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Social News 10/3
Outstanding ASEAN businesswomen congratulated
A ceremony honoring 36 outstanding ASEAN businesswomen, as
part of the first ASEAN Businesswomen Forum with the participation of more
than 200 female entrepreneurs, was held in
It is aimed to praise businesswomen’s contributions to socio-economic
development in their countries and the region.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc congratulated
businesswomen and their great achievements, affirming that the country will
always create good conditions for local and international enterprises’ development.
The award that highly evaluated female entrepreneurs’ efforts
helps encourage women in economic development in the country and the region.
Party leader visits Tra Vinh province
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visited Tieu Can
district in the Mekong Delta
Located in the west of Tra Vinh, Tieu Can is home to many
ethnic groups practising different religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism
and Caodaism.
The Party leader toured Tieu Can district’s Phu Can commune
where the living standard of farmers has been improved considerably after
meeting criteria for new-style rural development. The rate of poor households
in the commune dropped from 18.3 percent in 2010 to 4.85 percent in 2014.
He hailed the locality for its socio-economic achievements as
well as those recorded in the building of the Party and the political system
over the past time.
The Party leader urged Phu Can authorities to thoroughly
prepare for the Party Congress at all levels, during which, he said, the
locality should draw lessons and point out difficulties and strengths in
order to boost development.
Earlier, Party General Secretary Trong laid a wreath and burnt
incense at a temple dedicated to President Ho Chi Minh in Long Duc commune,
Tra Vinh town.-
Blood donation event receives attention in Hanoi
The biggest annual blood donation campaign of the year, titled
“red spring festival”, was lauched in
Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thi Xuyen highlighted the
dedication of volunteers to encourage local engagement, contributing
significantly to easing the shortage of blood for medical treatment.
She urged the expansion of relevant media coverage to raise
further awareness of the issue.
Professor Dr Nguyen Minh Tri, Director of the National
Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion and Head of the festival’s
management board, said the event was planned to coincide with International
Women’s Day to position the occasion as an opportunity for donors to give
blood as a gift to female patients.
First held in 2008, the “red spring festival” has thus far
collected 33,797 units of blood and mobilised the participation of 120,000
people.
The drive has been expanded to more than 30 provinces and
cities nationwide since 2010.
Two Vietnamese indicted in one of largest data breaches in US
The U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed Thursday a criminal
indictment against two Vietnamese citizens for their role in a massive data
breach of e-mail offering companies all over the
Nguyen Quoc Viet and Vu Hoang Giang, who resided for a period
of time in the Netherlands, are accused of “carrying out the largest data
breach of names and e-mail addresses in the history of the Internet,”
according to Assistant Attorney General Caldwell.
A federal grand jury also returned an indictment this week against
Canadian national David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, who is charged with
conspiring with Viet and others to money launder the proceeds of Viet’s
computer hacking offenses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release
on March 6.
“This case reflects the cutting-edge problems posed by today’s
cybercrime cases, where the hackers didn’t target just a single company; they
infiltrated most of the country’s e-mail distribution firms,” said Acting
U.S. Attorney John Horn.
“And the scope of the intrusion is unnerving, in that the
hackers didn’t stop after stealing the companies’ proprietary data—they then
hijacked the companies’ own distribution platforms to send out bulk e-mails
and reaped the profits from e-mail traffic directed to specific websites.”
Between approximately February 2009 and June 2012, Nguyen Quoc
Viet allegedly hacked into at least eight e-mail Service Providers (ESPs) all
over the United States, including two ESPs based in the Northern District of
Georgia, and stole confidential information, including proprietary marketing
data containing over one billion e-mail addresses, according to information
presented in court.
e-mail Service Providers are companies that generally offer
legitimate e-mail marketing or bulk e-mail services to their clients. Clients
hire ESPs to assist with sending bulk e-mails to customers or potential
customers who have opted to receive such e-mails.
This is contrast to “spam,” which is a commonly-used term for
unsolicited e-mail. ESPs generally take affirmative steps to ensure that
their e-mail campaigns are not blocked or classified as “spam” by the
recipients’ e-mail programs.
Nguyen allegedly hacked into the ESPs’ computer databases and,
in conjunction with Giang, used his unauthorized access to launch spam
attacks on tens of millions of e-mail recipients.
The indictment alleges that Viet used various methods to gain
unauthorized access into the ESPs’ computer databases.
In some instances Viet allegedly directed e-mail phishing
campaigns at employees of the ESPs, which are fraudulent e-mails designed to
resemble e-mails from trustworthy persons or entities, but in fact are
designed to trick the recipients into clicking a link on the e-mail.
Viet’s phishing campaigns allegedly delivered malware, which
allowed him backdoor access to the ESP employees’ computer systems and
enabled him to steal sensitive information, including the employees’ access
credentials for the ESPs’ computer systems.
Using stolen access credentials, Viet was not only able to
allegedly steal confidential information by downloading the information from
the ESPs’ computer systems to a server that he controlled in the Netherlands,
but was also able to utilize the ESPs’ computer systems to launch spam
attacks on tens of millions of stolen e-mail addresses.
A federal grand jury returned a 29-count sealed indictment
against Viet, 28, and Giang, 25, on October 3, 2012. The indictment was
unsealed in its entirety for the first time on March 6.
Giang was arrested by Dutch law enforcement in
Nguyen Quoc Viet is not in custody and remains a fugitive.
On Wednesday March 4, 2015, David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, 33,
of
It is alleged that Da Silva, the co-owner, President and a
Director of 21 Celsius, Inc., a Canadian corporation that ran Marketbay.com,
entered into an affiliate marketing arrangement with Viet that allowed him to
generate revenue from his computer hacks.
As an affiliate marketer, Viet allegedly received a commission
on sales generated from Internet traffic that he directed to websites
promoting specific products.
Viet allegedly used his computer hacks into the ESPs to direct
“spam” attacks to tens of millions of stolen e-mail addresses.
The unsolicited e-mails received through Viet's and Giang’s
spam attacks enticed the recipients by promoting specific products and
providing hyperlinks for the recipients to purchase the products. The
hyperlinks directed the recipients to one of Viet’s affiliate marketing
websites associated with Marketbay.com.
Da Silva allegedly knew that Viet was spamming to stolen
e-mail addresses in order to direct high volumes of Internet traffic to his
affiliate marketing websites with Marketbay.com. Da Silva allegedly conspired
with Viet and others to promote Viet’s hacking and spamming activities by
providing him with a platform, through Marketbay.com, to generate sales
commission from his computer hacks into the ESPs.
Between approximately May 2009 and October 2011, Viet and Da
Silva received approximately US$2 million for the sale of products derived
from Viet’s affiliate marketing activities.
The case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation with the valuable assistance of the United States Secret
Service and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation. Law enforcement
in the
International Women’s Day marked in Phnom Penh
The Association of Cambodians of Vietnamese Origin held a ceremony
in
The meeting drew the participation of representatives from the
Vietnamese Embassy to
Speaking at the event, Vice President and Secretary General of
the Association Pham Thanh Thuy reiterated the history of the international
women’s movement and day (March 8) and highlighted the efforts of generations
of Vietnamese Cambodian women to contribute greatly to economic development
and
On the occasion, the Vietnam Women’s Union in
The VWU in
A ceremony to mark International Women’s Day was also held in
Truck with illegal logs kills one, injures one
A truck carrying wood collided with a motorbike in the town of
According to police, a truck was traveling toward
The truck was reportedly carrying illegal logs. Authorities
said another truck was deployed to continue carrying the wood to its
destination, but it left before authorities arrived.
The case is still under investigation.
Vietnamese women’s association debuts in Cambodia
The Association of Cambodians of Vietnamese Origin (ACVO) in
Lai Xuan Chien, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) at
the Vietnamese embassy in
Generations of overseas Vietnamese women in
On the occasion, the ACVO announced the decision to establish
the Vietnamese women’s association in
President of the executive board, Hoang Hoa pledged to join
overseas Vietnamese women to promote the solidarity spirit and preserve the
fine traditions of Vietnamese women. The association will function as a
common house for overseas Vietnamese women to meet and share experiences,
helping to stabilise their lives and integration into the native country’s
society, Hoa added.
Australian support for Vietnamese community projects
Australian Ambassador to Viet Nam Hugh Borrowman has announced
an aid package worth AUD230.000 for 13 community development projects in
northern
The Ambassador said DAP is an important program that allows
support to go to the neediest communities. This year, the program is
supporting communities in upgrading a health clinic in Thanh Hoa, building a
new classroom in Thai Binh and providing training on environmental protection
and waste management in Ninh Binh.
Projects span a variety of sectors including health care,
education, environmental protection, agricultural development and livelihood
support, he added.
In the 2013-2014 fiscal year, Australia funded 14 projects in
northern Viet Nam through DAP, including an important cooperative project
between Australian NGO Caring and Living as Neighbours (CLAN) and the Viet
Nam National Hospital of Pediatrics.
President gives gifts to northern border farmers
President Truong Tan Sang presented social welfare gifts to
poor households in seven border provinces during a ceremony in the northern
mountainous
Among the gifts, 13,000 tonnes of cement from the military-run
telecom service provider Viettel were donated to locals in the
The activity is under the programme “Breeding cows for the
poor in border areas”, which was launched nearly 9 months ago and raised a
stock of over 13,000 cows, more than 7,000 of them have reached the hands of
the impoverished.
This year, up to 24,000 breeding cows worth 360 billion VND
(17.1 million USD) are expected to come to the poor in 11 border provinces.
On the occasion, the President asked for upgrading transport
infrastructure in order to facilitate trade with other provinces and shifting
the structure of agriculture by replacing low-quality plant varieties with
high-yield ones.
To attract capital inflows, the Steering Board for
North-western Region was requested to fine-tune policies regarding taxation,
lending and infrastructure, among others.
During a working session with local authorities the same day,
the leader called the attention to ramping up infrastructure, overhauling
administrative procedures, cracking down on cross-border smuggling and
improving the quality of local lives.
The call was made after considering that Cao Bang remains weak
in agriculture, workforce and local competitiveness, particularly when
He demanded adjusting investment in farming, services and
industry sectors and making thorough preparations for the all-level Party
Congresses.
The same day, the leader paid tribute to the late President Ho
Chi Minh in Pac Bo relic site and presented gifts to welfare beneficiary
families in Dam Thuy commune, Trung Khanh district.
Party
chief directs Soc Trang towards economic growth
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has suggested the
Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang develop its economy beyond agriculture,
including industry, tourism, and services by utilising any and all available
resources.
With strongholds in farming and fisheries, Soc Trang needs to
reduce the rate of impoverished households while addressing environmental
pollution and rising sea levels, the Party chief told local authorities
during a working session on March 9, adding that workforce quality should be
improved upon in the name of industrialisation and modernisation.
As the all-level Party Congresses ahead of the 12 th National
Party Congress are quickly approaching, he urged the province to push Party
build-up forward in tandem with expanding a campaign on studying and
following the late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples.
At the same time, initiatives to stamp out social vices like
corruption, bureaucracy, and wastefulness are to be continued.
Last year, the local economy expanded by 10.4 percent with a
gross domestic product per capita reaching 34.3 million VND (1,640 USD).
In agriculture, the province harvested over 2.2 million tonnes
of rice with an average output of 6.2 tonnes per hectare. Total aquaculture
output was estimated at 205,000 tonnes.
The industrial production value topped 9.5 trillion VND (452.3
million USD) in addition to 650 million USD worth of exports. Soc Trang also
collected more than 1.98 trillion VND (94.7 million USD) for the State
budget.
The national target programme on new rural development
recorded positive results; including cutting back the poverty rate to 12.49
percent.
Soc Trang also applied the self-criticism practices set under
the resolution adopted by the fourth plenum of the Party Central Committee
(11 th tenure) and initiated actions to tackle shortcomings and possible
violations promptly.
Visiting Ngoc To commune in My Xuyen district, one of the 22
localities chosen to implement the national target programme on new rural
development, Trong called on the programme to be implemented sustainably. He
also encouraged the commune to maintain its sense of patriotism and
creativity in labour as well as improve the quality of life of its residents.
In 2014, the local average income per capital rose to 31
million VND (1,400 USD) and the household poverty rate was brought down to
4.88 percent from 22.4 percent.
He also took the occasion to visit and present gifts to heroic
Vietnamese mothers and the families of war heroes.
Meeting members of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s Supreme
Patriarch and Executive Councils led by Most Venerable Duong Nhon, Vice
President of the VBS’s Executive Council and Head of the Soc Trang Buddhist
Sangha’s Executive Board, the Party leader expressed his hope that the local
Buddhist community would remain united and contribute further to society.-
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, according to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development during a recent online discussion.
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 the local People's Committees.
Commercial banks nationwide have pledged about 14 trillion VND
(658 million USD) in loans for organisations and individuals wishing to build
new vessels or upgrade their fishing vessels under Decree 67.
Pham Ngoc Tuan, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development at the online discussion said the slowness in approving
the lists were due to lack of efforts, in particular, the provision of
information about the policies, from local authorities.
Speaking at the 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 Vietnam, 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.
Forty fishermen in central Quang Ngai province are the first
to qualify for Government loans to build new fishing vessels.
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 14 trillion VND
(658 million USD) 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.
Hau Giang looks to achieve universal nursery education
The Mekong Delta
To achieve the target, the locality will improve facilities
and building capability for teaching and managing staff and expanding
services.
Over the past five years, the sector has mobilised nearly 350
billion VND (16.3 million USD) from various resources to effectively
implement the programme.
Currently, the province has 83 nursery schools in all its
communes and wards with more than 1,300 qualified teachers.
More than 95 percent of local five-year-old children have
access to pre-school education.-
Dong Nai steps up rural development
Southern Dong Nai province targets to have 88 out of its total
136 communes and 5 of 11 districts to meet the new-style rural standards in
2015.
Accordingly, Dong Nai will strive to increase agricultural
production value by 6 percent from last year and raise per hectare production
value to more than 105 million VND (approximately 5,000 USD) from the current
97 million VND. At the same time, per capita income will be bring to more
than 36 million VND (around 1,700 USD) while the poverty rate among local
households should be reduced to under 0.48 percent.
To realise the goal, the province will focus on restructuring
local agricultural sector along the direction of building large-scale
cultivation and animal breeding areas for higher products’ added value and
sustainability. The authorities will apply policies to effectively mobilise
financial and human resources from all economic sectors and from the
community for rural development.
The province is working to promote new production models and
the development of industry and service sectors in rural areas, alongside
boosting the application of advanced farm techniques.
Notably, Dong Nai has built its own new-style rural standards
containing 54 criteria compared to the national set of 39 criteria.
The national new-style rural area programme was launched by
the Government in 2010, with criteria covering building infrastructure,
improving production capacity, constructing public works, protecting
landscapes and the environment, and promoting local traditions and cultural
identities, among others.
The Prime Minister has set tasks for the Central Committee for
the National New Style Rural Area Building Programme to achieve 20 percent of
the total communes nationwide (or 1,800) recognised as modern rural areas in
2015.-
Int’l women’s day celebrated in Macau
The 105th anniversary of International Women’s Day was
celebrated at the Consulate-General of
The event was attended by Vietnamese women and nationals
working in
At the event, Vietnamese Consul-General Hoang Chi Trung
highlighted the important role of Vietnamese women residing in
Also on the occasion, the Consul-General granted certificates
from the Chairman of the State Committee on Overseas Vietnamese Affairs to
Vietnamese nationals with outstanding contributions to the country.
Thua Thien-Hue targets 11 new-style rural communes in 2015
The central
Nguyen Van Cao, Chairman of the provincial People Committee
and Head of the provincial Steering Committee on the National Target Program
on New Rural Development, said that the province will prioritise
difficult-to-achieve criteria such as infrastructure for culture, education,
traffic, environment, irrigational construction and fresh water.
Together with investment capital sourced from the State
budget, the province has mobilised nearly 1.78 trillion VND (83.4 million
USD) to build essential infrastructure for production while arranging nearly
5.4 billion VND (253,000 USD) to support production development.
To complete the electricity criteria, the province invested in
the energy grid in 92 rural communities, thus promoting technology transfer
and enhancing labour capacity.
The province also studied and transferred 32 agricultural
models, 46 breeding models, 14 fishery models and 5 brand name development
support models to locals.
As a result of these initiatives, the income per capita of
residents in the communes reached 20.7 million VND (971 USD), a yearly
increase of 24 percent, while the poverty rate stood at 6.64 percent, down
nearly 1.8 percent from 2013.
Other communes in the province are also implementing measures
to meet the criteria, focusing on popularisation, mobilisation,
awareness-raising of authorities and especially encouraging resident
involvement in the new-style area construction.
At the outset of 2015, set of 19 criteria for new rural
development was satisfied by 9 communes in the locality, of which two
communes were granted recognition as new-style rural areas.
Huong Hoa commune in Nam Dong mountainous district has
recently become the first locality to be presented with the recognition. The
local income per capita reached over 23 million VND (1,095 USD) and poverty
rate is below 1.5 percent, spurred by garden-based and forest economic
development.
The national programme on building new-style rural areas,
initiated by the Government in 2010, includes 19 criteria on socio-economic
development, politics, and defence, aiming to boost rural regions of
The list of criteria includes the development of
infrastructure, the improvement of production capacities, environmental
protection, and the promotion of cultural values.
Party official meets Central Highlands minorities, dignitaries
Politburo Member and Permanent Member of the Secretariat Le
Hong Anh met with outstanding members of the
Speaking at the meeting on the occasion of the 40th
anniversary of the Buon Ma Thuot victory, he expressed his hope that they
would further uphold their sense of responsibility and patriotism and
contribute to sustainable regional development.
Minister of Security General Tran Dai Quang encouraged them to
build on past achievements to make strides in every aspect of their lives.
Event attendees were urged to call on the public to abide by
the Party policies and State laws, especially those related to ethnic and
religious affairs, while simultaneously fostering the sense of community
unity.
The Central Highlands is home to a population of 5.5 million,
36.85 percent of which are from 53 ethnic minority groups and over 2 million
are religious followers.
Central Highlands authorities have worked tirelessly to
realise the Party and State policy of freedom of religion and faith, offering
support to religious organisations and followers to include them in the
country’s socio-economic development.-
Needy people along Dong Thap border receive free medical care
Nearly 1,500 low-income people in the border area of southern
Dong Thap province and the neighbouring Cambodian
The beneficiaries in Dong Thap’s Hong Ngu district and
township and Prey Veng’s Neak Luong town also received gifts and financial
support from the charity in coordination with other international
organisations.
During the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, the Red
Cross worked with the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor
Patients to provide eye exams for 87 patients in Tan Hong and Thap Muoi
district.
Another 300 individuals in Thap Muoi’s My Quy commune also
received examinations and medication offered by the Red Cross and the ACB
Bank’s
More than 250 expatriates in Neak Luong benefited from similar
activities held by the Red Cross, the Dong Thap provincial
The Dong Thap Red Cross, founded in August 1975, currently has
144 subsidiary bodies at the communal level, more than 27,900 members, and
8,000 volunteers.
Source :
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Thứ Ba, 10 tháng 3, 2015
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