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Social News 8/4
Road accident kills three in Gia Lai
At least three persons were killed and one was seriously
injured, when three motorbikes collided on Road 661 in Gia Lai (Tay Nguyen)
After receiving information about the accident in La Lok
hamlet in Chu Pah district, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is
also chairman of the National Committee for Traffic Safety, sent condolences
to the families of the victims and requested the provincial traffic safety department
to provide the best medical aid possible to the injured person and support
the victims' families.
The local traffic police said the cause of the accident was
being investigated.
The transport department has guided local authorities to
review the safety conditions of the transport system in the province,
particularly emphasising on segments, intersections and connections between
rural roads, district roads and highways.
The department has also focused on repairing damaged roads,
and installing danger signs and traffic warning devices such as mounted
reflectors.
In addition, the department has organised training courses to
grant licences to motorcyclists, especially in the remote and ethnic minority
areas.
Forum promotes Vietnam-RoK sci-tech cooperation
A forum was held in
Co-organised by the Vietnam Academy Science and Technology,
the RoK’s Ministry of Science-Information and Planning, the event focused on
Vietnam’s science and technology, pointing out opportunities and challenges
for the country in the field.
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc
Khanh, said this is great potential for the two sides to boost their ties in
the field, adding that the forum contributes to expanding the bilateral
strategic partnership.
Through the event, specific measures to bolster the
Vietnam-RoK cooperation in science and technology are expected to be taken,
he said.
He hailed the RoK’s support for
Kyung Ho Shin from the RoK’s
During the forum, participants also discussed policies and
orientations for developing science and technology by 2020, issues related to
nano-material science, electrics, electronics, and biotechnology application.
Nghe An authorities rebut spread of A/H5N6 virus
The central Nghe An Provinces Preventive Medicine Department
has rejected all rumours of a local couple having contracted the A/H5N6 bird
flu virus.
Phan Van Cong, the head of the department's Infection Control
Faculty, said an outbreak of A/H5N6 had struck a flock of chickens owned by a
couple in Quy Hop Districts Nghia Xuan Commune in the middle of March.
Cong added that on March 28, the husband had gotten high
fever. Three days later, the wife was also down with high fever. The couple were
taken to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases for examination and
treatment. Tests had revealed that the couple just had normal flu.
Following the incident, the provincial Animal Health
Department had destroyed the couples chickens and vaccinated about 8,700
poultry against the A/H5N6 bird flu virus in the commune. The departments
staff had also sprayed chemicals to disinfect areas near the couples house.
A delegation from the Government Inspectorate of Vietnam (GIV)
on April 6 met with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in
Leading the delegation, Deputy Chief Government Inspector Tran
Duc Luong said the meeting was a strong indication of the two nations’ desire
to share expertise and information to enhance efforts in the fight against
corruption in both countries and across borders.
At the meeting, they agreed to step up efforts to implement
memorandum of understanding (MoU) that have previously been signed.
The MACC is proud of its reputation as a country that is at a
high position in the Corruption Perception Index and is confident that both
countries can share experience to intensify efforts on corruption prevention,
a MACC official said at the meeting.
Corruption has become a crime that is difficult to address and
borderless and, as such, both countries must help one another and form
solidarity in facing future challenges in the fight against it.
Provider of sex workers for foreigners arrested
Police have detained a man who worked as a pimp in a
Police officers District 1 arrested Nguyen Ba Huy, 43, after
they raided the Hoa Long Hotel at
The ward is often known as the “backpacker area” because as it
is home to a community of foreigners who visit the city as tourists.
The two prostitutes told police that Huy had sent them to the
hotel.
Police officers went on to capture Huy and escorted him to
their station for questioning.
Huy told investigators that he had made a living as a
motorbike taxi driver in the “backpacker area” before becoming a procurer.
The pimp said he had set up a call-girl ring to provide
prostitutes for foreigners only and printed “special business cards” that
only showed his name “Huy,” his cellphone number, and the word “Gái”
(Girls).
Every night Huy came to bars, restaurants, and hotels in the
“backpacker area” and distributed such cards to foreigners there, news
website Dan Viet reported.
Huy said he had rented rooms for sex workers to stay and offer
them to foreigners at their request over the phone.
Initial investigation showed that the man had long been known
by many hotels and bars as a procurer supplying sex workers to foreigners in
the area.
One of the "special business cards" Huy distrbuted
to foreigners at bars, restaurants, and hotels in the "backpacker
area" in District 1,
Huy directly took prostitutes to hotels at his customers’
request. He later received VND1 million (US$46.3) as a “brokering fee” from
sex workers who charged their guests US$100 each time they had sex, Phap Luat
Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper reported.
Many sex workers in Huy’s ring are repeat offenders, police
said, adding these prostitutes were once arrested and fined but they still
relapsed into such vice.
Some of them said, “We could do nothing other than working as
sex workers. We chose young foreigners only and never spent nights with
Vietnamese men.”
In
VITM 2015 closes with great success
About 14,000 tour packages and 15,600 air tickets have been
sold at Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM 2015) after the four-day
exhibition.
Titled “
A series of a seminars, cultural performances and traditional
culinary demonstrations were organised during the event for participants.
Vietrantour Marketing Director Nguyen Thi Huyen, said her company teamed up
with a number of Japanese business partners in order to expand their current
market.
According to Ho Thi Thu Thuy, Head of Cholontourist marketing
section said the fair provided a perfect opportunity for domestic travel
companies to promote their tourism products, helping popularise the
image of
At the closing ceremony on April 6, VITM organising board also
honoured a number of outstanding Vietnamese enterprises for their significant
contributions to stimulating the country’s tourism programme.
Electricity supply lights up Khmer people’s New Year
celebration
About 3,160 Khmer households in the Mekong Delta
As of now, 96.6 percent of the province’s total Khmer
households or about 92,400, have gained access to electricity.
According to Director of the Soc Trang Power Company Huynh
Minh Hai, in the first three months of this year, the company has provided
electricity to more than 8,400 households, surpassing the year’s target.
The electrification raised the total number of households
accessing electricity across the province to 315,500, or 97 percent.
Soc Trang is home to more than 400,000 Khmer people,
accounting for 30.71 percent of the province’s population.
The Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival is one of the most
important festivals of the year for the Khmer people. It lasts three days
(four days in leap years) and is usually held in a pagoda.
On these festive days, Khmer people go to visit each other and
wish good health, good luck and prosperity to each other. They also join in
fun activities.-
President Truong Tan Sang has urged the National Defence
Academy of Vietnam to raise its trainees’ awareness of the nation’s strategy
to protect the Fatherland in the new context, firmly safeguard national
territorial integrity and ensure a peaceful environment for the country’s
development.
The State leader made the remark while visiting the academy
and spoke to cadres attending a defence-security course in
He was accompanied by Senior Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty,
Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Minister
of National Defence.
The President was briefed on the academy’s education and
training work and the past achievements of ex-trainees.
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He also analysed the Party and State’s solutions to implement
the missions such as increasing the national strength and utilising the
international support to address external challenges and difficulties.
Also at the meeting, the President clarified several questions
raised by the academy’s staff, lectures and cadets on the mission to protect
the country.-
A delegation from the
During the visit, the delegation met with their counterparts
from the National Union Alliance Chambers of Cambodia (NACC) and the
Cambodian Council of National Union (CCNU).
Both sides briefed one another on their respective current
political and socio-economic context, expressing delight at the outcomes of
the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2010 between the VGCL and the
NACC as well as the sound relationship between trade unions of both countries
in recent years.
They agreed to continue implementing the MoU while working to
form trade unions among Vietnamese rubber companies in
They will encourage Vietnamese and Cambodian localities along
the shared border to strengthen relations and foster cultural and sports
exchanges.
They proposed the Cambodian Government and the Cambodian
People’s Party (CPP) create favourable conditions, especially regarding land
use, for the VGCL to build a training centre supporting the NACC as soon as
possible.
On March 31, the delegation met with Cambodian Minister of
Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng who lauded the role of trade
unions in maintaining social order and fuelling national development.
He pledged to support the NACC and CCNU in boosting ties with
the VGCL, suggesting the Vietnamese union continue assisting the NACC and
CCNU in personnel training by providing long- and short-term courses for
Cambodian officials at VGCL training facilities.
During their stay, the delegation also sat down with Say
Chhum, Head of the Permanent Committee of the CPP Central Committee and First
Deputy Speaker of the Cambodian Senate. He praised the visit as a
contribution to strengthening the friendship, cooperation and solidarity
between the two Parties, Governments, peoples and trade unions.
He said the Cambodian people are ever-mindful of the great
assistance and sacrifice given by the Vietnamese Party, people and army to
Before leaving
The 4th Vietnam-Laos labour and social welfare minister
meeting took place in
Participating officials informed each other on their
countries’ current policies and laws related to their workforces and social
welfare.
Appreciating the achievements resulting from their cooperation
in recent years, they discussed measures to address problems hindering the
improvement of ties in social security, insurance and vocational training,
among others.
Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai
Chuyen and her Lao counterpart OnchanThammavong agreed that their
inter-ministry affiliation has grown in quality and scale in line with the
specific needs of each nation.
A Vietnam-Laos labour cooperation pact was signed in 2013.
Moving forward, the two ministers decided to intensify their
work together and encourage provincial agencies to cooperate further.
On the occasion, the Vietnamese Minister presented her
agency’s insignia to OnchanThammavong together with VND1 billion (US$46,125)
worth of equipment to the latter’s agency.
The 5th meeting is scheduled to be held in
Vietnam ensures safety of guest workers in Yemen
She said 19 Vietnamese workers are currently in
Recently, the Vietnamese embassy in Arab Saudi and
Congratulations to Khmer people on traditional New Year
Deputy Prime Minster Vu Van Ninh and other State officials
congratulated the Khmer ethnic community in southern
The function brought together 600 people representing 1.3
million Khmer ethnics across 17 southern provinces and cities.
Chol Chnam Thmay, taking place from April 14-16 this year, is
one of the most important festivals of the year for the Khmer people. It
lasts three days (four days in leap years) and is traditionally held in a
pagoda.
The festival is a demonstration of Khmer people’s aspirations,
like many other ethnic groups, to move on from the previous year’s
misfortunes and look forward to the promise of a new year.
Hailing the Khmer community’s socio-economic development
efforts and solidarity, Deputy PM Ninh called on them to uphold their
achievements, maintain their cultural identity and raise awareness to prevent
hostile forces’ sabotage schemes to ensure political security and social
order.
He asked dignitaries of the Theravada Buddhism, followed by
almost all Khmer people, to enhance the practical activities of the
Solidarity Association of Patriotic Buddhist Monks.
Meanwhile, the Steering Committee for the Southwest Region,
State agencies, and local authorities need to effectively implement the Party
and State’s policies on ethnic minority, religious, and social welfare
issues, he added, highlighting the provision of assistance for low-income
Khmer families to help them enjoy a merry Chol Chnam Thmay.
Deputy Standing Chairman of the Steering Committee Nguyen
Phong Quang reported the poverty rate among regional Khmer households was
reduced to 17.98% in 2014 from 21.35% in the previous year. Traditional
customs and cultural identities have also been conserved and upheld.
At the gathering, the Steering Committee presented VND100
million (more than US$4,700) in house-building aid to Khmer families with
members suffering from Agent Orange after effects.
Unsafe food causes over 200 diseases: WHO
Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or
chemical substances causes more than 200 diseases that claim an estimated 2
million lives globally each year, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) in
WHO in
The organisation marks World Health Day this year by
applauding the government for its commitment to improve food safety in
"Food safety assurance is the responsibility of all
consumers and producers along the food chain from farm to plate," WHO
Acting Representative Jeffery Kobza said in a press release.
"Food producers, manufacturers and traders in
According to WHO, unsafe food containing harmful bacteria,
viruses, parasites or chemical substances, causes more than 200 diseases –
ranging from diarrhoea to chronic diseases such as cancers. Unsafe food
creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting
children and older people.
Diseases caused by unsafe food impede socio-economic
development, burden health-care systems, and harm national economies, tourism
and trade.
WHO is working with the Vietnam Food Administration and other
key partners to promote people’s health through ensuring food safety.
Laotian caught with 60,000 synthetic drug tablets
Vietnamese police have detained a 57-year-old Laotian man
since he was caught illegally transporting 60,000 synthetic drug tablets in
Police officers arrested the foreigner, whose name is
translated into Vietnamese as Thao Kham Chan, after finding the huge number
of drug tablets in his backpack when he was standing at the My Dinh Bus
Station in Nam Tu Liem District in the morning.
Police said they found some suspicious signs so they decided
to search the man.
On rummaging through the backpack, police officers detected
300 plastic bags which contained 200 pink tablets.
After being escorted to the district police station, the man
confessed that all these tablets are drugs.
He also said he worked as a driver.
Testing showed that the tablets are compressed synthetic
drugs.
Police are investigating the case to find out the origin of
the drugs.
Under Article 194 of the Vietnamese Penal Code, twenty years
of imprisonment, life imprisonment or capital punishment can be given to
those who are convicted of illegally stockpiling, transporting, trading in or
appropriating heroin or cocaine weighing one hundred grams or more.
The same penalties are also given to those who commit the
crimes in one of the following circumstances: opium resin, marijuana resin or
coca plasma weighing five kilograms or more; marijuana leaves, flowers, fruit
or coca leaves weighing 75 kilograms or more; dried poppy fruit weighing 600
kilograms or more; fresh poppy fruit weighing 150 kilograms or more; other
narcotic substances in solid form weighing 300 grams or more or in liquid
form measuring 750 milliliters or more.
Fire destroys 50ha cajuput forest in Kien Giang
A fire destroyed about 50ha of cajuput forest in
The fire was put out after an eight-hour effort by 500 local
firefighters and soldiers.
The firefighters and soldiers had problems in controlling the
fire earlier, because the nearby canals were found to have run out of water
for fire-fighting.
The site of the fire, located deep inside the forest, also
added to the difficulties of the firefighters. Authorised agencies sent 30
floating pumps to the site.
The local police are investigating the cause of the blaze.
Although the fire was brought under control, the authorised
agencies still raised the fire risk in the forest to level five, the highest.
The Transport Ministry has permitted Construction Corporation
No 1, to start collecting tolls from vehicles using the
The corporation is the investor in Dong Nai Bridge Project.
The tolls range from VND15,000 (US$0.7) per journey for
vehicles with less than 12 seats and less than two-tonne trucks and buses, to
VND60,000 ($2.8) for 10-tonne to 18-tonne trucks and 20-feet-long containers.
Trucks with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes and 40-feet-long
containers have to pay VND120,000 ($5.6) per journey.
The construction of the bridge and approach roads, including
the Tan Van flyover, a tunnel, the Vung Tau intersection and the Tan Van
intersection, began in June 2008, and ended in January 2015.
The investor spent nearly VND1.9 trillion ($88 million) on the
project. It will use non-stop toll collection technology there.
Viet Nam's number of breastfed children still too low: UNICEF
UNICEF aims to assure 50 per cent of children around the world
are breastfed exclusively in their first six months, but
The percentage in
The first 1,000 days are the "golden" period for
providing critical nutrition to foster height and intelligence in infants,
the UNICEF representative said.
Effective methods include nutrition supplements during
pregnancy, breastfeeding exclusively in the six months, continuing
breastfeeding and making sure infants get enough nutrition in the following
months.
Nghe An to step up avian flu prevention
The Ministry of Health has asked authorities in Nghe An
Province to take drastic measures to stem an outbreak of avian influenza
A/H5N6 and stop it from spreading to humans.
The move comes after the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (MARD) reported infected poultry in Xuan Nghia Commune, Quy Hop
District at the beginning of April.
The ministry warned that there was a high risk of the virus
spreading from poultry to humans and becoming an epidemic.
The health ministry has asked the provincial health department
to strengthen surveillance and diagnosis of suspected human cases, and
hospitals have been instructed to set up isolation units.
The provincial health department has been urged to collaborate
with veterinarians and local authorities to supervise the handling of any
outbreak.
Information about preventing avian influenza needed to be made
available in areas with high numbers of poultry illnesses or deaths,
especially during festivals.
The ministry also said people should take preventive measures
by regularly washing their hands with soap and practising food safety.
People should report ill or dead poultry to local authorities,
and people with symptoms of fever, coughing, chest pains and breathing
difficulties should seek immediate medical help.
The department said that two poultry farmers from the area who
had shown flu-like symptoms had been sent to the Central Tropical Diseases
Institute in Ha Noi for testing, but the results had come back negative for
A/N5N6.
MARD reported that no new sick or dead poultry had been
reported in the area on Sunday, and the infected birds had already been
destroyed. The province has provided 10,000 doses of vaccine for poultry
flocks in Nghia Thuan Commune and high risk areas.
Mainland delegation makes Truong Sa pilgrimage
A 132-strong delegation representing mass organisations from
the mainland began a four-day visit to Truong Sa Archipelago yesterday.
The delegates are from
They began the trip by burning incense at the President Ho Chi
Minh Commemorative House and at the cemetery in memory of heroic martyrs.
They called on local residents, the military garrison, Truong
Sa Pagoda, and Truong Sa Primary School.
They handed over gifts and in the afternoon put on a big show
for the locals.
The visitors from
They are scheduled to visit the islands of Da Lat, Da Dong,
Tien Nu, Nui Le, and An Bang. DK1/19 and DK1/8 oil rigs are also in their
itinerary.
Nguyen Thanh Phong, deputy secretary of HCM City's Party
Committee and head of the delegation, said the visit would help underline to
people across the country, especially in HCM City, Viet Nam's sovereignty
over the Truong Sa Archipelago.
With more than 100 islands and islets spread over 160,000-180,000sq.km,
Truong Sa Archipelago is situated 203 nautical miles from Phu Quy Island in
Binh Thuan Province and 595 miles from China's Hainan Island.
Truong Sa District comprises Truong Sa town and the two
communes of Song Tu and Nam Yet.
Truong Sa town is often a refuge for fishing vessels from Phu
Yen, Quang Ngai, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, and other southern
provinces in bad weather.
In 2014 more than 90 fishermen from the mainland got medical
aid at the Truong Sa town medical centre, according to the town people's
committee.
With its favourable geographic location, Truong Sa is an ideal
port and fishing services centre.
New medical fee guarantees health insurance holders
The Ministry of Health announced to raise medical fee to 2020
at a press conference on April 7 in the
In the road map, medical fee will include cost of medicine,
direct material, water and electricity, waste treatment, equipment
maintenance and depreciation, salary of medical workers, and scientific
research training.
The present medical fee just covers medicine, materials
directly used and water and electricity. Moreover, as per the regulation set
by the ministries of Finance and Health, the medical fee is not allowed to
exceed the maximum pricing frame.
Accordingly, each province has different medical fee index;
consequently, health insurance payment in hospitals is different, creating
unfairness.
The Ministry of Health assessed that after two year
implementation of new medical fee it had proved to bring certain effects and
insurance holders’ right had increased. Therefore, to continue raise medical
service quality head of the Finance and Planning Department under the
Ministry of Health Nguyen Nam Lien said that ministries of Finance and Health
would issue new medical fee for all hospitals at same level nationwide which
include medical workers’ salary and bonus.
The Ministry of Health said that the new medical fee will
affect to a group of people who do not pay for health insurance. Currently,
medical cost is still low so some people pay for it. However, around 27
million people in the country (or 30 percent of the population) have not paid
for health insurance.
Around 23.7 million poor people, ethnic minority people and
social welfare beneficiaries are not affected by the new fee as the
government has paid for them and since January 1, 2015, the insurance
companies have paid for them. Families whose economic condition is close to
poverty line will be supported with 90 percent medical fee and they just pay
5 percent for the medical bill while they had to pay 20 percent before.
Source :
VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri
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Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 4, 2015
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