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Social News 19/8
Pleiku
airport to reopen next month
Pleiku
airport in the Central Highlands
Airports
Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) said the upgrade project could be completed in
late August.
The
runway and taxiway have been lengthened and the parking area for aircraft has
been constructed. The airport’s terminal has been expanded while the conveyor
system, check-in counters, fire protection system and surveillance cameras
are being installed.
When
in place, the airport’s runway can handle bigger aircraft such as Airbus A320
and A321, Boeing 737 and those of the same capacity. The revamped terminal
will be able to serve 600 passengers in peak hours, four times higher than
the old capacity.
In
addition to Pleiku airport, ACV looks set to complete the upgrade of Phu Cat
airport in
ACV
will also invest in a modern lighting system to allow the airport to handle
flights at night.
Scheduled
to be in operation ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) in 2016, the new
terminal at the airport is designed to accommodate 2.4 million passengers a
year, up from the current 1.5 million.
RoK
volunteers join charitable activities in Quang Tri
RoK
volunteers do charitable activities in Quang Tri in 2014 (Source: vvc.vn)
Nearly
30 volunteers from the
The
volunteers trained parents of disabled children how to prevent ulcers and
improve dental care while repainting walls and repairing equipment at a
rehabilitation centre for the disabled in the district.
They
also organised exchange activities for children with disabilities and their
parents in Cua Viet beach, and presented them with essential commodities like
detergent, soaps, shampoos and cooking utensils.
Manager
at the rehab centre Ta Thi Tri hailed the programme as a move to bring about
happiness and hope to the children.
Quang
Tri is one of the localities most heavily affected by the war. The province
is home to more than 37,000 disabled people, accounting for 6.2 percent of
its population. Most of the families with disabled members are living in
difficult conditions.-
All
schools to hold school-year opening ceremony on September 5
All
schools across the country will hold the opening ceremony for the 2015-2016
school year on the morning on September 5, according to a document issued by
the Education and Training Ministry.
Document
No. 4192/BGDDT-VP signed by Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van
Ga on August 18 gives instructions on the school-year opening ceremony to
Education and Training Departments nationwide.
Accordingly,
the activities of the ceremony should focus on welcoming first-year students,
saluting the national flag, singing the national anthem, and reading the
President’s letter alongside art performance and sport activities to ensure
the opening day is a festival for students.-
Infant
stabbed in skull in stable condition
An
infant who was stabbed in the skull with a knife has now recovered, exceeding
expectation of the doctors and nurses, said the Paediatrics Hospital No 1 in
Doctor
Pham Thi Thanh Tam, head of the hospital's neo-natal intensive care ward,
said bleeding from the brain and infection, about which the doctors were
worried the most, did not happen.
The
incision was dry and the infant's movement of eyes, arms and legs was normal,
she said.
The
doctors have now decreased the antibiotics being administered to the infant,
from three kinds to two kinds.
The
boy has not used respirator and is being breast fed.
At
6.45am last Saturday, the child was brought to the hospital's emergency ward
from the Mekong Delta
He had
an 11cm knife embedded in the left eye socket though it had
"miraculously" missed the eye itself.
At
10.30am on the same day, a team of 30 doctors performed a three-hour
operation to open the skull to remove the knife. The team was led by Dao
Trung Hieu, deputy director of the hospital.
The
baby is the son of Vo Thi Hong Duyen, 32, in Vung Liem District of Vinh Long
Province. He had been taken to the local hospital for pneumonia treatment
before he was stabbed by a woman.
Quang
Tri discovers illegal deforestation
Authorities
detected this morning illegal deforestation to the tune of 15 cubic metres of
quy trin (cylinder) wood along the border of
Thirty-five
boxes of wood, mainly xoan rừng (Pygeum arboreum Endl) and bời lời (Medang
Litsea vang H.Lee) and a self-made whim were seized from the hill top of
Chênh Vênh hamlet, Hướng Phùng commune, according to Lao Động (Labour)
newspaper.
A
four-kilometre route, five kilometres away from the residential area, that
had been opened by the loggers to transport the illegally felled wood, was
also discovered.
The
entire incident came to light when the trucks of the authorities, while
moving wood out of the forest, encountered a number of sharp nails on the
way.
"We
discovered 15 pieces of wood and a lot of nails scattered on the road,
suspected to have been placed by illegal loggers," said Lê Văn Quốc from
the district's forest guard station.
The
miscreants' intention was to puncture the tyres of any cars trying to reach
deep into the forest and prevent the guards from moving the wood out of the
forest after the seizure.
This
was not the first time that nail traps had been set to deter the force.
The
confiscated wood is being kept at the district's forest guard station for
further examination.
Dengue
fever claims two lives in Binh Duong
Two of
the dengue fever patients in the southern
According
to the centre, there have been more than 1,100 dengue fever cases in the
southern
In
The
second dengue death was in Di An Town's Dong Hoa District.
The
families of the two dead patients refused to supply detailed information
about them, but the provincial health department said the victims had been
hospitalised late in a serious condition, with symptoms of high temperature,
headache, stomach ache and extremely low blood pressure, besides decreased
glomerule and bleeding in the digestive system.
Most
of the patients lived in boarding houses in industrial zones such as Di An
Town and Thuan An District.
Quach
Hoang My, head of the epidemic ward under the Binh Duong Preventive Medicine
Centre, said low awareness about environmental hygiene among local residents was
the reason for the rise in dengue cases.
Their
houses were humid, creating an environment conducive for mosquitoes to breed
and transmit the disease, My said.
My
said the centre was spraying chemical substances in the affected areas to
kill mosquitoes.
The
Binh Duong People's Committee asked the centre and the provincial Department
of Health to join hands with concerned agencies to keep the environment clean
and to instruct residents about disease prevention.
Quang
Binh to run grassroots scoring on administration service
Residents
in central
Oxfam
and the provincial People's Committee are running a project to deliver
M-Score service, an initiative popular around the world and used to enhance
transparency and accountability in services provided by local administrative
agencies, in several districts in the province.
The
project started in July and will have its first run in April 2018, a seminar
on the service held in the province was told this morning. The districts of
Minh Hoa, Tuyen Hoa, Quang Trach, Bo Trach, Quang Ninh, Le Thuy, Ba Don and
Based
on the pilot phase in these localities, the service will be expanded to
localities throughout the
With
the service, residents will be able to access administrative procedures at
one-stop shops available at the community and can send text messages or make
phone calls to a designated call centre to submit their feedback about the
quality of administrative service as well as the attitude of the staff.
People's
Councils in the district, on an annual basis, will collect these remarks and
make amends to address shortcomings or applaud good services, ensuring the
satisfaction of the residents.
The
councils can also take charge of announcing the grassroots assessment about
the agencies through the local media.
The
province's deputy chairwoman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, said the mobile scoring
service will create a transparent basis to monitor administrative services in
the province and expected that these would improve a great deal as a result.
Doctors
in
Doctors
at the International Trauma and
The
microsurgery to reattach the broken blood vessels in the fingers, with the
help of an endoscopic camera, took more than two hours to complete, Tu?i Tr?
(Youth) newspaper reported.
The
53-year-old Truong Quang Th?o was hospitalised on Sunday with serious
injuries to his right hand.
The
nerves and bones of his middle and ring fingers were broken, while his little
finger had shattered completely.
Thao
reportedly went to a bike repair stall to pump air into his wheelbarrow's
tyres.
He
accidentally severed his fingers under the wheel rim when the fully inflated
tyre burst.
After
the operation, his fingers showed signs of gradual recovery, the doctors said
yesterday.
Phu
Yen tightens mining management
The
central
The
locality will also review licences granted to mining projects and concretely
prohibit illegal mineral exploration and exploitation as well as the export
of raw natural resources.
The
provincial People’s Committee has urged efforts to accelerate the
popularisation of policies and laws regarding natural resources and advised
local authorities, especially those at the communal level, to raise their
sense of responsibility for inspecting mining activities.
Apart
from establishing a fund to inspect mining businesses’ fulfilment of
commitments to environmental restoration, Phu Yen has also sealed off 158,000
hectares where mining activities are temporarily banned. The areas house
historical relic sites and landscapes or have been zoned out for national
defence purposes or protection forests.
The
locality has demolished illegal gold mines in Tay Hoa, Phu Hoa, Son Hoa and
Song Hinh districts.
Over
the past two years, Phu Yen licensed 30 mining projects with large reserves
and high commercial values. It aims to develop a number of mineral-based
sectors by 2020, including a diatomite ore processing plant with an annual
capacity of up to 10,000 tonnes.
Along
with the Phu Sen mineral water site in Phu Hoa district, the province is
calling for investments in another plant with an annual capacity of 20
million litres and hot mineral water pools.-
Tobacco
use rampant among men in Hanoi
The
prevalence of tobacco use in
The
city has undertaken various measures to prevent and control the negative
effects of tobacco use. However, smoking is still rampant in many offices,
stations and public transport means though it is technically prohibited in
such places.
In
addition, management officials of many organisations have not paid enough
attention to controlling smoking at work, as many of them are regular smokers
themselves.
Authorities
at local levels lack experience in organising and managing anti-smoking
activities and struggle to handle violations.
Since
early this year, the municipal Department of Industry and Trade has focused
on controlling illegal tobacco trade, particularly at small shops along
Nguyen Sieu, Hang Hanh, Hang Buom and Le Thai To streets.
The
city’s Market Watch Team has busted three smuggling operations, seizing
nearly 13,000 cigarette packs during the first half of this year.
Meanwhile,
smoke-free environments have been established at all medical establishments
and “no smoking” signs have been put up at stations.
Director
of the city’s Department of Health Nguyen Khac Hien stressed the need for the
city to step up communication campaigns on the harmful effects of tobacco use
and the benefits of smoke-free environments in order to raise public
awareness of the issue and urge management officials to take more
responsibility in the programme.
Exhibition
highlights Government’s 70-year development
Nearly
150 documents, objects and photos which reflect the foundation, development
and operation of the State over the last seven decades are being displayed at
an exhibition that opened in the
The
exhibition is part of activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the
August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2), offering young
people a chance to gain insight into the revolutionary tradition and glorious
history of the country.
The
eight-day exhibition also helps visitors understand the revolutionary
activities of a number of revolutionary leaders who were detained in prisons
under the colonial regime.
On the
occasion, military aircrafts MIG-21 and SU-22M, key warplanes of
MIG-21
was an effective weapon during the national resistance war against the
Meanwhile,
SU-22M was
The
two exhibits were handed over to the provincial museum by the Air Defence-Air
Force Service.
Foreign
aid for Bac Giang socio-economic development
Foreign
assistance has substantially contributed to the socio-economic development of
northern Bac Giang province, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee
Duong Van Thai said at a workshop on August 18.
The
official said since Bac Giang has a number of disadvantages, support from
foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through programmes and projects
are important, especially to local agro-forestry-fisheries, rural
development, healthcare, education-training and social matters.
Since
2012, around 80 NGOs have carried out initiatives in the province worth over
9.7 million USD, mostly in agriculture, healthcare, education, poverty
elimination and environmental protection, he noted.
Also
at the workshop, participants discussed foreign aid availability and
suggested measures to call for foreign support and optimise assistance
offered so as to maximise Bac Giang’s sustainable development.
The
function was held by the Vietnam Union of Scientific and Technological
Associations and its provincial body.
The
city People's Committee said there are now 11 such offices - up from eight in
2011 - while the number of documents they serve has increased by 20,000 a
year on average.
The
offices handled 100,731 documents in the first six months of this year,
double the number in the same period in 2011.
They
have also prepared 32,527 certified written minutes to serve as evidence for
use in courts in the past five years.
The
demand for bailiff services continued to rise in the last five years,
according to the People's Committee.
The
major duties of a bailiff include enforcing civil verdicts, serving claims,
summonses and orders from courts to defendants, and executing civil
enforcement warrants.
Pham
Thi Thanh Loan, Deputy Head of the HCM City Civil Verdicts Execution
Department, said private bailiffs have helped reduce the pressure on judicial
officers, helped speed up enforcement of civil verdicts and the settling of
civil disputes and reduce the number of repetitive claims.
She
said the private bailiff offices have thus helped improve protection of
people's legitimate interests as well as the functioning of judicial
agencies.
Other
localities like
Quang
Binh collects feedback on public services via mobile phones
A
workshop was held in the central
Vice
Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Council Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong said the
Mobilephone Scorecard (M-Score) initiative aims to set up a mechanism for
local residents to provide feedback on the quality of provincial
administrative procedures.
By
gathering public opinions, local authorities can become aware of shortcomings
and restrictions in the field and seek measures to improve administrative
formalities, she said.
The
project is carried out from July 2015 to April 2018 in the People’s Councils
of Minh Hoa, Tuyen Hoa, Quang Trach, Bo Trach, Quang Ninh, Le Thuy districts;
The
provincial People’s Council pledges to facilitate the implementation of the
project and use its results to ensure high quality public services while
assessing the one-stop-shop offices’ performance every three months and
honouring outstanding collectives and individuals in the field annually.
The
M-Score project is a joint effort of the provincial People’s Council, Oxfam
International in
It
aims to enhance the quality of public services at the grassroots level as
well as strengthen transparency and accountability of services suppliers.
After
completing administrative formalities at one-stop-shop offices, users receive
messages and calls from the switchboard asking them to provide feedback on
the quality of services.
Citizens
can also call 18008081 to inquire about the status of their applications and
give feedback on the working attitude of office staff.
The
project was piloted in the central
Children’s
painting contest highlights Vietnam-US friendship
One
hundred children aged 7-15 have participated in a painting contest that
highlights the friendship between
The
event was organised by the Ho Chi Minh City General Sciences Library in
conjunction with the Thai Duong Consulting and Investment JSC in celebration
of 20 years of normalisation of Vietnam-US bilateral relations and the
establishment of twining ties between
First
prize went to Tran Pham Nhu Quynh from Tan Kien primary school, Binh Chanh
district and Vo Tan Hung from Binh Tien primary school, District 6.
Le Thi
Van Truc from Le Quy Don secondary school, District 11, and Hong Bao Tran
from Nguyen Khuyen fine art club, District 12 were also award winners.
The
winning pictures are on display at the library from August 18-23.
Phu
Yen tightens mining management
The
central
The
locality will also review licences granted to mining projects and concretely
prohibit illegal mineral exploration and exploitation as well as the export
of raw natural resources.
The
provincial People’s Committee has urged efforts to accelerate the
popularisation of policies and laws regarding natural resources and advised
local authorities, especially those at the communal level, to raise their
sense of responsibility for inspecting mining activities.
Apart
from establishing a fund to inspect mining businesses’ fulfilment of
commitments to environmental restoration, Phu Yen has also sealed off 158,000
hectares where mining activities are temporarily banned. The areas house
historical relic sites and landscapes or have been zoned out for national
defence purposes or protection forests.
The
locality has demolished illegal gold mines in Tay Hoa, Phu Hoa, Son Hoa and
Song Hinh districts.
Over
the past two years, Phu Yen licensed 30 mining projects with large reserves
and high commercial values. It aims to develop a number of mineral-based
sectors by 2020, including a diatomite ore processing plant with an annual
capacity of up to 10,000 tonnes.
Along
with the Phu Sen mineral water site in Phu Hoa district, the province is
calling for investments in another plant with an annual capacity of 20
million litres and hot mineral water pools.-
Solutions
to develop sustainable water resources in Vietnam
Comprehensive
and effective solutions to reduce water shortages during sustainable
development have become a pressing need in many countries in the world,
including developing ones like
According
to researchers, domestic water capacity could drop by 10-20 percent in the
next 50-60 years due to rapid climate change.
Like
many other Asian countries,
The
figure is expected to increase to about 120 billion cubic metres by 2020, up
48 percent. Water for irrigation is forecast to escalate by 30 percent;for
industry 190 percent; for urban areas 150 percent; and for aquaculture 90
percent.
Understanding
the significance and condition of water resources, the Vietnamese Government
has set forth solutions on water usage and water resources development such
as the Law on Water Resources and sub-law documents, as well as worked to
increase community awareness of water resource protection.
However,
planning and managing water resources in
The
managing and development of water resources are a prominent issue not only in
Water
resources management should focus on planning management activities and
policy making; minimise the impacts of climate change, and introduce suitable
solutions to cope with climate change.
Outstanding
revolution artwork honoured
Eighty
outstanding literary pieces and artwork on revolution and resistance wars for
national liberation from 1930-1975 were honoured in
They
were selected from a contest launched by the Vietnam Union of Literature and
Arts Associations from January 2013 to June 2014.
From
more than 1,400 entries, the organising board chose three first prizes for
literature, theatre and dancing.
Poet
Huu Thinh, Chairman of the National Committee of the Vietnam Union of Literature
and Arts Associations, said scores of the entries reminisced on historical
events during the two resistance wars against French and US forces.-
Many
residents in apartment buildings, particularly old ones, in
The
practice of keeping pets in apartments has also marred neighborly ties.
A notice
seen in an elevator at Phu Thanh Tenement, located in Tan Phu District,
informs inhabitants of a ban on keeping pets, explaining that the animals
often bark noisily and stain corridors with their feces and urine.
The
fierce-looking, furiously barking canines also scare young children out of
their wits and pose a menace to minors.
Many
parents have no choice but to lock their children in to ensure their safety.
The
tenement administrators also ruled that violating households take their pets
out of the tenement without any delay.
Nguyen
Quyet Thang, head of the tenement’s D Block, told Tuoi Tre(Youth) newspaper
that its residents have not kept dogs or cats over the past several years.
Two or
three new households who recently moved in, however, have stuck to their
practice of keeping pets and allowed them to run about unleashed, which has
triggered strong reactions from their neighbors.
Similarly,
many dwellers at the Khai Minh Tenement in District 3 have also been
exasperated by their four dog-keeping neighbors over the past year.
An
inhabitant said they have repeatedly filed complaints at the local People’s
Committee, to little avail.
“The
dogs are behind many squabbles which have considerably eroded our neighborly
relationship,” that person added.
Vu Trong
Hop, deputy head of one of Khai Minh Tenement’s divisions, told Tuoi Tre that
they have tried to talk the dog keepers into sending their animals away, but
most of them insisted they love the canines as much as their own children and
thus cannot simply give up on them.
The
owners have promised to keep their dogs in to ensure hygiene and safety in
the neighborhood.
Some
have even committed to train their dogs into non-barkers.
N.T.H.P,
a dweller at Khai Minh Tenement, keeps four dogs in her apartment.
She
said she always makes a point of having her pets vaccinated against rabies
every year, and minimizing troubles they may cause for her neighbors.
However,
her efforts have failed to allay many residents’ vexation.
“The
tenement management board did not inform me of their rule against keeping
pets when I purchased the apartment. Now that many have voiced their fury,
I’m trying to find my dogs new homes,” she said.
According
to Le Duc Thanh, deputy chair of the Ward 8 People’s Committee in District 3,
officials have talked to pet-keeping households at Khai Minh Tenement, who
then promised to send the animals away.
The
committee has also made clear a regulation released by the district People’s
Committee which bans keeping or allowing dogs or cats to roam unleashed
within tenements.
Meanwhile,
other tenements neither ban nor encourage their residents to have pets.
Driven
by incessant complaints filed by many residents, the administration board of
HAGL Gold House Tenement, located in the outlying district of Nha Be,
regulated that pet keepers register their pets, vaccinate them against rabies
regularly, and not let them out on the loose.
Dogs
must have leashes and muzzles on while being walked in public space and are
not allowed to defecate or urinate in such areas.
Violating
households will have their electricity and tap water supplies cut or be fined
between VND200,000 (US$9) and VND1 million ($44).
Nguyen
Xuan Truong, head of the HAGL Gold House’s management board, said his board
had earlier banned its residents from keeping pets.
However,
as several households insisted on keeping pets, the board finally decided to
reconcile their appeal and responsibility.
Thuy,
a resident, explained that many families find keeping pets a long-standing,
rewarding hobby and even a source of solace which cannot be dispensed with
overnight.
However,
she admitted keepers should be bound by certain responsibilities to keep
trouble at bay.
Son
La asks for aid to fix flood damage
Son La
Province is asking for funds from the State budget to restore infrastructure
destroyed by floods that lasted from late June into early this month.
Chief
of the provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and
Rescue, Lai Van Minh, said it suffered huge losses of life and property but
that the provincial budget only had enough for temporary restorations.
"We
help clear roads, tidy up people's houses, and provide monetary assistance to
families that suffered casualties and/or had their homes completely swept
away," he said.
Minh
said that Son La authorities estimated that they would need VND100 billion
(US$4.6 million) from the State to restore infrastructure.
The
province is asking the Government and several ministries to cover the cost of
agricultural projects that will help local people quickly stabilise and get
production back up.
The
steering committee reported its provincial budget, which has so far given
over VND106 million ($4,800) in assistance to families with casualties. The
Red Cross, enterprises and State offices have also contributed money to needy
families.
School
buildings were hit hard and required immediate attention, with many
classrooms unroofed, and school gates and walls collapsed.
Several
classrooms and teachers' houses at the Xuan Nha Commune's primary school in
Van Ho District are without roofs. The school suffered an estimated VND200
million in damage.
Principal
Dang Trong
Farms
also suffered considerably. The Steering Committee for Natural Disaster
Prevention and Rescue assessed the floods' devastation to crops and farm
production.
All
the maize fields in
Maize
farmer Truong Thi Hanh said her family's 0.5ha area was waterlogged and
suffered VND20 million in damage. "Five members of my family live in
maize areas. I submitted an application for a grant to help fix the farm but
there is still no feedback," she said.
Son La
Province People's Committee reported that the storms in late June and the
resultant floods left 12 dead and hundreds of homes collapsed.
The
loss of property, crops and domestic animals is valued at a total VND135
billion.
Can
Tho river signs to reduce speeds, erosion
Can
Tho authorities plan to install speed limit signs on the
A
100-metre section in the Mekong River tributary, which collapsed two months
ago, caused VND50 million (US$2,272) in property losses, Truong Van Dung, a
local resident, told Viet Nam News.
In
2008, after the
The
barges often travel at top speed, damaging riverbanks from the force of the
water.
An
Binh Ward, which is near the bridge, has been hit the worst.
Dung
added that many houses near the riverbank had collapsed.
"When
there is heavy rainfall and seasonal high tides, my neighbours and I have
difficulty in travelling because of flooding," he said.
In the
last two or three years, the ward's main road often sank between 70 and 80
centimetres every year but now it sanks by only 30 centimetres thanks to an
biological river embankment that was built last August by the city Climate
Change Coordination Office (CCCO).
The
project was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in coordination with the
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition.
Tran
Thi Huong, 58, of the ward, whose house is near the riverbank, said that a
part of her house had been lost due to erosion.
Compared
to the past, damage caused by erosion in the last two months had not been as
severe, thanks to the embankment.
"We
see the efficiency, but we're still worried about the safety of the
embankment because it could be destroyed if barges travel on the river,"
Dung said.
The
800-metre embankment includes three layers: African Mahogany wood fence;
mangrove apple or water hyacinth plants; and Arican Mahogany wood fence. A
concrete embankment is used in seriously eroded areas.
The
embankment is part of a Community-Based Urban Flood and Erosion Management
project with total budget of $ 500,000 (with a $67,000 local contribution)
under the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network.
The
project aims to control the risk of river erosion; construct a canal
embankment at Cai Son riverbank; and upgrade the drainage system of Ap Chien
Luoc canal.
"This
project has the participation of the community from the development stage to
implementation and monitoring stage," CCCO head Ky QuangVinh said.
"When
it is completed, the local community will be the beneficiaries, and will also
be responsible for preservation and maintenance. That way, it will be more
effective, long-term and sustainable," Vinh added.
Residents'
awareness and initiative on adapting to erosion in the ward had also
improved, he said.
Huong
said that she had spent a great amount of money to upgrade her house's
foundation to ensure safety.
"We
have to seek ways to adapt to the erosion," she added.
Vinh
said that limiting the speed of barges was the best way to prevent erosion.
Can
Tho had 38 seriously eroded areas caused by the impact of barge transport as
well as climate change, he said.
Vinh
said that building embankments and limiting the speed of barges were
necessary to prevent erosion.
Residents
should also be moved to new areas and offered a means of making a living, he
added.
Foreigner
sentenced to life for trafficking drugs into Vietnam
A
court in
The
man, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu received the sentence at his second
first-instance hearing opened by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on
Monday.
He was
charged with “illegally transporting drugs” pursuant to Article 194 of the
Penal Code, the jury said.
At his
first first-instance trial, the man was condemned to death on the same
charges but he appealed the verdict.
The
Supreme People’s Court in the city later opened the appeal hearing, during
which it canceled the verdict and demanded that the case be re-investigated
as there were signs of violations of criminal proceeding procedures.
According
to the indictment, the man was caught with 3.48kg of white powder in a
package when he arrived at
After
a test on the powder showed that it was methamphetamine, a type of synthetic
drug, police arrested Ikechukwu, according to Nguoi Lao Dong (Laborer)
newspaper.
The
man then confessed to police that on June 6, 2012 he applied for a visa to
On the
same day, an unidentified man asked Ikechukwu to bring some goods to
On
June 20, 2012, the unknown man handed Ikechukwu a package from which customs
officers found the drugs contained in 19 plastic bags hidden in 16 metal
cylinders and a laptop adapter.
According
to Ikechukwu’s testimony, the unidentified man said that when he arrived in
At
yesterday’s hearing, Ikechukwu told the court that he had not known the
package contained the drugs when he received it from the unknown man.
However,
the court said that there was enough evidence to convict the foreign man of
“illegally transporting drugs.”
Under
Article 194 of the Vietnamese Penal Code, twenty years of imprisonment, life
imprisonment or capital punishment can be given to those who are found guilty
of illegally stockpiling, transporting, trading in or appropriating heroin or
cocaine weighing one hundred grams or more.
The
same penalties are also given to those who commit the crimes in one of the
following circumstances: opium resin, marijuana resin or coca plasma weighing
five kilograms or more; marijuana leaves, flowers, fruit or coca leaves
weighing 75 kilograms or more; dried poppy fruit weighing 600 kilograms or
more; fresh poppy fruit weighing 150 kilograms or more; other narcotic
substances in solid form weighing 300 grams or more or in liquid form
measuring 750 milliliters or more.
Team
of drug resistance suppervision set up in country
Because
drug resistance becomes serious with more new antibiotics, the Ministry of
Health on August 16 decided to set up a team to supervise the matter in the
country.
The
team led by Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue, head of the ministry's Department of Medical
Examination and Treatment,will issue guidelines and implement activities to
prevent drug resistance and send periodical report to the Ministry as well as
propose measures to cope with the problem.
The
Ministry has esablished steering board on drug resistance and 9 teams to
supervise the problem to carry out the national plan against drug resistance
with the vision to 2020.
According
to Dr. Nguyen Thi Xuyen, Deputy Health Minister, improper use of antibiotics
and overuse of the medication helped increase drug resistance, leading to
shortage of new antibiotic medicines.
An
investigation of selling antibiotics in 3,000 pharmacies in countryside and
urban districts in the
These
antibiotic drugs contribute 14 percent and 19 percent in increasing turnover
of pharmacies in urban and rural districts respectively. Worse 32 percent of
people who joined the survey in urban areas buy antibiotic for only cough
treatment.
Family
history research institute established in HCM City
An
institute for family research has been established in HCM City, based upon a
similar centre performing research on family histories set up by scholar Vo
Ngoc An and colleagues.
The
centre was established in 1994 and has completed 150 histories for families,
as well as a book for training those collecting family histories.
The
newly established institute, which is based at 275B
The
first-ever workshop on studying family histories will be organised by the
institute at 272 Vo Thi Sau Street, District 3, HCM City, on August 29.
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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Thứ Ba, 18 tháng 8, 2015
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