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Social News 30/3
New bridge opens in Da Nang
After 18-months' work, a three-level rail and road flyover was
opened yesterday at
The VND2 trillion (US$95 million) project was built at a level
crossing where 30 trains, 5,000 cars and trucks, 10,000 motorbikes and 80,000
bicycles cross path every day.
Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang said the project, which
was completed on time would ease traffic and reduce the number accidents.
He told the inauguration ceremony that the flyover would
become one of the city's attractions.
The bridge features designs of the Hindu Yoni (female) and
Linga (male) emblems from the ancient
The bridge's 65m-high main tower is designed to withstand earthquakes.
It also has an earthquake alarm system.
Unusual floods kill 3 in central Vietnam
Several floods triggered by unusual heavy rains over the last
few days have claimed three lives in central
Two people in Quang Ngai and one in neighboring Quang Nam
drowned as rainfall totals from March 24-28 in some areas hit more than 500
mm, the highest in March since 1965, Hoang Duc Cuong, director of the Central
Meteorological Forecast Center, said on March 28.
Cuong called the heavy rains “unusual” as they occurred during
the dry season. The flooding season in central
Floods over the last several days annihilated about 2,700
hectares of rice and other crops in Quang Ngai, local authorities said.
“We often fear droughts in March, which may reduce our crop
yields. But this year major floods came, submerging our crops,” said Doan Nam
Dat, a 61-year-old farmer in Quang Ngai’s Hanh Minh Commune.
Floods also damaged large areas of crops in Quang
Hugh Borrowman and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on March
26 co-chaired a seminar on water quality control to discuss the status of
water quality control in Vietnam and assessed the barriers and constraints to
effective water quality control, including issues concerning institutional,
financial and human resources.
At the seminar, Deputy Prime Minister Dam stressed the
Vietnamese Government’s commitment to improving water quality and emphasized
the need to raise public awareness, enhance effective regulatory regimes and
improve market-oriented incentives.
“Australia has been an active partner for Vietnam in the water
sector since 1993, and provided AUD122 million, including budget and
technical support, through the National Target Program for Rural Water Supply
and Sanitation from 2006 to 2015,” Borrowman said.
In the coming time, Australian experts will continue helping
Traffic banned on Pasteur and Le Duan Streets
All vehicles have been banned from entering the Pasteur and Le
Duan Streets in
This has been done as part of the preparations for the 40th
anniversary of the National Reunification Day (April 30).
Vehicles would not be allowed to enter the
Residents have been advised to use alternative routes, such as
the Pasteur–Ly Tu Trong–Hai Ba Trung–Le Duan–Pham Ngoc Thach or Le Duan–Pham
Ngoc Thach–Alexandre de Rhodes–Nam Ky Khoi Nghia route.
Meanwhile, a portion of the
Parking on Han Thuyen and Alexandre de Rhodes has also been
banned.
The bans will be lifted on May 6.
Three die in separate train accidents
Two men died after being hit by a fast approaching south-north
SE2 train, while they were trying to cross the rail line yesterday afternoon
in the central
The accident took place in the province's Loc Thuy Commune in
Phu Loc District. Eyewitnesses said the men, who were on a motorbike, were
attempting to cross the rail line to go to a hamlet, even as others had
stopped to let the train pass.
This was the second instance of a train collision at the same
site during the last month and a half. No barrier has been placed at the
railway crossing.
Earlier in the day, a woman was killed after being a hit by
local train in the central
An Giang residents run for charity
More than 2,000 government officials, soldiers, workers,
students and local residents came together in
They gathered in the
The event entitled, "Olympic Run for Public Health"
is aimed at promoting awareness among the local residents about protecting
their health.
Organised by the
On the first day of the movement today, more than VND57
billion (US$2.5 million) was raised for the poor.
Donors included people from social organisations and
businesses. The provincial Hoa Hao Buddhist Executive Committee donated VND5
billion (US$240,000), while the Co To stone exploiting and processing
enterprise contributed VND3.5 billion.
The Vice Chairman of the province's People's Committee Nguyen
Thanh Binh stressed that the event was held to manifest the tradition of
national unity among the local residents and to help implement the country's
poverty eradication programme.
Most modern equipped cancer hospital inaugurated in Northeast
area
A VND336 billion (US$15.6 million) cancer center which is a
branch of Vietnam-Thuy Dien (Vietnam-Sweden)
The 200 bed center was invested by the Government and
well-equipped with modern machines for cancer treatment. It also has a
dormitory for physicians and a library.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Health Minister Nguyen
Thi Kim Tien said that investment in the center was a part in the target of
completing cancer treatment system nationwide in the future.
Moreover, the Vietnam-Thuy Dien (Vietnam-Sweden)
Ms. Kim Tien added that the center was also aimed at reducing
the overloading in hospitals in
Hospital director Dr. Tran Viet Tiep said that there were more
and more people suffering cancer, heart problems and endocrine.
According to annual statistics, the rate of new cancer
patients per year account for 0.16 percent of the whole country population
and the hospital receives from 1,500 to 2,000 fresh cancer people a year, he
said.
As treatment demand has increased dramatically, especially
cancer disease, in 2009, the Ministry approved the national cancer prevention
development planning with the vision to 2020, in which the Vietnam-Sweden
would be expanded with over 1,100 beds and three new cancer centers.
JFE Holdings presents scholarships to Danang students
Financial assistance to help the
On March 27, scholarships were awarded to 10 students based on
academic excellence and their ability to speak fluent Japanese who are
studying at the university as a way to invest in the future advancement of
relations between
Each awardee received a watch and VND5 million to be used for
tuition or other educational fees.
At the event, representatives of JFE and the
JFE Holdings, Inc. is a large multinational organization that
engages in the steel and engineering businesses. The company was founded on
September 27, 2002 and is headquartered in
Vietnam mulls higher visa fees for foreigners, OVs
The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance is drafting a new visa rule
that will maintain the fees for Vietnamese citizens but increase those for
foreigners and overseas Vietnamese.
A single-entry visa for foreigners and overseas Vietnamese is
proposed to be US$45, instead of the current US$25, according to the draft
decree.
The fees to get a multi-entry visa vary depending on the time
of validity, the ministry said.
A six-month multi-entry visa currently costs US$50, but the
finance ministry wants it to be US$65.
As for the multi-entry visa with a validity of more than six
months, which can now be applied for US$100, the new fee could be a maximum
US$255.
In good news for holidaymakers, the fee set for their visa
will remain US$5 per person according to the ministry’s proposition.
The fee for tourists was increased drastically to US$45 per
person earlier this year, along with a more complicated and time-consuming
application procedure, but was cut back to US$5 following an intervention by
the Prime Minister.
Jail terms against trio for selling Vietnamese women
The Supreme People’s Court has upheld jail terms ranging
between three and eight years against three people of a human trafficking
ring that sold seven Vietnamese women to Chinese men.
At a trial in
They were sentenced by a court in the southern province last
December. Other members of the ring, Ka Thuy Linh and her Chinese husband Dai
Chang Sheng were sentenced to three years each. Six of their accomplices
received jail terms of between two and seven years.
Only Tuyet, Chanh and Nghia appealed last year's ruling,
saying they committed the crime due to limited legal knowledge.
The case was busted on June 4, 2014 when police caught Linh
and Sheng at
The couple’s confessions led to the arrests of Tuyet, the ring
leader, and her accomplices.
Investigators found that Tuyet had asked Linh and her husband
to bring Chinese men over to pick Vietnamese wives since 2013.
Linh, Sheng and another Chinese man, who is still at large,
charged their Chinese clients 40,000 yuan (US$6,434) each. They paid Tuyet
and her accomplices in Vietnam VND110 million (US$5,112) per client.
They successfully sent seven women abroad.
Outstanding youth hounoured for significant achievements in
2014
The 2014 Outstanding Vietnamese Youth Awards ceremony was held
in
Co-organised by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU)
Central Committee and the Vietnam Young Talent Support Fund, the awards aim
to honour young Vietnamese individuals living at home or abroad who have made
outstanding achievements in the fields of academics, scientific research,
labour and production, national defence and security, arts and culture,
sports and social activities.
In 2014, the organising board received 141 nominations from 43
units, from which 20 outstanding individuals were selected to receive awards.
The remaining ten of the final 20 also received the ‘Young promising faces of
the year’ award at the ceremony.
Speaking at the event, President of the Vietnam Fatherland
Front, Nguyen Thien Nhan, praised the outstanding achievements of the ten
award winners, while urging them to continue to improve themselves so that
they may contribute further to the national construction and defence.
The leader also asked HCMCYU and Vietnam Young Talent Support
Fund to expand the awards ceremony to honour more prominent individuals in
order to motivate Vietnamese youth at home and abroad to actively participate
in patriotic movements and gain more outstanding achievements.
At the ceremony, the winners shared with the audience their
ambitions and experiences on the path to realising their dreams.
Drunk Russian causes motorbike crash, 1 Vietnamese dead
A Russian man, allegedly drunk, has caused a traffic accident
in the central
Olegs Kabcob, 40, was rushed to a hospital in the early hours
on March 25 with severe injuries, police said, adding that the man is still
in critical condition.
The Russian just left a late party at a restaurant in the
resort town of
He had not been granted any driving license in
Initial investigations at the scene showed that Kabcob’s
motorbike had veered to the wrong side of the road, crashing into the
motorbike of Nguyen Trung Trieu.
Trieu, a 22-year-old worker, was coming home from his late
shift.
Both of the vehicles were badly damaged.
Doctors, nurse get prison for causing deaths of 3 newborns
Two doctors and a nurse were sentenced to 3-5 years on March
27 for mistaking Hep-B vaccine with a muscle relaxant when giving the shots
to three new-born babies, leading to their deaths in 2013.
Quang Tri People’s Court handed down the highest jail terms to
Nguyen Thi Thuan, the nurse that directly gave the injections to the babies
at the
The hospital deputy director, Doctor Nguyen Van Thien, 55, was
sentenced to three years, and Doctor Le Huynh Son, 40, who was in charge of
the operation room, got four years' imprisonment for charges of “lack of
responsibilities causing serious consequences.”
Tran Thi Hai Van, 35, a nurse in charge of the examination
ward, was sentenced to three years' probation on the same charges.
The hospital was ordered to compensate VND77 million
(US$3,580) each to the families of the three babies.
At the trial, Thuan said it was her biggest mistake during her
20 years working as a nurse and that she would be regretful for the rest of
her life.
Son also admitted that he was the one who put the muscle
relaxant Esmeron into the fridge that stores Hep-B vaccines. He did, however,
left a note that said "poisonous drug” on the bottle.
Meanwhile, Van was in charge of managing vaccines stored in
the fridge.
According to the verdict, on July 20, 2013, Thuan was ordered
to inject Hep-B vaccine to three new born babies.
There was a power blackout at that time, so Thuan used the
flashlight of her mobile phone to find the vaccine in the fridge and mistaken
the Hep-B vaccine with the muscle relaxant.
The three babies turned pale about half an hour after taking
the shots and died soon later at the hospital’s emergency ward.
Thuan then recognized that she made the fatal mistake. She
tried to destroy the evidence by secretly replacing the three empty bottles
of the muscle relaxant in the trash bin with three other bottles of Hep-B
vaccine.
She told the court she was so frightened by the babies' deaths
that she couldn't think straight.
Ministry launches online services for cosmetics importers
The Drug Administration of Viet Nam (DAVN) under the health
ministry today launched online public services level 4 to help cosmetics
importers promote their products in the country's market.
The online registration service level 4 will allow people,
businesses and management units to perform administrative formalities, submit
required forms, handle documents and payments and receive results using only
a computer connected to the Internet.
Service level 4, the highest of the four administrative
service levels in the country, is expected to ease the registration process
for enterprises in the healthcare sector.
DAVN director Truong Quoc Cuong said, "The application of
online service level 4 in the pharmaceutical field will create favourable
conditions for enterprises, especially in terms of reducing expenses and
time, and increasing transparency and publicity in health administration
management."
Cuong said people and enterprises could submit documents, pay
fees, check the progress of document processing and receive results through
the online facility from the beginning of April.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, Deputy Minister of Health
Nguyen Viet Tien said the application of information technology in health
administration management was one of the health sector's efforts to implement
the government's administrative reform policies.
Last year, the ministry launched the level 4 online public
service in the hygiene and food safety management field. The service is
scheduled to be extended to medical equipment management in 2015.
Levels of public service registration
Level 1: Procedures to fill in the required forms and
information about time and service cost are available online.
Level 2: The service allows the user to download the required
forms to be printed out and filled in later.
Level 3: The applicant can fill in and submit the forms
online.
Level 4: Service payments can be settled online. Transaction
results are available either online or by post, upon request.
The online registration service level 4 will allow people,
businesses and management units to perform administrative formalities, submit
required forms, handle documents and payments and receive results using only
a computer connected to the Internet.
Overloaded trucks threaten Ha Noi dykes
The illegal movement of overloaded trucks on Ha Noi's dykes
are seriously threatening the structures, an official from the capital city's
Dyke Management Office (DMO) said.
Deputy Director of DMO, under Ha Noi's Department of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyen Xuan Hai said despite all efforts
by the DMO in co-operation with local police, transport authorities and other
social organisations in the city to prevent those trucks from travelling on
the dykes, the violations were increasing to a worrying level.
Hai said a large section of the dykes, particularly those in
the Dong Anh and Tu Liem Districts, had been destroyed by trucks with a
capacity of carrying more 15 tonnes of load.
Most of the trucks seized by traffic policemen were found
transporting sand illegally mined from the
Hai said several of the seized trucks had transportation
capacity of 15 tonnes, but often carried much more than that.
The official appealed for more action and participation by
local authorities to tackle the situation, and highlighted the role of mass
media as a key fighter against the violations.
He also urged traffic policemen to impose stricter punishment
on the violators.
The DMO would join hands with mass media to wipe out all
violations,Hai said.
"We will send people to guard the dykes every day, film
or take photographs of the violators, and then send them to the police as
proof for punishment," Hai said.
A report from the Tu Liem District's police revealed the
district traffic policemen seized 412 trucks overloaded with sand and
travelling on the Tu Liem Dyke last year. The trucks were fined a total
amount of VND570 million (US$21,000).
Illegal sand mining from
Buddhist Sangha of
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha on March 27 presented 600 gift
packages to impoverished people in the mountainous
The packages, worth between 500,000 VND and 300,000 VND each,
were delivered to the underprivileged in five districts – Dien Bien, Dien
Bien Dong, Tuan Giao, Nam Po and Muong Nhe.
Those gifts are intended to share hardships with the
impoverished and encourage them to make efforts to escape from poverty.
Gift delivery is part of the Buddhist Festival in the Ban
flower season held in Dien Bien by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, its Dien Bien
chapter, and the provincial Department of Internal Affairs.
The festival, from March 27-29, also includes a workshop on
religious activities of ethnic minorities in mountainous regions and a
requiem for martyrs’ soul.
Son La announces Na San airport plan
The northern mountainous province of Son La and the Ministry
of Transportation (MoT) have announced an upgrade plan for Na San airport
which had experiences several closures since it was built in 1950.
According to a preliminary draft project through 2020, the
commercial terminal will be built across 6,750 square meters with a capacity
of 450 passengers during its peak hours, or 900,000 passengers a year.
By 2030, the terminal will be expanded an additional 9,000
square meters with a capacity of 600 passengers during peak hour, or 1.5
million passengers a year.
The MoT is also scheduled to build runways, loading areas,
administrative areas, flight control decks and roads across a total of 498
hectares by 2030.
In addition to meeting civilian demand, the airport will also
play a critical role in military affairs by controlling the northwest
airspace.
The airport was built in 1950 by the French, 300 kilometers
northwest of Hanoi. During the resistance war against French colonialists,
the airport was used as an entrenched fortification of the French army.
In the 1960s, the airport was renovated to serve travel demand
in the northwest region but was closed thereafter. It was re-opened for a
decade, since 1994 before remaining idle until these current construction
initiatives.-
Scholarship presented to ethnic students in Ca Mau
Forty disadvantaged ethnic students with outstanding academic
achievements in the southernmost province of Ca Mau received scholarships
from the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund on March 26.
Each primary student was presented with a scholarship worth
800,000 VND (37.5 USD) while secondary and high school students received a
scholarship worth 1 million VND (47 USD).
Addressing the award ceremony, former Vice President and
Chairwoman of the Fund Truong My Hoa praised the efforts and achievements of
the local education sector in meeting the needs of the 6,000 ethnic students
in the province.
Established in 1999, the Fund has provided over 60,000
scholarships to students from poor ethnic minority groups nationwide.
In recent years, it also raised funds to care for the children
of soldiers protecting Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and
Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.
Rice stockpiling nears national target
Enterprises and localities nationwide have fulfilled more than
71 percent of the government’s plan to purchase and stockpile one million
tonnes of rice from the winter-spring crop 2014-2015, according to the
Vietnam Food Association (VFA).
VFA Deputy Chairman Huynh The Nang said the work has been
conducted more effectively this year thanks to the improved connection among
the Mekong Delta provinces and cities.
He noted there were about ten businesses that failed to meet
their purchase quota of 60,000 tonnes of rice, due to difficulties in
accessing bank loans.
Official statistics show that as of March 18, the Mekong Delta
region cultivated rice crops on 1.557 out of 1.565 million hectares of
allotted plantation land. The region expects to harvest 940,000 hectares with
a yield of 6.34 million tonnes of rice.
Son La calls for investment in tourism
The People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of
Son La has devised a number of incentives to attract investment in tourism
development.
The efforts will focus on improving its investment climate,
administrative procedures and infrastructure facilities and fostering
promotion activities.
“The approved master plan for the development of the Moc Chau
National Tourism Zone is a crucial legal framework for the province to
mobilise long-term and comprehensive investment” Deputy Chairman of the
provincial People’s Committee Pham Van Thuy said, highlighting strong
potential for tourism, particularly resorts and ecotourism.
The locality should build on its advantages and develop
specific plans to boost the sector, he added.
Dinh Hong Phuc, Deputy Director of the Pha Luong tourist
agency, said the company will work closely with local residents to improve
facilities and service quality, further strengthen homestay tourism and draw
tourists to the locality.
The Moc Chau National Tourism Zone, covering more than 206,000
hectares in Moc Chau and Van Ho districts, features diversified and unique
products, natural landscapes and ethnic cultural identities, such as the Ban Flower
Festival, Nao Song Festival, New Crop Festival, and Miss Cow festival.
Traffic experts discuss responsible drinking
Responsible drinking was at the centre of a conference held in
Hanoi on March 27 by the Vietnam’s National Traffic Safety Committee (VNTSC)
and t he International Centre for Alcohol Polices ( ICAP ).
The conference reviewed the implementation of the “Global
Action to Prevent Alcohol Abuse” programme in Vietnam from 2010 to 2014,
which is part of the “Global Action on Harmful Drinking” campaign.
It gave participants the chance to learn about the successes
and challenges from running, managing and operating projects from central to
local levels; the final results and impacts of the project; and the upcoming
action plans within the “Global Action” programme in Vietnam.
The programme carried out activities in three initiatives:
alcohol, beer and driving; regulations on responsibility in promoting and
marketing alcohol products; and non-commercial alcohol and beer in 18 low and
middle income countries.
Addressing the conference, Vice Chairman of Vietnam’s National
Traffic Safety Committee Khuat Viet Hung said the practice and experience
from the project carried out in Hai Chau and Lien Chieu districts of Da Nang
city had been applied to the entire city and to Thanh Hoa and Nghe An from
2013-2014.
Hung appreciated the programme’s effectiveness, sustainability
and societal involvement in the implementation process.
The Committee is willing to expand cooperation with the ICAP
and now the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) to carry
out programmes on responsible drinking, contributing to preventing drinking
and driving in Vietnam, Hung said.
Brett Bivans, Senior Vice President of ICAP/IARD, took the
occasion to thank Vietnamese ministries and governmental agencies for their
effective cooperation during the programme.
Programme projects were carried out effectively, laying a
strong foundation for the next steps towards promoting ‘responsible drinking’
in Vietnam, Bivans said.
The IARD will continue working with partners to reduce
drinking and driving in Vietnam, he added.
Da Nang city celebrates 40 years of liberation
Central Da Nang city marked the 40th anniversary of its
liberation (March 29, 1975) with a ceremony held in Tien Son Sports Palace on
March 28.
In his speech, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee
Tran Tho reminded local people of Da Nang liberation day and its 40-year
journey of development thereafter.
March 29, 1975 will be embedded in history as the most glorious
chapter of the city, constituting the power and bravery of its people as well
as Vietnam’s patriotism and revolutionary heroism in the US war, Tho hailed.
The city has been oriented towards a comprehensive and
sustainable growth to become a socio-economic centre of the central region,
he noted.
Lauding the city’s achievements, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen
Xuan Phuc, however, asked Da Nang to exert more effort to boost its economic
development by promoting the use of advanced technology and improving
productivity.
The Deputy PM suggested the locality to keep up its goal as
the country’s biggest centre for the fishing industry with an upgraded
infrastructure for aquaculture and seafood processing.
He also asked for more attentions to be given to urban
planning and civilized community formation.
A firework display will be launched late on the day at four
locations to celebrate the occasion.-
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGGP/Dantri/TT/TN
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Thứ Hai, 30 tháng 3, 2015
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