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Social News 13/10
Ha
Noi to evaluate status of decaying buildings
Ha
Noi's People's Committee recently issued an instruction on checking and
evaluating the status of old buildings in the city.
As per
the instruction, the municipal construction department is responsible for
investigating and evaluating the status of old and decaying buildings.
The
department will prepare a list of the buildings that are discovered to be
unsafe and submit it to the committee.
The
department will propose plans for the repair or demolishing of decaying
buildings.
The
department has also been asked to co-operate with relevant offices and
district people's committees to expand the work.
According
to surveys conducted by the
Doctors
at
Pham
Huu Thien Chi, deputy head of the liver, gall bladder and pancreas ward at
the hospital, said the first surgery was carried out last Saturday on a
66-year-old woman who suffered from hepatitis and cirrhosis of the last
stage.
If she
had not received a liver transplant in time, she would have suffered kidney
failure, with little hope of a cure.
Her
oldest son, who is 37 years old, agreed to donate his liver.
A day
later on Sunday, the hospital carried out the second surgery on a 60-year-old
man from the southern
His
oldest son, who is 32 years old, agreed to donate his liver.
The
two donors were found to be slightly overweight and were asked by the doctors
to reduce some weight without affecting their health.
Doctor
Chi said each surgery last more than 10 hours.
Both
the patients and the donors are in stable condition and under the doctors'
strict supervision.
Pham
Thi Ngoc Thao, deputy director of
The
hospital has conducted six liver transplants since 2012.
Cao
Dai marks 90 years in Viet Nam
More
than 800 people attended the ninetieth anniversary of a unique Vietnamese
religion, Cao Dai, in Ha Noi yesterday.
President
Truong Tan Sang sent a congratulatory bouquet to the gathering.
The
ceremony brought Cao Dai dignitaries together with officials from the Viet
Nam Fatherland Front, ministries and sectors, city and provincial authorities
- and representatives of other religions.
The
main celebrations will be held on Thursday in
Duong
Ngoc Tan, Deputy Head of the Government's Committee for Religious Affairs,
told the gathering that the Party and the State appreciated the significant
contributions Cao Dai followers in national construction and defence
He
also emphasised its charitable, socio-cultural activities and relationships
with international religious organisations.
During
the
The
symbol of the faith is the Left Eye of God, representing the yang or
masculine activity of the male creator. This is balanced by the yin (m)
activity of the Mother Goddess and the Queen Mother of the West (Diu Tri Kim
Mau and Ty Vuong Mau), the nurturing and restorative mother of humanity.
Adherents
engage in ethical practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors,
non-violence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom
from suffering.
Estimates
of the number of Caodaists in
From
2006 to 2015, more than VND200 million (US$8,900) was donated by Cao Dai
dignitaries and followers to help people suffering from natural disasters and
to conduct free medical examinations for impoverished people.
Positive
economic trends kick poverty to the curb
The World Bank (WB) in “The strengthening recovery combined with stable economic conditions is expected to help sustain positive poverty trends,” said a WB report on “With ongoing positive growth trends, poverty has continued to decline,” said the report. Preliminary analysis of new data from the 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey confirms that poverty in the country is dropping, and extreme poverty using the new US$1.9-per-day poverty line under the 2011 purchasing power parity has dropped to below 3 %. According to However, according to the WB, there are concerns that poverty is increasingly affecting members of ethnic minority groups. Ethnic minorities now make up more than half of the country’s poor, and progress on ethnic minority poverty reduction has declined. The WB also underscored some challenges affecting The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) reported that the agricultural sector grew only 2.1 % in this year’s first nine months, lower than the growth rate recorded in the same periods of the previous years, with 2014 (3.47 %), 2013 (2.71 %) and 2012 (3.5 %). Additionally, slumps in export prices of rice and other agricultural products will likely have negative impact on rural consumption and income, according to the World Bank report. Under the MARD’s statistics, The export value of aquatic products was forecast to be US$4.69 billion, down 17.8 %, with the The slogan Don't Drink and Drive will be placed on 1,000 buses running in the capital starting today to raise traffic safety awareness of passers-by and curb the number of accidents in the country due to alcohol. This action is part of the campaign Don't Drink and Drive which was launched on Saturday by Khuat Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam National Safety Traffic Committee said that the campaign aimed to raise driver awareness of the danger of alcohol and the country's strict punishments to those who do not respect the regulation on alcohol level. The slogan will be displayed on the capital's 70 bus lines of Hanoi Transport and Services Corporation (Transerco) which operate from 5am to 10pm. "It's the efficient way to communicate to the passers-by and passengers on the bus about the danger of alcohol when they drink before driving," Hung said. "After a one month trial in Hung also said that alcohol remained one of the main causes of traffic accidents. According to him, over the last nine years, traffic accidents have decreased rapidly. "However, the number of accidents and the injured and dead is still high. In particular, many drivers still violate the traffic regulations: They exceed the posted speed limits, encroach onto other road lanes, and violate alcohol restrictions." According to statistics of the World Health Association, 37% of 18,000 victims of traffic accidents in the North of Vietnam have surpassed the legal alcohol level of 50mg/100ml. Fifty-nine percent of victims who die of traffic accidents because of alcohol are aged from 15 to 29 years old. Twenty-four percent of those victims are aged from 30 to 44 years old. Ninety-three percent of the victims are men. Nguyen Van Viet, chairman of Vietnam Beer Alcohol Beverage Association (VBA) and VARD, said that he believed that this campaign would be efficient in raising the inhabitants' awareness about respect for traffic safety rules in general and those of alcohol in particular.
Under
the campaign, staff from TRAMOC will participate in each bus line to report
and asset the service quality of bus drivers and assistant drivers with the
aim to gradually inspire friendly behaviour of the services’ staff.
“Friendly
and Safety Bus Service”, the first step in efforts to renovate and improve
public services, will be applied in all bus services in the city by 2016,
according to Bui Xuan Cuong, Director of the municipal Department of
Transport.
The municipal
People’s Committee recently approved a bus e-ticket project with a total
estimated investment of VND262.7 billion (US$11.72 million). Expenditures for
management and operations will reach VND321.1 billion (US$14.5 million) over
ten years.
In 2015,
city buses are estimated to carry about 367.7 million passengers, a sharp
decline from year’s past, according to the municipal Department of Transport.
Project
on job generation and improvement launched
A
project to increase employment and improve occupational quality through
social responsible labor practices will be carried out from now until 2017.
The
project aims to improve awareness of corporate social responsibility and
encourage businesses to contribute to socio-economic development.
Deputy
Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, Dao Hong Lan, spoke at the
project launch ceremony, “The project focuses on the electronics industry
which has attracted a large number of workers. It will inspire corporate
social responsibility in the manufacturing sector, contributing to
environmental protection, maintaining good relations with the employees, and
ensuring workers’ interests.”
The
project is co-hosted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the
Vietnam Electronics Enterprises’ Association, and the International Labor
Organization.
The
Ministry of Information and Communication has fined a company VND60 million
(US$2,600) for posting pirated movies and TV shows, including
The
fine is double the usual amount for similar violations as inspectors have
found a very large amount of pirated content on the popular hayhaytv.vn, run
by Bach Trieu Phat Joint-stock Company, according to the reports.
The Ho
Chi Minh City-based company was also ordered to remove all illegal content
from its website, which was shut down on September 28.
Bach
Trieu Phat launched the website as a social network in 2012, allowing its
members to upload and share movies and TV shows. But, the company was also
found uploading a majority of streaming content.
Although
the website could be accessed by anybody, members could choose to pay a small
fee, around VND1,000 a day, to stream in higher quality and better speed
without ads. Its membership reportedly reached thousands prior to the
crackdown.
It is
unclear what the inspectors planned to deal with Ho Chi Minh City-based Pine
Multimedia Technologies, which was hired to take care of the website's
technical infrastructure and suspected of illegally posting movies and TV
shows as well.
Landslides
prompt relocation
Nearly
1,400 households living in landslide-prone areas in the Mekong Delta
Local
customs of building houses and roads near canals or on swift-flowing rivers
have created a high risk of landslides.
The
situation has become direr, with landslides occurring not just in the rainy
season but also in drier weather. Twenty landslides were reported in
riverside areas in the first few months of this dry season. Dai attributed
this as a result of global climate change, which has affected sea levels and
salt intrusion.
Provincial
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Nguyen Van Dong said
the most effective measure against landslides was to reinforce the dyke
system, but that took a lot of money.
Therefore,
in the foreseeable future the locality planned to relocate all households in
landslide-prone areas, he said.
To do
this, the province needed more than VND340 billion (US$15.3 million) to build
dykes, infrastructure and resettlement houses.
Since
the beginning of 2015, Hau Giang has seen more than 40 riverside landslides,
up 30 cases over the previous year, causing huge financial losses.
Authorities
to ensure people's safety in rainy season
Authorities
in this central province are working actively to enhance the safety of
reservoirs, dams and bridges during the rainy and flooding season.
The
provincial People's Committee has disbursed VND23 billion (US$1.02 million)
to strengthen weak spots on the walls of reservoirs and dams used for
irrigation work and by hydropower plants.
A
joint force of personnel from the agencies of flood and storm prevention,
disaster rescue and transport sectors has been set up for monitoring the
safety of all reservoirs, dams and bridges in the locality.
Nguyen
Ngoc Phung, director of the local department of irrigation and disaster
prevention, said his agency has deployed more staff for irrigation work and
closer monitoring during the rainy season.
The
local department of transport has announced the completion of 10 suspension
bridges spanning streams and canals in remote areas.
Eight
of these bridges were put into use earlier this month, including those built
over difficult terrain in the mountainous districts of Tuyen Hoa and Minh
Hoa.
The
department's Director Le Quoc Cuong said the bridges would help reduce fatal
accidents of people crossing rivers and canals in the flooding season.
Ha
Noi residents to rate basic public services
Ha Noi residents will have the opportunity this week to judge the quality of basic public services in order to highlight shortcomings and enhance employees' responsibilities and working attitudes. The municipal People's Committee recently proposed that inhabitants living in the districts of Ba Dinh, Ha Dong, Nam Tu Liem, Dong Anh, Thuong Tin should be permitted to submit comments on the quality of basic public services in order to find solutions to improve them. Those public services include medical services, waste collection services and transportation services. For each service, 700 coupons will be distributed to the residents. Answers can be submitted from October 15 to November 20. Survey results will be reported to the municipal People's Committee before December 20.
MoT gets nod to
court investors for new bridge
The Government has given the Ministry of Transport the green light to seek BOT (Build – Operate – Transfer) investment for building the first component of the Work on the bridge over the Hau (Posterior Mekong) River linking the provinces of Soc Trang and Tra Vinh on National Highway No 60 is scheduled to finish in late 2018. The VND5 trillion (over US$225 million) project comprises the 2.32km Dai Ngai Bridge No 1 over the Dinh An Passage and the nearly 1km Dai Ngai Bridge No 2 over the Tran De Passage. The green light is expected to speed up preparations and enable an early start to the construction. The new bridge will help reduce the distance from According to the ministry, funds for the second component will come from the Government in the period of 2016 – 2020. Poultry with A/H5N6 destroyed in More than 1,200 poultry infected with A/H5N6 have been destroyed after two outbreaks in this northern mountain province's two communes of Son Binh and Binh Luc. Lai Chau agriculture and health authorities said on Friday that about 300 among the total poultry which have been killed, were illegally transported from others pandemic areas without their original certificates being identified. About 600 of them were infected with A/H5N6 virus while being raised in farms of local households. The remaining 300 were reportedly infected with the virus at the local experimental breeding centre in Tam Duong District before they were delivered to households for raising, the authority said. Tam Duong District's Veterinary Centre said the outbreak first appeared in 1,000 chickens at a farm in Hoang Xuan Qui in mid-September when some of the chicken died mysteriously. The farm owner thought the chickens had been affected by weather changes and did not inform the local veterinary authority, but instead tried to use some local herbal medicine to cure the birds. Soon after, some samples were taken for examination, and when results confirmed the chicken were infected with the A/H5NA virus, an alert was issued to the entire area. The district's People Committee ordered the infected areas to be isolated and appealed to local farmers to protect their farms by immediately informing local veterinary experts of any symptoms in their poultry herds.
Climate
change is increasingly impacting daily life in
"HCM
City will suffer severely from climate change, and therefore finding ways to
cope is a very important task," Dao Anh Kiet, director of the city
Natural Resource and Environment Department, said while inaugurating an
international workshop titled "Research Collaboration with HCM City and
Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism" yesterday.
The
city is drawing up a Climate Change Action Plan for 2016-2020. Assisting in
the task is a computer simulation model developed by the Japan National
Institute for Environment Research,
The
goal of the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) is to design and evaluate
global climate stability policy in general and in the Asia-Pacific in
particular.
AIM
has helped HCM City calculate energy, greenhouse emissions and potential to
reduce by collecting all related figures, including transport demand, current
technology levels, effectiveness of energy usage, solutions to reduce
greenhouse emissions.
The
figures will be analysed to create technical standards for the city's Climate
Change Action Plan.
AIM
indicates that the city would reduce greenhouse emissions by 7.1-17.1 per
cent by 2020.
"AIM
supports researchers in developing national /city-level low-carbon society
(LCS) plans and roadmaps and encourages policy makers to develop LCS plans,
and
Ho
Minh Chau of the city's Climate Change Bureau told the workshop about the
city's efforts to cope with climate change in 2009-2015.
"The
city spent VND2.4 billion (US$120,000) to evaluate public awareness and study
the impacts of climate change on all aspects of life and provide
solutions."
The
city also promoted co-operation with international partners to tackle climate
change, especially with the cities of
"
There
have been efforts to estimate greenhouse emissions, he said.
In
drafting its Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020, the city should pay
attention to the rising average temperature and rainfall.
"All
climate change factors must be considered in all of the city's socio-economic
strategies, master plans, programmes, plans and projects.
"The
Action Plan must strengthen the ability to cope with climate change,
contribute to reducing greenhouse emissions and increase international
co-operation."
Russia-HCMC
flights delayed
Pegas Travel The company earlier expected to resume the Russia-HCMC air service on October 20 with a flight in every three days, and arrange more flights at that time when the ruble was slightly firmer against the greenback, with a U.S. dollar exchanged for 52 rubles compared to the previous 70 rubles. However, the Russian ruble has since dipped. It currently hovers around 68 rubles per dollar. The ruble depreciation might cause huge losses for the travel firm, so it has decided to delay the resumption of Russia-HCMC flights. “We had to drop the Russia-HCMC route to focus on the Russia-Cam Ranh run,” said Hoang Thi Phong Thu, chairwoman of Travel Pegas Thu estimated the number of Russian tourists to VGCL President meets Indonesia trade union leader President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Dang Ngoc Tung (VGCL) hosted a reception in Hanoi on October 12 to General Secretary of the Confederation of Indonesia Prosperous Trade Union (CIPTU) Eduard Marpaung. Both sides explored the possibility of cooperation in training, collective negotiation, labour relations and forming of trade union networks at multi-national corporations. Initiated by the CIPTU, the trade unions network will work to empower negotiations between employees and trade unions towards improving productivity at multi-national groups and the global supply chain. Employees and trade unions will also mutually benefit from collective agreement models and international framework agreements, including the convention of the International Labour Organisation and ASEAN policies on employment. Marpaung said trade unions in each country will be responsible for forming their networks at multi-national corporations and extend partnership with those from other countries, towards creating a bloc protecting workers’ interests. Tung pledged to consider
Fundraising
campaign for the poor progressing well
The
Day for the Poor campaign raised 461 billion VND (20.9 million USD) in the
first nine months of the year, participants at a conference in
Of the
total, 452 billion VND (20.5 billion USD) came from localities and the
remaining from central authorities.
Forty
of 63 cities and provinces helped build and repair about 14,000 houses during
the period. They also helped nearly 40,000 poor households build production
facilities. Up to 651,000 disadvantaged individuals underwent health care and
treatment, around 148,000 students received schooling and 834 civil buildings
were constructed.
The
Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee’s standing board presented
certificates of merit to four communes, two townships, one district and one
city in the central
Addressing
the conference, VFF Central Committee Vice Chairwoman Truong Thi Ngoc Anh
requested more support for the nearly 1.5 million low-income families across
the nation.
Between
now and the year’s end, the Day for the Poor fundraising board was asked to
continue raising public awareness about the campaign and social welfare
programmes, making it easier for the needy to lift themselves out of
poverty.
The
month “For the Poor” will take place from October 17 to November 18.
Anh
took the occasion to call for effective and transparent use of funding for
low-income citizens.-
October 17 is observed as the Day for the Poor in Accommodation support for poor households, the cow bank project, the project to build and repair houses for disadvantaged veterans’ families, and the project to help people with disabilities obtain stable jobs are among the specific programs underway to reduce the poverty rate in Since the beginning of this year, charity funds and programs launched by the October 17 is observed as the Day for the Poor in Dang Quang Thieu, head the Department for Social Policy of the As a member of the Mobilizing Board for the Fund for the Poor, the Vietnam Farmers Association considers poverty reduction its main task. The Association and its branches allocate quotas for farm households good at production and trading to help one or two poorer households escape poverty through financial aid and technology transfers. Leu Vu Dieu, Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers Association, said, “Movements encouraging farmers to compete in production, trading, and making their fortunes have proven effective. In addition to direct assistance to farmers, the Association has called for contributions to a fund to help farmers with more difficult situations." "These funds will offer disadvantaged farmers low-interest loans for production development to escape poverty. We’ve also organized vocational training courses and even onsite training for farmers in mountain areas,” Dieu added. Ethnic people account for half of the poor households in Son Phuoc Hoan, deputy Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, said that they “have a special policy for extremely disadvantaged ethnic minority households to borrow loans. We’ve proposed to allocate about US$6 million this year to address their difficulties. We’ve provided them with assistance to settlement.” Over the past 15 years, ILO supports Vietnamese trade unions The International Labour Organisation has announced plans to work with the Director of ILO Vietnam Chang Hee Lee made the remark while working with President of the VGCL Dang Ngoc Tung in The ILO will promote labourers’ rights in the workplace, identify sustainable occupational opportunities, increase social assistance and increase talks on job-related issues, he said. The organisation is committed to working with the VGCL to run programmes in the field, while arranging funding for personnel training and research activities, he added. Tung said he hopes the ILO will help Vietnamese trade unions to understand the impacts of He called on the ILO to show domestic trade unions how to reform their organisations and operations, sharpen their negotiation skills and handle employment disputes. The ILO is also expected to support Vietnamese efforts to protect migrant workers, increase vocational training and defend vulnerable groups, he said. Over the years, the ILO has carried out a number of activities to assist Vietnamese trade unions, such as organising short training courses and national and international workshops, and helping the country revise legal documents on labour, trade unions and gender equality. Fire at 34 story apartment building in A large fire blazed for two and a half hours in a 34-story apartment building in The blaze broke out in the basement of the CT4A Block, part of the apartment building located in the Xa La urban area in Ha Dong District, at about 7:25 pm, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper quoted local residents as saying. About 30 minutes later, while the flames were rising, locals heard some explosions and the power supply suddenly cut out, the newspaper said. As the basement is also connected to the two other tower blocks, CT4B and CT4C, the fire and smoke also affected residents in those towers. Rescuers use ladder trucks to search for victims of the fire at the 34-storey apartment building. Photo: Tuoi Tre Amid the rising black smoke columns, thousands of residents rushed down from the upper floors in order to escape the building. At the same time, hundreds of firefighters, rescuers and health workers were deployed to the scene. Firefighters and rescuers tried to access and protect hundreds of people who were stuck on the higher levels of the high-rise. Around 10:00 pm, firefighters got the fire under control and rescuers took all the trapped residents to safe places 45 minutes later. Rescuers are pictured carrying victims of the fire into an ambulance. Photo: Tuoi Tre The fire claimed no lives but injured an unknown number of people, a firefighting official said. At 10:30 pm, two injured victims were sent to Hanoi-based Ha Dong General Hospital, while many others were taken to Hospital 103 and the National Institute of Burns in the capital. The fire was alleged to have started in the transmitter station in the basement, where hundreds of motorbikes were parked, sources said. Police are investigating the cause of the blaze. Month for the poor kicks off Total amount of money all sectors contributed to Fund for the Poor is VND460 billion (US$ 20,596,215), said the Steering Board for the Poor at a meeting to review 9-month campaign for the poor in the year yesterday in Hanoi. The steering board continued to implement peak month for the poor in 2015. Of total amount of VND460 billion (US$ 20,596,215), VND8.8 billion (US$394,000) is the Central Fund for the Poor and VND452 billion (US$ 20,237,296) is the local funds for the poor. The steering board has spent the amount to repair and build 14,000 new houses; lend poor 39,000 households to develop their business as well as give 651,000 needy people for medical examination and treatment; help 147,000 children from low-income families to return to schools and build 843 public works. Till now, 18 cities and provinces have spent the amount to build charity houses to eliminate dilapidated houses of the poor. The month will run from October 17 until November 18 to encourage organizations and individuals to contribute to the fund which will be spent to take care of the poor especially in Tet holidays (Lunar New Year). Currently, around 1.5 million poor households need social help to escape poverty.
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