Thứ Hai, 5 tháng 10, 2015

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HCM City faces rove beetle threat
 
A small, poisonous beetle is plaguing the lives of HCM City residents, with thousands of people being treated for bites.

The culprit is the Paederus, or "rove beetle", which is attracted to lights in homes and often hide in washing being hung out to dry.

In District 7, one couple caught dozens of beetles, and residents have had to install insect screens on windows to ward off attacks. The beetle exudes a toxin that results in skin irritation on contact.

Some 1,200 students at the National University's dormitories have reported being bitten by the beetles. Nguyen Huu Khuong said seven roommates out of eight had been bitten.

"My eye swelled up. I had to take two days off because I couldn't open them," he said.

Tran Thanh An, director of the dormitory's management board, said they had asked the city and district preventive health centres to deal with the problem.

He said 1,200 students have been affected and 500 are being treated.
An said the university has many trees and heavy rains in the past weeks contributed to the appearance of the beetles.

HCM City launches bus route via Thu Thiem Tunnel
 

 HCM City faces rove beetle threat, HCM City launches bus route via Thu Thiem Tunnel, Woman arrested for robbing taxi drivers, Works start on Tho Xuan airport’s air traffic control tower, Tay Ninh gets new main border gate

HCM City launched the first bus route through Thu Thiem Tunnel on Thursday, according to the HCM City Passenger Transport Management Centre under the HCM City Department of Transport.

The No 35 bus operates from 5:30 am to 8pm, with 120 trips per day from Hoang Sa and Thao Dien Park bus stations. The bus departs every 12 to 16 minutes on its 55-60 minute route.

The bus route formerly travelled through District 1 only. The adjustment is expected to help solve traffic jams on Sai Gon Bridge and other roads linking District 1 and 2, especially during rush hour.

The 16km bus route operates on Hoang Sa Street, Vo Van Kiet Boulevard, Thu Thiem Tunnel, Mai Chi Tho Boulevard, Tran Nao Street and Luong Dinh Cua Street and stops outside Thao Dien Park, connecting districts 1 and 2.

Woman arrested for robbing taxi drivers

Police in Nam Truc District, the northern province of Nam Dinh have seized a woman for allegedly stealing from taxi drivers.

Major Nguyen Van Trung, deputy head of the investigation police for social order team, said that on September 24 local residents informed the police that Tran Dac Phi, 23, a driver from the Mai Linh Taxi Firm, was robbed of an iPhone 5. Then they tied Phi and put him in the taxi's trunk.

On September 25, the police were informed that Nguyen The Phuong, a driver from the Sao Mai Taxi Group, was robbed by a man and a woman. Phuong called for help and the robbers ran away.

Conducting investigation, they discovered that the two suspects were Phan Van Tinh, 25, of Nam Truc District and Nguyen Thi Lan, 20, from the central province of Thanh Hoa.

The police caught Lan on September 30.

At 2am on October 1, local residents informed the police that Tinh was stealing in Hong Quang Commune. After being chased by police, Tinh hid on the roof of a residents' house. He then jumped from the roof to the ground, but fell and died from concussion trauma the next day.

Works start on Tho Xuan airport’s air traffic control tower

The Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) broke ground on the 45-metre air traffic control (ATC) tower of Tho Xuan airport in central Thanh Hoa province on October 4.

The tower is designed to provide flexible and rapid operation of ATC services and meet safety standards recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

It will be equipped with latest ATC technology, using Very-high-frequency Air/Ground (VHF), Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT), Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) and Voice Communication Control System (VCCS) among others.

The project is scheduled to be operational in early 2017 to provide both civil and military ATC services, hence facilitating the economic and tourism development of not only Thanh Hoa province but also the whole northern central region,

Tho Xuan Airport, formerly known as Sao Vang Airport, is located in Sao Vang town, Tho Xuan district, 45 kilometres away from Thanh Hoa capital city.

The airport looks to expand its capacity to 2.5 million passengers per year and handle 27,000 tonnes of goods by 2030.

PM approves financially aid to employer of ethnic minority workers

The Prime Minister has approved nearly 74 billion VND, or about 3.29 million USD, in financial support for the Vietnam Rubber Group which has employed many ethnic minority workers from underprivileged, mountainous areas in 2014.

The approval was granted in accordance with Decision No.42/2012/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister dated October 8, 2012 on support for employers of ethnic minority people from disadvantaged or mountainous areas.

Accordingly, the employers of ethnic minority workers will receive 100 percent funding for spendings on the workers’ social, health and unemployment insurance premiums, short-term vocational training and 20 percent of the wage payment.-

Deputy PM calls for strict measures for traffic safety

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc assigned the Ministry of Public Security to implement strict measures to crack down on traffic safety violations at an October 2 conference on traffic safety in the first nine months of the year.

Phuc, who is also the Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, asked the ministry to focus on overloaded trucks and find the source of illegal logos that help overloaded trucks pass checkpoints without being stopped. He also asked for vehicles that used licence plates starting with 80B – the number used for official Government vehicles – to be checked as well.

The Deputy PM noted that some local authorities are not taking responsibility for the problem, and corruption among traffic police is still a problem.

He also stressed the importance of reviewing safety at level crossings and junctions to reduce accidents.

In the first nine months of the year, traffic accidents have fallen at both of these intersections compared to the same period last year, according to a report by Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang.

So far this year, there have been more than 16,400 accidents, 6,500 fatalities and nearly 15,000 injuries.

The transport ministry reported that overloaded trucks are still destroying national highways and roads.

Traffic congestion also remained unsolved at peak hours in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, especially in bad weather.

Traffic police nationwide have caught over 3 million violations this year and fined drivers 3 trillion VND (133 million USD). They have also confiscated over 29,500 cars and 377,400 motorbikes, along with 260,800 driving licences.

Tay Ninh gets new main border gate

The Ka Tum border gate in the southern province of Tay Ninh was upgraded to a main border gate at a ceremony held by the provincial People’s Committee on October 2.

The border gate, which pairs with its Cambodian counterpart of Chan Mul in Tboung Khmum province, was upgraded following Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s Decision No 1490/QD-TTg signed on August 26, 2013 to facilitate trade activities and promote economic development between the two neighbouring countries.

The upgrades to the border gate’s infrastructure were done at a total investment of 14 billion VND (630,000 USD) and included a one-kilometre cement road linked to the border gate, waiting rooms for passengers and customs and quarantine offices, according to Trang Van Ly, Director of the provincial Department of Foreign Affairs.

In 2014, trade turnover through the Ka Tum border gate reached 225 million USD. The figure in the first nine months of this year was 184 million USD.

Hanoi hosts meeting of int’l scientific-technical information council

The 66th meeting of the executive board of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) took place in Hanoi on October 2.

This is the second time Vietnam has hosted the ICSTI executive board meeting. It hosted the 39th meeting in 1989, 10 years after the country officially joined the council.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Viet Thanh emphasised Vietnam’s willingness to develop cooperation with members of the ICSTI in the future.

The country’s information-library sector has received substantial support from ICSTI members in the form of staff training, technical equipment and scientific-technological materials, Thanh said, adding that it was thanks to the ICSTI’s provision of technology, Vietnamese users were able to access database outside Vietnam for the first time in 1982.

As an activity in the framework of the ICSTI meeting, an international conference on scientific and technical statistics was held with a focus on the role of information and scientific and technical statistics towards Vietnam and Eastern European countries.

Participants also discussed experience on building policies and mechanisms for management of scientific and technical statistics systems; and on technology transfer and technology application in Eastern European countries.

War-time USAF aircraft engine found in sea off central Vietnam

A museum in central Vietnam has received a jet engine of an American aircraft that is believed to have gone down during the Vietnam War.

The engine was discovered in May 2015 on the seabed of Cua Sot area, some six nautical miles off Thach Kim Commune, Ha Tinh Province, by a group of fishermen, who later retrieved it.

Experts from the Ministry of Defense later confirmed that the debris was a part of a Pratt & Whitney J75 aircraft engine which was used on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief of the US Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Le Ba Hanh, Vice Director of Ha Tinh Museum, said the engine will be displayed at the museum.

He said the fishermen who found it received a reward of VND30 million.

According to Wikipedia, during the Vietnam War 382 F-105s - out of the 833 produced - were lost including 62 non-combat losses.

Chinese man gets prison term for smuggling $30,900 into Vietnam

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a Chinese man to two years in prison for bringing into the country US$30,900 without making a declaration to the customs authorities last month.

Chang Wei Wei, a.k.a Michael, was found guilty of cross-border smuggling of foreign exchange, according to the People’s Court of Tay Ninh Province on September 30.

According to the indictment, on August 1, Wei attempted to enter Vietnam from Cambodia through Moc Bai Border Gate in Tay Ninh.

He did not declare any amount of foreign exchange brought with him.

Subsequent screening led to his arrest, after customs officers found US$20,000 in his bag, US$10,000 in his pocket and another US$900 in his wallet.

According to Vietnam Customs, a declaration must be made to the customs authorities if a person brings in foreign currency notes with value exceeding US$5,000.

Under the Penal Code, the crime of smuggling goods and currency valuing from VND500 million (US$22,247) could be subjected to up to 10-year imprisonment.

Lawmakers meet with voters in Quang Nam

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc yesterday led a delegation of deputies from central Quang Nam Province to meet with some 300 voters from the 14 localities of the province's Duy Xuyen District.

Deputy PM Phuc informed local voters about socio-economic development in the past nine months as well as key elements of the upcoming national assembly meeting to be open on October 20.

Voters appreciated the Government's support to the local Duy Xuyen people and expressed their trust of the leadership of the Party and Government.

However, many shared concerns on a number of issues including policies on new rural development, poverty eradication, infrastructure constructions and environmental pollution.

Some voters showed their concerns about the compensation for their land being acquired for the construction of the Da Nang-Quang Nam Highway.

Nguyen Thi Yen, a voter from Duy Thanh Commune, complained she was among local people who had been suffering from damage during construction.

Yen said she had not received any relevant response to her complaint about the damage after more than three months of sending request letters to all responsible authorities.

Deputy PM Phuc said he would immediately report the issues to the NA and Government and promised to gradually solve all of them.

He thanked voters for their input on urgent issues and confirmed Party, Government and NA support to poor and under-privileged households in the country.

He urged local authorities to support local people and fight against corruption and financial waste.

He asked them to hold more direct talks with local people to hear their concerns and solve them in a timely manner.

Tourism authority seeks visa waiver for 19 countries to boost arrivals

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) says it is proposing visa waivers for more countries and that foreign arrivals in the last three months of the year are expected to surge.

Nguyen Van Tuan, director of the agency, said in a recent report on the government website that there are "signs of recovery" in the tourism sector.

Tourist numbers in July, August and September were all higher than the corresponding month last year, ending 13 months of declines, including a sharp fall of 23.4% in March.

“With this new trend, we hope that the market can bounce back,” Tuan said.

He said his agency is proposing visa exemption for passport holders from 19 new markets, without naming them and providing any timeframe.

Tuan said the industry has been given a boost thanks to the recent visa waiver policy for tourists from Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain and Belarus.

The country has already waived visa requirements for visitors from Russia, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

The government has also allowed Viet kieu (overseas Vietnamese), their foreign spouses and children to visit Vietnam without a visa. More than 4.5 million Vietnamese are working and living outside Vietnam, according to official data.

President highlights importance of culture

President Truong Tan Sang yesterday stressed the importance of culture in national development while attending a national scientific conference on the role of arts and literature in developing personalities of Viet Nam.

The president confirmed that the Party and State of Viet Nam considered cultural activities as the foundation of society and a driving force of sustainable development.

In his address at the conference which closed yesterday, the President said culture had helped boost understanding and co-operation between Viet Nam and other countries.

However, he cautioned of a "cultural invasion" that the sector could face while joining the international integration process.

He urged the sector to be vigilant of cultural sabotage which could spread through the country due to a lack of an ineffective preventive scheme.

President Sang appealed for more works from artists and writers reflecting on Viet Nam's past resistance against foreign invasion as well as current national development.

"Artistic and literary works should encourage good models in society promoting true and genuine human characteristic," said the president.
Preventive medicine faces staff shortages 

The preventive medicine sector is faced with a severe shortage of medical doctors and officials as well as insufficient spending, according to figures recently released by the Ministry of Health.

Provincial and district-level preventive medicine centres need to recruit 23,000 staff, the ministry's General Department of Preventive Medicine has said.

Tran Dac Phu, head of the general department, attributed the shortage to a huge gap between incomes of doctors in preventive medicine and doctors in disease treatment. The latter can earn dozens of millions or even hundreds of million of Vietnamese dong per month if they have a private practice.

Nam Po District in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, for instance, has 15 communes, but only seven medical staff work in preventive medicine.

The district's Preventive Medicine Centre, for example, is 80 kilometres from a remote commune. It needs 18 staff to cover preventive medicine tasks, including doctors and officials with bachelor's degrees in community health.

Dien Bien Province's Preventive Medicine Centre is also in need of six officials.

The average monthly salary of a preventive medicine doctor is VND3-4 million (US$133-177) and the expenses for a business trip VND5,000 (US$0.3) per person per day, according to a report from Dien Bien Province's Preventive Medicine Centre.

One manager of a preventive medicine centre in HCM City said that new medical school graduates refused to work in preventive medicine because of the low income, hard work, and lack of opportunities for treatment of disease.

Pham Van Tac, head of the Ministry of Health's Personnel Department, said the number of medical officials (doctors in preventive medicine or officials with a bachelor's degree in community health) in provincial preventive medicine met only 60 per cent of demand.

The provincial preventive medicine system is beset with many kinds of centres, including ones for food safety, environmental health, malaria control and prevention, and HIV/AIDS prevention and control, Tac said.

Each centre has its own office and personnel. If some of these centres merged, the number of administrative staff and medical workers in preventive medicine could be reduced, he said.

Budget shortfall

The average spending on preventive medicine accounts for only 16 per cent of expenditures in the health sector, according to the latest study from the Ministry of Health.

However, the Government requires that 30 per cent of health sector spending be given to preventive medicine.

The ministry's study of 15 cities and provinces showed that 14 cities and provinces had spending on preventive medicine below 30 per cent.

The northern mountainous province of Lang Son spent only 10 per cent of the provincial health sector's budget on preventive medicine.

The southern province of Dong Nai was the only locality with 50 per cent of spending of its health budget on preventive medicine.

A recent study conducted by the General Department of Preventive Medicine of 30 cities and provinces showed that 70-90 per cent of State budget funds set aside for the preventive medicine sector was used to pay salaries, allowances and other expenses for daily activities.

Most of the expenses for professional tasks as well as disease prevention and control were funded by national target programmes.

Conference seeks to improve preventive medicine

More than 450 experts and scientists shared research and expertise in preventive health at a conference in Ha Noi last week.

The event was held by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and the Viet Nam Association of Preventive Medicine, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Japan's Nagasaki Institute of Tropical Medicine.

Participants heard more than 80 reports focusing on issues related to community health and public healthcare, especially new communicable diseases, seasonal flu and pandemic influenza.

Delegates discussed measures to prevent dengue fever, hand-foot-mouth disease, HIV/AIDS, measles, rubella, rabies, diarrhea and bacterial contamination diseases.

They also exchanged measures to raise public awareness of the importance of disease prevention, including communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Other issues such as nutrition-related pathologies for mothers and children, pathologies for the elderly, job- and environment-related illnesses, food sanitation, and gender equality in community health care were also discussed.

On the 70th anniversary of its' establishment, the NIHE received the First-Class Labour Medal for its contribution to health care in Viet Nam.

Established in 1945, NIHE focused its activities on disease prevention, biological product and vaccine development and virus tests in labour.

National targeted programmes managed by the institute such as the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation, rabies, dengue fever and diarrhea prevention, have saved thousands of lives.

Citizens to supervise investment projects

Citizens will have the right to supervise investment projects at grassroots level through Community Boards of Investment Supervision from October 20, according to the Government's new decree on investment supervision and valuation.

Under the new decree, boards formed by residents not holding posts in communal agencies or having relationships with investors or contractors will be able to request detailed information regarding investment plans in their locality from state management agencies.

The board can also request information from developers and investors such as detailed land and architectural plans, compensation, site clearance and resettlement schemes, plans for waste treatment and environmental protection.

For projects using community resources, developers and investors can be requested to provide information on the process, technical rules, categories and norms of supplies; acceptance test results and construction settlement.

Citizens are able to recommend the suspension of the investment or operation of the project to relevant authorities if they suspect illegal activities are occurring. They can also do so if investors do not provide public information about projects as required by law.

The decree aims to guarantee investment activities are in accordance with approved plans, consistent with the goal of socio-economic development and reduce the waste of state capital and property.

Fire destroys workshop in HCM City

An underwear company workshop was destroyed by fire yesterday.

More than 60 firemen were assigned to scene at the 200-square-metre The Huy Co Ltd workshop in Ba Diem Commune, Hoc Mon District in HCM City. The fire was stamped out at 11am, two hours after it started.

No casualties were reported.

HCM City in need of manual workers

More manual workers will be recruited over the next three months in HCM City to prepare for the Tet holiday next year, a survey conducted by the Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information has found.

Manual workers comprise 35 per cent of the 70,000 employees (about 24,500 people) needed in the year's fourth quarter.

Of the total, 17,000 employees will be needed for October; 20,000 for November and 33,000 for December. Most of the employees will be hired in fields such as sales, services, IT, textile-garment, tourism, and insurance.

About 30,000 seasonal jobs, many of them in sales, textile-garment and, hospitality, will also be needed.

In the third quarter, recruiting needs were highest in real estate, architecture, logistics and information technology.

In particular, real estate saw an increase of 4.27 per cent compared to the second quarter. Human resources were also needed for positions in price assessment, market development and counseling.

Sixty-seven per cent of all jobs required at least graduation from intermediate vocational schools which provide training for specific professions.

At least 15.5 per cent needed manual workers and 17.5 per cent graduates from college and university as well as post-graduates. Communication skills, teamwork and persuasion were employment criteria.

In the field of architecture, the number of graduates from intermediate vocational schools accounted for 46.7 per cent. The remaining were for graduates with a bachelor's, master's or Ph.D degree, or a college degree.

Ninety-five per cent of the jobs require experience, with 52 per cent of them citing at least one year of experience.

Employees with a certificate from short-term vocational training courses accounted for 74.72 per cent of the total need in the field of logistics.

In logistics, at least 13.17 per cent of the total need was for employees with bachelor's degrees and degrees from intermediate vocational schools and colleges. The remaining was for manual workers. Language and communication skills were required among employees.

In the field of IT, the need was for employees with bachelor's degrees (38.54 per cent) and college degrees (49.77 per cent). Most of them were required to have foreign language skills and work experience.

Local apple species should bring profit to ethnic groups

The growing acreage of apple fruits locally called tao meo, has rapidly increased in recent years, as more business is needed to boost the consumption of fruit in the northwest region.
A truly Vietnamese specialty, tao meo with scientific name as Docynia indica, is a kind of apple that is grown wild in Viet Nam's northwest mountains.

Tao meo (tao means apple, and meo is a word for the Mong ethnic minority) are locally grown in northwest Viet Nam at an altitude of 1,000m and above, mainly in the districts of Bac Yen, Mai Son, Muong La, Thuan Chau of Son La Province, Tuan Giao of Dien Bien Province, Mu Cang Chai of Yen Bai Province and Sa Pa and Si Ma Cai of Lao Cai Province.

Previously, Mong ethnic minority people often picked fruit during their trips into the forest, which were easy to find during the leaf-falling season.

"The apple's taste is sweet and sour, but has a delicious smell," said Lu A Say, of Son La Province's Ta Xua Commune. "Now, tao meo is cheap, but there are traders who are coming to the mountainous area to purchase them."

Ta Xua Commune, located in a high mountain chain at a height of 1,800m, is one of most popular tao meo-growing areas in Bac Yen District. The fruit is small, but smells more delicious than fruits in other regions in northwest Viet Nam.

In 1998, a 6,000-litre-per-year tao meo wine-processing factory was built in Bac Yen District. The factory was funded by Son La Province's Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Agricultural Machine Manufacture Institute and Bac Yen District's People's Committee.

Nguyen Thi Tuyet, director of Bac Son Ltd.Co., which managed the wine factory, said its nine products were granted high-quality certificates by the ministries of health, and agriculture-rural development.

Lu A Say said the factory had purchased tao meo from the region since 1998, but the fruit-growing acreage started to increase rapidly five years ago, leading to a surplus of fruit in the region.

"Tao meo becomes a fruit that helps local ethnic minority people eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty," he said.

Another villager in Lang Cheu Commune, Song A Mang said he earned VND80 million (US$3,500) from a 4ha-fruit forest his family took care of for one year.

"The income has been double or triple the income I receive from maize growing, and the work is more simple," he said. "I plan to keep expanding the fruit-growing acreage."

In the neighbouring province of Dien Bien, Mong ethnic minorities have grown fruit trees for five years.

Mua Dung Dua, a villager of Tuan Giao District's Toa Tinh Commune, said most families grew fruit trees, replacing other crops like rice and herbal trees.

Nong thon ngay nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported that Son La Province has the largest fruit-acreage in the northwest region with more than 6,000ha. The province has an average output of four to six tonnes per ha.

In the next five years, the output of fruit is expected to increase rapidly because several newly-grown acreages are ready for harvest.

Vu Duc Thuan, chief of Son La Province's Forestry Department, said it had 2,500ha of natural tao meo acreage and 4,000ha of fruit tree-growing acreage maintained by ethnic minority people. The trees are mainly in the districts of Muong La, Bac Yen and Mai Son.

Thuan said the province had provided free seedlings to local people.

He said three district authorities had co-ordinated with the provincial forest department to develop fruit processing, but the yield had exceeded expectations.

Consumption remained a challenge, Thuan said.

He said the province called on enterprises to invest in fruit processing because the rapidly increasing fruit-growing acreage and available labour force in the region are great advantages.

A trader, Nguyen Van Phuong, said traders purchased 100 tonnes of fresh fruit a year. The unique wine-processing factory has consumed a large volume of fresh fruits, but a surplus still exists.

Duck egg production to receive shake-up

The production process of salted duck eggs, one of Viet Nam's potential export products, will be re-arranged to boost exports, said an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's National Institute of Animal Sciences Nguyen Thanh Son, director of the institute said the local salted duck egg-export firms must invest money for a closed production process, from feed, baby duck, safe poultry breeding area, to material covering egg shell (rice husk), to consumption.

"The State doesn't yet have a policy to promote the export of such a product. The State plays an important role in setting up a closed production line and promulgating brand-name building and market-seeking policies," Son said.

Viet Nam had potential to export salted duck egg, said Son, who is also chairman of the Viet Nam Poultry Association. He said Viet Nam's salted duck egg was a favourite because of its special taste.

Ducks that are bred in the field in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region have laid high-quality and the most favourite salted egg.

Although Viet Nam's salted duck eggs have a large export potential, there are only three companies specialising in exporting this product nation-wide.

The three largest export markets of Viet Nam's salted duck egg were Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

The export volume of salted egg has increased to over 27 million since 2014 after falling for three consecutive years.

And Viet Nam exported over 10 million of salted eggs for the first six months of this year.

As some agricultural experts said the local salted duck egg-export firms face certain problems with industrial production lines and advanced technology applications.

Son said Vietnamese firms mainly looked for trade agreements through friends and family relationships.

"Using advanced farming techniques, including Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practices (VietGAP), and international standards of ASEAN-GAP and EuroGap to collect and produce safe duck eggs is essential during current integration," Son said.

Besides, Vietnamese firms need to take the initiative in seeking new export markets and establishing safe poultry breeding areas.

Viet Nam must enhance the veterinarians' ability in checking quality of exported eggs and create favourable conditions to grant certificates for safe poultry breeding areas, according to the director, Son.

Nguyen Huu Phuoc, director of Nguyen Phan Ltd.Co., in the city of Can Tho, one of three enterprises granted export-standard certificates for safe salted duck eggs by the Vietnamese Department of Veterinary, said the company had maintained two long-time markets of Singapore and Hong Kong.

The export volume of Nguyen Phan Ltd.Co has increased by 30 per cent in the first three quarters of this year, compared to the same period of last year.

"Salted duck egg is an essential ingredient of Mid-Autumn festival cake in Asian nations. Viet Nam's egg is a favourite of foreign customers thanks to egg yolk's glutinous and delicious smell," he said.

Viet Nam's total duck production is the second in the world, after China.

Concrete floor collapse kills 1, injures 4 in southern Vietnam

A concrete floor suddenly gave way on Saturday at the construction site of a wedding-convention center, located in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, leaving one worker dead and four others seriously injured.

The accident occurred around 1:35 pm, when workers were just beginning their afternoon shift at the construction site of the Hoang Tu (Prince) Wedding- Convention Center, situated at the Can Tho Sea Tourism Complex in Ninh Kieu District.

According to witnesses’ accounts, a concrete floor which was approximately 10 meters long and three meters wide tumbled down over the workers who were dismantling a scaffold beneath.

Le Van Xi, 40, one of the survivors, recalled that he heard a deafening noise while working indoors before realizing the collapse.

“People scrambled to pull two workers out from the debris, with one having his leg torn off, and rushed them to hospital,” he added.

Shortly after the collapse, local police and fire fighters promptly arrived at the scene to the victims’ rescue.

According to a preliminary investigation, the deceased is Truong Van Han, 33.

Representatives of Military Hospital 121, based in Ninh Kieu, said they have transferred Phan Van Ut, one of the four wounded men, to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for treatment for his multiple injuries.

The military infirmary had also performed a skull surgery on Mai Ba Tan, another injured victim, while offering intensive care to Phan Van Hieu, who suffers serious head trauma in the wake of the collapse.

As observed by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters, part of the construction site faces the Hau River, one of the Mekong tributaries.

The place where the accident happened is in the front of the site.

Work on the center, which spans a large area and is developed by Hau River Tourism Co., began some months ago.

A restaurant and aquatic recreation area, as part of the Can Tho Sea Tourism Complex, started operating quite some time ago.

The cause of the accident is being investigated.

Police busts counterfeit windscreen factory
 
Police in HCM City raided a factory owned by the Minh Hoang Company on October 1, following evidence it was producing fake car windscreens.

Police seized 18 windscreens at the showroom after the company was unable to prove their origin. Representatives of several famous car brands confirmed that the windscreens were fake.
At the factory, the police discovered that Minh Hoang Co. had been printing fake logos on glass. The windscreens were then attempted to be distributed at much cheaper prices than genuine windscreens.
Police in HCM City are expanding their investigation.
On August 13, Hanoi police also discovered the Thai Lan Company had produced counterfeit spare parts for famous motorbike brands. The policed seized over 1,000 fake brake pads.
Large numbers of motorbike and car components are fake. A Toyota Vietnam spokesperson said they suffered huge losses because of counterfeit spare parts. In the recent years, they had recovered over 300,000 counterfeit spare parts in the global market, including brake pads and oil filters.

HCM City to open major bridge to traffic

Rach Chiec, a major bridge on the Ring Road No. 2 section in HCMC’s District 9, is scheduled to be opened to traffic this year to ease traffic on a road linking Phu My Bridge and Hanoi Highway.

The bridge has its last span in place on Wednesday and will be put into use by the end of December, according to the HCMC Department of Transport’s director Bui Xuan Cuong.

The three-span bridge which is 868 meters long and has four lanes belongs to the first phase. As part of the two-phase project, intersections are also being built between the bridge and D2 Street at the Saigon Hi-tech Park and the road section connecting to Hanoi Highway.

The first phase costs VND871 trillion (over US$38.75 million).

Cuong added that approach roads and all intersections of the bridge project will be completed before the Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on February next year.

Once finished, the bridge will help set up a complete link between the Saigon Hi-tech Park in District 9 and a number of ports in the city including Cat Lai and Hiep Phuoc.

The bridge will help shorten the distance between the Saigon Hi-Tech Park and Tan Cang-Cat Lai Terminal by six to eight kilometers as well as reduce traffic on Hanoi Highway.

A second bridge with four lanes will be constructed in the second phase.

Cuong said after the bridge project is opened to traffic, the city will upgrade the road section from My Thuy Intersection to the bridge to facilitate traffic in the area.

The bridge on Ring Road No.2 is called Rach Chiec 2 Bridge. The eastern part of HCMC also has Rach Chiec 1 Bridge on Hanoi Highway.

The ring road is designed to stretch about 70 kilometers from Nguyen Van Linh Parkway through Phu My Bridge, Binh Thai Intersection on Hanoi Highway, Go Dua Intersection, Tan Tao Intersection, Ho Hoc Lam and Ba To streets and end at Nguyen Van Linh Parkway.

The ring road is expected to ease chronic traffic congestion in inner-city areas, as trucks will not have to run into the inner-city areas when transporting cargo to and from ports in HCMC and between the southeastern and the Mekong Delta regions.

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