Chi Minh Department of Foreign Affairs, stressed the need to strengthen
coordination and information sharing between foreign affairs agencies and
media, particularly reporters covering external activities, to further
improve the efficiency and quality of foreign news service in the city.
Housing over 50 consulates and about 100 international
organisations,
Do Van Hop, head of the Vietnam News Agency’s News Department
for Foreign Service, emphasised the importance of external news affairs in
introducing Party and State policies to the world, promoting the country’s
image, and providing corrections and repudiating inaccurate information from
reactionary organisations.
He highlighted shortcomings in the country’s foreign news,
including the low number of in-depth news and commentaries.
He called on editors and reporters in external information
affairs to enhance their knowledge, contributing to implementing the
country’s external works amidst present diversified and multidimensional
information sources.
Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has actively covered external
activities of the Party and State leaders in a timely and accurate manner.
Last year, VNA provided hundreds of text, photo, and video
news stories relating to activities in the city, introducing the southern economic
hub’s achievements and potential advantages in attracting investment.
Fire breaks out at Que Vo industrial park
A fire spread over about 1,000 square metre of a workshop
owned by Mitac Vietnam Co. Ltd. in Que Vo Industrial Park 1 in the
The fire started at 7:55 am on the second floor of the
workshop when the short circuit happened and spread out to other areas in the
industrial park.
It took nearly three hours for local police and fire fighters
to keep the blaze under control and tighten the security at the scene.
Pham Huu Quang, deputy head of the Bac Ninh provincial Police
Department’s fire prevention and control division, said no human losses were
reported although the fierce fire spread to a large area.
Functional agencies are conducting investigation to find out
the cause of the accident.
Mitac
Orbis helps train
US ophthalmological experts are running a training course for
30 eye doctors from
This is part of the “Improve the Capacity of eye care in
children at the VNIO in the period 2014-2017" project funded by Orbis
International with the aim of raising capacity and qualification of
Vietnamese eye doctors.
VNIO Vice Director, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hiep said the training
course will help Vietnamese eye doctors conduct difficult eye surgeries with
new techniques and technologies.
The Orbis-funded project is implemented from 2014 to 2017 at a
cost of US$1 million to update knowledge and management skills in making
plans and policies on blindness prevention and eye care services in
In early 2014, Orbis financed the building of a children’s eye
centre at the VNIO.
Orbis is implementing a US$1.2 million project to develop
children’s eye care services in Binh Dinh province from December 2014 to December
2018.
Assistance policies pay off in reducing poverty
Poverty rates in mountainous and ethnic regions were reduced
by 2-4 percent last year, with most rapid decreases seen in the
Reports delivered at the Government Committee for Ethnic
Affairs meeting noted that the poverty rate among households in the
northwestern region dropped by 3.5 percent, while the northeastern region saw
a decrease of 3 percent and the
The conference also heard that in 2014, mountainous provinces
recorded an average economic growth of 8-10 percent thanks to a recovery in
industrial and agricultural production with increases in productivity,
output, and quality. The living conditions of ethnic minorities improved
while political and security situations remained stable.
The positive outcomes were attributable to numerous policies
dedicated to mountainous ethnic areas, including programmes to build
flood-resistant homes in vulnerable areas in the Mekong Delta and central
regions and a project to construct 186 suspension bridges in 28 mountainous
provinces.
In 2014, over VND3.9 trillion (US$183.3 million) was allocated
to 2,331 disadvantaged communes for infrastructure upgrades and production
development, with an additional VND327 billion provided for resettlement
projects targeting nomadic ethnic minority groups.
In particular, 29 provinces have provided housing and farming
land to landless ethnic households in extremely poor areas.
Addressing the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan
Phuc hailed ethnic affairs results in the last year, saying that they
significantly contributed to Millennium Development Goal achievements on
poverty reduction and the country’s socio-economic targets.
At the same time, he appealed for greater efforts towards
further developing mountainous ethnic areas.
In addition to the Party and Government’s policies, he
suggested localities enact their own measures to accelerate growth in these
areas by paying more attention to ethnic affairs, allocating resources to
far-flung areas, and organising activities to attract more investment.
Young environmentalists discuss energy efficiency at GYS
The first Global Youth Summit (GYS) Winter to be held in
It is being attended by 200 young people from different Asian
nations to discuss and initiate ideas to protect the living environment.
The event is being jointly organised by the Hemispheres
Foundation and the Vietmam Environment Administration.
The delegates, aged between 11 and 21, have from
"These young environmentalists will be a great source of
inspiration for other youth in the region to learn more about the environment
impact and assume a more active role in their actions for Earth," said
Hemisphere Foundation President Ann Phua.
A GYS Summer will be hosted in
Danish Embassy to host big
One of
Representatives from Danish and Vietnamese companies along
with several higher education institutions will participate, providing those
who attend the opportunity to find out about jobs in a variety of sectors
locally, nationally and internationally.
A team of professional careers consultants will be on hand to
offer advice and there are short informative talks on interview techniques,
making effective job applications, succeeding at assessment centres and the
skills employers look for.
Ambassador Nielsen said the event will help create a direct
link between Vietnamese youth and Danish companies who are seeking
high-quality employees.
This, the second jobs fair sponsored by the Danish Ambassador,
is to be held in honour of a visit by the Danish Minister for Trade and
Development Cooperation.
Top heart disease experts meet to share experience
Around 200 leading experts specialising in congenital and
structural heart diseases are gathering in
They are to share new discoveries as well as experience in
treating congenital heart defects.
Cardiac interventional procedures performed in the
In
Asian people, including Vietnamese, tend to have right-sided
heart diseases, according to Associate Professor Vu Minh Phuc, Chairman of
the HCM City Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease Society.
Progress has been made in curing those diseases, Phuc said,
noting that operations can now be performed on newborn babies.
Children’s Hospitals No. 1 and No. 2 conduct operations for
more than 400 patients with right –sided heart defects a year.
The conference is a follow-up of the three previous successful
conferences in
A seminar on developing and improving systems for child care
and protection services was held in
Jointly organised by the municipal Department of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs and the United Nations International Children’s
Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in
To realise these goals, local authorities plan to construct
additional centres for supporting and protecting children, pilot a
day-boarding model to care for children living with HIV/AIDS, and develop a
community-based protection system over the next two years.
Le Thu Ha from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social
Affairs said child care and protection service system has been piloted in 63
percent of provinces and cities, helping reduce the rate of child victims of
violence and abuse, among others, by 0.2 percent annually.
The model also contributed to increasing the rate of children
receiving care and assistance to 72 percent.
However, she noted that efforts have yet to meet set
requirements because system and staff capacity in the field remains limited,
while interdisciplinary coordination in the field has not been effective.
Le Hong Loan from UNICEF Vietnam said the 2015-2016 programme
will focus on supporting the formation of socially-sponsored centres and a
staff network working in the field, while establishing interdisciplinary
working groups to provide assistance, care and protection services to
children in need.
Implemented in HCM City since 2010, the project was designed
to improve the capacity of local authorities to thoroughly and effectively
resolve issues related children, especially those in poor and vulnerable
families, and within migration communities.
Medical workers in Thanh Hoa fake qualifications
As medical graduates in Vietnam struggle to find work, an
investigation of healthcare units in Thanh Hoa Province has found a number of
medical workers have been using fake certificates to gain employment, some
for decades.
Le Huu Uyen, from the provincial Department of Health, said an
investigation launched early last year found at least 20 medical workers from
local hospitals and medical stations did not have the qualifications they
claimed.
One worker using fake certificates was found at
Several medical workers in the province had been using fake
certificates for decades.
“The provincial Department of Health has requested all
violators be dismissed and their dossiers sent to provincial police for
further investigation,” Uyen said.
In some cases, violators are being allowed to continue
working, such as in the case of Le Thi Thuy, who used a fake phamarcy certificate
to work at the Provincial Hospital of Endocrinology as a medicine deliverer.
She had worked at the hospital for eight years.
After her cheating was uncovered, Thuy was dismissed last May
20, but a few months later the hospital’s director decided to re-employ her
as a nurse's aid with one-year contract beginning from last October 1,
stirring up public controversy.
“We’ll ask the hospital’s leaders explain the decision,” Uyen
said.
ChildFund presents 2,300 jackets to children in mountainous
region
Nearly 2,300 warm jackets worth VND 200 million (US$9,300)were
presented to children in Kim Truy and Hop Dong communes, Kim Boi district in
the mountainous province of Hoa Binh on January 12 under the sponsorship of
ChildFund Vietnam.
The winter gifts are one of the annual activities of ChildFund
In previous years, the beneficiaries of the project were
children under the sponsorship of its child programme. However, since 2014,
the project has reached children in communes in ChildFund
ChildFund began working in
ChildFund
Labour exports reach record high of nearly 107,000 in 2014
In 2015,
Construction of
The construction work of the Trung Hoa – Belt Road 3
intersection, including two tunnels, will begin on January 18, according to
the Thang Long Project Management Board.
Vu Xuan Hoa, head of the Board, said the Board under the
Ministry of Transport on January 15 signed a contract package deal No 4 with the
contractor-builder group Hanshin-Cienco 4 to build the intersection where
Thang Long Avenue, Belt Road 3 and Tran Duy Hung road meet.
The intersection, which currently does not allow continuous
traffic through it, is also the last work of the phase II of the Belt Road 3
project from Mai Dich to Linh Dam Lake that uses the Japanese Government’s
Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans.
The cost is estimated at 1,087 billion VND or around 51
million USD and comes from the remainder of the capital from the phase II of
the Belt Road 3 project.
The building works include two 691.8m-long tunnels of three
lanes each for two-way traffic between Tran Duy Hung and Thang Long Avenue.
On its completion, the new intersection will help ease the
traffic flow between the downtown
It also connects provinces in the northeastern region like Hai
Phong and Lang Son to the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park and Hoa Binh province.
Winners of Young Science Talent Awards announced
Winners of the 2014 Young Science Talent Awards for university
students and lecturers were announced at a ceremony held in
As many as 121 projects were presented to students, including
11 first, 32 second and 78 third prizes.
Seventy-four projects carried out by 102 lecturers were also
honoured at the ceremony, including five first, 11 second, 33 third and 33
consolation prizes.
The winning projects in the two categories were selected from
over 400 entries by students and lecturers from 81 universities across the
country.
The projects cover various fields, including natural sciences,
engineering and technology, medicine and pharmacy, social sciences and
humanities. Many of them are highly applicable and expected to significantly
contribute to socio-economic development.
Prominent entries include an initiative to make drugs to treat
burn wounds, by Le Thu Huong, a student from Medicine and Pharmacy University
in Hue; a project on cybercrime by a group of students from the People’s
Police Academy; and a project on improving artificial kidney devices by
Doctor Do Duy Hai, a lecturer from Hanoi University of Science and
Technology.
Launched 25 years ago by the Ministry of Education and
Training, the awards have become one of the most prestigious honours for
students in the country. The accolade has been extended to lecturers since
2012.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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