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Social News 10/6
Woman
with muscle disease donates body to science
Nguyen
Thi Tuy, a native of Ha Nam Province's Phu Ly City, has asked friends to
complete paperwork at Ha Noi Medicine University to allow her to donate her
body to a hospital after she dies.
In an
interview with Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper, Tuy said that she has no living
relatives.
"All
parts of my body, except my legs, are sound. I have never had any disease.
This is also a way to save money (on funeral expenses)," she said.
She
hopes that her body or organs can be used to save the life of someone in
need.
Tuy, who
is in her 60s, said she had once dreamt of becoming a petroleum engineer, but
she later gave up that ambition. Her mother wanted her to remain single and
take care of her sister, who had myasthenia gravis, which severely weakens
muscles.
When Tuy
was 18 years old, she was diagnosed with the same disease, which became
progressively worse. In the last 25 years, she has rarely ventured out of her
home.
Railway
traffic hit after train slams into trailer
A train
slammed into a container trailer at a level crossing in the southern
No
casualty was reported.
The
accident brought traffic on the national North-South railway artery to a halt
for several hours.
At 7pm
yesterday, a container trailer, departing from the Ho Nai industrial park in
The trailer
was thrown 20m away from the incident site.
According
to some witnesses that Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper interviewed, the trailer
ignored the railway warning alarm at the level crossing and the loud horns of
the approaching train, which was coded SE5.
The
railway blockage was not cleared until 10.30pm the same day.
The
train was tugged back to Long Khanh train station, which is 40km away from
the accident site, for repairs.
Authorities
concerned are investigating the incident.
Probe
ordered into South Korean company's closure
The
northern
On June
1, GMIE Co., Ltd, a wholly South Korean company that has manufactured mobile
phone covers for Samsung in the Que Vo Industrial Park in the province since
2012, suddenly suspended work on all its production lines and informed its
employees that they would be laid off indefinitely.
The
sudden closure has caused the company's workers to worry about their jobs and
rights.
Ha
Tinh copes with water shortage and salt water intrusion
Farmers
in Ha Tinh province could not complete planting the summer- autumn rice crop
because of uninterrupted drought, water shortage for irrigation and salt
water intrusion, reported Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of
Ha Tinh province.
At
present, most of water reservoirs, dams and streams in Ha Tinh reel under
serious salt water intrusion, causing lacking of fresh water for vast areas
under the summer- autumn rice cultivation.
Moreover,
not only canal and stream systems in Ha Tinh province’s Can Loc, Thach Ha,
Nghi Xuan and Loc Ha district but also 24, 000 hectares of rice cultivation
crops in Ha Tinh’s northern areas faced with serious water shortage and salt
water intrusion.
As
schedule, 41, 000- 43, 000 hectares have been planted for the summer- autumn
harvest by June 10; however, up to now, only 20 percents of the targeted area
has been seeded.
Huong
Khe mountain district is considered as being most affected by long term
severe heat waves with it’s highest daily temperature at 39- 41 degrees
Celsius within previous months.
Department
of Agriculture and Rural Development of Huong Khe District reported that only
1,738 hectares of areas under rice cultivation have enough water sources for
irrigation.
Dealing
with bad weather condition, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
of Ha Tinh province mobilized all functional forces to implement measures to
prevent drought, drill wells and install more pumping stations to provide
water for irrigation.
Border
province to review Lao immigrants
Central
province Quang
The
joint-agency will review the immigrants in the province before reaching a
solution to their problem.
The
joint-agency team includes representatives of the province's police, border
guard, Department of Justice, Department of Foreign Affairs, Committee of
Ethnic Minorities, and authority of Nam Giang District.
From now
until the end of this month (June), the team will conduct a survey of Lao
immigrants, including those who are married to Vietnamese citizens without
marriage certificates, in the three communes of Nam Giang District, namely
Dac Pre, Dac Pring, and Dac Toi.
They
will organise meetings with locals in these communes and record their
accounts.
Nguyen
Duc Tho, director of the province's Department of Justice, said only after
the review will it become clear who will be allowed to stay in
The
province has committed itself to providing meals, medicines, and transport to
those who will be repatriated.
It has
been estimated that
The
joint-agency team will also work with the authorities of
Good
locations should remain with the State
The
performance of former State enterprises post-equitisation and how HCM
City-based firms are preparing to equitise was discussed at a meeting on
Monday between the city leader and officials from related departments and
State-owned enterprises.
People's
Committee chairman Le Hoang Quan also focused attention on workers' rights.
Last
year 11 State firms were equitised. They had a total of 11,500 workers of
whom only 80 quit after equitisation.
"After
equitisation, all enterprises have achieved around 10 per cent growth,
meeting the city's minimum requirement," Le Ngoc Thuy Trang, head of the
Department of Finance's enterprises finance sub-department, was quoted as
saying by Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper.
She said
all recently equitised companies should list on the stock exchange as
required by the Government.
Quan
ordered related authorities and agencies to continue supporting the
enterprises equitised last year.
"Equitised
enterprises must ensure three things: a restructuring mechanism to achieve
higher economic efficiency, increasing labour productivity, and adopting
business strategies to dovetail with the city's four key industries," he
said.
The
industries he referred to are engineering, electronics, pharmaceutical
chemicals, and food processing.
He
warned that since many State firms are located in prime spots, local
authorities should avoid private investors interested only on land.
He cited
the example of Dam Sen Park, saying if it is equitised and private investors
buy a major portion, the park might soon be sold off as land.
"Therefore,
city authorities have not approved the equitisation plan of Dam Sen Park
because we have to consider the State's holding.
They
focused on how to ensure companies pursue their core business after equitisation,
he said.
Truong
Van Lam, director of the city Department of Home Affairs, said,
"Enterprises must choose as strategic partners, those who are able to
develop their core business rather than focus on land.
"State
must own dominant shares in enterprises that have good locations."
Quan
said, "Equitisation aims to help enterprises develop sustainably, and we
are not allowed to let equitisation become privatisation."
He
ordered the Department of Planning and Investment to review all restructure
plans to ensure they fit in with the city's development plans.
"Related
authorities must review all good locations and submit proper plans to retain
these enterprises."
He also
ordered the setting up of a task force to help enterprises equitise as
planned.
Quang
Tri still losing its sand
Illegal
sand mining still takes place along the Se Pon River in
A report
compiled by the provincial Border Guard Command has said that nine illegal
sand mining spots have been located along the river.
The
report has estimated that some 100 cubic metres are illegally exploited daily
and illegal sand miners row wooden boats to the centre of the river to scoop
out sand. The sand is then loaded on trucks for distribution.
Ho Van
Tun of Ka Tup Village said that illegal sand mining and transportation often
take place at night, causing much disturbance to local people.
"We
hope authorities concerned will take some action to bring the situation under
control soon," he added.
Vice
chairman of the People's Committee Nguyen Huu Dung said that sand mining has
been taking place for a long time.
At
first, only several local people took sand from the river for building their
houses. Later, the number of people illegally exploiting the river for sand
started rising, he pointed out, adding that they started exploiting sand for
other purposes as well.
Dung
remarked that the committee could only urge local people to obey regulations
and not illegally mine sand from the river, he added.
As the
river is a natural border between
In the
latest move, the provincial People's Committee early this month sent a legal
document to ask the People's Committee of Huong Hoa District to work with
relevant agencies to deal with violations and curb the illegal practice.
Under
Decree No 34/2014ND-CP issued by the Government, sand mining in rivers is one
of practices to be banned because it affects the flow of rivers.
The Se
Pon River, located in Huong Hoa District of Viet Nam and Savannakhet of Laos,
is believed to be the arterial waterway between the two countries for
transporting and trading goods.
Ha
Tinh crops face salty threat
Thousands
of hectares of crops in the northern part of Ha Tinh Province are facing
severe water shortages after the concentration of saltwater in the
Head of
the province's Irrigation Division, Ngo Duc Hoi, said that the Trung Luong
Water Inlet Sluice had been closed to prevent salt water from entering the
fields.
This has
led to the shutdown of 190 pumping stations that took water from the river to
the fields.
He said
that the sluice was opened only when the saltwater concentration was not too
high.
Director
of North Ha Tinh Irrigation Company, Tran Quoc Hung, said that 24,000ha of
rice in the northern part of the province, including
Saltwater
intrusion and low water levels in rivers, streams and reservoirs threatened
farming productivity, so the Linh Cam Pumping Station was working at full
capacity.
There
are 345 reservoirs and 57 barrages that provide water for over 110,000ha of
farmland in the province, but most of them are dry because of the prolonged
drought.
In Huong
Khe District alone, farmers only have enough water to irrigate half of their
crops, so many have switched to other crops.
Huong
Khe District has been the hottest area in Ha Tinh Province, with temperatures
up to 41 degrees Celsius and no rain for the last two months.
Last
week, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Le Dinh Son asked local
authorities and agencies to concentrate on fighting the drought with local
farmers.
He said
that State officers would be disciplined if they did not deal with the
problem.
First
grads complete IC course
Fifteen
engineers graduated yesterday from the first analogue integrated circuit
design course at the Viet Nam National University-HCM City's Integrated
Circuit Design Research and Education Centre in
Their
10-month programme, approved by the city People's Committee in 2012, was the
first under the city's 2013 – 2020 Semi-conductor Industry Development
Programme.
The hard
IP cord of the 24-bit Delta-Sigma Modulator (DSM) was the first product
designed by the trainees, and the analogue chip has been sent abroad for
manufacturing, according to the programme steering board.
At the
graduation ceremony, ICDREC signed with
Ngo
Quang Vinh, deputy director of ICDREC, said: "CM Engineering has placed
an order with ICDREC after studying the capacity of the centre's human
resource. The order shows the effectiveness of the centre's training
programme and its design centre.
The
city's semi-conductor industry development programme, which was entrusted to
ICDREC, comprises of seven components: training of human resources;
incubating IC businesses; developing the semi-conductor market; design and
production of semi-conductors on a trial basis; advertising and launch in the
market; building and running a design centre; and setting up a chip
manufacturing plant.
ICDREC
said products that have been commercialised based on Vietnamese technology
included SG-8V1 and KIT DE-8V1 chips, container electric locks, itinerary
surveillance devices, electronic meters, DCM (data collection modems), and
RFID (radio frequency identification) management systems.
The
centre said over 20 billion chips were consumed in
Toyota
fund supports urban transport in Danang
The
Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) has pledged to provide assistance worth
nearly US$2.87 million for the central city of Danang to develop a
sustainable urban transport system.
The
pilot project is expected to be implemented within three years from July
2015, focusing on three main components: developing a bus transport system in
the city’s inner areas, building public parking facilities and introducing
shuttle bus services on short routes connecting residential areas and popular
public sites.
After
conducting survey in a number of Asian cities, the TMF selected Danang – a
medium-sized and rapidly growing city – to carry out the pilot project
supporting
The TMF
was established in August 2014 by
To date,
it has provided up to 4.5 billion JPY (US$36.15 million) for programmes
designed to eliminate barriers to mobility, making sound contributions to the
development of automobile industries.
Thailand
arrests Japanese in labor fraud against 46 Vietnamese
Police
in
A police
source said they arrested the man, only identified as Nakatsu, on June 4 when
he was entering
Investigation
so far found the Vietnamese job seekers had paid his company US$4,500 each
late last year.
They
were promised jobs at a
The
workers are from rural areas in northern
Most did
not know what their jobs would be as the company promised to train them first
before assigning them a job.
Some men
ended up dissembling used electronics to collect plastic and metal parts for
recycling.
The
first workers who arrived in
But
after a while, all of the workers were no longer paid, and soon later their
bosses disappeared.
They
filed a lawsuit in
Hoang
Van Dat, one of the Vietnamese workers, said Nakatsu directly collected their
payment, managed them, trained them and rented houses for them in
He said
the other “bosses” are Sato Hiroaki, believed to be the company’s director,
and another one only identified as Suzuki.
The
Vietnamese embassy in
Vietnamese
deputy labor minister said earlier this year that the countries are still
discussing before possibly signing an agreement this year for
Figures
from
Various
activities to mark world blood donor day
A
variety of activities will be held to celebrate World Blood Donor Day on June
14, according to the National Steering Committee for voluntary blood
donation, including honouring.
In
Hanoi, activities will include honouring 100 outstanding donors and holding
discussions from June 12-14.
World
Blood Donor Day is also an occasion to remember Austrian-American Karl
Lansteiner, who discovered blood groups and made blood transfusions possible.
In the
northern province of Phu Tho, programmes “The meeting of kind hearts” and
“Vietnam’s kind hearts return to the cradle of the nation” will be held in
Viet Tri city on June 12 and 13, respectively.
Vietnam
has organised the event annually since 2007.-
Ca
Mau focuses on traffic system development
The
southernmost province of Ca Mau has designed a plan for developing its road
system through 2020, according to the provincial Department of Planning and
Investment.
The
locality aims to complete a section of the Ho Chi Minh Road between Nam Can
and Dat Mui districts, and the Hoa Trung Bridge connecting Ca Mau downtown
and Dam Doi district within this year.
Other
approved key projects are the second phase of the southern coastal corridor
and the upgrades of National Road No. 63 connecting Ca Mau city with the
Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.
The
project to build the 150-kilometre Can Tho-Ca Mau highway is planned to be
carried out between 2020 and 2030.
In the
past five years, Ca Mau invested 15,000 billion VND (701 million USD) in
infrastructure development.
It has
also mobilised different resources for the work.
Hanoi
looks towards building smart city
Hanoi is
paying heed to modernising the administrative system, building technical
infrastructure and applying information technology in State-run management
agencies to create a basic foundation for the establishment of an
e-government system and smart city in the future.
Over the
past four years, the city has instituted a number of measures to reform the
administrative system such as piloting e-offices in Long Bien, Tay Ho, Tu
Liem, Thach That and Chuong My districts and implementing the one-stop-shop
model at several State businesses providing public services, as heard at a
conference in Hanoi on June 9.
Local
authorities have also enacted a number of initiatives in the field such as
setting up a group at the municipal Department of Planning and Architecture to
receive information and support businesses to handle administrative
formalities; issuing criminal records by mail; granting ID cards at
residents’ houses; and receiving applications for passports via internet.
The city
has also focused on improving the institutional system by issuing legal
documents relevant to the public interest such as changing school times and
office hours.
Vice
Secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal
People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao admitted some shortcomings, such as slow
investment attraction, poor management software, ineffective online
administrative procedure processing and loose coordination between relevant
departments and sectors.
As such,
administrative and institutional reforms remain the major task of the city to
improve administrative and public services and personnel quality, he said.
Workshop
on deforestation emissions reduction reviewed
The
implementation of the second phase of the United Nation’s Programme on
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) in
Vietnam is being reviewed at a workshop in the central province of Binh Thuan
from June 8-10.
Carried
out in six localities - the northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai and Bac
Can, the Central Highlands of Lam Dong, the central provinces of Ha Tinh and
Binh Thuan and the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau - from 2013-2015, the
project aims to mitigate climate change through reducing net greenhouse gas
emissions via enhanced forest management .
During
the event, participants involved in the project and members of the
programme’s coordination board in the localities shared their experience in
building local-level programmes.
Solutions
and interventions to ensure long-term sustainability of local-level programmes
were discussed and difficulties in developing action plans for the localities
were pointed out.
As many
as 30 local-level programmes have been designed during the phase, including
two village-level plans, four commune-level, ten for forest management boards
and seven others made by forestry companies.
Participants
suggested the intensification of communication campaigns to raise public
awareness of the Party and State’s forest-related policies and the
significance of forest protection and sustainable development.
They
also underlined the need to develop agro-forestry-aquaculture production
models and increase credit support for local residents to improve their
incomes.
UN-REDD
was officially launched in 2008 and builds on the convening role and
technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO),
the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
By the
end of June, 2014, the programme had provided total financial assistance up
to 195 million USD for 56 developing countries.
Quang
Nam focuses on addressing illegal migration from Laos
The
central province of Quang Nam is looking to address irregular migration and
unregistered marriages along its border with the Lao province of Se Kong.
The
provincial People’s Committee established a working group including police,
border guards and officials from the Department of Justice, the Department of
External Affairs and the Board for Ethnic Affairs in charge of verifying
illegal migration and marriage cases.
Through
the end of June, it will organise meetings with locals to disseminate
policies and laws of Vietnam and Laos involving migration and marriage.
Head of
the Justice Department Nguyen Duc Tho said the most important thing is to
verify illegal Lao migrants or those illegitimately married and decide
whether they are allowed to reside in the locality or if they need to be
repatriated.
The
People’s Committee will provide financial assistance for those who are
repatriated to Laos.
It also
pledged to offer dwellings, cultivated land and vocational trainings for
Vietnamese ethnic minorities who are repatriated from Laos.
According
to initial data, more than 170 Lao households with around 500 persons have
migrated to Quang Nam without permission and around 50 marriages between
Vietnamese and Lao people were not registered.
Toyota
fund supports urban transport in Da Nang
The
Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) has pledged to provide assistance worth
nearly 2.87 million USD for the central city of Da Nang to develop a
sustainable urban transport system.
The
pilot project is expected to be implemented within three years from July
2015, focusing on three main components: developing a bus transport system in
the city’s inner areas, building public parking facilities and introducing
shuttle bus services on short routes connecting residential areas and popular
public sites.
After
conducting survey in a number of Asian cities, the TMF selected Da Nang – a
medium-sized and rapidly growing city – to carry out the pilot project
supporting Vietnam’s transport. The city is also an entrance to the East-West
Economic Corridor which links Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.
The TMF
was established in August 2014 by Japan’s car maker Toyota to assist
non-profit organisations and research institutions to develop a more mobile
society.
To date,
it has provided up to 4.5 billion JPY (36.15 million USD) for programmes
designed to eliminate barriers to mobility, making sound contributions to the
development of automobile industries.
International Day of VESAK celebrated in US
Ambassador
Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations
(UN) highlighted noble teachings and universal message of love for mankind,
of living together in peace, harmony, non-violence and tolerance of Lord
Buddha at the recent celebration of International Day of VESAK in New York.
“After
more than two and a half millennia, today these teachings and principles
remain all the more relevant and of great significance, she stressed,
describing them as the foundation for harmonious relations between peoples
and nations, for diversity and tolerance which are essential to the continued
advancement of the international community, especially in face of multiple
and complex threats and challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate
change, economic crises, violent extremism and armed conflicts in many parts
of the world.
Buddhism
was first introduced into Vietnam more than 2000 years ago, and it has integrated
into the Vietnamese society and had immense influence on our culture, ideal,
morality, and customs, Nga said.
Buddhism
co-exists in harmony and thrives together with many other religions in
Vietnam thanks to the Vietnamese State's guarantee of freedom of religions
and beliefs, she added
Vietnamese
Buddhists proactively participate in many international fora, dialogues among
religions and faiths and exchange views on religious beliefs, she affirmed.
Last
year, Vietnam successfully hosted the 11th Anniversary Celebration and
International Buddhist Conference of the UN Day of VESAK.
This
year’s International Day of VESAK (Buddha’s Birth, Enlightenment and Passing
Away) in New York saw the participation of ambassadors, representatives from
the UN’s member nations along with over 300 Buddhist monks and nuns
worldwide.
As an
annual event hosted by the UN since 1999, the celebration aims to honour
great contributions of the Buddhism -one of the oldest religions in the
world- to the spiritual life of the people as well as to the international
community’s joint efforts to promote peace, cooperation and development.
Vietnam
joins forces to promote tourism in RoK
A
contingent of representatives from the Vietnam municipalities of Danang,
ThuaThien-Hue and Quang Nam are introducing their tourism potential on June
5-14 in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
During
their visit, they participated in a three-day annual trade and consumer expo
in Seoul organized by Hana Tour, the largest tour company in the RoK that was
attended by approximately 75,000 international visitors.
In
collaboration with Vietnam Airlines, they will next join the 30th Korea World
Travel Fair (KOTFA) taking place June 11-14 at the COEX Convention &
Exhibition Centre in Seoul.
The fair
is expected to attract more than 400 travel agents from over 60 countries
around the globe.
The
group will also hold seminars featuring central Vietnam’s tourism
potential in Seoul (June 10) and Busan (June 12).
Around
8.5 million people’s opinions contributed to draft Civil Code
Around
8.5 million people’s opinions have been collected for the draft Civil Code as
of May 15, 2015 as reported through 100 surveys conducted by ministries,
sectors, centrally-run cities and provinces nationwide.
The
figure was announced at a report summarizing the result of collecting public
opinions on the draft code, read by Ministry of Justice Ha Hung Cuong at the
ongoing 13th National Assembly (NA)'s ninth session on June 9.
The
feedback and recommendations were contributed by those working in State
agencies, local organisations, social organisations, research institutes and
education facilities.
A
majority of the interviewees agreed that the draft code fully and
comprehensively institutionalised the Party’s viewpoints and guidelines,
which were defined in the socio-economic development strategy, platform for
national construction during the transitional period towards socialism, the
strategy on building and perfecting the legal system, and the judicial reform
strategy.
The
draft code is seen as an aid to concretise the 2013 Constitution’s contents
on human rights, civil rights, as well as the basic principles of the
socialist-oriented market economy in line with international treaties to
which Vietnam is a member.
As the
draft code has worked out reasonable orientations to improve shortcomings and
limitations of the 2005 Civic Code, it is also highly appreciated for its
predictability, long-term stability and accessibility.
In its
report verifying the draft code, the NA Law Committee stressed that as the
Civil Code plays a crucial role in Vietnam’s legal system, the amendment of
each article directly impacts social relations. Therefore, the amendment,
supplement and removal of any article requires serious consideration,
comprehensive research, and careful evaluation, as well as clear and
convincing explanations to the changes.
Also
this morning, NA deputies passed a draft resolution on the law and ordinance
development programme for 2016, amendments to the law and ordinance building
programme for the legislature’s 13th tenure and the law and ordinance
building programme for 2015.
They
also listened to a plan for a schedule of supervisory activities of the NA in
2016.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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