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The accident occurred at 12.30pm at a railway crossing in the southern As of 5.30pm yesterday, 800m of the railway track had been repaired and train services were back to normal. However, trains have been warned to run at 10km per hour only on this section. Yesterday, two wheels of the Doi Moi 121050 SG train, which had departed from The railway company's rescue team that reached the site saw other wheels had derailed by that time, and 800m of the track had been destroyed. They had to detach the wagons and lift them to stabilise the wheels. The cause of the accident was said to be broken ball bearings of the wagons. A railway company representative said the track would be fully repaired by October 12. Vietnam to inject Japanese encephalitis vaccine for kids aged from 6 -14 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam approved the Ministry of Health’s proposal to implement administration of vaccine against Japanese encephalitis for kids aged from 6 to 14. For the very first time Vietnamese kids aged from 6 to 14 years old were injected with the vaccine aided by The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). Before, in the National Expanded Immunization Program, vaccine against Japanese encephalitis was injected for children from 1 to 5 years old from 1997 and more children at various ages were administered the vaccine. So far, ten million children had been immunized the vaccine. In 2014 the rate of children were injected with two shots of Japanese encephalitis vaccine reached nearly 93.7 percent. The Ministry decided to include the vaccine in the program will help children have full vaccine before 12-month old. By statistics at hospitals lately, amongst patients having encephalitis due to virus, the rate of Japanese patients is 8-13 percent, a drastic decrease compared to previous years. HCM City People’s Committee approves 16-day Lunar New Year holidays for schools As per People’s Committee in Ho Chi Minh City’s decision, students in preschools, primary, junior and senior high schools and colleges in the city have 16 days off for Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays. As for the Lunar New Year's holidays, the official holidays will begin on February 1 and end on February 14. This year, the 16-day break is 5 days longer than last year. VNU University of Science hosts GIS 2015 Conference On October 9, VNU University of Science held the Geographic Information System (GIS) 2015 Conference on “GIS for Sustainable Development and Integration” in Hanoi, drawing the participation of numerous scientists from different universities nationwide. The participants at the conference said the GIS development has helped update, analyse, recapitulate, manage and trace useful information in a fast and easy manner. The event offers a good opportunity for scientists to announce their latest research and application results, share cooperation experiences towards the sustainable development of GIS in The country has successfully developed remote sensing and GIS applications in analyzing changes in land use in Phu Vang district, central Thua Thien Hue province, remote sensing applications on building flash flooding maps in Binh Dinh province and GIS applications in managing and providing transport infrastructure information. LSD finds its way into A growing number of Vietnamese youths are being introduced to LSD, one of the most potent, mood-changing hallucinogens, through social networking sites, especially Facebook. The drug is usually placed on absorbent blotting paper and swallowed or kept in the mouth until it dissolves. It is not difficult to find blotters, as they are known, with a myriad offers to sell them seen on personal Facebook pages and popular fanpages. Many youths share their experience of using acid on these pages, offer tips on usage and hold forth on where to buy the drug and how to distinguish between fake and genuine blotters, and even post the phone numbers of drug dealers for the public to see. According to these ads, the blotters can be bought in many parts of the country, not just in big cities like Those who want to buy them can pay directly to drug dealers or transfer money via bank accounts. On September 8, Thanh Nien reporters posing as potential acid users contacted a person who advertised he was selling blotters on his Facebook page and made an appointment. The man brought with him blotters measuring 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm, which he called stamps, and said they cost VND250,000 each if they buy more than two, and VND300,000 if they buy fewer. He said the stamps's effect would last for up to eight hours. When asked about the risks involved, he said "LSD is not addicting and Another drug dealer named C. told Thanh Nien reporters, again posing as buyers, that the drug is imported. He said there are dozens of pushers in H.L., a 17-year-old schoolboy, told Thanh Nien he had taken the drug for some time and it gave him a relaxed feeling. “It is not addicting or harmful to your brain or body like many people said. Just keep it in your mouth. “Whenever LSD starts to spread in my body, I have strange feelings all over my body. My eyes start seeing visuals everywhere. The hallucinations increase gradually, and then I feel like I have entered a different world. “Generally, LSD is great.” K., a 21-year-old user, said he took LSD to reduce stress. He usually keeps the blotters in his mouth when he goes to discos or bars, and it makes him more confident. A 26-year-old man named T.M.T. said he has been addicted to LSD for a long time, and now he often has muscle and heart pains. “Sometimes I feel disconnected from the world and unable to control my words.” Senior Lieutenant-colonel Vo Van Trai, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City ’s Narcotics Police Division, told Thanh Nien that the police had recently become aware of LSD, which is banned, being sold in Vietnam and are investigating. He said anyone who discovers trading or possession of LSD should inform the police immediately. Dr Trinh Tat Thang, director of the The drug is addicting and may lead to altered behavior, he said. Vietnamese Gov’t scholarships granted to OV students in The Vietnamese Government’s scholarships for 2015 were presented to 30 outstanding Overseas Vietnamese students in Started in 2005, the annual scholarship programme for Overseas Vietnamese students with outstanding academic performance actualised a bilateral cooperation agreement on education and training as well as a human resource development and education cooperation plan between the two governments. The number of scholarships offered rose from five in 2005 to 30 at present. Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Manh Hung asserted that the scholarships manifested the special care of the Vietnamese Party, Government and people for Vietnamese expats in The diplomat asked the Vietnamese associations in Chairman of the Vietnamese Association in Laos Nguyen Duy Trung affirmed the worthy scholarships help many Overseas Vietnamese students pursue education and make contributions to the homeland. Vietnamese girls benefit from Plan International support A communication event themed “Promoting equality-connecting love” was held by the Hanoi Education and Training Department and Plan International Vietnam on October 8. As part of a campaign called “Because I am a girl” launched by humanitarian organisation Plan International Vietnam, the event aimed to raise pupils’ awareness of gender equality and sexual harassment to girls at schools. The programme responded to the International Day of the Girl endorsed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 11 in 2013. It is the third year Plan has organised the event in According to Country Director of Plan International Vietnam Glenn Gibney, a recent Plan’s research with 4,000 girl respondents from 15 to 19 years old in four countries has showed that a majority of them are facing violence in their daily life, including in family, on street, at schools, and other issues such as arranged marriage and early pregnancy. Through its programmes, Plan International looks to raise students’ awareness of gender equality and girl-targeted sexual harassment at schools as well as factors that can make negative physical and spiritual impacts on female juveniles while attending schools. Under the five year-programme, the organisation will join hands with local authorities to encourage Vietnamese girls to get involved in making decisions, while further financing education from preschool to secondary degree. Scientists under the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change (IMH) have found that 40% to 50% of the levels of common air pollutants in northern The level of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most dangerous air pollutants, that originates from The respective levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) in the air in northern “The study’s findings show that cross-border air pollution exists in northern SO2 is a gas primarily emitted from fossil fuel combustion at power plants and other industrial facilities. NO2 pollutes the air mainly as a result of road traffic and energy production, and CO is emitted from vehicles. Air pollution spreads from Scientists conducted air quality monitoring, remote sensing analysis and a math model application to carry out the research, according to the IMH. In summertime, the levels of SO2, NO2 and CO in the air originating from China in northern Vietnam are only 4%, 2% and 1.5%, respectively, as the northeast monsoon is weaker then than it is in winter. The IMH report focuses solely on analyzing the SO2 level in the air, as there are many fuel-fired power plants in southern “SO2 and NO emissions are the cause of acid rain, which can destroy agricultural crops and production,” Son said. The academic said the IMH research should be followed by more in-depth studies on cross-border air pollution to gain enough information to propose solutions at a macro level to the issue. Robberies, scams by foreigners on the rise in There have been a rise in robberies and thefts committed by foreigners in Man dies after falling from flyover A motorcyclist died after falling from the flyover being constructed at the Cau Giay – Witnesses said that the male motorcyclist hit the soft barriers at the construction site and fell down from the flyover. On behalf of the project's investor, Vu Ha, director of the Urban Transport Development and Investment Project Management Board under the city's transport department, said the flyover was part of the city's ring road No 2. The workers were required to install warning signs and lighting systems to control traffic there. Ha said the police was investigating the incident. Deputy General Director of Thang Long Construction Corporation Hoang Viet Cuong said the workers had set up warning signs and barriers. Warning signs about "work ahead" were placed about 200m from the construction site. Cuong said the workers halted their work after the incident to reinforce safety measures. Reports from victims said the foreigners usually pretended to buy something from a local shop, or asked to exchange money. Then the foreigners would either confuse the victims and make them give more money than they should, or just grab the money and flee. Officers in The three have admitted to stealing money from several shops in the area by asking to exchange money and trying to confuse the victims during the process. Police in Danang on September 30 arrested three Iranians who allegedly pretended to exchange money to rob a bag containing VND100 million (US$4,500) from a local shop owner. A similar case happened in Police are still looking for the trio. An investigator from the southern city told Lao Dong newspaper that such crimes have occurred more often as Vietnamese people are usually not cautious with foreigners. Even bank employees are among the victims. On September 28, She reportedly showed him a wad of US$100 bills so that he could choose a new bill to exchange for an old one that he brought in. He somehow managed to steal 16 bills from her but got caught soon later. The latest one happened at a tourism promotion center in the downtown Hoan Kiem District as two foreign men came to ask about tours before they asked to exchange some Vietnam Dong for US$3,000 at a rate higher than banks. They came back several hours later, smiling happily and asked for another US$3,000. They came again that night and asked for US$60,000. But after checking the US$100 bills at the center, they decided that they would not take them. After they left, the center’s employees counted the money again and found that most of the US$100 bills had been swapped into US$1 bills. Police are still looking for the duo, allegedly from More than three months ago, a foreign man was caught by an eatery owner in the southern town of The man was identified by the police in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province as Iranian national Mahmood Khadem Poshteh. Mizuno, Midomax Midomax Vietnam JSC and Mizuno Singapore Pte Ltd signed a contract on business cooperation at the Hanoi Pullman Hotel on October 8. The signing ceremony was attended by President of Mizuno Singapore Pte Ltd, Kiyoshi Tatani, General Director of Midomax Vietnam Chu Cam Linh and Founder of Midomax Vietam Tong Duc Thuan Accordingly, Midomax Besides, Midomax, on behalf of Mizuno, also announced that they will sponsor Vietnam Table Tennis Forum – People Police Newspaper Cup, to take place in Ba Ria-Vung Tau on December 24-27 and the Vietnam Student Journal Cup. Midomax Mizuno is the market leader for sporting accessories, apparels and shoes with a long history dating back to1906 in Hau Giang plans to relocate households in landslide-prone areas Nearly 1,400 households living in the landslide-prone areas in the Mekong Delta According to Chief of the provincial Steering Committee for flood and storm and search and rescue Le Phuoc Dai, there is a high risk of landslide in the areas due to local customs of building houses and roads near canals or on the swift-flowing rivers. The situation becomes more serious when landslides not only occurred in the rainy season but also in the dry one, he said, citing nearly 20 landslide incidents were reported in the riverside areas in the first months of this dry season. It is attributed to the global climate change impact, including the rising sea level and salt intrusion. Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Dong said the most effective measure against landslides is to reinforce the dyke system, but it takes a lot of money. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, the locality plans to relocate all households in the landslide-prone areas, he said. To do this, the province needs over 340 billion VND (15.3 million USD) to build dykes, infrastructure and resettlement houses. From the beginning of 2015, Hau Giang observed over 40 riverside landslide incidents, up 30 cases over the previous year, causing huge economic loss. 12th Gyalwang Drukpa prays for peace, fallen soldiers in Tay Ninh A Buddhist delegation from Over 1,000 Buddhist monks, nuns and followers attended the event to pray and to listen to Buddha’s teachings. Gyalwang Drukpa is the honorific title of the head of the The 12th Gyalwang Drukpa has been presented many noble awards from countries and international organisations for his great contributions to society and charity cause, including India’s “Green Hero” cup, the title “ Guardian of the Himalayas” of the International Union for Conservation of Nature , and t he “Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Award ” by the United Nations. Ba Den Mountain is a prominent destination in Tay Ninh for both Buddhist followers and the common holiday makers. Around 2 million visitors, both Vietnamese and foreigners, come here every year. Norway backs VN’s climate change response Over 33,000 people in 17 vulnerable communes in three provinces of Ha Giang, Lao Cai, and Nghe An will benefit from a Norway-funded project on climate change. Accordingly, beneficiaries will be equipped with knowledge, skills, and material facilities in response to natural disasters. The project on “Mitigation of natural disasters” in the second phase (2015-2017 period) was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Red Cross and was launched on October 9 in Nghe An. The project aims to minimize damage on life, assets, health, and means of subsistence for the beneficiaries. It extremely focuses on most vulnerable groups including female, children, the handicapped, the elderly, and people in high-risk areas. The project also targets to improve competence for communal administration in the three provinces and equip knowledge and materials for local residents in response to natural disaster risks and in favor of community development goals. The project also contributes to implement the PM’s Decision 1002/QD-TTg, dated July 13, 2009, approving the Scheme on improvement of community awareness and community-based management of natural disaster risks. Communal headquarters surrounded over waste treatment project Hundreds of people in The project is part of a provincial plan to build a main waste treatment facility for four northern communes -- Hai Chau, Hai Ninh, Thanh Thuy and Thanh Son. Local residents of Thanh Son Commune say the facility will be built near the Rac Rice Field, at More than 100 people signed on a letter of opposition to the district and provincial authorities. The locals said the size of their agriculture lands will be affected. Moreover, the facility may cause pollution to the air and water. On October 2, hundreds of people surrounded the communal headquarters to stop the project. Pham Van Nhiem, deputy chairman of Tinh Gia District, said opposition began when a field survey team examined the proposed location. Construction has not yet begun. Nguyen Xuan Thuy, Party Secretary of Tinh Gia District, said the local populace has been invited to a group meeting to try to reach an amicable solution. "It will be difficult if they don't let us build the waste site anywhere," he said.
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