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
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
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
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
Funded by
USAID, the US$990,000 program also offers care and support for 2,000 people
living with HIV in
Reviewing
the first phase of the two-year project, Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang, director of
“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
With a
network of 21 community-based organizations working actively in
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.”
In
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.
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
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
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
"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
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
Most of
the workers had been taken to
Nguyen
Van Nhan, environmental director of the
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.
Australian's
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop MP, on Monday released Development
for All 2015-2020: Strategy for strengthening disability-inclusive
development in
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
On the
occasion, the Australian Government Partnerships for Development funded a
training workshop in
"Violence
against women and girls with disabilities is significantly high but a largely
invisible issue in
"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
Established
and launched by President Barack Obama in 2013 to strengthen youth
leadership, development and networking in
Further
information about the program, including details about the application
package is available at:
https://youngsoutheastasianleaders.state.gov/grants-competition.
Over
6,500 temporary classrooms in
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,
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
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
The
objectives were set in the group’s fifth annual meeting on May 24 in
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
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
He said
the
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.
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
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
Recent
statistics showing that the number of rhino horn buyers in
“Stop
Using Rhino Horn,” jointly run by WildAid in partnership with the African Wildlife
Foundation and Vietnamese non-governmental organization CHANGE, was launched
in
On
Thursday, Tuoi Tre News reported that a Vietnamese delegation on Wednesday
attended a working session in the South African capital city of
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
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
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
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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