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Social News 3/8
Traffic
accident kills three policemen
A
traffic accident killed three policemen as they were driving on the
The
policemen, Phuong Van Chung, Vi Van Loc and Trinh Van Hieu, from the
district's police force, were on a working trip from Ha Noi to Lang Son when
their
The
bus belonged to the Son Duc – Lang Son joint venture company. The incident
remains under investigation.
Coach,
truck collide, injuring nine
A
coach crashed into a truck in central
At
about 11:20pm, a 29-seat coach bound for
Those
wounded on the coach were immediately rushed to the hospital. None suffered
critical injuries.
The
cause of the accident is under investigation.
Localities
need to clean up food safety standards
Cities
and provinces should push for clean, safe agricultural products as Ha Noi and
Dam,
also head of the Inter-ministerial Central Steering Committee for Food
Safety, chaired the meeting last week with local authorities and other
Government agencies to review food safety standard improvement efforts during
the first half of the year.
The
country recorded 90 known cases of food poisoning with 2,595 affected.
Sixteen died, while more than 2,400 were hospitalised. The number of food
poisoning cases and fatalities decreased, compared with the same period last
year, which recorded 98 cases and 26 fatalities. Health authorities
determined that the leading cause of death was the consumption of animals and
plants that contained highly toxic substances such as toads, poisonous
mushrooms and poisonous fish.
During
the period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, environmental
police and other Government agencies inspected nearly 350,000 agricultural
product suppliers nationwide. Of these, 68,025 violated the country's food
safety regulations. The authorities collected VND23 billion (more than US$1
million) in fines and nearly 8,000 food samples were tested in 34 cities' and
provinces' testing facilities.
The
steering committee acknowledged positive steps taken to improve the country's
food safety. It also spoke about numerous shortcomings, such as the lack of
guidance on safety standards, the lack of co-operation between central and
local agencies, and lax enforcement of food safety regulations.
Minister
of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said the public was concerned about food
vendors' fraudulent, hazardous practices of food vendors such as abusing
agricultural chemicals and expired products. They were also concerned about
authorities' competence supervising and reinforcing safety regulations.
Dam
told the meeting that stricter penalties needed to be imposed on vendors who
were found repeatedly in violation of food safety regulations. He also urged
ministries, localities and other Government agencies to perform a
comprehensive review of their law-enforcement practices.
Representatives
from Ha Noi and
The
deputy PM urged ministries and other Government agencies to step up
co-operation with Ha Noi and
"We
need a food safety awareness campaign in the media," he said. "We
must understand that only through a combined effort by the authorities and
the people can we produce positive results".
Residences
lack management
Ha
Noi's resettlement residential housing lacks managerial boards to repair
dilapidated infrastructure, causing trouble for residents.
An
elevator at building N2A in the Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh residential quarter in
Thanh Xuan District has been out of service for four months, but no one is
responsible for conducting the repairs. The residents themselves would need
to call a repairman and pay VND20 million (US$900) themselves.
The
Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh residential quarter's other buildings have
malfunctioning elevators as well, said Le Quy Hong, head of the residential
group in Nhan Chinh Ward. They also had sewage system blockages, broken taps
and no fire prevention plans.
Ha
Noi's 173 resettlement buildings are managed and operated by the Ha Noi
Housing Management and Development Company, and the Ha Noi Housing Investment
and Development. Only 15 of the buildings have managerial boards.
Nguyen
Ngoc Tuan, deputy chairman of the Ha Noi People's Committee, said each
building must have its own board under the amended Law on Housing, which went
into effect in July.
In the
beginning of July the committee asked the municipal Department of
Construction and Ministry of Construction to issue a detailed decree and
guidance about founding managerial boards. If the investors and residents
could not agree on a plan to set them up, the boards would be founded by
local People's Committees.
The
decree would also regulate building equipment maintenance fees, Tuan said.
Northwest
province benefits from Japanese-invested agriculture project
The
northern mountainous
The
project, which ends this month, offered training in techniques used to
cultivate rice, maize and soybeans. It also provided training of local
agricultural staff, and instruction in irrigation management to local
farmers.
Improving
agricultural extension services was also a focus of the project.
Three
districts, Dien Bien, Tuan Giao and Muong Cha, were selected as pilot areas
for the project.
Based
on the results of activities of Vietnamese agricultural staff and Japanese
experts, agricultural guidelines have been produced.
Guidelines
and manuals for agricultural extension covered the topics of rice, maize and
soybean farming, while the guidelines and manuals for irrigation management
dealt with practical procedures in organising farmers in a water management
group.
The
project also organised workshops for farmers to discuss local challenges and
solutions.
Water
management had improved as a result of the project, organisers said.
In
addition, the project developed extension tools that suit the local
conditions of each pilot district, such as calendars related to crops (rice,
maize and soybean) and pest-check boards, with active participation of
agricultural officers.
The
project is expected to promote agricultural and rural development in other
northwestern provinces where the climate and geological conditions are
similar to
Despite
huge potential in agriculture and forestry, the northwest region faces
numerous challenges, including access to and use of technology.
20
fishing vessels to be built in Quang Binh
As
many as 20 fishing boats will be built in the final months of 2015 in central
The
building of the fishing vessels is to be carried out under decree no 67
issued by the Government in 2014 to allow fishermen throughout the country to
receive loans with preferential interest rates for ship building.
Further,
the provincial People's Committee said that eight fishing vessels, worth
about VND23.4 billion ($1 million), were built in the first six month of this
year.
Bomb
detection project kicks off in Ha Tinh
A
project to detect and defuse unexploded bombs left behind after the war in an
area spanning over 2,500ha was launched today in central Ha Tinh Province's
Dong Loc Junction.
The
two-year project, valued at VND83 billion (US$3.8 million), was financed
through official development assistance from the Japanese government.
It is
estimated that some 16,500ha of the province contain undetected unexploded
bombs.
Quang
Earlier,
on receiving reports from local residents, police and rangers discovered that
timber of unclear origin had been hidden in the river in the central
province.
They
went along the river to check and discovered three areas where a large
quantity of timber had been collected on either side of the river.
A day
later, they could salvage just 7cu.m of timber because of the depth of the
river, a police official said.
Some
illegal loggers used motorboats to drag the timber to the middle of the river
where they dropped the load and fled, Dang Van Tien, deputy head of
district's forest management office, said.
The
sunken timber was expected to be dozens of cubic metres in volume, about a
quarter of which had been retrieved, Tien said.
He
said the timber was from Phuoc Son District.
Taking
advantage of the water from the hydroelectric power plant, loggers had
illegally transported wood to the river for sale.
The
incident is under further investigation.
Last
September, rangers in Nong Son District had discovered a large number of
precious timber hidden in streams.
Company
fined for illegal game release
A game
company was fined VND200 million (US$9,100) for releasing an online game
without approval from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the
ministry's inspectorate said yesterday.
The
Nghe An-based Tri Tue Viet Sofware Development Co. Ltd. was found illegally
selling and advertising G1, an online game, without getting its content
approved by authorities beforehand.
The
company also set up an illegal social network with inappropriate content,
somovui.com.
Repatriation
of soldiers’ remains in Dong Nai province
The
war ended 4 decades ago but the parents, wives, children, and brothers of
more than 500,000 martyrs still anguish because their relatives’ remains
haven’t returned home.
The
search for martyrs’ remains began in May, 2012. As time went by, identifying
location where soldiers were buried became more and more difficult.
Then
came reports that approximately 100 soldiers were buried in two mass graves,
one bigger than the other. The search area was expanded to dozens of
hectares. Despite being hampered by vague information about the location,
rudimentary excavation equipment and severe weather, the searchers didn’t get
discouraged. After a year in the blazing heat of the dry season and the
dampness of the rainy season, Dong Nai province’s search and repatriation
team found the mass grave of 20 martyrs.
Pham
Thi Kim Hue, deputy head of the science and education section of the
provincial radio and television station, who accompanied the search team
recalled "Work sometimes was interrupted, especially in the rainy
season. But the local government’s determination and encouragement helped us
to finally find the first mass grave after nearly 2 years. It has been
unearthed now.”
The
search for the remains of soldiers who died in Vuon Dieu (
Colonel
Duong Hoa Hiep, political commissar of the provincial military headquarters,
said “it was a heartening outcome for the people, the army, Party Committees,
and administrations at all levels of Dong Nai province. It could not have
been achieved without the support of the provincial authorities, military
headquarters, businesses, and local households who have made their land
available to the search team.”
Finding
and repatriating the remains of the soldiers who died in the battle of Vuon
Dieu was a tough journey, which sometimes drove everyone to the brink of
despair. But the search went on, driven by feelings of profound respect and
gratitude for those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.
Hau Giang to
curb mother-to-child HIV transmission
With
the goal to completely eradicate HIV transmitted from mothers to children in
2015, the Mekong Delta
According
to Tran Kim Long, Director of the Hau Giang Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention,
the local health sector has set up medical units providing voluntary HIV
tests, consultations and treatment for pregnant women in all obstetrics
establishments across the province.
These
facilities assist HIV-infected mothers with prevention treatment as well as
advice on child-rearing and the use of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) .
As a
result, more than 10,000 women have benefited each year and Hau Giang
recorded 70% of its female residents receiving prenatal health examinations.
Intensive
communication campaigns have also been carried out to raise public awareness
and support.
Since
2012, there have not been any cases of newborns contracting the disease from
their mothers in the province.
However,
the local HIV/AIDS prevention programme is facing financial problems as the
budget has been cut by 80% since 2013.
As
transnational companies discover and choose
Through
educational programs and much appreciated support of the US, Vietnam’s
colleges, universities and students are poised to meet the government’s goal
– and then some.
A
record number of 17,000 Vietnamese students are enrolled at American colleges
and universities in 2015— making them the 8th largest foreign group of
students and the leading group of ASEAN studying in the
In
fact, ever since diplomatic relations were normalized two decades ago, US
support for general education in
Sand
Dang and former US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear
The
Fulbright Economic Training Program in
Through
a wide variety of specific training courses, it has provided in country
training for thousands of the nation’s students and government officials,
advancing people-to-people ties between the two nations.
In
addition, Fulbright programs have helped more than 600 Vietnamese students
and governmental officials pursue studies in the
The
Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) created by the US Congress in 2000 is
another shining example of the fine cooperation between the two countries.
The VEF receives an annual budget of US$5 million from the US Congress until
2018.
VEF
has so far assisted more than 500 Vietnamese students pursue studies in the
There
has been positive engagement of the private sector in Private Public
Partnerships to promote education cooperation. The most notable example of
this is the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP).
The
HEEAP, which began in 2010, has brought together the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), Intel
This
MoU directly led to the setting up of joint working groups in such areas as
Establishing an
Most
recently a
Plans
are to raise US$50 million over the next three years and to mobilize US$100
million by 2020 to finance the university to be constructed in
FUV is
an ambitious extension of
Initially
FUV will offer a broad range of academic programs in public policy, business
administration, finance, law and engineering and later expand to offer
extensive liberal arts programs to its curriculum at the undergraduate level.
The
university, expected to break ground later this year, will be the first
private and nonprofit university in
These
are just a few examples of higher education cooperation among a host of
others that could have been mentioned such as American students who come to
study in
Investing
in a trained workforce is vital to bringing more business and industry to
Vietnam and – building the domestic economy – and thanks to help from
the US, Vietnam is facing up to the challenge.
Police
in
A
search warrant has been issued for Murtaza, 27, the alleged leader behind the
robbery occurring on July 9, officers said on July 31.
P.T.N.P.,
27, was putting pillows and blankets for sale on
Two
foreign women then got off the vehicle and came to look at the items P. was
selling.
A few
minutes later, a foreign man left the car to join the women in choosing the
goods, and eventually pointed at a pillowcase, signaling he wanted to buy it.
P.
received a VND500,000 (US$23) banknote from the foreign man, and took out a
wad of money as change.
The
man attempted to snatch the money, but P. could pull it back. The three
foreigners then rushed back to the car and fled.
P.
thought she had managed to keep her money safe. But checking, she was shocked
to learn that VND17 million (US$782) had gone, apparently because the foreign
man had managed to steal it without her knowledge.
P.
then used her motorcycle to chase the foreigners, while shouting for help.
The
vendor managed to catch foreigners in front of Ba Chieu Market, when some of
the foreigners threw a stack of money through a car window to the ground.
The
vehicle then ran away when P. was picking up the banknotes, with the help of
some passers-by.
P.
only recovered VND3.2 million (US$147.2), with the foreigner allegedly taking
away VND13.8 million.
When
P. was recovering her money, a couple of passers-by, who witnessed the
incident, chased after the car, while notifying a patrol police team,
according to Phap Luat TP. Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper.
The
officers immediately ran after the car.
When
they reached
The
police team seized the car and handed it over to the District 1 police, who
later confirmed that the vehicle is owned by Tan Binh-based Viet Linh Co.,
which had leased it to a foreign man named Murtaza, according to the
newspaper.
When
looking at a photo of the car’s lessee, P. confirmed that it was the one who
stole her money.
The
case was later transferred to the city police for handling.
Murtaza
and three other Pakistanis arrived in
All
the four left the hotel on June 12 without paying room charges, the hotel
reported to the police.
The
largest-ever social housing project in the Mekong Delta, which had its
official groundbreaking ceremony in Vinh Long province on August 1, is
scheduled to be available in June 2016.
During
the first stage, the first 620 apartments will be up for sale for needy
households in Vinh Long province and neighbouring localities.
The
HQC Binh Minh project, divided into three stages, will sprawl over 39,100
square metres and accommodate four seven-storey blocks with 1,863 apartments.
It is invested by the Hoang Quan Mekong trading and real estate service
company at a total cost of 610 billion VND (29 million USD).
The
Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam – Vinh Long branch is offering
20-year loans equivalent to 80 percent of the apartment costs with interest
less than 6 percent per year sourced from the government’s 30 trillion VND
(1.42 billion USD) housing loan package.
Le
Quang Trung, Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said the
blocks are also surrounded by kindergartens, schools, a clinic, a shopping
mall and community space built by the investor.-
President
offers incense in tribute to late leader
President
Truong Tan Sang offered incense in tribute to late lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho
(1910-1996), who was Acting State President of Vietnam from 1980-1981, at the
latter’s memorial site in southern Long An province on August 1.
In the
guest book, President Truong Tan Sang wrote that: “Lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho
-Acting State President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - will live
forever in the nation’s history. As a well-known intellectual, lawyer Nguyen
Huu Tho made light of fame and wealth and sacrificed his whole life for the
cause of national liberation and reunification as well as for the process of
national construction and renewal. The Fatherland always remembers the lawyer’s
great contributions.”
The
memorial site was inaugurated on July 29 in Ben Luc town, Ben Luc district,
where lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho was born. It was opened in the hope to help
educate the country’s revolutionary history for younger generations.
The
President and leaders of Long An province took this occasion to plant a tree
at the memorial site.
Hau
Giang to curb mother-to-child HIV transmission
With
the goal to completely eradicate HIV transmitted from mothers to children in
2015, the Mekong Delta
According
to Tran Kim Long, Director of the Hau Giang Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention,
the local health sector has set up medical units providing voluntary HIV
tests, consultations and treatment for pregnant women in all obstetrics
establishments across the province.
These
facilities assist HIV-infected mothers with prevention treatment as well as
advice on child-rearing and the use of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) .
As a
result, more than 10,000 women have benefited each year and Hau Giang
recorded 70 percent of its female residents receiving prenatal health
examinations.
Intensive
communication campaigns have also been carried out to raise public awareness
and support.
Since
2012, there have not been any cases of newborns contracting the disease from
their mothers in the province.
However,
the local HIV/AIDS prevention programme is facing financial problems as the
budget has been cut by 80 percent since 2013.
Vietnam
and Laos will expand collaboration in museum development from 2016-2017 as
stipulated in the agreement signed between the Ho Chi Minh Museum and Kaysone
Phomvihane Museum in Vientiane on August 1.
Accordingly,
two sides will work together to organise scientific workshops on Lao
revolutionary relic sites in Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh relic sites in
Laos, collect documents and items related to Prince Suphanuvong and exchange
research materials about President Ho Chi Minh, President Kaysone Phomvihane
and President Suphanovong.
The
collaboration also covers exhibition projects at the commemorative house of
Lao students in northern Bac Giang province as well as proposal on the
preservation of relic site related to Kaysone Phomvihane in
The
two sides will focus on scientific research and gathering documents for
specific stages of historical events, providing younger generations with a
deeper understanding of their leaders’ contributions to the country, Deputy
Head of the Party Central Committee Office Souvandy Sisavath, who is also
responsible for the
Under
the collaboration framework from 2014-2015, the two museums completed repairs
of the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum and construction of a commemorative site for
President Ho Chi Minh in Sanavakhet province while conducting studies on
revolutionary relic sites in both countries.-
Workshop
on UN peacekeeping mission closes in Hanoi
The
first international workshop on sending forces to United Nations (UN)
peacekeeping missions closed in
Colonel
Hoang Kim Phung, Director of the Vietnamese Peacekeeping Centre (VPC), said
the workshop is a step towards realising defence cooperation commitments in
UN peacekeeping between the Vietnamese Defence Ministry and the US Department
of Defence, and the outcomes of talks between the Vietnamese Defence Minister
and US Secretary of Defence during the
During
the workshop, participants discussed the steps to deploy a unit to a UN
mission, training curricula, logistics, incentives and field surveys in
depth.
Vietnamese
medical staff, engineers and technicians are capable of fulfilling their UN
peacekeeping mission tasks, heard the event.
They
called for improved training on international law and English speaking skills
up to UN standards as well as coordination skills in a multi-national
environment.
The
VPC expressed hope for continued assistance from the UN and the US Department
of State’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).
Speaking
at the event, Head of the GPOI programme delegation Richard Maloney said the
GPOI wants to continue working closely with
The
workshop was co-hosted by the VPC and GPOI.
First
ATM set up in Ly Son Island
The
Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of
The
ATM is set up at the centre of the island and will be operated 24/7 in order
to serve the rising demand of locals and tourists.
Ly Son
has a population of around 21,000 people. The majority of residents earn a
living from fishing and farming garlic and spring onions.
Ly Son
is striving to become a maritime economic centre by 2025 with a focus on
tourism and aquaculture.
The
island district hopes to welcome 40,300 visitors in 2015 and earn over 41
billion VND (1.92 million USD). Tourism revenue in the locality is predicted
to rise to nearly 99 billion VND (4.65 million USD) in 2020 and 178 billion
VND (8.36 million USD) in 2025.
Parcel
carrier service introduced
The
Vietnam Railways Company and the Vietnam Post Company officially introduced
an exclusive parcel carrier service on its North-South railway route at the
Hanoi Railway Station in
Accordingly,
two 10-tonne parcel carriages will be joined to the TN1/2 train, departing
from
The
service will receive and deliver postal products and interregional exchanged
newspapers from and to 21 provinces and cities along the railway route as
well as the three Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai, Kon Tum, and Dak
Lak.
Chairman
of the member council of the Vietnam Post Do Ngoc Binh said the new carrier
service plays an important role in the company’s innovation strategy.
Local
lives stalled by red mud seeping into river from ore factory
Residents
living along the
They
said they notified authorised agencies and received compensation from the
factories, but they still had not been able to start farming again. Their
fields and ponds are covered with the red mud.
Dinh
Thi Huong, a resident in My Lung Commune in Phu Tho Province, said she had to
pump water from the well and wait until the mud settled before her family
could use it.
Huong
said she had to use her neighbours' filtered water for her 3-year-old child.
Filters provide little help because they soon become blocked with mud.
Nguyen
Van Lien, head of the commune's Village 3B, said mud covered the
In
In
2013, polluted water covered two hectares of rice fields with a 20 to 60cm
layer of red mud. Tens of households protested, and the factory agreed to pay
2 tael of rice for every square metre of contaminated land and VND2,000 (1 US
cent) each metre of mud that needed to be removed.
"It
did not help much," said Tran Van Dan, a resident of Ao Lay Village.
Ha
Manh Cuong, deputy director of
Provincial
authorities worked with the factories, forcing them to pay compensation to
affected househonds. The department also fined the company VND300 million
($13,800) after an inspection.
The
water did not contain toxic substances and did not harm the people or their
rice fields and fish ponds, Cuong said.
The
Natural Resources and Environment Department of Tay Ninh Province penalised
116 enterprises that have been discharging waste into the Vam Co Dong River
since 2013.
Those
enterprises were fined more than VND12.5 trillion (US$581 million) total.
Nguyen
Dinh Xuan, the department's director, said that in order to keep the
province's water sources clean, the department asked enterprises to build
waste treatment facilities that meet national standards.
Students
to learn green skills for sustainable development
Eight
hundred disadvantaged Vietnamese students taking hospitality courses at the
Reach vocational training centre will be taught green skills when they return
to school in August.
The
project, titled Green Skills for Urban Youth, has been organised by
non-governmental organisation Plan International Viet Nam and the Reach
centre to increase job opportunities at green enterprises nation-wide and to
contribute to building a sustainable green economy in
Green
skills, according to experts, are simple tasks that everyone should perform
daily to conserve energy and protect the environment.
They
help students use chemical substances, water and electricity effectively and
economically.
They
include turning off anything running on electricity when it is not in use,
arranging items in the refrigerator in a way that makes best use of energy
and restricting the air-conditioner to a maximum temperature of 26 degrees
Celsius.
This
pilot project will run for two years with a total budget of VND3.5 billion
(US$143,000). In the first phase, it aims to train students to use green
skills during courses in managing hotel rooms, providing bar services and
preparing cocktails. In its second phase, the project is expected to expand
to other job sectors after the two-year pilot program is over.
Two
enterprises will take part in the project, allowing students to apply their
new green skills while gaining a stable source of revenue.
The
courses are also expected to be held online in the long term, so that more
students can be trained.
Le
Quynh Lan, Plan International's project manager of Reach, said the project
was created to support the country's target of sustainable development.
The
country faces severe environmental challenges in its economic development.
Often ravaged by natural disasters in the summer,
Although
"The
national plan for green growth indicates that green growth is important for
sustainable growth. However, the lack of green skills among employees has
slowed down the country's development of a green economy," Lan said.
"Labour
markets have become more demanding in seeking employees with green skills, so
I believe this training is very important," she added.
Recent
statistics show that one-third of the enterprises in
Reach
is a local Vietnamese non-governmental organisation specialising in
vocational training and employment opportunities for
Established
in 2008, Reach currently runs vocational training courses in six centres
across
Vietnam
embassy opposes arrest of citizen in Malaysia
The
Vietnam Embassy in
The
Vietnamese citizen, only referred to as T. and who is a
The
arrest of T. is against the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963,
the Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Cao Phong said in a diplomatic note sent to
the
The
Vienna Convention 1963 is an international treaty that defines a framework
for consular relations between independent countries.
The
Ambassador
Phong said the incident may affect the image of
T.,
who works for the Party Committee Office of District 12, was on an overseas
trip to
On
July 23 night, when the tourists were completing procedures to leave
“They
said she had a fake stamp on her passport when traveling from
The
District 12 Party Committee Office was only informed her arrest on July 24
morning, when the other tourists already returned to the Vietnamese city.
The
office immediately sent an email to notify the Vietnamese embassy in
“The
tour organizer later told us that it was not until July 27 that the embassy
acknowledged the incident and began working with local authorities,” Cuong
said.
The
embassy sent its staff to meet T. at the airport on July 27 afternoon, and
the woman was finally able to return to
“She
could only cry when meeting family members and colleagues upon arrival at Tan
Son Nhat airport,” Cuong recalled.
T. was
only allowed to phone her family, and lost contact with the Party Committee
Office, according to the official.
“She
received food supplies during the detention but could not eat much as she is
unfamiliar with the food,” Cuong said.
“The
custody room does not meet basic living standards.”
The
office has given T. some extra days off to calm down.
Late
embassy's response
The
detention took place on July 23, but the Vietnam Embassy only knew of it four
days later.
When
asked about the late response, Huong, the Minister Counselor, told Tuoi Tre
(Youth) that the embassy was contacted by Saigontourist on July 24, and had
told the tour organizer to provide more information via email.
“But
we received no email from Saigontourist by the end of July 24,” Huong said.
The
travel firm actually sent an email on July 25, which was Saturday.
“It
was weekend, and Saigontourist did not tell us that they had sent the email,
so we did not check the inbox,” Huong said.
On
July 27, the embassy finally received the report from Saigontourist, and
immediately sent officials to the Malaysian immigration agency as well as
But
the immigration agency refused to let the Vietnamese embassy staffers meet
with T. on July 27, and only arranged a meeting a day later.
“The
immigration office later confirmed that verification found the stamp on T.
passport is authentic, thus freed her but has since released no apology or
explanation,” Huong said.
Young
people do voluntary deeds
A
group of young people with various nationalities have arrived in
The
voluntary program of international and Vietnamese young people started from
July 12 to August 15. Its activities focused on children, senior people,
disabled residents and low-income families in provinces Long An, Dong Thap,
An Giang, Kien Giang, Hau Giang, Vinh Long, Tra Vinh, and Ben Tre in the
Mekong delta region.
Vietnamese
young people from Ho Chi Minh City Communist Youth Union joined this program
to perform social activities to help locals in the
A
French volunteer, Saint Amans JB, said that he has come to many Asian
countries and European nations but nowhere is as wonderful as in
In Tam
Nong District of Dong Thap Province, volunteers have built two charity
houses for poor households in Tan Cong Sinh Commune and Tram Chim Town
as well as planted trees and paving stones for 10 kilometer road while in Tan
Thanh Commune in Moc Hoa District of Long An Province, they taught English to
children, presented gifts to low-income families as well as popularized
information of medicine and social skills.
Vietnamese
young volunteers are also interested in the program as they can understand
more lifestyle and culture of other nations as well as practice English with
international friends, said Do Kim Yen , sophomore of
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri
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Thứ Hai, 3 tháng 8, 2015
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