Thứ Tư, 27 tháng 5, 2015

Social News 28/5

Landslide sweeps away road and houses
A landslide occurred early today in Can Tho City's Cai Rang District, sweeping away three houses and more than 50m of a road into the River Can Tho.
The Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper reported another 100m-long road section had also cracked, threatening several houses of local residents in Yen Thuong area in Le Binh Ward.
The landslide covered about 20m of the river bank.
Several local people told the newspaper that they heard cracking sounds before three roofs collapsed and the surface of a new road broke up and fell into the river within 10 minutes.
"I was inside my house, when I heard the cry for help in the neighbourhood. When I rushed out to see what was going on, I saw two wooden houses owned by Mr Tuan and Mrs Hoang being swept away," 55-year-old Nguyen Van Quoc said.
"I and some neighbours tried to use ropes to tug the houses. Luckily, we saved the houses of Tuan and Hoang whereas [Luong Bich] Thuy's house fell into the water," Quoc said.
Chairman of the Le Binh Ward People's Committee Nguyen Van Tam said, "As soon as we heard of the incident, we mobilised more than 100 people of the civil and armed forces and the police to quickly shift people and assets of households directly affected by the landslide and another 10 vulnerable families in the vicinity to safer locations."
"We also assigned the forces to stay on to quickly respond to any further incidents that may occur. In the short term, families whose houses have been swept away will be given VND5 million (US$230) each," Tam said.
Industrial zones lack kindergartens
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to speed up the construction of kindergartens in industrial zones.
Demand is rising for kindergartens in industrial zones, but neither public nor private schools have been able to meet their needs.
As a result, parents have opted for small, private kindergartens that may not meet necessary safety and health requirements.
Dung on Friday ordered local authorities to include kindergartens when designing future industrial zones as part of worker accommodation areas.
The plan also called for mechanisms to encourage the private sector to invest in building kindergartens in areas where public ones weren't feasible.
It also demanded stricter quality control on public and private kindergartens to ensure the children's safety, health and proper development.
The Ministry of Education and Training and the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour were charged with the task of building a framework to increase the number of kindergartens in industrial zones.
They were also ordered to supervise localities as they reinforced regulations and checked in on privately owned kindergartens' activities once per year.
Dung ordered the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to step up their efforts to ensure the health and safety of children across the country – especially those residing in industrial zones.
The Ministry of Construction will provide a set of technical standards and housing models in accordance with industrial zones' designs and regulations. Localities will use them as guidelines as they implement the plan.
An estimated 2.2 million people work in industrial zones in Viet Nam. This number was projected to rise to 7.2 million by 2020 under a December 2014 plan for developing Viet Nam's industrial zones.
Electricity supply for ethnic minorities in Son La
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai recently issued directives to implement the project to supply electricity to ethnic minorities in northern mountainous Son La Province.
Under the project, which was approved in 2009, ethnic people in 557 mountainous hamlets and 106 communes in Son La Province are to get electricity supply during 2010-2015.
The total investment for the project is estimated at VND557 billion (US$25.5 million).
The deputy PM has accepted a proposal put forth by the Electricity of Viet Nam Corporation (EVN), suggesting that the project be started by first supplying power to 22,617 households in the province.
On the deputy PM's instruction, the EVN will invest in setting up electric grids, and the Son La provincial People's Committee will bear the land clearance cost.
Deputy PM Hai has requested the EVN and Son La authorities to complete the project by the second quarter of this year to meet the target of supplying 86 per cent of the local households with power.
Under the project, the EVN has built 303km of medium-voltage lines, 141 transmission stations, and 531km of 0.4kV-electric lines.
Ninh Thuan supplies water to dry areas
Ninh Thuan Province has implemented measures to supply clean water to people during the drought season.
The provincial authorities have organised the transport and supply of water, with each person reportedly getting 25 to 30 litres per day.
They are also helping those who are looking for water resources near their homes, dredging ponds and wells that supply water for 940 households, and transporting water from other regions to 2,180 families in the provinces.
Vietnam steps up community activities to combat HIV
Four thousand injecting drug users, women sex workers and men who have sex with men have been brought under an HIV prevention program  
begun a year ago by Life Center, an NGO that works with disadvantage groups.
Funded by USAID, the US$990,000 program also offers care and support for 2,000 people living with HIV in Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho city  and An Giang Province.
Reviewing the first phase of the two-year project, Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang, director of Life Center, said its results have been encouraging.
“The most important thing is that we have got community-based organizations to become actively involved in efforts to support at-risk groups and  people living with HIV,” she said at a recent review conference in HCM City.
With a network of 21 community-based organizations working actively in HCM City, Can Tho and An Giang, the project has identified, reached  and provided HIV prevention services to 4,000 people, including 2,095 MSMs, 1,004 drug users, and 901 women sex workers.
More than 94% have been tested for HIV, with nearly 8% proving positive and being provided treatment.
“In the second year we will review all 6,000 people in the project to see if they have risk of HIV infection for further assistant on preventive  measures,” Trang said.
“Meanwhile, we will connect with more people at risk of HIV in the community.”
Life Center and several community-based organizations in Ho Chi Minh City launched on May 22 a campaign called “Se ra sao, neu ban la toi?”  (What if you were me?) to end discrimination against people living with HIV.
In Vietnam an estimated 259,000 people have HIV and live mainly in a few key populations with an average of 1,000 people getting infected  every month.
The HIV prevalence in the general population aged 15-49 is 0.39%, according to World Health Organization estimates. The rate is 10.3% among  people who inject drugs, 3.7% among MSM and 2.6% among women sex workers.
According to the Vietnam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC), actively supporting key populations to access HIV testing early and antiretroviral  therapy (ART) as early as possible if HIV positive would significantly reduce new infections and AIDS deaths.
Besides, combining prevention interventions would further accelerate the impact of the interventions, it said.
In 2013 over 40 million condoms and 27 million needles and syringes were distributed.
At the end of that year 15,542 people were receiving methadone therapy and 82,687 adults and children were receiving ART, according to the  VAAC.
Hanoi: Children with facial deformities presented with gifts
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan, accompanied by the heads of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children  (NFVC), visited children being treated for facial anomalies at the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital, Hanoi on May 26.
She handed over gift packages worth VND700,000 (US$32) each, to 40 children from different parts of the country, including Thanh Hoa, Ha  Giang and Thai Nguyen provinces.
The NFVC launched its Operation Smile programme in 1994 to provide free cleft lip and palate surgeries for children. Since 1997, a fund of the  programme has also aided adolescents and adults.
About 25,000 children with harelips, cleft palates, facial tumors and syndactyly have been offered free surgeries to date at a total cost of more  than VND63 billion (US$2.9 million).
This year, the Operation Smile signed an agreement with the NFVC to provide 1,600 disabled children nationwide with free surgery packages,  including travel costs, living expense and surgery cost (around VND8 million or US$366.5 USD each case).
Victims of mushroom poisoning stable
The conditions of 20 people hospitalised after consuming toxic mushrooms have been stable and no casualties have been reported, a health official said.
The head of the Health Department of Ha Giang Province, Luong Viet Thuan, noted that the residents of Ngoc Long Commune, Yen Minh District, were poisoned after they ate toxic mushrooms.
At about 11:40am yesterday, after piling maize, 20 people in Ban Doan Village, Ngoc Long commune, Yen Minh District, gathered at Nguyen Van La family's house for lunch. The menu included wild mushrooms they had collected from forest.
Two hours after lunch, all the 20 people began complaining of similar symptoms: stomachache, nausea, and diarrhoea. They were immediately rushed to Ngoc Long commune's medical centre.
Following the instruction of the provincial Health Department, Yen Minh District's medical centre and relevant authorities quickly inspected the lunch venue and collected samples for medical tests.
"Three ambulances were mobilised and the victims were quickly transferred to the hospital," said Pham Van Anh, the Director of Yen Minh District's General Hospital.
"The oldest among the victims is 45 years old whereas the youngest is 16 years old," the doctor added.
Treatment procedures for the victims were exactly in line with Ha Noi-based Bach Mai Hospital's therapy: stomach cleaning, fluid transfusion, providing patients with activated carbon and diuretic and poison-resistant drugs.
By 10pm, all the victims recovered, with their blood pressure within normal levels.
Over the past years, Ha Giang has witnessed quite a few cases of food poisoning, reported online news site chinhphu.vn. These still occur despite local authorities' efforts to raise public awareness thanks to their economic difficulties as well as the poor understanding and living practices of local people.
According to the provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Steering Committee, tens of food poisoning cases are registered each year, mostly from eating wild mushrooms and mouldy maize powder.
In 2014 alone, the province recorded eight cases of food poisoning; and a total of 37 people were affected, of which 9 died.
Plant improves pollution control
The Binh Thuan Department of Natural Resources and Environment said today that pollution control at the Vinh Tan 2 Thermo-electric Plant had improved.
Deputy director of the plant Thien Thanh Son said, upon receiving instructions from the concerned authorities, the plant management had assigned workers and local residents tasks that would improve the polluted conditions, setting them to work around the clock. On average, some 160-200 people joined the project each day.
So far, all 15ha of the cinder dump have been watered and covered with a canvas, preventing the dust from the cinders from flying into the residential quarter. Cinders will no longer be placed there but will be put in a temporary dump inside the plant instead.
To water the cinder dump, the plant had set up a 3.8km pipeline to carry water from the plant and a 1.7km pipeline to carry water from Da Bac Lake.
The plant also completed an internal road network to transport the cinders. Now, cinders are watered prior to being transported by special lorries that are covered with a canvas to limit air pollution.
The plant held a meeting to inform local residents of the improved environmental conditions.
On April 14 and 15, hundreds of local residents in Vinh Tan Commune, Tuy Phong District, gathered on Highway 1A, calling for a clean-up of the severe pollution caused by the plant.
Chairman of the Binh Thuan People's Committee Le Tien Phuong spoke with the protestors at the scene and asked the Tuy Phong District authorities to move residents away from the polluted areas, ordering the plant to repair the damage.
A recent examination of the site and survey by the provincial people's committee showed that the environmental condition of the area has improved. The committee has asked the plant not to repeat their mistakes.
Project to restore HA Giang's biodiversity by 2020
A project to plan and restore biodiversity by 2020 and create a vision for northern Ha Giang Province by 2030 has attracted the attention of experts and scientific organisations.
Cao Hong Ky, deputy president of the Scientific and Technical Leagues of Ha Giang Province, said the project is a strategic plan related to many fields of environment, nature, and society and is aimed at creating a greener environment.
The project aims to protect and sustainably develop nature and ecology, restore precious and endangered natural gene sources, and sustainably use biodiversity.
The project will encourage local communities to take part in activities for environmental protection and biodiversity development.
Under the project, Ha Giang Province will protect and sustainably develop natural forests and plant new forests to increase the region's green cover to 57 per cent this year and 60 per cent by 2020.
The province will build biodiversity restoration centres and flora gardens to protect precious gene sources.
By 2030, Ha Giang's focus will be to prevent decline in biodiversity, restore important ecology, and plant and breed special trees and animals that will add to the welfare of ethnic minorities as well as contribute toward poverty alleviation.
Factory workers discharged from hospital after gas leak at industrial park
Around 100 female workers at a garment factory who fainted on Monday because of an ammonia leak from another plant in an industrial park in the southern province of Dong Nai were released from the hospital yesterday morning (May 26) in good condition.
Most of the workers had been taken to Dong Nai General Hospital, according to Dr Phan Huy Anh Vu, director of the hospital.
Nguyen Van Nhan, environmental director of the Amata Industrial Park, said the incident occurred when Amanda Co., a frozen-food processing company, was installing a new ammonia condensing system at its factory.
Nhan said the contractor had closed a valve that supplies cooling water, causing the temperature of the ammonia gas to surge, resulting in higher pressure inside the condensing system. This caused the valve to automatically open, releasing the gas.
The incident occurred over a period of three minutes, during which the air flowed toward the factory of the Asia Garment Manufacturers Company.
The workers told authorities that they ran toward the exit of the building after noticing an unpleasant odor. Most of them fainted, having found it difficult to breathe. They also experienced headaches and nausea.
Agencies plan traffic safety during high school exam
The National Traffic Safety Committee has sent a document asking agencies to ensure traffic safety and to reduce traffic jams for the high school graduation exam in early July.
The transport ministry has been asked to instruct transport enterprises and other offices to assign more vehicles to provide better transport for the candidates and residents during the exam. The sector has been asked to ensure safety while transporting the exam question papers and other related documents. Inspectors have been instructed to work with the traffic police to detect illegal fare hikes, limit traffic jams and to set up plans to reduce transport fares for the candidates.
The information and communication ministry has been asked to instruct the multimedia to improve their reporting on the exam and to spread awareness about traffic safety.
The Viet Nam Television, the Radio of Viet Nam and the Vietnam News Agency are required to formulate plans to spread necessary information related to the exam, such as the time and place of the exam, and to help the candidates choose proper vehicles and routes to travel to the exam centres.
The HCM City Central Youth Union has been asked to set up youth volunteer teams to guide and support the candidates and their families, and to work with the traffic police in supervising vehicle movement at exam centres.
Australia supports disability-inclusive development in Vietnam
Australian's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop MP, on Monday released Development for All 2015-2020: Strategy for strengthening disability-inclusive development in Australia's aid program.
According to a press release issued by the Australian Embassy in Ha Noi, the paper said that people with disabilities make up about 15 per cent of the global population and have poorer health outcomes, lower educational achievements, lower economic participation, as well as higher poverty rates than people without disabilities.
"Disability-inclusive development is good development practice and contributes to poverty reduction, economic growth, and better development outcomes for all," said Hugh Borrowman, the Australian Ambassador to Viet Nam.
Australia supports people with disabilities in Viet Nam through existing and future aid projects. To improve the quality of their lives, Australia will consult people with disabilities, monitor their participation, and engage with disability-specific support services and other relevant organisations.
On the occasion, the Australian Government Partnerships for Development funded a training workshop in Da Nang City, as part of "Developing Human Resources Capacity in Vietnam: Effective Service Delivery to Combat Gender Based Violence and Trafficking."
"Violence against women and girls with disabilities is significantly high but a largely invisible issue in Viet Nam. This shows gender and disability-related discriminations and exclusions," said guest trainer Nguyen Thi Van, Director of The Will To Live.
"Together, these two elements put women and girls with disabilities at a much higher risk of violence."
Announcement of the 2015 YSEALI Seeds for the Future Grants Competition
The U.S. Mission in Vietnam is pleased to announce the 2015 Young Southeast Asian Initiative (YSEALI) Seed for the Future Grants. The program offers great opportunities to promising youth leaders with funding from $10,000 up to $20,000 for their projects promoting the development of their communities, countries and the region.  Both single country proposals and multi-country proposals formed by teams of at least 2 YSEALI members from the 10 ASEAN member countries between the ages of 18 and 35, who strongly demonstrate their commitment to their living environment through constructive projects in the theme of Civic Engagement, Economic Development, Education and/or Environmental Protection are invited to apply for the program.
Established and launched by President Barack Obama in 2013 to strengthen youth leadership, development and networking in Southeast Asia, the 2015 Seed for the Future Grants competition has been officially launched through the exclusive chat with The U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel on May 6th 2015. A number of training and information-related events will be hosted with the aim of facilitating the best application form for the candidates. The application deadline is at midnight on Friday, June 5th, 2015.
Further information about the program, including details about the application package is available at: https://youngsoutheastasianleaders.state.gov/grants-competition.
Hanoi: Over 6,500 makeshift classrooms replaced
Over 6,500 temporary classrooms in Hanoi have been wiped out in the past five years and replaced by permanent, higher quality facilities, improving teaching and learning, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.
Hanoi is home to 2,574 schools with nearly 1.6 million students. City authorities have now set the goal of creatively organising pre-school education while improving the quality of child care.
To date, 97.1 percent of nursery children are sent to schools, while the figure for children aged five years old is 100 percent.
By the end of 2013, Hanoi was successful in enforcing very wide attendance pre-school education, while compulsory education has been introduced at primary and secondary levels.
The city has 410 primary schools, 311 secondary schools and 44 high schools recognised as meeting national standards.
Book exchange enhances Vietnamese-Chinese mutual understanding
Libraries of Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Lao Cai and Hekou district of China’s Yunnan province exchanged 100 books featuring their locality and people and industrial and tourism potential and advantages on May 26.
According to Deputy Director of the Lao Cai provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Thi To Uyen, the book exchange has been organised for six years, following a memorandum of understanding between the department and Hekou’s Broadcasting, Culture and Sport Bureau.
To date, a total of 1,200 books have been presented, Uyen said.
The activity aims to promote mutual understanding as well as boosting the study and exchange of culture of people along the border. It is also one of the events to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Vietnam-China diplomatic ties.
Vietnamese students in RoK continue to help homeland
Promoting Vietnam’s sea and island sovereignty and organising charitable activities to support the country are the key tasks to be performed by the Vietnam Students Association in Korea (VSAK) in the coming time.
The objectives were set in the group’s fifth annual meeting on May 24 in Seoul, where a new executive board was selected for the VSAK’s 2015-2017 tenure.
During the meeting, participants reviewed the achievements the association has achieved in the last two years in terms of cultural and sport exchanges and scientific research.
The association has actively provided support for Vietnamese undergraduate students, disadvantaged people in the RoK, and residents of the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.
The VSAK, which was founded in 2007, has more than 80 units across the RoK, with more than 6,000 members.
New pumping station brings clean water to Ben Tre communities
The Ham Luong Bridge i ntensified high pressure pumping station in the Mekong Delta’s Ben Tre city will supply water to more than 10,000 people in two districts after being put into operation on May 26.
The Ben Tre Water Supply-Drainage Limited Liability Company, which manages the station, said that the system will ensure a stable source of clean and hygienic water to people in Mo Cay Nam and Mo Cay Bac districts.
According to Pham Chi Vu, director of the company, the pumping system, built across 2,500 sq.m in My Thanh commune, has received a total investment of over 17 billion VND and is sponsored by the Dutch government’s Facility for Infrastructure Development (ORIO) programme.
Nguyen Van Son, Vice Chairman of Mo Cay Bac district’s People Committee, said the station will help solve the chronic lack of water faced by citizens in the two districts, which are prone to salt intrusion.
Cas Van der Horst, the Netherlands’ Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, said that the station is one of 65 projects funded by the ORIO programme and it is the first of its kind to go into operation.
He said the Netherlands will continue to assist Ben Tre to expand its clean water-supply network for people in rural areas.
Art progamme donates nearly 46,000 USD to needy children
Art programme “Nhung Trai Tim Dong Cam” (Sympathy Hearts) this year will donate over 1 billion VND (45,800 USD) to impoverished children and children with disabilities, said the organising board.
It will bring up the concert’s donation to children living in difficult circumstances to over 20 billion VND (916,200 USD) so far.
The 7th edition of the charity programme was organised by the Gia Dinh va Tre Em (Family and Children) magazine in association with the Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Nha Bao va Cong Luan (Journalist and Public Opinion) newspaper in response to the Action Month for Children and International Children’s Day (June 1).
The programme will be held at Hanoi Opera House and broadcast live on VTV2 channel on late May 30.
Vietnam has more than 6.7 million people with disabilities, including 1.2 million children, over 330,000 orphans and nearly 25,000 Orange/Dioxin victim children.
In addition, the organising board will donate part of sum raised during the event to provide free surgeries for eight children with congenital heart diseases and present 100 savings books, 30 scholarships and 100 gift packages to poor children nationwide.
Inland aid delivered to Song Tu Tay soldiers, islanders
A delegation led by Director of the Police General Department for Crime Prevention, Phan Van Vinh, delivered support to naval soldiers and residents in Song Tu Tay commune of Truong Sa island district, central Khanh Hoa province, on May 26.
Lt. Gen. Vinh praised soldiers and residents for their determination to stay on and protect Vietnam’s seas and islands, and stressed the support that inland people have shown to those defending the country’s offshore sovereignty.
The 250-strong delegation, including representatives from the Vietnam Women’s Union, presented soldiers and islanders with practical equipment such as TVs, DVD players, water filters, electric fans, computers and crop seedlings.
The inland representatives began their tour to several islands of Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on May 24, and Song Tu Tay was their first destination.
Song Tu Tay is one of the two communes of Truong Sa island district, which also comprises a township.
It accommodates military units, civil and cultural structure and a hydro-meteorological station. Song Tu Tay also houses a dock with enough space for hundreds of fishing boats and a repair station.
Residential project starts benefiting 30,000 workers
Work started on the construction of a low-income residential project for workers at Yen Binh I Industrial Park in Pho Yen district, northern Thai Nguyen province on May 26.
The 35-hectare project is constructed by Yen Binh Development Investment Joint Stock Company and VinaCapital Group with a total investment of 4,000 billion VND (183.4 million USD).
It will consist of 14 housing blocks which provide more than 8,000 affordable to-let apartments of 45-60 sqm, capable of accommodating about 30,000 workers.
The project is scheduled to be operational in 2019, easing the housing burden for employees at the industrial park, especially workers of Samsung Electronics Vietnam.
At the ground breaking ceremony, provincial authority urged involved parties to work together in order to keep the project on schedule and ensure its quality along with workplace safety and environment protection.
Joint project improves life for Agent Orange victims
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) and the Vietnam Veterans’ Association (VAA) reviewed the results of their collaboration and discussed future work during a workshop held on May 26.
According to VAVA Chairman Nguyen Van Rinh, the five-year joint programme on supporting and protecting the rights of victims has so far created profound and positive changes in the conceptions of State agencies and locals toward the Agent Orange-affected population.
Publicity campaigns have triggered a huge communal response to a number of charitable activities, Rinh shared.
VAA Chairman Nguyen Van Duoc said his organisation has supported the victims and their families in seeking a better life and integrating into their local communities.
Petitions for policy changes from veterans who are suffering from exposure to the deadly chemical, dropped during wartime by the US, have for a long time been delivered to the authorities through the VAA, Duoc noted.
At the workshop, both sides agreed to continue their work together. They will conduct research to collect a database of the disadvantaged community and replicate their successful models to help the Agent Orange victims across the nation.
'Stop Using Rhino Horn' denies link with stats on horn buyers in Vietnam
Recent statistics showing that the number of rhino horn buyers in Vietnam has slumped have no truck with the “Stop Using Rhino Horn,” the coordinator board behind the communication campaign said Monday.
“Stop Using Rhino Horn,” jointly run by WildAid in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation and Vietnamese non-governmental organization CHANGE, was launched in Hanoi in March 2014 and is running until 2016.
On Thursday, Tuoi Tre News reported that a Vietnamese delegation on Wednesday attended a working session in the South African capital city of Pretoria with the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and relevant agencies to review their partnership in the conservation field.
Statistics released at the session showed that rhino horn buyers in Vietnam has declined 77 percent while there has been a 60 percent decrease in the number of people who think rhino horn has medicinal properties, one year after the launch of the “Stop Using Rhino Horn.”
The figures are in fact “not related in any way” to the campaign, its coordinator board in Vietnam said in an email to Tuoi Tre News.
As many as 75 percent of the respondents surveyed by AC Nielsen in late 2014 believed that rhino horn has health and medical benefits, particularly treatment of diseases. The survey used door-to-door and face-to-face interviews of 400 individuals, both females and males in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Sixty-one percent believed rhino horn can cure a disease while 30 percent reckoned the horn can be used to strengthen health, according to the survey.
Twelve percent thought rhino horn can be used to prevent sickness, the study said, adding that 69 percent knew rhino horn has medical effects based on word of mouth.
Of the participants who believed rhino horn has medical effects (75 percent), half thought it can be used to cure cancer, 42 percent to treat rheumatism, 22 percent to treat impotence, 22 percent to ease effects of a stroke, 16 percent to treat fever, and 15 percent to soothe hangovers.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has concluded that rhino horn is not able to treat cancer, rheumatism, strokes, or to enhance sex life.
“There is no scientific evidence that rhino horn cures any serious disease,” the "Stop Using Rhino Horn" coordinator board underlined in the same email to Tuoi Tre News.
Official statistics released by South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs in March 2014 showed that poachers killed 172 rhinos for their horns from the start of that year, while 1,004 were killed in 2013.
Vietnam is considered one of the major hot spots of the illegal rhino horn trade.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri

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