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Social News 17/3
Authorities launch probe into carnival train accident
One of the children injured in the carnival train derailment
last Friday, at the Southern Ca Mau Province's Culture House, has been
shifted to
Doctors said the boy suffered broken bones and damage to the
lungs in the accident. The other injured person was reportedly having
constant pain on one side of her body and also constant headache.
The director of Dang Khoa Production JSC, which manufactured
the carnival train, said his company had assembled more than 40 trains across
the country that had passed strict quality tests.
He said a technical problem that had not been properly fixed
could be the cause of the accident.
Huynh Chi Dung, director of the culture house, said other
attractions were ordered to thoroughly check their machines and equipment,
and that the house's board of directors has launched an investigation into
the accident.
Foot and mouth outbreak found in cattle, pigs in north
A new outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been reported
among cattle and pigs in the northern mountainous provinces of Bac Can and
Lao Cai after residents illegally imported infected animals, according to the
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The latest outbreaks were reported in Bat Xat District's Trinh
Tuong Commune, where more than 65 infected pigs and cattle have been culled.
Provincial authorities have sent vaccines and chemicals to
sterilize infected areas.
To prevent the epidemic from spreading, agriculture minister
Cao Duc Phat has sent an urgent dispatch to leaders of People's Committees in
border provinces asking them to stop cattle smuggling through border gates.
The ministry has also asked authorities in the northern
mountainous provinces and the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh to
control cattle transportation through border gates to prevent foot and mouth
disease.
As well as vaccinating animals in the area, local authorities
have stopped the transportation and slaughter of animals at high-risk from
infectious diseases in neighbouring areas.
The ministry also instructed local authorities to implement
measures against the sale and smuggling of cattle via border crossings, and
to issue harsh penalties for those that violated regulations.
Provincial authorities should co-ordinate with veterinary
departments to strengthen the inspection and monitoring of the disease to
stop it from spreading, the minister added.
The provinces also needed to reinforce checks on the
transportation, slaughter and smuggling of products to ensure food safety.
Since 2014, Border Guard forces in the northern province of
Lang Son have detected and dealt with 700 cases of smuggling worth VND12
billion (US$571,400), seizing 34 tonnes of poultry meat and 55,000 birds
during that time.
Plant blamed for massive road cracks
Cracks on a 30-kilometre-long road from northern mountainous
Nguyen Trong Hai, director of the provincial Department of
Transport, said that the provincial Roads Administration reported the cracks
on the only road to the tourist town.
Cracks about 20 metres long and up to 2.5 metres wide have
appeared in Sa Pa District's Trung Chai Commune. They are located on a high
slope, making it difficult for vehicles to pass by safely.
According to an administration report, the cracks appeared
after explosions by Colben Energy JSC to create a tunnel for the Coc San
Hydro-power Plant.
It added that before the New Year, the quality of the road was
good as it had just been upgraded.
The administration has installed stakes along the road to warn
drivers where the cracks are. It also asked the company to halt blasting
operations until further investigations are held.
Hai said the department had mobilised workers to fix the
road.The department has reported the development to the provincial authority.
However, Nguyen Xuan Tinh, the operator of the plant, has a
totally different point of view. He told Viet Nam News that the plant had
been operating for 10 years and had never created any cracks before.
"It can hardly be our hydro-power plant," he said.
Tinh said that another nearby power plant, Coc San Thuong, a
plant which was under construction, might be the reason of the cracks.
The Viet Nam Roads Administration sent an inspection team to
check the cause of the incident.
Regulation issued on electrical safety
The Ministry of Construction has issued a new technical
regulation on electrical installations in homes and public buildings.
Nguyen Cong Thinh, deputy director of the ministry's
Department of Science, Technology and Environment, made the announcement in a
workshop held in Ha Noi in Wednesday.
The law, to go into effect in July, laid out steps for setting
up electrical systems in dwellings and public buildings, Thinh said.
"The regulation was made in accordance with the
International Electro-technical Commission's system, and replaced a series of
weaker previous regulations," Thinh said.
The new regulation spells out standards for installing
electric wires, sockets, fire prevention equipment, electric overcharge
prevention equipment and electrical systems in bathtubs, showers and swimming
pool rooms to prevent electric shock and other electricity-related accidents.
Officials attending the workshop said the regulation met
demands for international integration in the electrical sector.
Thinh said that the State would issue another document
detailing punishments for organizations or individuals who violated the new
law.
The International Copper Association of Southeast Asia, an
international organisation working on the science, technology and electricity
sector, assisted the Ministry of Construction in creating the law.
Complaints on transport hit 1,000 last year
The Ministry of Transport (MOT) Chief Inspector Le Thanh Ha
yesterday told an online conference the ministry received and processed more
than 1,000 complaints last year.
Four contractors were banned from taking part in transport
projects from six months to two years due to violations in bidding and
quality-control procedures.
Ministry inspectors carried out only 14 inspections. Eight
done without prior notice mainly focused on public issues, such as
over-weight trucks, vehicle registrations, environmental protection and
traffic safety.
At the conference, which was held to review ministry
inspections in 2014, Ha praised individuals who had gone out of their way to
contribute to the effort to fight corruption.
He said that the ministry's corruption-fighting taskforce,
although few in numbers, had managed to fulfil their duties.
Inspectors will continue to focus on pressing issues in 2015,
such as fighting corruption, improving infrastructure projects' quality,
raising work-safety standards, traffic safety and environmental protection.
The conference listened to reports from local transport
departments regarding the ministry's resolution and solution to stop
overweight trucks.
Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong said the
inspectors as well as inspectors based in localities nationwide must take the
initiative in the fight against corruption.
Cigarette smuggling increases after Tet
Cigarette smuggling can break out afresh after the Tet (Lunar
New Year) holiday because of increasing demand for foreign products, police
in border provinces say.
Early this month, the Waterway Police Department in the
southern
Last month, the provincial police seized more than 68,000
packets of cigarettes.
In another southern province, Kien Giang, the Duong Dong Port
Border Guards seized 18,000 packets of cigarettes being brought by boat. It
was the biggest haul recorded so far on
Two days earlier the Duong Dong Port Border Guards had
confiscated about 1,000 packets of illegally imported cigarettes at the
Under Circular 19 issued by the Ministry of Finance early last
month, localities are to receive VND500 (US$0.02) for each packet of smuggled
cigarettes destroyed, a five-fold increase over the amount set previously
(Circular 57 issued in 2012).
The southern
Motorcyclist remanded to custody
The People's Procuracy of southern
Phung has been remanded to custody for allegedly violating
road traffic regulations, which resulted in the death of Lin Ma Sang–a
motorcycle escort on duty during a women's bicycle race on March 1.
The accident occurred when cyclists and motorcycle escorts
were about a kilometre away from the starting line, and a group of
motorcyclists, including Phung, drove by at a high speed tried to overtake
the escorts.
While trying to avoid the cyclists' group, Sang rammed his
bike into another escort's motorcycle from behind and fell to the ground.
Sang was then run over by Phung's motorcycle and died on the spot.
Pregnant woman's sudden death attributed to Mezicef drug
A drug containing Mezicef is likely to have caused the death
of Nguyen Thi Tuong Vi, a pregnant woman from the Mekong Delta
This was declared by Dr Trinh Minh Hiep, deputy director of
the provincial
The 25-year-old pregnant woman had died at 9.55am yesterday
due to an adverse reaction, which took place after she was vaccinated with
the drug Mezicef.
On Tuesday, she had undergone a caesarean operation at the
hospital. The surgery was successful, and a baby boy, weighing 4 kilograms,
was delivered, following which both the mother and baby were deemed to be in
good health.
Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, the pregnant woman's mother, said Vi
was in good health and had never been allergic to the drug.
She said she suspected the quality of the drug and the skills
of the doctors being responsible for her daughter's adverse reaction to the
medicine.
Truong Van Hoa, head of the provincial Department of Health's
Pharmacy Office, said the Ministry of Health's Drug Administration Department
had ordered hospitals, health centres and drug stores across the country to
stop selling and prescribing any medicine containing Mezicef last September.
However, even till late January this year, the ministry had
allowed the distribution of the medicine.
According to the
Foundation provides free operations for 70 children with
harelip, cleft palate
The Military Hospital 175 and Project Viet Nam Foundation this
week performed operations on 70 disadvantaged children in the southern region
who have a harelip and cleft palate.
The free operations, which cost US$10,000 each, were provided
under an agreement between the hospital and the foundation.
The Military Hospital 175 is one of the leading hospitals in
the south with 1,000 beds and 56 wards. It provides health-care checks to
about 1,500 non-resident patients and 1,200 residents every day.
Project Viet Nam Foundation has operated in
Seven arrested for illegal gambling in Ha Noi
Police in Ha Noi's Hoai Duc District announced yesterday the
arrest of seven people during an investigation into illegal gambling on Tuesday
night.
The police raided the house of Ngo Dang Xuan, a resident in
Duc Thuong Commune's Cao Xa Village, caught seven people who were gambling
inside and seized VND12.5 million (US$589) in cash from the scene.
Initial investigation showed that Xuan usually organised the
gambling sessions at his house, and charged each participant VND100,000
($4.7).
The case is being investigated further.
Massive fire destroys 5 houses in HCM City
Fire-fighters battled a huge fire that gutted five houses with
flames and flumes of smoke that were visible throughout many parts of the
metropolitan area.
The fire broke out around 11:15am on March 16 and raged
through a total of eight houses in alley 360 of ward 1 in District 4 of the city.
Dozens of fire engines and 160 fire-fighters were called in to
stomp out the blaze. The fire was controlled after 30 minutes.
An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.
Vietnamese hackers allegedly steal 50,000 accounts
More than 50,000 accounts of customers of
The accounts, including personal information and login
credentials, belong to customers of the VNPT branch in the southern
“Hackers targeted the software used to look up customer
information hosted on an old server that is being replaced at VNPT Soc
Trang,” he elaborated.
Viet did not comment on the culprits behind the attack, even
though Security Daily, a Vietnamese-language Internet security website,
reported on Saturday that a hacker outfit called DIE Group has claimed
responsibility.
It may be a Vietnamese hacker group, Security Daily said.
DIE Group has posted the stolen accounts on their Facebook
page, saying they are from “more than 10,000 mobile phone and landline
accounts of VNPT,” according to Security Daily.
The login section on the VNPT Soc Trang website is seen in
this screenshot taken in
Security Daily said on its website that the real number of
stolen accounts could be as many as 50,000, which was later confirmed by the
VNPT media person.
The stolen accounts include the name, address, phone number,
username and password that can be used to log in to the customer service
section on the VNPT Soc Trang website.
“Hackers can use such information to log in and launch other
attacks using the authorized access,” Security Daily warned.
“The leaked information can be a gold mine to spammers and
swindlers.”
VNIST JSC, the operator of Security Daily, said the incident
suggests that there are dangerous security holes in the VNPT system, which
makes it vulnerable to hackers.
“Thanks to such vulnerabilities, hackers may be able to steal
most of the information, including the system administrative accounts, from
VNPT databases,” the company said.
The vulnerability was fixed on Saturday, VNPT deputy general
director Pham Duc Long told tech website ICTnews the same day.
“VNPT has strengthened security in its entire network to
ensure customers that their private information is safe,” Long was quoted as
saying.
The attackers said on Facebook that they had decided to leak
the stolen information online after “receiving no response from VNPT about
our discovery of their security holes.”
DIE Group, however, did not reveal the usernames and passwords
of the stolen accounts for fear that they may be used by other hacker groups,
according to their Facebook status.
VNPT, fully known as the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications
Group, is a telecommunications company owned by the Vietnamese government.
The Hanoi-based company boasts more than 60 million mobile
phone subscribers, nearly 10 million landline phone subscribers and “dozens
of millions of Internet users,” according to its website.
New social insurance scheme nears
The Government hopes the new Law on Social Insurance, set to
take effect from May 1, 2016, will overcome some of the fundamental
shortcomings of the country’s current social insurance policies.
The new law which was passed by the National Assembly last November
will replace the current Law on Social Insurance 2006 as part of an effort to
ensure the rights and welfare of employees, organizations and individuals
participating in social insurance.
The law will broaden the coverage of the social insurance to
boost the number of social insurance participants. This will include
short-term or seasonal workers with labour contracts of one to three months
and voluntary social insurance participants.
In addition, gender equality is also incorporated into the
provisions of the new law to ensure better welfare entitlements during
maternity leave for both male and female employees and an adjusted pension
calculation method for female employees intended to lessen the pension
disparity between male and female employees.
During a workshop on March 12 which focused on ensuring social
security through the implementation of the Law on Social Insurance held by
the National Assembly Committee for Social Affairs in conjunction with the
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the Vietnam
Social Security (VSS), issues related to the law were discussed.
MOLISA Deputy Minister Pham Minh Huan stressed that the
biggest challenge in expanding the scope of social insurance was low
awareness among the public, with many people unaware of their entitlements.
Huan argued that public awareness on the issue needed to be dramatically
raised through better government promotional campaigns.
“Changes to the regulations on social insurance will have a
direct impact on the rights and benefits of employees and in turn this will
affect the costs of production, sales and profitability of businesses.
Therefore, prior to the date of application of the new regulations, both
employees and employers need to be thoroughly informed of the changes,” Huan
emphasized.
Pham Do Nhat Tan, former director of the Department of Social
Security under the MOLISA agreed, stating that the contents of the changes
must be communicated in a concise and forthright way.
Tan then suggested that “the total reform of human resources
across the sector is crucial to the development of the social insurance
system, everyone will need to reassess the way they work in regards to social
insurance and welfare, and the improvement in administration procedures and
IT will mean the system can start moving towards embracing international
standards.”
According to VSS deputy general director Do Van Sinh, to
effectively implement the law,
“In the run-up to 2020, we want to see at least 50% of the
workforce benefiting from the social insurance programme, equivalent to 28
million workers, including through voluntary and compulsory social insurance.
However, to make this a reality, every step of the preparations need to be
carried out to make the implementation of the new law a success,” added Sinh.
Activities to mark 40 years of national reunification
A symposium is to be held on March 17 to shed light on
At a recent press briefing, Deputy head of the municipal Party
Central Committee’s Commission for Communication and Education Pham Duc Hai
said the meeting will discuss changes in the city and lessons for reinforcing
national unity in HCM city’s construction and development.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Kon Tum
and national reunification, an exhibition opened at
Colonel Nguyen Van Hau, deputy political commissar of Army
Corps 3, said, “We want to convey a message that our happy and prosperous
life today is thanks to the clear-sighted leadership of the Party and
President Ho Chi Minh as well as the patriotism of people in the central
highlands, and the bravery and sacrifices of soldiers of the Vietnam People’s
Army. The young generation should keep in mind the nation’s historic
traditions.”
Hospitals assured to have enough bed of admission
Most hospitals in
However, two central hospitals, the Hospital for Traumatology
and Orthopaedics and the
The announcement was made during a recent meeting between
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and officials from the HCMC People’s
Committee to discuss the overload at hospitals and the coverage of health
insurance.
Every year, the city’s health sector offers diagnosis and
treatment to an average of 40 million patients, half of whom come from other
provinces and cities, said Tang Chi Thuong, vice director of the HCMC health
department.
He admitted that the overload of hospitals has taken place for
many years.
Recently, HCMC has built new hospitals and enlarged and
upgraded old ones to tackle the overload at hospitals. The city has aided and
transferred technology to provincial hospitals to limit the transfer of
patients to HCMC.
District level hospitals have reached a bed capacity of 90 to
100%, thus limiting in-patients to central hospitals in the city.
In
Part of the cause behind the overload at hospitals is the
preference of patients for major or ‘central’ hospitals over those nearest to
them.
The
On average, a bed in K Hospital in
According to the Ministry of Health, the overload of hospitals
can be relieved when the nation has an average of 25-27 hospital beds per
10,000 people. It is now over 20 beds for 10,000 residents across the nation.
Concerning the issue of health insurance, Luu Thi Thanh Huyen,
vice director of the HCMC Social Insurance, said the city has 5.5 million
people under health insurance, or 69.18% of the population.
HCMC needs to attract an additional 500,000 people to join the
insurance program this year to reach the target of 76% of the population.
French locality holds concert to help AO victims
The Committee for the Van Canh Friendship Village (CFV) in
Essonne province, on the outskirts of
Speaking at the opening of the concert, the mayor of the
Raphael Vahe, President of the French CFV in turn, emphasized
that 40 years on generations of Vietnamese are still suffering from the
aftermath of 80 million litres of chemical herbicides that were sprayed
during the
All of the proceeds collected will be used to benefit Agent
Orange victims she said adding that specifically VND3.9 billion would be used
to fund the cost of building a swimming pool to provide therapeutic treatment
for war veterans and AO victims.
For his part,
Vietnamese pianist Can Vu Ngoc and French flutist Isabelle
Hureau brought down the house with brilliant performances at the event.
Vietnamese woman arrested in
Police in southern
Songkhla police have seized 63 bogus visa stamps used to help
people enter
The 47-year old man was arrested soon before police arrested
Do Thi Nghia, 46, at a different, undisclosed location in the southern
province.
Police said an earlier investigation showed that Suthipong had
been acting as a coordinator for a Vietnamese broker, whose name was not
revealed, of counterfeit visas in
He would be paid 1,500 baht per head for each illegal alien
who used their visa services to enter the three countries.
Nghia’s role in the ring has not been disclosed.
Police say they are pressing charges of falsifying passports
and visa stamps against the two suspects, adding that the Thai man also faces
another narcotics charge as he was tested positive for illicit drug use.
How to deal with gender pay gap in workplace
On March 14, a workshop on workplace gender discrimination
took place in Vung Tau city, southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, aiming to
provide an insight into global standards on wage and income to promote gender
equality and ensure sustainable employment.
The event attracted representatives from the Ministry of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), its southern provincial bodies,
the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the
International Labour Organisation (ILO), experts and businesses.
MoLISA Deputy Minister Doan Mau Diep said
It is imperative for developing countries in the process of
international integration like
Attendees studied international labour standards on equal pay
and good practice in applying these standards in
They also debated the current legal framework on wage and
income, orientations for designing a draft law on minimum wage, research
findings on gender pay gap in workplace, and policy recommendations.
“Economic Insight:
The survey is published by Cebr, the partner and expert in
global economic forecasting of the
It focuses on
The productivity growth of
But according to the report,
The “natural” next step is to develop skills that match the
needs of the economy.
It said that although the foundation-level education in
The country “has serious need for reform in education,” it
said.
A 2013 survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO)
showed that labor productivity in
It found that Singaporean productivity was nearly 15 times
that of
Over 80 doctors to work in remote areas
Over 80 doctors have registered to join a pilot project
designed to encourage young doctors to work in 62 remote and poor districts
across the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
Before starting their voluntary work, the doctors will
participate in an 18-month training course in five departments and will
benefit from many other preferential policies.
Under the programme, registered doctors will be required to
work at district medical units for three years for males and two years for
females.
The programme, designed to send about 500 young doctors to
work in disadvantaged areas, will begin in 2016, aims to fortify the number
of healthcare workers at the grassroots level, addressing the lack of doctors
in remote areas.
Source : VEF/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri/VIR
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Thứ Ba, 17 tháng 3, 2015
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