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Social News 9/5
4 killed in road accident in Tra Vinh
At least four persons were killed and two injured when two
coaches crashed into three motorbikes in Tra Vinh, a Mekong River Delta
province, this morning.
The accident happened at 10am on
Police are further investigating the accident.
15 firefighters suffer injuries in paint store fire
Fifteen firefighters were taken to hospital after a chemical
box exploded in a fire at a paint store in Hoa Vang district,
The city's firefighting police department said this morning
that the fire broke out at about 11pm in Hoa Chau commune, 20km from the
city, and the department sent 10 fire trucks to stamp out the fire and rescue
local residents living near the store.
No one was reported killed.
However, a box, which was identified to be containing acetone,
suddenly exploded, injuring 15 firemen and damaging a wall of the store.
Nine firemen suffered burns.
Corporal Truong Van Phuc was the worst affected, as he
suffered burns to his arms, face and neck. He also broke an arm.
Some firefighters are receiving treatment for burns to the
conjunctiva.
Two firemen were discharged from the
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Firms want to raise taxi fares
The Ha Noi Taxi Association has received proposals from local
firms to raise fares due to the RON 92 petrol price hike on Tuesday, the Giao
thong (Transport) newspaper reported.
The petrol price has been increased by nearly VND2,000 to
reach VND19,200 (US$0.89) per litre.
President of the taxi association Do Quoc Binh said the taxi
firms wanted to increase the fares by about VND500 to VND1,000 per kilometre.
"I think it is suitable," he said. It was up to each
firm to decide when they wanted to increase the fares, he said.
President of
"It affected the business activities of taxi firms,"
he said.
According to the finance ministry's price management
department, fuel costs accounted for 25 to 35 per cent of the taxi fares. The
petrol price has increased by about 22 per cent since early this year,
compared to the period before Tet (Lunar New Year).
A taxi driver of Phu Dong Taxi Firm said as the petrol price
has increased by about 22 per cent, taxi fares might be increased by nearly
VND1,000 per kilometre.
Communications Director of Mai Linh Taxi Company Nguyen Van
Hung said the firm was yet to decide on any fare increase.
Ca Mau drought causes billion-VND losses to farmers
Prolonged drought has caused severe damage worth tens of
billions of Vietnamese dong to farms in the southernmost
As many as 2,800 hectares of shrimps were ruined, costing over
10 billion VND (465,000 USD).
Drought has also taken its toll on the loss of over 700 eel
and marble goby ponds, 1,200 hectares of crops as well as nearly 1,000
hectares of orchards valued at nearly 9 billion VND (418,600 USD).
The locality is suffering severe water shortages, said the
provincial agriculture promotion centre, forecasting a worsened situation in
May if the drought continues to cripple the region.
The province is striving to counteract the issue with priority
given to supplying fresh water for thousands of residents and irrigating
hundreds
hectares of crops, though there is no way to save the fruit
trees.
Women organisations seek to combat human trafficking
The Vietnam Women Union, the UN Women, and the northernmost
Representatives from foreign embassies and UN offices in
Since 2011, the province has received 751 trafficked women and
children from Chinese authorities. Some rescued victims have then
regrettably turned to be accomplices in trafficking rings.
According to UN Resident Coordinator Pratibha Mehta,
She, however, raised a concern about increasingly
sophisticated tricks used by traffickers in the country.
Participants visualised what human trafficking could grow and
sought effective experience from other countries.
They pledged to closely coordinate to efficiently combat the
problem.-
Unfair competition among coach services on the Ha Noi-Hai
Phong route has increased sharply in recent times.
Deputy Head of
The low passenger numbers on this route and large number of
available coaches are being blamed for the unfair competition here.
Deputy Director of Hai Phong's Transport Department Nguyen Duc
Tho said passenger occupancy was just 42 per cent of the coach service
capacity, comprising 225 cars in 16 transport units.
With such few passengers, conflict was bound to happen, Tho
said.
Some drivers were injured during a fight to get customers,
while other also received threats, Tho said.
In some cases, drivers were requested to drive slowly to let
other cars catch up, to help them get more passengers.
With disorderly transportation services and picking up of
passengers on this and several other routes, Deputy Head of the Traffic
Police Department of the Public Security Ministry Col Luu Thanh Hiep said the
management of traffic order and safety was not strict.
Agreeing with this view, Tran Van Truong, an inspector from
the transport ministry, said some transport units have not managed to tightly
monitor their operations and drivers.
To deal with this problem, Deputy Minister Nguyen Hong Quang
said transport departments should inspect the operations of all transport
firms that show signs of unfair competition and that business licences should
be temporarily revoked where necessary.
He also requested the departments to resolve this issue within
one month to ensure order and traffic safety on this route.
EVN pledges adequate electricity in May
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) pledged that it will provide
enough electricity in May to meet demand, potentially reaching as high as 463
million
kilowatt hours each day.
The company said that it will focus on maximising the capacity
of coal-fuelled and gas-fuelled turbines in order to supply adequate
electricity, especially for the south-central provinces which are being
hit by severe drought.
According to the EVN, in the first four months this year, all
power plants produced 49.25 billion kilowatt hours, of which commercial
electricity comprises 42.8 billion kilowatt hours, up 11.13 percent
against the same period last year.-
Participants elaborated that
People of the Dai Viet, Champa, and Oc Eo-Phu
countries and exported a variety of products.
Vietnamese porcelain and other products have been discovered
at many ports, archaeological sites, and historical and cultural relics
in Southeast Asian, Northeast Asian, and Southwest countries as well as
faraway seas, scientists said.
At the workshop, they also discussed
The function was held by the
Bus operators compete for passengers
Cut-throat competition has developed between coach
services on the Ha Noi-Hai Phong route.
Deputy Head of
He said the route had become known for large numbers of buses
and few customers.
Deputy Director of Hai Phong's Transport Department, Nguyen
Duc Tho, said seat occupancy was about 42 per cent of capacity.
"With such few passengers, conflicts are bound to
happen," Tho said.
Some drivers had even been injured during fights over
customers, while others had been threatened.
In some cases, they drive slowly to try and get more
passengers.
In addition, many transport firms and drivers do not follow
bus station regulations.
And, Tho added, some buses create their own routes and
schedules.
An official from Luong Yen Bus Station said sometimes
co-drivers became involved in arguments with station managers over routes and
services.
Deputy Head of the Traffic Police Department, Colonel Luu
Thanh Hiep, said the management of buses was not strict.
Tran Van Truong, an inspector from the transport ministry,
agreed that some operators did not tightly manage drivers.
To deal with the problems, Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen
Hong Truong said transport departments should revoke business licences if
necessary.
He also told departments to solve the issue within a month. He
also told them to set up hotlines to receive any complaints from passengers.
The Government's new transport policies will be introduced
next month.
Media asked to work harder for international integration
The Government’s plans for the Vietnamese media in the 2015-17
period have been outlined, with key targets expected to be officially
issued within the year.
The goal is to enhance
A legal framework offering guidance in the coverage of foreign
affairs news is in the pipeline, according to the plan. Information
promoting
Meanwhile, more content on the country’s human rights policies
as well as the country’s achievements in ensuring human rights will be
published in the media.
During the period, ministries will promote the efficiency of
foreign service news reporting by Vietnamese representative offices abroad,
as well as the establishment of Vietnamese cultural centres across the
world.
Multi-media and multi-language media products with a high
proportion of cultural content will also be developed in order to promote the
potential and strength in different sectors and localities. This will
help to boost tourism and attract more foreign investment.
The media will also be encouraged to introduce the nation’s
intergration with the world by promoting cultural events in other countries
and celebrating
The need for the media, both inside and outside the country,
to promote documents proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel)
and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, has also been underlined in the
plan.-
Irrigation system honoured in Dien Bien
The Nam Rom irrigation canal system in northwestern Dien Bien
province was recognised as a provincial level historical-cultural relic site
on May 7.
Built after the
Construction began in 1963 during wartime and finished seven
years later thanks to significant efforts by more than 2,000 personnel,
volunteers and locals, 18 of who were killed in action.
Spanning a total distance of 127 kilometres, the main dike
took water from the
The Nam Rom project has helped increase the volume of rice
production and irrigated area by three times to reach the current 6,000
kilograms per hectare and 6,000 hectares respectively.
Thai Binh facilitates clean water supply projects
The
With a total capacity of over 207,000 cubic metres, the
province is striving to provide clean water access to all local residents
later this year.
The State Bank and commercial banks have facilitated
appraisals and adjusted loans for relevant projects, eight of which received
loans worth a combined 68 billion VND (3.2 million USD).
According to the provincial Department of Planning and
Investment, 22 of the approved projects are new, five others have expanded
capacities and the rest have increased their scale.
Of 27 licensed projects, 10 are fully operational, 11 are
under construction and the remaining six await land procedures.
Local authorities have offered incentives to investors in
water supply projects, including financial aid and funded training courses.
The Preventive Health Centre in
According to Doctor Nguyen Tri Dung, Director of the centre,
the city has recorded 496 cases of dengue fever in April, down 35 percent
against the month prior, with eight districts reporting over 50 percent
reductions such as Binh Thanh and Binh Tan.
In the first three months of this year, the city reported a
number of chickenpox and mumps cases at primary and nursery schools. However,
so far this month, the disease has been contained and no new cases have
been reported.
In April, the city recorded 631 hand-foot-mouth disease
incidents, up 14 percent from March. Though the number of such cases
increased in the month, it is still within normal ranges. So far this
year, the city has had 2,139 hand-foot-mouth cases, down 28 percent over the
same period last year.
Though the diseases are likely to continue to reduce, the
health sector warned city dwellers not to neglect the issue since the
prolonged hot weather presents favourable conditions for viruses and
bacteria to thrive.
They advised the community to maintain personal hygiene and
environmental sanitation, and wash hands regularly with soap.
The municipal Preventive Health Centre will work with relevant
departments and sectors to hold a mosquito-killing campaign in June in
response to the ASEAN Dengue Day (June 15).
Simultaneously, the heath sector will work to control dengue and
hand-foot-mouth in districts with elevated rates of diseases.
The Hanoi Health Department has ordered hospitals and health
centres to enact prompt measures to prevent the spread of whooping
cough, also known as pertussis, in the city.
The move comes after a number of children in
The Health Department told hospitals and health centres to
instruct the community on ways to identify the disease and prevent its
spread.
Hospitals have been asked to stock adequate medications and
necessary equipment for treating patients.
Authorities are also calling on parents to bring their
children to health centres for vaccinations.
Pertussis is caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. It
is an airborne disease which spreads easily through coughs and sneezes of
an infected person.
Whooping cough occurs mainly in infants and young children who
are not vaccinated.-
Free cleft-palate surgeries in May
Free operations will be provided for 190 children with cleft
palates in
The patients will also have part of their travel and other
expenses covered.
The treatment campaign is launched by the US NGO Operation
Smile, which began its meaningful work in
Within the first four months, the organisation carried out
eight similar operation programmes benefiting 350 young patients.
Cleft palate is one of the most common malformations in
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organisation
(WHO) convened a launching ceremony of “Save Lives-Clean your hands”
campaign in
The drive aims to increase awareness of bacterial
contamination management in hospitals nationwide. This is the sixth
consecutive year
According to Director of the Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Department (under the MOH) Luong Ngoc Khue, bacterial contamination in
hospitals is one of top challenges facing
He noted research studies have proved bacterial contamination
in hospital increases mortality rates, antibiotic resistance and overall
expenses.
Bacterial contamination in hospitals can be prevented through
effective control mechanisms. One of the most effective and inexpensive ways
to minimize bacterial contamination is hand hygiene reinforcement
programmes which ensure hygiene and safety for both patients and
medical workers, he added.
Recently, medical centres have made significant efforts to
strengthen awareness among medical workers, patients and their family members
of the importance of bacterial contamination management in hospitals
and healthcare centres.
A number of Vietnamese hospitals were recognized by WHO and
Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC) for their outstanding
performances in the campaign including the
Currently, nearly 500 hospitals nationwide have committed to
participating in the WHO campaign and 73 hospitals registered to join the event
on its website.
As part of a major global effort to improve hand hygiene in
healthcare led by the WHO to support health-care workers, the SAVE LIVES:
Clean Your Hands annual global campaign was launched in 2009 and is a
natural extension of the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge:
Clean Care is Safer Care.
The campaign aims to galvanise action at the point of care to
demonstrate that hand hygiene is the gateway to reducing
healthcare-associated infection and patient safety. It also aims to
demonstrate the global commitment to this priority healthcare area.
Hydrometeorology forecast called to improve
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen
Linh Ngoc has suggested that the quality of hydrometeorology forecasting
should be improved in anticipation of the complex development of
natural disasters in 2015.
He told a conference in
Ngoc said it is also important to build maps demonstrating
areas vulnerable to elevated water levels caused by typhoons in coastal
localities, while implementing the law on natural disaster prevention
and raising public awareness of the issue.
Nguyen Van Tue, Director of the Department of Hydrometeorology
and Climate Change, said five storms and three tropical low pressure
spells occurred in the
Droughts were seen in coastal provinces from Quang Binh to
Khanh Hoa, causing huge damage to agriculture production. At other times in
the year, these localities were hit equally hard by strong whirlwinds,
thunderstorms and heavy rain.
Director of the National Centre for Hydrometeorology
Forecasting, Hoang Duc Cuong, said about 9-10 storms and tropical low
pressures are forecast to enter the East Sea this year, about 4-5 of
which will have direct impact on the mainland.
The northern, central and Central
The drought in central southern region will last until
September this year, while salt intrusion will be increased in the south
until May, he warned.-
Sediment impacts estuaries in Phu Yen province
A number of estuaries in the southern central
The 800-metre-wide Tan Quy estuary in An Hai commune has been
almost completely blocked off while estuaries in Tien Chau in An Ninh
Tay commune and Le Thinh in An Ninh Dong commune have shrunk to only 70
metres and 40 metres in width.
The soil and sand settlement at the Tan Quy estuary that leads
to O Loan lagoon has deteriorated the habitat of aquatic species in the
waters and hampered the travel of over 2,300 boats.
Meanwhile, the sediment at Le Thinh has affected the operation
of nearly 1,000 boats. Low-tide water level is only 0.8 metres, preventing
boats with 60-horse-power engines to move, said Nguyen Tam, a resident
in Le Thinh hamlet.
Facing such circumstances, the Phu Yen provincial People’s
Committee has requested Tuy An district authorities to implement three
projects dredging 1.2 million cubic metres of soil and sand at the
abovementioned estuaries, along with at the Tien Chau fishing port and Van
Cui rivulet.
The committee also emphasised the importance of avoiding
erosion while dredging sediment. The dredging in Tuy An district is expected
to be finished within this year.
Diseases on wane in HCM City
The number of hand-foot-mouth diseases, however, increased
slightly during the period.
Despite a lower incidence of disease, the head of the centre
Nguyen Tri Dung said that people should continue to take preventive measures
as the hot weather promoted the spread of viruses.
Dung spoke at a monthly meeting between the municipal
Department of Health and districts' health divisions.
The city had a total of 496 dengue fever cases in April, a
drop of 35 per cent compared to March.
Chicken pox and mumps outbreaks did not occur at kindergartens
or primary schools, he added.
In April, the city recorded 631 cases of hand-foot-mouth
disease, an increase of 14 per cent compared to March. The peak season for
the disease is near, he said.
He urged parents to have their children vaccinated and ensure
adequate hygiene.
If they show symptoms of disease, the children should be taken
to the hospital for treatment and examination. And they should stay at home
to avoid transmitting the virus to other children, he said.
Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, deputy head of the city's Food Safety
and Hygiene Division, said the hot weather created favourable conditions for
harmful bacteria in food.
People should eat well-cooked food and boil tap water, she
said.
She has asked districts' preventive-health centres to conduct
inspections and take samples of food from school and factory canteens for
testing. Bottled water will also be tested for contamination as well.
Tornados cause serious damages in Nghe An
A series of tornadoes swept central Nghe An Province over the
past week, causing property damages of more than VND28bn.
Nguyen Sy Hung, deputy director of the provincial Department
of Agriculture and Rural Development, said several storms and heavy rain hit
seven districts -- Tuong Duong, Con Cuon, Tan Ky, Anh Son, Thanh Chuong, Que
Phong and Quy Hop from April 29 to May 4.
The stormed seriously damaged 14 houses, unroofed 894 others,
with water damage to household items.
Tornados damaged seven schools and several classrooms, and
destroyed some 325ha of rice and 894ha of other crops and vegetables.
Total damage was estimated at more than VND28bn.
Local authorities have helped local residents in the
aftermath, providing emergency funding to families hit with big losses.
Half of people living with HIV treated: Health Ministry
As per the figures of the Ministry of Health’s Vietnam
Administration of HIV/ AIDS Prevention and Control,
Therefore, the remaining patient in the society will be
untreated and become a source of spreading of the disease.
Meantime, Tieu Thi Thu Van, office manager of the committee
for HIV/AIDS prevention, said that the city is treating around 25,000 people
living with HIV/ AIDS.
Currently 31 medical centers which provide treatment with ARV
drug are overloaded with people living with HIV/AIDS. A maximum of patients
in each center is from 700-800 however some in districts Binh Thanh and Thu
Duc have registered of over 1,500 patients.
Local gov’ts support vocational trainees
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has ordered local governments
to support training fee for those who are studying at vocational training
centers.
In addition, the governments should provide meal and
transportation fee for those people who are people from families serving the
nation’s revolution, ethnic minority groups, disabled people, poor families ;
those who are from families whose agriculture land was reclaimed; and unemployed
female employees.
Related agencies should check the effectiveness of vocational
training and whether the trainees have jobs after the course.
In addition, agencies should guarantee the fairness between
private and state centers and there is no discrimination between them.
Training courses should be connected with trainees’ demand and reality.
Especially, trainees in countryside districts will just receive training
courses after they are employed and training will help increase their income.
People’s committees in provinces should be determined in
selecting training centers and they would be held accountable for the
effectiveness and result of vocational training.
High-capacity bikes should be allowed to use car lanes on
expressways: seminar
High-capacity motorcycles with a cylinder capacity of over 175
cubic centimeters (cc) should be allowed to run in lanes for cars or on
expressways, participants at a seminar said.
Both users of such motorbikes and officials at traffic
agencies shared the above view at a workshop held in
The event was jointly organized by the National Traffic Safety
Committee,
Pham Manh Luan, a member of the club, said exams for driver’s
licenses of category A1 (with cylinder volume from 50 cc to less than 175 cc)
and A2 (from 175 cc and over) are different, with examinees for an A2
driver’s license facing a more difficult examination than those for an A1
driver’s license.
However, when traveling on streets, both types of bikes have
to use the same lane with the same speed limits, Luan said, considering this
dangerous.
Another participant explained that high-capacity bikes cannot
travel at 30-40 km like bikes under 175 cc, but if they travel at higher
speeds, they will violate regulations on speed limits and face penalties.
“Is it advisable that high-capacity bikes be allowed to run in
the same lane as cars and even on expressways?” Luan said.
There have been many cases in which high-capacity bikes, while
driving along with those under 175 cc, have caused accidents after running at
higher speeds than allowed or encroaching on lanes for cars, said Major
Nguyen Trung Phong, deputy head of the municipal Traffic Police Department.
When it comes to high-capacity bikes, two issues to be
mentioned are their speed and which lanes are for them, said Nguyen Ngoc
Tuong, deputy head of the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee.
Such bikes usually run at high speed, so their drivers feel
uncomfortable when having to travel in the same lanes as those under 175 cc.
Sharing the same view with Tuong, Senior Lieutenant Colonel
Tran Huu Toan, deputy head of the Patrol and Control Division under the
Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department, said a number of
countries allow high-capacity bikes to use car lanes.
Khuat Viet Hung, deputy chairman of the National Traffic
Safety Committee, said he recorded this proposal and will raise it as a
proposed amendment to the Road Traffic Law at a meeting to review the
implementation of this law in the future.
According to the Vietnam Register, from 2004 to the end of
April 2015, 8,682 motorcycles over 175 cc were imported into the country.
Currently,
Dien Bien's largest power plant to generate electricity in May
Nam Muc hydroelectric power plant in Muong Cha district, Dien
Bien province, the largest of its kind in Dien Bien, will generate
electricity this May after the successful idle run of the first turbine.
The first turbine of the plant was successfully put into
no-load operation by Nam Muc Hydropower Company under the Bitexco Group on
May 6.
The power project has been in place since 2006 comprising two
turbines with a total capacity of 44MW which will generate 176.33 million KWh
of electricity each year.
After the idle run, the first turbine of Nam Muc plant will
join the national grid this May, contributing to improving the local economy
and the living standards of local people in Dien Bien.
The second turbine is scheduled to start an idle run and
generate electricity in June this year.
So far, construction work on the plant is nearly complete and
local residents who lost land for the project have received compensation.
Lao Cai: Hundreds evacuated from vulnerable areas
Authorities in the northern mountainous
The province is working to finalise a plan for preventing
calamities and implementing rescue measures, said Director of the provincial
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Deputy Head of the
provincial Steering Committee for Flood Prevention and Control Nguyen Anh
Tuan
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen
Thanh Duong said that district and commune level authorities need to map out
solutions to limit flood impacts.
Currently, relevant agencies in the locality are able to
mobilise 100 trucks, 30 coaches and 20 ambulances. Meanwhile, local
businesses have prepared 80 tonnes of un-husked rice and 600 tonnes of husked
rice and reserved 300 cubic metres of gasoline for emergency situations.
Lao Cai is one of the provinces hardest hit by natural
disasters during the rainy season. In 2008, a village in the province was
swept away by landslides.
This year,
Non-governmental organisations gather in HCM City
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO)
held a gathering for international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) on
May 7.
Chairman of the union Le Hung Quoc recognised the significant
contributions made by the INGOs and individuals to the city’s socio-economic
development, including poverty alleviation.
He thanked INGOs, diplomatic agencies and business
associations for supporting the local underprivileged both materially and
spiritually.
In 2014, the city received 40 million USD in aid from INGOs,
including cancer medicine treatment funded by the Switzerland Novartis Pharma
AG group for the municipal
More than 150 INGOs are operating in
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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