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Social News 20/6
Massive
fires extinguished in Ha Noi, Bac Giang
More
than 100 firefighters and 10 trucks in Ha Noi City were mobilised to
extinguish a huge blaze that broke out at a construction site on Friday.
The fire
broke out at 2am in a 3ha temporary tent site for construction workers in
Linh Dam residential area. Thousands of frightened people, who had been
sleeping, rushed into the open area to escape the fire.
The
blaze was extinguished after an hour, thanks to the efforts of the local
firefighters who arrived immediately on the scene.
A local
witness said the blaze spread fast through the iron sheet-roofed tent site
after an explosion that he had heard. The site had 200 tents, temporarily
built for workers who were building apartments in Hoang Mai District.
The fire
destroyed all the assets of the workers who had left their homeland to earn
money in the capital city.
Fortunately,
no casualties were reported.
Another
blaze broke out at the South Korea-invested DAWON Vina Ltd-Co., located in
Dinh Tram industrial zone in the northern
About
140 firefighters and 13 trucks were deployed to stamp out the huge fire.
The
The
blaze destroyed the company's 3,000sq.m painting workshop, and a considerable
amount of assets.
The
company specialises in manufacturing telephone covers and electronic
components.
The
causes of the two fires are being investigated.
Counterfeit
flooring material seized
More
than 6,000sq.m of counterfeit flooring material was seized yesterday in Ha
Noi.
The
Consultancy on Construction of Building Material Project Co., JSC, located in
Thanh Xuan District, was found having 6,076sq.m of flooring material that was
made in
Some
2,500 stamps were also found at the company.
The
flooring material was estimated to be worth about VND2 billion (US$93,000),
if it was sold under the fake stamps in the local market.
The
police are investigating the case.
Central
province receives rice aid
Two
thousand tonnes of rice were delivered to the residents of central
While
Bac Ai District received 411 tonnes, Thuan
The
provincial People's Committee has ordered local agencies and authorities to
quickly distribute the rice to residents in need of assistance. Cham
households in the province received the rice aid prior to their traditional
Ramuwan festival held in June.
Drug
Administration orders recall of three Kingphar products
Ha Noi's
market watch authority inspected several pharmacies in the city, following
the recall of some products made by Kingphar Viet Nam Company.
The
inspections came after the Drug Administration of Viet Nam, under the health
ministry, ordered the recall of three supplementary food products
manufactured by Kingphar Viet Nam Company, headquartered at B-58, Nguyen Thi
Dinh, Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh, Ha Noi.
Nine pharmacies
were found to be selling the banned products. In addition, several other
violations were detected, such as failure to record sales and employment of
unqualified staff.
Earlier
in May, market force team number three uncovered various food safety violations
during an inspection of Kingphar Viet Nam Company's headquarters. Samples
were sent to the drug administration's lab for testing. The administration
later ordered the company to recall their supplementary food products, True
Lady Kingphar, Kingphar Baby and Kingphar bone and joint treatment tablets.
The
city's market watch will continue to inspect pharmacies to check for the sale
of Kingphar products and conduct further investigations.
Auto
driving course to launch
An
automatic vehicle training programme is scheduled to start in September, as
the demand for learning how to drive only automatic cars increases.
The
Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam (DRVN) submitted a draft plan to the
Ministry of Transport that would revise a circular on driver training and
licences, according to DRVN Deputy Director Nguyen Van Quyen.
The plan
creates a training programme for those who want to learn on just automatic
vehicles. Those who want to learn manual or both automatic and manual should
enroll in pre-existing manual vehicle training courses. Automatic courses
will be shorter and cheaper than manual ones. Individual costs depend on the
school.
The
conversation about creating licences for just automatic cars started in May
in
Fund
wasting to be fined
State
agencies found wasting money from State budget funds, including welfare funds
or other types of funds financing public services, will be fined VND20
million to VND30 million (US$1,000 – 1,500).
This was
revealed in Government Decree 58 issued on Tuesday.
The
decree adds that if an agency spends more money than the set limit on
projects, fines can reach VND50 million – 60 million ($2,500 – 3,000).
Fines of
VND1 million to VND2 million (US$50-100) will also be issued for holding
workshops, receiving guests and organising overseas trips using more money
than the set limit.
The same
fines will apply to other wasteful acts, including wasteful use of
telephones, electricity, water and petrol.
Decree
58 comes as the Government is adopting belt-tightening measures because of
limited State budget money.
Earlier
this month, the Government decided to temporarily hold back 10 per cent of
the State budget allocations it was about to pour into the current accounts
of ministries and local governments for spending during the remaining months
of the year.
Phung
Quang Hai, director of the Finance Ministry's State Budget Department, said
if the state of the budget did not improve, the 10 per cent could be lost
permanently.
Foreign
vehicle management regulations modified
The
Government has issued Decree No. 157/2015/ND-CP to modify and supplement
articles of Decree No. 152/2013/ND-CP from November 4, 2013, which stipulates
the management of foreign motorised vehicles used in
Under
the new document three types of vehicles will be allowed to participate in
traffic activities in
The
Ministry of Transport will have three days to approve the use of foreign
vehicles in
Acceptance
documents will be sent to the Ministries of Culture, Sports and Tourism;
Foreign Affairs; Public Security; Defence; and Finance as well as the Border
Guard High Command and local authorities, aiming to serve effective
coordination among them in managing vehicles.
In the
event that submitted requests are not accepted, the Ministry of Transport
must release an explanatory response within three working days.
Quang
Ninh announces administrative reform index in 2014
A
conference announcing Quang Ninh’s administrative reform index in 2014 of all
departments and localities was held in the
The
province’s Industrial and Trade Department topped in the office and
department level with 82.9%, and the city of
Other
localities with indexes over 70% included Cam Pha, Uong Bi and Mong Cai
cities, Quang Yen and Dong Trieu towns and Tien Yen district.
Chairman
of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Long said Quang Ninh has
determined administrative reform to be a crucial element in the province’s
socio-economic development. A number of effective administrative reform
models were highly evaluated by the community, particularly the province’s
Public Administrative Centre.
The
chairman also requested departments and localities settle all administrative
procedures.
Departments
at all levels should improve their qualities and solutions to increase their
administrative reform index.
Vietnamese-American
held for allegedly buying sex from minor
Police
have detained a Vietnamese-American man who purportedly bought sex from a
15-year-old girl in a city in southern
Officers
in the southernmost city of
If
indicted, Luan will be jailed for up to 15 years as the heaviest penalty for
this offense.
Luan
settled down in the
Also
being held is a 39-year-old woman, Lam Thi Chau, who allegedly acted as a
broker for Luan to buy sex from the minor, named Thanh, according to news
website Dat Viet (
Chau is
the owner of a restaurant in Ward 9 of the city.
These
arrests were made after police received a report from Thanh’s mother, who
accused Chau of holding her daughter in the restaurant for prostitution and
demanding VND7 million (US$323) from the underage girl’s family as payment
for Thanh’s debt.
Chau had
forced Thanh to sell sex to many wealthy men, including Luan, investigators
said.
After
verifying the testimony from Thanh and several witnesses, investigators said
they have enough evidence to prove that Luan bought sex from Thanh twice and
paid VND500,000 (US$22.9) each time through Chau, Dat Viet reported
Police
are investigating the case further.
Foreign-funded
primary school opens in Thai Nguyen
Sponsored
by the
The
total cost for the school’s upgrades were VND2.5 billion (US$115,000), two
billion VND of which came from Lotte Vietnam, an affiliate of the RoK’s Lotte
Corporation, and the remaining from the local government.
The
construction of the school was carried out by Plan International since
September 2014, with two new rooms and four upgraded rooms as well as a
resting room for teachers.
The
school is able to accommodate students aged 3 to 11 years-old in four
hamlets: Khau Vieng, Na Lang, Na Tac and Ca Do, all in Lam Vy commune.
It will
welcome 85 children in the new academic year and is expected to house up to
300 within the next 10 years.
Police
searching for Russian suspected of ‘illegally holding property
Vietnamese
police are searching for a Russian woman who has disappeared after a bank
staffer in the southern city of
Police
in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on June 16 said they are hunting Anna
Studnitsyna, a 36-year-old Russian woman, who left her temporary residence in
Ward 3 of Vung Tau City, the former capital of the province, earlier this
year.
Studnitsyna
might have committed the act of “illegally holding property,” news website
VnExpress cited police as saying.
Studnitsyna
disappeared after she worked with police on a report by the Vung Tau branch
of DongA Joint Stock Commercial Bank (DongA Bank) saying that last year it
mistakenly gave her US$12,145, which is US$11,575 higher than the actual
amount of US$570 she was supposed to receive.
According
to investigators, Studnitsyna, who had opened a foreign currency account at
the bank, received two transfers of US$1,570 and US$570 from a Japan-based
company on December 9 and 15, 2014, respectively.
On
December 10, 2014, she arrived at the branch to withdraw US$1,570 from the
transferred amount, and a week later, she came again to get the remaining
US$570 (equivalent to VND12,145,000 at that time).
By
mistake, a bank staffer issued a payment voucher for US$12,145 to
Studnitsyna, which means she received US$11,575 more than the true amount.
On
January 12, the bank discovered the mistake and informed her of it, but she
did not agree to return the different amount to the bank, saying it was hers.
The
bank, therefore, reported the case to police.
In a
meeting later with investigators, Studnitsyna said the amount of US$12,145
was transferred to her by her partner in
However,
after verification, police found that no deal had been made between her and
her partner for such an amount, VnExpress reported.
After
that meeting, Studnitsyna left her residence in Vung Tau and did not continue
to work with investigators, despite police summons.
Meanwhile,
Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper quoted an investigator as saying on June
15 that Studnitsyna had recognized that the bank overpaid her, and promised
to return the amount to the lender, but she has yet to do so.
On
February 12, local police reported the case to the Russian Consulate General
in
Studnitsyna’s
acts show signs of ‘illegally holding property’ under Article 141 of the
Penal Code, VnExpress quoted an investigator as saying.
“If
Studnitsyna continues not to work with authorities to pay back the
above-mentioned different amount to the bank, she will be handled under the
law of
WSP
Finland honored for creative bridge design in Vietnam
WSP
Finland, a consulting firm that provides sustainable services in engineering,
consulting, surveys and design, has been recognized as the creative company
of the year 2015 in Finland-Vietnam relations.
The
embassy had chosen WSP Finland as the receiver of the award in recognition of
the company's creative and successful bridge design projects in different
parts of
Finnish
Ambassador Kimmo Lähdevirta presented the award certificate to WSP Finland
during a ceremony organized on June 18 in
Receiving
the certificate, WSP Finland’s managing director Kirsi Hautala and business
area director Pekka Pulkkinen, said, “It is a great honor for WSP Finland to
receive this award. We are especially pleased that we are recognized for our
achievements in
As part
of the global WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff group employing 31,000 staffers in
over 500 offices in 39 countries around the world, WSP Finland has been
involved in many different projects in
The
company has designed the Binh and Rao II Bridges in the northern city of
Currently,
WSP Finland is working on the Thu Thiem II Bridge in
Last
year WSP Finland’s turnover amounted to EUR29 million (US$33 million) while
that of WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff reached US$5.2 billion.
New
rural development in Khanh Hoa’s mountain region
Raglai
ethnic people make up 86% of the population of Ba Cum Bac, a mere farming
commune in Khanh Hoa province’s Khanh Son district. The commune is focusing
on improving local incomes and living conditions as a criteria of the
national new rural development program.
Ba Cum
Bac is a mountain commune with vast forests and farmland, ideal for planting
fruit trees and breeding cattle and fowls.
As part
of the implementation of the national new rural development program, Ba Cum
Bac has mobilized capital from various resources to upgrade the local
infrastructure and apply new economic models under the program’s criteria.
In 2013
and 2014, the commune was granted US$15,000 by the provincial authorities to
boost production by applying 16 new models of cultivation and husbandry.
Deputy
Chairman of Khanh Son district’s People’s Committee Mau Thai Cu said,
"We face both advantages and challenges implementing the national new
rural development program. The local people wholeheartedly support us by
contributing their land and labour to build new roads, schools, healthcare
centres, and cultural houses."
"However,
due to limited funds and local people’s knowledge, it has been not easy to
help them apply new production technologies. That’s why the district
authorities are focusing on improving local human resource training," he
added.
After 4
years implementing the program, Ba Cum Bac has mobilized funds worth more
than US$300,000 to upgrade the local infrastructure and opening vocational
training classes for local people to help them find jobs.
The
commune is also implementing other government projects on poverty reduction.
Nguyen Quang Ngoc, head of the Khanh Hoa provincial Committee for Ethnic
Minority Affairs, said the province has specific policies to support local
ethnic people.
"Khanh
Hoa province has designed a specific socio-economic development program until
2020 for the mountain region. Under this program, the local authorities have
cooperated with local Youth Union’s and Farmers’ Associations to improve
ethnic people’s knowledge and production knowhow, provide them with funding
to boost their production, ensure social security, and upgrade the local
infrastructure," Ngoc noted.
"We’ve
connected them to the national grid and provide each household with clean
water access. This program has contributed significantly to new rural
development," he stressed.
Ba Cum
Bac has completed 6 out of the program’s 19 criteria with encouraging
results.
A
programme on information technology system development was officially handed
over to the Office of the Lao Government in the country’s capital
With the
help from the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), the
programme provides training courses for information technology officials, IT
equipment and a specialised office email system.
Launched
in February, the US$83,000 programme aims to improve the Government Office’s
information technology system, with a particular focus on strengthening
security.
Addressing
the event, BIDV Chairman Tran Bac Ha said the bank wishs to contribute to
strengthening the solidarity between the two Governments, Parties and peoples
by implementing projects on IT development and application in
Minister
and Head of the Office of the Government of Laos Sonexy Suphandone praised
the bank’s great contributions as well as the Vietnamese Party, State and
Government’s support for
The
programme is expected to contribute to the development of human resources and
professional skills, and strengthen the special cooperative relationship
between the two sides.
Tuyen
Quang: 5,000 needy ethnic households offered land
The
northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang will allocate about 31.8 billion
VND (1.46 million USD) to provide over 5,000 needy ethnic minority households
with residential and production land.
The plan
will benefit impoverished ethnic minority people who lack land for farming
and housing, particularly those dislocated by the construction of the Tuyen
Quang hydropower plants.
Each
poor household will be granted 400sq.m of land and an additional 450sq.m of
farming land.
As part
of the plan, more than 24,450 hectares of land from local agricultural and
forestry companies are to be reclaimed while vocational training courses will
help the resettled households make new livelihoods and settle down in their
new living areas.
Tuyen
Quang is home to 5,092 disadvantaged ethnic minority households, including
831 lacking adequate land for housing and the remaining are short on farm
land.
Fatherland
Front launches e-newspaper
The
Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) launched the new online version of its Dai
Doan Ket (Great Unity) newspaper at www.daidoanket.vn on June 18.
The
e-newspaper is developed from the existing e-portal, adding two independent
news pages. The page VNTinnhanh will provide latest information for readers
while Kieubao, which will go into operation next month, will receive and post
opinions and recommendations of Vietnamese around the world on building the
country.
President
of the VFF Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said with pride that the Dai
Doan Ket newspaper, whose predecessor was the Cuu Quoc (National Salvation)
newspaper, was the first to publish the Declaration of Independence and the
first Constitution.
The
launching of the e-newspaper is an important step in bringing the voices of
the Party and State to the people and connecting the society with the VFF, he
stated.
The
online newspaper will also create a forum for Vietnamese people both at home
and abroad to contribute their ideas to the country’s nation-building and
safeguarding process, he added.-
Seminar
highlights 90-year history of Vietnam revolutionary press
A national
seminar reviewing the glorious tradition of the Vietnamese revolutionary
press took place in Hanoi on June 18 in celebration of its 90th founding
anniversary (June 21).
Opening
the event, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) Thuan Huu
recalled that on June 21, 1925, the late President Ho Chi Minh founded the
Thanh nien [Young People] newspaper, marking the birth of the Vietnam
revolutionary press which has since grown in stature under the leadership of
the Party.
The
Vietnam revolutionary press holds fast to the ideals of the Party and
performs its function as the mouthpiece of the Party and State as well as a
forum of the people, he said, adding that it offers a huge volume of daily
and up-to-date news to the public in print, audio, television and electronic
forms.
He
lauded the immense contributions made by the Vietnam revolutionary press to
the national liberation and development, including the brave sacrifices of
journalists on the battlefield during the war, which he said, has built a
pride-worthy history of the sector.
Minister
of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son pointed to flaws in need of
further attention, including loose management that leads to untruthful and
biased news to be published, inadequate awareness of political ideology and
cases of professional ethics violations.
Veteran
journalist Phan Quang welcomed a plan to reshuffle the press sector in a way
that improves its quality and sustainable development.
In his
view, it must be done in tandem with improving professional skills, social
responsibility and ethics of each journalist.
Editor-in-chief
of Tap Chi Cong San (Communist Review) Vu Van Phuc, for his part, said honing
professional ethics depends on each individual’s awareness.
Veteran
journalist Ha Dang underlined that raising political will and professional
ethics is never outdated.
Binh
Dinh province reinforces its irrigation system
The
central coastal province of Binh Dinh is setting aside over 39 billion VND
(1.8 million USD) to reinforce more than 96km of its irrigation system.
The
investment is intended to prevent drought and modernise rural areas,
according to Director of the provincial irrigation exploitation and
management company, Nguyen Van Phu.
It also
aims to provide more water for 10,000ha of crops in the province.
Communes
that fulfilled the criteria for new-style rural areas in 2011-2015 will
receive support in order to build nearly 39.7km of canals, thus providing
irrigation for more than 2,600ha of crops.
In the
2015-2020 period, those expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas
will receive assistance for the construction of 87km of canals, benefitting
over 4,900ha of plants.
From
2020 onwards, authorities will help the remaining communes build more than
65km of canals and provide water for over 2,750ha of crop.-
Hanoi,
Tokyo trade unions enhance cooperation
A
seminar on sharing experiences in planning and implementing trade union
activities was jointly organised by the Hanoi Confederation of Labour (HCL)
and the Tokyo Trade Union Council in Hanoi on June 17.
HCL
President Nguyen Thi Tuyen briefed the 13 guests from the Japanese capital on
the achievements HCL has made in terms of improving the physical and mental
wellbeing of workers.
For his
part, Motoaki Takabatake, the head of the Japanese delegation, expressed his
hope that the two cities and nations continue fostering trade union
cooperation in the future.-
Public
asked to submit administrative reform initiatives
A
nationwide competition on reform initiatives for administrative procedures
and electronic transactions in the field of social, health and unemployment
insurance was launched in Hanoi on June 18.
Initiatives
should maximise time and cost savings in filing and processing e-payments for
social, health and unemployment insurance or amend the existing regulations
on administrative reform.
In order
to garner wide-spread participation in the competition, the media was asked
to promote it strategically and honour outstanding individuals along the way.
During
his speech at the launch ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc,
who is the Head of the Government Steering Committee for Administrative
Reform, praised Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI) for its keen determination to
support the administrative reform process, which will have a significant
impact on workers and businesses.
The
Deputy PM praised the sector for shortening formal procedures by 100 hours
and cutting procedures from 263 to 115.
In
preparation of the upcoming integration into ASEAN, the VSI has reduced the time
it takes to process social insurance payments to 49.5 hours, which is on par
with the ASEAN-6 average and marks a step towards the ASEAN-4 average level.
E-transactions are expected to replace manual transactions in 90 percent of
organisations and businesses nationwide, he added.
The
Deputy PM called upon the VSI to collect feedback from the public and closely
cooperate with the Ministries of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs; Health;
Defence; and Public Security, as well as the Bureau of Administrative
Procedure Control.
He also
demanded that VSI work harder to remove red tape within the sector.
The
award ceremony for the competition is slated for December 2015.
All
entries should be submitted electronically to thicaicachTTHC-BHXH@vss.gov.vn
or posted to VSI headquarters at 7 Trang Thi street, Hanoi.
Further
information can be found at www.baohiemxahoi.gov.vn.
Phuoc
Khanh bridge to link southern region
A
contract for the Phuoc Khanh Cable Stayed Bridge was signed on June 17,
allowing work on the 3.1km bridge to start in August.
The
contract was signed by the Vietnam Expressway Corporation and a consortium
made up of Japanese contractor Sumitomo Mitsui and local partner Civil
Engineering Construction Corporation (Cienco 4).
The
Phuoc Khanh Cable Stayed Bridge will be 21.7m wide with four lanes, and allow
vehicles to travel at 80kph after the first phase is complete, and 100kph
once the project is finished.
The
project has investment capital of 162.3 million USD and crosses over Long Tau
River, connecting Ho Chi Minh City's Can Gio district with Dong Nai
province's Nhon Trach district.
The
bridge is part of the Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway project, which has a
total length of 57.1km running through Long An province, HCM City and Dong
Nai province.
The
first phase of the project will require 31.3 trillion VND (roughly 1.6
billion USD), including 636 million USD funded by the Asia Development Bank,
635 USD from the Japanese Government via the Japanese International Cooperation
Agency and 337 USD million from the Vietnamese Government.
The
entire project is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
According
to the Ministry of Transport, the Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway project would
play an important role in economic and social development in the South of
Vietnam.
Upon its
completion, the highway will help connect the south-western region with the
southeastern region without going through HCM City.
It will
also connect the seaports at Cai Mep-Thi Vai and Hiep Phuoc with the planned
Long Thanh International Airport, and shorten travel times from Long An to
Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
HCM
City needs 140,000 workers for last two quarters
Enterprises
in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest economic hub in southern Vietnam, will have
140,000 job vacancies in the last two quarters of the year, according to the
municipal Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information
(FALMI).
It said
that of the total, 30,000 labourers will be recruited for temporary
positions, adding that number of job seekers is forecast to shoot up 10
percent from the first six months of the year.
FALMI
Vice Director Tran Anh Tuan underscored that there will be a sharp rise in
enterprise demands for high-quality labourers and senior managers, though the
number of recruited labourers will be limited.
He said
most of the vacancies will be in engineering, electronics, information
technology (IT), food processing, chemistry, and services, among others.
In the
first two quarters of this year, recruiting demands among municipal
businesses grew 7.4 percent from the same period last year. Demand for
experienced and professionally skilled candidates has risen in the city’s job
market.
From
January to June, job demands among workers rose 8.1 percent compared to the
same period last year, mostly in business, services, garments-leather,
medical and pharmaceuticals-healthcare, administration,
engineering-automation and architecture- construction techniques.
The city
is set to foster links between enterprises and vocational training schools to
meet the increasing demands of the labour market, Tuan said, highlighting
that vocational training schools should develop a high-quality workforce and
ensure standards on professional capacity, soft skills, computing, and foreign
languages.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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