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Social News 6/2
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165 students nationwide honored 2015 best students
Ministry of Training and Education has just announced a list
of students, who won the best student competition in 2015 on February 3.
This year’s contest attracted 4, 350 participants , who get
outstanding achievements in their study at high schools, universities
nationwide.
The annual competition is an useful playground, aiming to seek
outstanding students for a national academic team to compete at various
scholastic events.
2, 165 winners honored this year, including 140 students from
Hanoi, 52 students from Ho Chi Minh City, 85 students from Hai Phong, 82 from
Nghe An, 81 from Hai Duong and 78 from Nam Dinh and other.
Student Nguyen Tuan Hai Dang from
Manhunt after bank theft, inside job suspected
A nationwide manhunt is underway for a bank employee believed
to have stolen VND17bn (USD810,000) from the state-owned Vietnam Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) in
Police are looking for Nguyen Le Kieu Quang, who is alleged to
have disappeared with the cash, which was taken from the bank's Hoa Hung
Transaction Office on January 30. Quang was head of the transaction office.
Agribank had sent an escort team to the Mac Thi Buoi Branch on
Hai Ba Trung Street to collect VND17bn. Phu Minh Hoa was assigned as team
leader, with driver Nguyen Dinh Cong. Quang unofficially joined the team and,
as the most senior employee, told the driver to go to a foreign bank on Hai
Ba Trung Street after the money was collected.
Quang allegedly told the others to go away while he exchange
the money into Euro banknotes. He said he'd call them after the exchange was
finished, but neither Quang nor the money were seen again.
Nguyen Hai Long, deputy director of Agribank, said on February
2 that Hoa did not fulfill his duty as a team leader. An escort team should
have one driver, one security guard and one employee of the bank. Hoa did not
escort the money back to the office, but instead gave it to Quang, who was
not an official member of the team.
Agribank reported the case to
Phu Minh Hoa was detained for questioning. The driver and a
security guard have been suspended. Agribank has formally dismissed Quang.
"We have sent employees to review and support the work at
Hoa Hung Transaction Office so it will be business as usual," the bank
said in a media release.
Unvaccinated children put others at risk, official warns
Vaccination programme failures are posing a major risk of
spreading potentially fatal contagious diseases among children as small
outbreaks spread in the northern region of
According to the Office of Expanded Programmes on Immunisation
in Northern Regions, in January alone the National Paediatric Hospital
received 48 cases of whooping cough, compared to 22 cases last year, and 91
measles cases, an increase of 51 cases on the same period in 2014.
Dr. Pham Quang Thai, from the Office of Expanded Programmes on
Immunisation, said most children diagnosed with whooping cough and 61 percent
of children with measles had not been vaccinated.
Thai said that some parents are scared of immunisation risks,
while other parents delay immunisation until their children qualify for
five-in-one or six-in-one vaccines.
"Unvaccinated children unintentionally put other kids at
risk, especially infants," he said. "We are seeing cases where babies
less than two months old are infected with whooping cough."
Vaccination coverage in cities and provinces are at 92
percent, but it is only 80 percent at the district level, and 50 percent in
communes. Children in disadvantaged and mountainous areas may not even be
vaccinated, Thai said.
Dr. Tran Dac Phu, the head of the Department of Preventive
Medicine, said, "Contagious diseases are scattered across the country
and have not reached an outbreak level, but it is clear than most of the
patients are children whose parents have delayed vaccinations or kids who are
too young to be vaccinated.
"We advise parents to give their child full vaccinations
in a timely manner. If vaccinations are not in synch, the child is more
likely to be infected with measles, whooping cough and rubella."
Pham Thi Que, a parent from
Que said her child had one shot of Quinvaxem, a conjugation of
five individual vaccines in one that protect children in infancy from
diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza
type B. But she did not continue her child's immunisation programme.
"He is two years old and only had one shot of Quinvaxem,
but he developed a fever and I did not dare to give him the next shot,"
she said. ‘’
Charitable programme launched to support disadvantaged
children
A charitable programme named ‘Spring for Children’ was
launched on February 4, calling for joint support for orphans, disabled
children and victims of Agent Orange to enjoy a warm Lunar New Year (Tet)
holiday.
The programme is co-funded by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, the
Association in Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans (ASVHO),
Running through until March 28, the initiative is expected to
mobilise communities, media agencies, companies and sponsors to donate their
own products and services to support disadvantaged children nationwide during
Tet. Donations by businesses and philanthropists can be made publicity on
website www.sieuthihangdoihang.com and on multiple media channels in support
of the programme.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, ASVHO Chairman Nguyen Dinh
Lieu stressed the importance of the community-based charitable programme,
which has received warm support from many businesses, media agencies, and
donors both at home and abroad to help disadvantaged children make positive
change to their lives.
Also at the launch, several businesses responded to the
fundraising, of which TH Milk JSC donated 18,000 glasses of milk, Four
Seasons Love Foundation presented 500 gifts, and many others donated cash and
essential goods for disadvantaged children.
Before and after the Tet holiday, a range of activities for
children in difficult circumstances will be held, including Tet gift giving,
photo exhibitions, and Trans-Vietnam cycling to call on support for the
event.
Police detain trucks for dumping industrial waste
The southern Dong Nai province's environmental crime
prevention branch caught yesterday three trucks that were trying to dump
several tonnes of industrial waste in Trang Bom district's Bac Son ward .
The three trucks were being driven by Nguyen Lam Thanh, Nguyen
Van Dinh and Ha Huy Tien from
At the police station, the three drivers said that they had
been hired to collect more than 25 tonnes of waste from Seo Rim Vina Company
Ltd by a hazardous waste treatment company in
By 5am on Tuesday, they had transported the waste to the Song
May brick kiln in Bac Son ward to dump it there.
The police said that the process of dumping the waste had been
organised carefully.
The police escorted the three trucks to the Seo Rim Vina
Company Ltd for further investigation.
Blaze destroys bag shop in Ha Noi
A blaze destroyed a two-storey house, with a bag shop on the
first floor, early today in Ha Noi's
Initial investigations revealed that the fire had started on
the second floor.
Fire fighters quickly put out the blaze, but the extent of the
damage has not yet been indicated.
The gutted house was located next to Ba Kieu Temple – one of
the capital's most famous temples, built during the reign of King Le Than
Tong (1619 – 1628) to worship Mother Goddess Lieu Hanh and princesses Quynh
Hoa and Que Hoa. The temple was unharmed by the fire.
Meanwhile, another fire was reported at a three-storey house
in
No loss of human life was reported in either case. Both cases
are under investigation.
Man arrested for illegal weapons trade and production
Police in the northern coastal
Nguyen Van Tam, 60, is in custody for further questioning.
On January 30, the provincial Police Department for
Investigation of Social Order Crimes conducted a surprise raid on the
suspect's house and found weapons, including three shotguns, four self-made
guns, 277 bullets in different calibres, and 1.3kg of gunpowder, as well as
other gun parts.
Equipment, such as welding and cutting machines, to create
weapons was also found at the scene. All of the items uncovered in the search
were seized.
Initially, Tam admitted that he had stored and produced guns
and its parts to sell for a profit. Police later found two more guns and some
other gun parts.
The case is still under investigation.
One dead, four hospitalised due to limuloid poisoning
One person died, while four others remained in the hospital
today after eating limuloids, said Dr Dang Quang Tam, director of the
All the patients were transferred from the
This is the first time the hospital has received patients
poisoned by eating limuloids.
Several flower varieties to be available during Tet
Local growers have planted flowers, more than half of them
being daisies, in more than 900ha in the Central Highland Lam Dong province's
Da Lat city for the coming Tet.
The findings of the city's business office said that the local
growers have planted a wide variety of daisies and other flowers of the city,
such as lilies, orchids, lisianthus and sunflowers, besides carnations to
meet the different demands of customers during the Tet (Lunar New Year)
festival.
As planned, the growers will supply about 20 million bunches
of lilies for customers throughout the country during Tet.
Currently, a bouquet of lilies costs between VND160,000 and
VND170,000 (US$7.5 to $8), while a bunch of orchids costs between VND300,000
and VND1.5 million ($14-$70).
However, the prices will rise during Tet, which falls on
February 19 this year.
Six injured as coach and truck collide
At least six people were injured when their coach collided
head-on with a truck in the Central Highland Dak Lak province's Ea H'leo
commune this morning.
According to witnesses, the accident occurred when the coach
suddenly crashed into a motorbike, causing the coach driver to lose control
and hit the truck.
The injured were taken to Ea H'leo district's
The local police are investigating the case.
Heroin traffickers awarded death and imprisonment sentences
The People's Court in the
The death penalty was awarded to Kha A Denh, 41, while his
33-year-old nephew, Kha A Sua, received a two decade-long prison sentence.
According to the indictment, Denh and Sua were caught
red-handed while selling 25 packs of heroin, weighing over 8.6 kilograms in
Mai Chau District's Tan Son Commune in July, 2014. During the police raid,
Sua used a knife to resist arrest and injured an anti-drug police officer
during the scuffle.
According to the police's investigation, Denh bought the drugs
from Song A Su in the
The drugs were priced at VND150 million (US$7,400) per pack.
Denh and Sua were caught by the police, even as the two buyers managed to
escape.
Tet programme held for kids at city shelters, rehab centres
Juvenile offenders at rehabilitation centres and children aged
18 and under at city shelters will receive gifts and scholarships during an
entertainment programme in
The event will be attended by 1,600 children who live at
shelters and rehab centres in
All of the children will be presented with gifts, and 17 of
them with good school records will receive scholarships worth VND2 million
each.
The programme, which includes famous Vietnamese singers, was
organised by the Hoa Sen Group in co-operation with Cong An (the Police)
newspaper and HCM City Television.
It will be broadcast live on HCM City Television's HTV3
channel.
Traffic safety programme launched
The National Traffic Safety Committee signed an agreement with
Viet Nam Automobile Manufacturers' Association today to help disseminate
traffic safety information and establish a fund for researching motorbike
traffic safety.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Minister of Transport and
Permanent Vice Chairman of the Committee, Dinh La Thang said "Traffic
accidents are estimated to cause a total damage of VND40 to 60 trillion
($1.8-2.8 billion) each year."
Thang asked the association to collaborate with authorised
agencies to research and implement a campaign to ensure traffic safety
nationwide by 2020, with a vision for 2030.
The campaign hopes to impart solutions for harmonious
development among motorbikes and other vehicles, because 70 per cent of
traffic accidents are caused by motorbikes, he stated.
Thang added that producers should gift at least one to two
standard helmets to motorbike buyers.
"A standard helmet is one of the main factors that ensure
traffic safety," he said.
Thang also directed the association to closely cooperate with
the committee and compile a road map for controlling vehicle fumes.
Minoru Kato, general director of Honda Viet Nam and president
of the association, said although the association is young, it has played a
positive role in building a society in Viet Nam that observes traffic safety.
Le Anh Tuan, from SYM Viet Nam, which is a member of the
association, said the association had also spread knowledge about traffic
safety among customers, such as instructing them on how to safely drive and
how to select standard helmets.
Under the programme, the fund for researching motorcycle traffic
safety, which has a budget of VND1.7 billion (US$79,600) this year, will help
manufacture motorbikes that are user friendly and safe, he said.
Charity programme supporting handicapped, orphans launched
The launching ceremony for a charity programme aiming to raise
funds to provide assistance to the handicapped, orphans and Agent Orange
victims on the occasion of the Lunar New Year was held in
Themed “ Spring for the world of children”, the event was
co-organised by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), the Association in Support
of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans (ASVHO), the TTV programme, and the
“Beloved Four Seasons” fund under the Hanoi Olympia School.
Speaking at the event, Chairman of ASVHO Nguyen Dinh Lieu
expressed his hope that the programme will give generous individuals and
organizations in
Donors may contribute to the programme through the website:
www.sieuthihangdoihang.com .
It will run until March 28.
Tet charitable activities nationwide
Provinces across the nation have conducted charitable
activities to bring a warm and joyful Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday (Tet)
to impoverished households.
Northern Ninh Binh province has spent over 1 billion VND
(48,000 USD) on gifts for local policy beneficiaries and war veterans and
volunteers, in addition to presents provided by the State President.
On the occasion, poor families, low-income civil workers,
families of soldiers stationed on islands and at border areas, and people
living in social care centres received gifts worth between 200,000 and 1.3
million VND (10 - 60 USD) each.
The Women’s Union in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has also
given over 350 gifts worth 300,000 (14 USD) VND each to women from poor
backgrounds across the province, along with 50 gift packages containing bags
and notebooks to poor primary students in Thot Not district.
The Mekong Delta
According to the director of the provincial Department of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, 8 billion VND (375,000 USD) worth of
presen ts will be handed out to 28,000 local families of war veterans and
martyrs, Heroes of the People’s Armed Forces, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and
Agent Orange/Dioxin victims.
Poor families, especially those living in remote areas and
Khmer ethnic minority communities, also received gifts from the provincial
People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee.
The Southwest Steering Committee has presented gifts valued at
1 million VND (47 USD) to 100 families in the province as part of the
programme “Tet for the poor” and built 15 houses for families of on-duty
military men at a total cost of 600 million VND (28,000 USD).
Meanwhile, central Phu Yen province has requested more than
271 tonnes of rice in governmental aid for the holiday to address food
shortages following the long and severe drought that damaged 763 hectares of
paddy fields last year.
New Year gifts for
Delegations from the Steering Committee for southwest region
on February 4 visited and presented gifts to poor households in the Mekong
Delta city of
The gift packages came on the occasion on the forthcoming
traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the biggest festival in a year for
Vietnamese.
Deputy Director of the committee Nguyen Phong Quang extended
his New Year greetings and delivered gifts (each worth one million VND) to
100 low-income households in Phong Dien, Co Do and O Mon districts of Can
Tho.
The same day, Vo Trong Huu, head of the committee’s Department
of Socio-Cultural Affairs presented Tet gifts to 100 underprivileged
households in Ba Tri and Thanh Phu districts of Ben Tre, each worth one
million VND.
Huu said the committee has received 12 billion VND (560,000
USD) in donations from businesses and philanthropists to support low-income
residents during the Lunar New Year.
Tet gifts given to Vietnamese in Cambodia
The Association of Cambodians of Vietnamese Origin in Koh Kong
province on February 3 presented gifts to more than 100 poor overseas
Vietnamese living in the locality as Tet, the lunar New Year of the
Vietnamese, is coming.
The gifts are the association’s efforts to bring joy for the
disadvantaged during the Tet festival.
There are now over 1,000 Vietnamese Cambodians in Koh Kong
province. Most of them earn their living on fishing and handicraft making
with low income.
Since its establishment, the association has provided
assistance for overseas Vietnamese and encouraged them to abide by the local
country’s laws and contribute to its socio-economic development.
It has also called on donors to raise funds for charitable
activities, including providing free health check-ups and treatment for poor
Vietnamese and
Programme to improve commuter road sense launched
The National Committee for Traffic Safety (NCTS) and the
Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) are collaborating on a
joint programme to raise motorcyclist road sense as formalised in
Accordingly, effective programmes on road safety communication
and motorcycle training currently implemented by NCTS and VAMM members will
be expanded, Vice Chairman of the committee Khuat Viet Hung said.
A fund will also be established to provide support for studies
on people-friendly motorcycle development policies to be proposed to the
Government, he added.
Hailing efforts by the NCTS and VAMM, Transport Minister and
NCTS Permanent Vice Chairman Dinh La Thang has asked the two bodies to
develop a strategy on traffic safety through 2020 and another on harmonious
development of means of transport in Vietnam.
He also requested that manufacturers design more suitable
motorcycle models for the nation and detail a route map on controlling
vehicle emissions.
The NCTS reported there were 25,322 traffic accidents
nationwide last year, killing 8,996 people and injuring 24,417 others. As
many as 199,396 cars and 2,597,301 motorbikes were registered during the
year.
Binh Dinh fishermen access off-shore ship building credit
The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has
disbursed the first credit package of 61 billion VND (2.8 million USD) for
fishermen in central Binh Dinh province to build new ships serving off-shore
operations.
The loan duration is 11 years with an interest rate of 7
percent for the first year. If the debtors are eligible to the State
financial assistance policy, they will be exempt from the first-year interest
and obtain a 1-percent yearly interest payment.
The loan will cover most of the shipbuilding cost,
facilitating the locals to better carry out their business at sea.
According to BIDV Chairman Tran Bac Ha, 23 fishermen have
registered for the bank’s credit package thus far.
The package is offered as the realisation of the Government’s
Decree 67/2014/ND-CP, which provides basic policies to boost fisheries
development, including assisting fishermen in building high-capacity,
iron-covered ships designed for offshore fishing, a practice that could earn
fishermen higher incomes.
As many as 2,079 new off-shore fishing ships and 205 logistics
ships are expected to be built under this decree, according to the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development.
With a coastline of more than 134km, Binh Dinh has three major
ports, namely Tam Quan, De Gi and Quy Nhon.
The province has a fishing fleet of over 7,400 vessels
including nearly 3,000 offshore fishing ships with capacity ranging from 90
to over 1,000 CV each.
Anti-smuggling efforts urged during Tet
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a dispatch
urging ministries and localities to intensify counter initiatives against
smuggling, trade fraud and fake commodities, especially during the upcoming
Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Deputy PM Phuc, who is also head of the National Steering
Committee for the Prevention and Control of Smuggling, Trade Fraud and Fake
Commodities, requested relevant agencies to strengthen their inspections at
border gates, border areas and major markets and quickly work to detect and
counter any violations.
He asked that special attention should be devoted to goods in
high demand during Tet, including ensuring the safety of beverages,
confectionaries, fruits, and food.
Phuc stressed the importance of coordination and sharing
information among authorised agencies and localities in anti-smuggling
activities, as well as enhancing anti-smuggling communications to raise
public awareness and encourage the prioritisation of Vietnamese goods.
Meanwhile, the Deputy PM warned of strict punishments on
leaders of ministries and localities for smuggling and trade fraud detection
during a working session with key leaders of the northern coastal province of
Quang Ninh on February 3.
Quang Ninh, which shares a border with China , handled 2,514
smuggling and trade fraud cases in 2014 including criminal proceedings
against 126 individuals, according to a provincial report. Over 76 billion
VND (3.6 million USD) worth of goods were seized during the year, it said.
According to the report, as many as 915 cases of domestic
trade fraud and tax evasion were uncovered, adding that nearly 60 billion VND
(2.8 million USD) were collected as administrative fine with 190 billion VND
(8.9 million USD) in reclaimed taxes.
Transmission projects hastened to ensure power supply
Power transmission project progress is being accelerated to
ensure an adequate supply of electricity for southern Vietnam, a major energy
consuming region.
Data from the Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) show this the
country’s power system has a total design capacity of 34,000 megawatts while
demand is only 26,000 megawatts. Southern demand is expected to rise in the
coming years.
To ensure sufficient southern power supply in the future,
EVN’s National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) has been implementing
a number of transmission projects since 2012, said Chairman of the EVNNPT’s
member council Dang Phan Tuong, adding that 14 projects became operational in
2014.
About 20 percent of the electricity consumed in southern
Vietnam was sent from the north and central region through the national
transmission network last year, he noted.
The network’s transmission capacity from the north to the
central region has been increased to 1,800 megawatts and from the central
region to the south to 3,100 megawatts thus far, Tuong said, assuring that
these figures will continue to grow in 2015.
Meanwhile, the 4,308 megawatt Duyen Hai Power Centre,
currently under construction in the southern province of Tra Vinh, is a key
facility for southern electricity generation. It covers 878.91 hectares of
land in Duyen Hai district and includes four coal-fired thermal power plants.
Two turbines with a combined capacity of 1,245 megawatts are
scheduled to be connected to the national grid this year with a third
beginning production in 2016, Tuong said.
Looking to transmit power from the centre to regional
localities, EVNNPT has to complete the 220 kilovolt lines of Duyen Hai – Mo
Cay and Mo Cay – Ben Tre, the 500 kilovolt line from Duyen Hai – My Tho, and
the 500 kilovolt Duyen Hai substation, he added.
The Duyen Hai Centre and its Vinh Tan counterpart, which is
also currently under construction in central Binh Thuan province, are the
only power generators for the south until 2018. As such, this region will
require transmitted electricity until 2020.
Dong Nai builds homes for low-income residents
The southern province of Dong Nai began construction on
DETACO, a housing project for low-income residents and workers at local
industrial parks, in Nhon Trach district on February 3.
The project includes 16 five-storey apartment blocks, offering
a combined total of 2,192 flats. The flats will be sold for 200 million VND
(9,320 USD) each.
Potential buyers will benefit from a credit package worth 30
trillion VND (14 million USD) with a 5-percent interest rate and 15-year loan
duration. Notably, low-income buyers can pay for their homes in instalments.
The project also covers the building of a kindergarten, park,
commercial centre, and parking space.
According to the provincial construction department, Dong Nai
is conducting 91 housing projects for low-income residents, including five
State-invested projects. Currently, 27 buildings of this kind are operational
in the locality.
Can Tho fulfils universal preschool education targets
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has fulfilled its target of
providing universal preschool education for five-year-old children and
received approval for its educational development plan for 2020 from the
Ministry of Education and Training.
In the announcement ceremony on February 3, Nguyen Viet Dung,
Director of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Representative Office in
Ho Chi Minh City, spoke highly of the city’s achievement which marks a
profound breakthrough in its preschool and general education.
Preschool education lays a solid foundation for children’s
physical and mental development, in addition to nurturing positive feelings
and creative thinking at an early age. By giving priority to nursery schools,
Can Tho has shown its dedication to improving the public intellectual
standard and national education quality, he noted.
He also hailed the city’s effort to complete the universal
preschool education target a year ahead of schedule.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Van Tam
committed to making every effort to implement the educational development
plan which is focused on building a learning society, preventing illiteracy,
improving education infrastructure and teachers’ capacity, increasing the
number of children aged 3-4 attending two classes a day for a full school
year, and reducing malnutrition rate in children to below 5 percent.
All communes and districts in the city have kindergartens and
standard kindergartens, 37 percent of the classrooms are solidly constructed,
all kindergartens have qualified teachers and adequate provisions of basic
teaching equipment, and 99 percent of the child population attend school.
Nine of the organisations with significant contributions to
universalising preschool education were recognised and awarded at the
ceremony.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri/ND
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