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Facebook comes to the rescue
A
Literature teacher in a mountain district in central Nghệ An province late
last month wrote a poem about not being paid as usual in the middle of
January, making preparations for Tết difficult. He posted it on Facebook as
an open message to the chairman of the province’s People’s Committee.
First
lines of the poem by teacher Phan Thúc Định from mountainous Quỳ Hợp 2 High
School simply states.
I
don’t know for which reasons
I
have not received my salary while it’s January 31.
You,
a former teacher, might understand that
Late
payment makes us so much confused.
Định’s
poem quickly received thousands of “Like” and “Share”, especially from
teachers, but, unexpectedly, it reached its target and brought a positive
response from chairman of Nghệ An Province People’s Committee, Nguyễn Xuân
Đường.
Đường
called relevant officials to verify the problem and then told them to address
the problem. They responded without delay.
Principle
of Quỳ Hợp 2 High school, Nguyễn Đức Ngộ, told Pháp luật thành phố HCM (HCM
City Law) newspaper that on February 1, January’s salaries were transferred
to teachers’ bank accounts.
He
said that salaries were usually paid in the middle of every month, but last
month, they were late because the financial and education departments were
still busy completing documents for the last fiscal year as well as spending
estimates for new year.
Teacher
Định now has another problem - and may have to send another Facebook message
to the world to try and solve it.
Even
when his pay does arrive through his bank, he has to travel many kilometres
over rough roads to another town to get it from an ATM. This often means
queuing up for hours behind other salary earners just as desperate for Tết
cash.
Court move could clear all footpaths
The
People’s Court in District 10 in
This
in itself was an eye-opener, because it must be the first time in Vietnamese
history that a business has been forced to cough up for a motorbike stolen
from one of its customers.
The
ramifications are national, throwing open the responsibilities of every
shop-keeper and restaurant in Việt
Tongues
will not stop wagging for months if this is the case... and shops and
restaurants will think twice about encouraging customers to park out
front.
But
let’s get back to the courtroom. On top of being told to repay $6,100 for the
stolen bike, the restaurant owner, known simply as N.H.C., was also asked to
pay court costs of VNĐ7 billion (US$307,000). Yes, you heard right, more than
$300,000 greenbacks - enough to buy a house and three or four motorbikes.
The
District 10 People’s Procuracy, which carried out the judgement, protested at
the sky-high costs. It said the court fees were obviously a miscounting
mistake, insisting the restaurant owner should pay only VNĐ7 million. The
court is rethinking its claim.
According
to the indictment, on March, 2, 2013, a man named Đ.V. Hoàng drove his
motorbike to the restaurant on Đồng Nai Street, but he paid for his meal he
found his motorbike was gone. It was not his machine, but owned by his sister
and was bought in 2010 for $8,530.
Hoàng
asked the restaurant owner for compensation of VNĐ140 million, but the
restaurant owner refused.
Hoàng
sued the restaurant and last month, District 10 People’s Court agreed with
his claim,telling the restaurant owners to not only pay Hoàng VNĐ140 million
for the loss of the bike, but another VNĐ7 billion in and court fees in the
last five years.
The
fun starts now.
Wide range of specialties on offer at 2018 Spring Fair
More
than 350 enterprises, producers, and business establishments from around the
country are taking part in the 2018 Spring Fair which officially opened at
the
Covering
an area of nearly 6,000 square metres, the fair offers 600 pavilions
featuring a range of different commodities; textiles and garments – leather
footwear, appliances, food, confectionary, flowers, bonsai, and local
specialties.
The
highlight of the event is the display of products and specialties from
numerous provinces and cities around the country, such as southern fruits,
Tan Cuong tea (Thai Nguyen), Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, and Phan Thiet fish sauce,
Cao Phong and Vinh oranges, and Ly Son onions and garlic.
A
range of imported products are being showcased at the fair such as sweets and
fruits, healthcare products and home appliances from Russia, the Republic of
Korea, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Belgium.
Outdoor
spaces are reserved for various kinds of beverage, with the participation of
leading enterprises in the drinks industry, helping visitors have a greater
selection to choose from as they make preparations for the Lunar New Year
festival.
Sophisticated
handicrafts as well as items to be used as offerings and feng shui products
at the fair have attracted a large number of visitors.
The
annual Spring Fair has become a meaningful and attractive event for people to
enjoy the atmosphere of Tet festival.
The
event will run until February 12.
Traffic safety program launched in primary students, teachers
The
Ministry of Education and Training along with the National Committee of
Traffic Safety and Toyota Company
The
annual program aims to raise students’ awareness of traffic regulations and
safety and driving skills contributing to build traffic culture amongst young
people.
The
program includes two major activities comprising of training driving skills
for teachers and primary students in provincial and national level.
For
instance, driving skill training will be organized in the
Students
will learn basic knowledge and safe driving skills from paint pictures or
topics of traffic, musical performance about traffic safety.
Teachers
deliver lesson on traffic safety and call for students to take part in
seminar on teaching renovation of traffic safety in primary schools.
Ten
cities and provinces will participate in the national level program which
will be selected from provincial-level program. It is scheduled the national
–level program will be organized in March.
English Champion contest 2018 kicks off
Many
students from 1,926 primary and junior high schools nationwide yesterday
entered the English Champion Contest 2018.
Around
30,728 students registered to participate in the English competition. This is
a biggest number of students taking part in the competition since its debut
five years ago.
Annual
English Champion Contest 2018 is organized in the country by IvyPrep
Education and iSMART Education.
The
first round was held yesterday with the participation of 30,000, 60 percent
of them are fourth and fifth graders and the remaining are sixth, seventh and
eighth students.
Statistically,
70 percent are students from big cities such as Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh
City while 30 percent are from many provinces including mountainous and
island districts namely Vi Xuyen in the northern province of Ha Giang, Con
Dao island district of the southern province of Ba Ria- Vung Tau and Don
village of the highlands province of Dak Lak.
This
year, the number of participants in HCMC skyrocket with 18,047 registered
students accounting for 60 percent of total candidates.
Winners of the 2017 WeChoice Awards announced
Winners
of the 2017 WeChoice Awards were honored at a ceremony at the Saigon
Exhibition and Convention Center in
This
year's list of the top 10 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2017
conists of Ms. Nguyen Thi Xuan, 94, who spent 50 years to wait for her
husband; actress and film producer Ngo Thanh Van; singers Son Tung-MTP, Min,
Chi Phu, Only C; beauty blogger Changmakeup; the eSport Young Generation, a
professional League of Legends team based in Vietnam; Tran Dang Khoa who
travelled around the world by motorbike; and a group of male teachers of Tri
Le Primary School in the northern province of Nghe An.
The
list of the top 6 Most Influential People voted by the Appraisal Committee
includes Ms. Nguyen Thi Xuan; actor Quoc Tuan who has a child with Apert
Syndrome and spent 15 years struggling his son's symptoms; symptoms;
"Vietnam's start-up Queen" Truong Thanh Thuy (also called Thuy
Muoi); actress Ngo Thanh Van; the Vietnam women's national football team; and
the Vietnam national under-23 football team.
The
organization board also presented the titles to celebrities in the field of
entertainment, including “Outstanding Activity of the Year” to singer Duc
Phuc; “Breakthrough Artist of the Year” to Son Tung-MTP; “Best MV” to Son
Tung-MTP for his biggest hit, Lac Troi (Lost); “Best album” to pop star My
Tam for her latest work, “Tam 9”; “Best underground musical product” to Xesi,
Masew and Nhat Nguyen for their song “Tuy am”; “Best feature film” to the
movie “I'm not 18 yet”; “Best TV film” to the TV serial Nguoi Phan Xu (The
Arbitrator).
Members
of the Appraisal Committee include President of the Ho Chi Minh City Peace
Committee, Ton Nu Thi Ninh; General Director of VCCorp, Duong Vu Thang;
journalist Le Quang Minh, director of VTV24 channel; Meritorious Artist Thanh
Loc, journalist Tran Mai Anh, founder of “Thien Nhan and Friends"
program.
Launched
in 2015, the award aims to honor people with their inspirational stories and
outstanding contribution towards the development of society.
Vietnamese classical opera presented in HCM City
A
project on Hat Boi (Vietnamese classical opera) is being presented to
visitors at the Garden Mall in
Vietnamese
classical opera presented in
The
event with the participation of 40 artists and around 100 volunteers working
in different fields will organize a variety of activities including a
contemporary exhibition, performances of Vietnamese classical opera.
The
project aims to keep the tradition of Hat Boi, Tuong alive in the community,
reserve the classical art form and foster a love for this particular kind of
music among the people.
Mekong Delta region to hold fireworks shows at lunar New
Year's Eve
Fireworks
and music performances will be organized on the lunar New Year’s Eve in many
cities and provinces in the Mekong Delta region to mark Tet holidays.
Kien
Giang province plans four firework displays and music performances in
Meanwhile
Can Tho City will hold a high-range firework shows in Ninh Kieu Dsitrict; and
5 low-range firework displays in Vinh Thanh, Co Do and Thot Not districts,
Phong Dien and Thoi Lai towns.
Long
An province will see spectacular fireworks displays in 6 locations, including
Tan An City,
All
fireworks performances will be funded entirely from socialization source.
Annual
One
of the most expected events in
This
year’s event themed “Vuon mam tri thuc- Khat vong vuon cao” (Stimulating
knowledge, rising aspiration) will be held along the main city streets
including Mac Thi Buoi, Nguyen Hue and Ngo Duc Ke.
The
event will present to viewers Ho Chi Minh City’s achievements; rare ancient
and valuable publications on the late President Ho Chi Minh; photos,
documents and objects related to the Mau Than Offensive 1968; maps, photos,
documents and artifacts which affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and
Truong Sa archipelagoes.
The
festival will also display thousands of copies of publications of various
genres such as politics, culture, history, literature and economics, and
universal knowledge by leading publishers in the country.
The
annual event that has been held for 12 consecutive years and attracting more
than one million visitors each year, is aimed to promote reading and increase
knowledge of the culture, traditions and tourism of the city, and highlight
Vietnamese’s traditional Tet.
Ministry requires smooth operation of TSN airport at Tet
Deputy
Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho has urged the management of
At
a working session with airport authorities over the weekend, Tho said the
airport is a traffic hotspot during the holiday when travel and freight
transport demand soars. Therefore, there need to be appropriate arrangement
of takeoff and landing time, with more flights taking off and arriving at
night to reduce congestion during the daytime.
Besides,
more attention should be paid to traffic connectivity. The HCMC Department of
Transport is asked to add more buses to busy routes and cooperate with
aviation agencies to enhance connection between public transport and the
airport.
The
deputy minister asked airlines to reduce flight delays and provide passengers
with detailed takeoff and landing time. The airport should ensure sufficient
staff on busy days, improve service quality, and ensure that security and
other procedures will be done in a prompt and proper manner.
Commuters
should be promptly informed of congested areas so that they can choose other
routes.
According
to Tran Doan Mau, director of the Southern Airports Authority (SAA),
On
average, the airport will have 953 aircraft movements a day, with 44 per hour
in the daytime and 37 per hour at night.
Flight
frequency of domestic airlines would increase by 10-15% year-on-year, serving
more than 134,200 passengers a day.
A
representative of the airport said that as congestion often occurs on
A master plan for festivals – why not?
It
can be seen as a right move at a right time when the Ministry of Culture,
Sports and Tourism at a meeting last Friday clarified its viewpoint that
festivals in the country will be reviewed, and solutions taken to correct or
even root out those festivals deemed as unsuitable. A temporary solution, as
stated by Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy at the meeting, is that most
bull-fighting festivals and those of similar nature nationwide - except for
the Do Son Bull-Fighting Festival that has been recognized as national
heritage– will not be allowed this year.
The
ministry’s argument is clear-cut: all public events that cannot be
ascertained to be traditional festivals, and those whose contents incite
violence, cruelty or superstition shall not be approved. The deputy minister
explained that traditional festivals should be aimed at preserving
traditional values, promoting heritage merits, and meeting the people’s
spiritual demands.
In
fact, many festivals nationwide have over the years stirred up public
grievances as they fail to meet aforesaid criteria. Graphic contenton bulls
or pigs being slashed to death or decapitated, pictures of people bloodily
fighting each other for lucky balls, and scenes of people cramming small
banknotes into the hands of Buddhist statues at pagodas or temples to pray
for good luck have alarmed serious degradation of cultural and moral values.
Such so-called festivals – whose main goal to a large extent is to reap easy
bucks – have eroded the nation’s cultural identity on one hand and cause
economic losses on the other.
Statistics
by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism show that there are nearly
9,000 festivals organized countrywidea year, meaning there are some 22
festivals a day. Millions of people are engaged in such festivals, and tens
of millions of working days are lost due to such events, which can hardly be
beneficial for the economy.
In
fact, there have been numerous complaints about the traditional Tet holiday
when many people, especially those in rural areas, tend to distant themselves
from work for weeks or even over a month despite a much-shorter period off
work regulated by the labor ministry, leaving many head-scratching employers
with a severe shortage of laborers after Tet. At a time of rising
international economic integration, for many employers local and foreign
alike, such a long period off can hardly be accepted.
Tet
is also the peak of the festive season, and it often ushers in many spring
festivals in the country.
Therefore,
the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s move to trim down the number of
festivals is seen a positive approach.
However,
there needs to be a more daring approach to festivals. All must be reviewed,
screened and evaluated, and only those that genuinely hold social, economic
or spiritual merits should be allowed. To do so, great efforts must be taken
to forge a strategy, or a master plan for festivals.
Ministry disapproves of toll cuts in Khanh Hoa
Following
the Ministry of Transport’s instruction, Khanh Hoa Deo Ca BOT Investment
Joint Stock Company will not offer toll reductions to vehicles registered by
people living or working in 16 communes near the BOT Ninh An tollgate in
Lao
Dong newspaper quoted Vu Hai Long, deputy director of the company, as saying
that his company has to observe the guidance of the ministry and cannot
arbitrarily reduce tolls. He added that the company can only propose toll
cuts and has no power to decide.
According
to the Ministry of Transport in an urgent document with regard to the
proposed toll cuts at the BOT Ninh An tollgate, the company’s suggestion to
offer a 100% toll reduction for vehicles of group 1 with transport business
is not in accordance with the ministry’s directive.
The
ministry only agrees on additional toll reductions for other vehicles,
meaning those of groups 2, 3, 4 and 5, in nearby areas within a
five-kilometer radius of the tollgate.
Besides,
the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam was asked to learn from the case at the
BOT Ninh An tollgate and prevent similar incidents at other tollgates.
As
reported by local newspapers, the operator of the BOT Ninh An tollgate on
January 4 agreed on a 100% fee reduction on vehicles of group 1 in 17
communes of the province’s
The
toll fee reduction, applicable on January 5, came after an agreement between
the tollgate operator and drivers. In addition, the operator planned to seek
the ministry’s approval for 50% toll cuts for vehicles of groups 2, 3 and 4
and would give an official reply this month.
Trial on Đà River broken pipes starts on March 5
The
trial of nine former officials who are allegedly responsible for the 18
successive times ruptures of the Đà River pipeline will begin on March 5, the
Hà Nội People’s Court announced on Monday.
The
officials include three from the management board of the Đà River water
supply construction and investment project: former director Hoàng Thế Trung,
former deputy director Nguyễn Văn Khải and former supply division head Trương
Trần Hiển.
Also
on trial are Trần Cao Bằng and Vũ Thanh Hải, respectively, former director
and deputy director of the Vinaconex Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyester Pipe
company, which manufactured the water pipes for the Đà River project.
The
last defendants are Đỗ Đình Trì, former head of the consultant and monitoring
team of the Việt Nam Water, Sanitation and Environment Company (VIWASE), and
its officers Nguyễn Biên Hùng, Hoàng Quốc Thống and Bùi Minh Quân.
Construction
on the Đà River water pipeline project started in 2004 and was finished five
years later. The line, however, broke for the first time in February 2012 and
after that ruptured another 17 times.
Constant
broken pipelines halted water supply to 177,000 households in Hà Nội for a
total of 386 hours.
The
incidents also forced the Vinaconex Water Supply company – the operator of
the pipeline – to pay more than VNĐ16.6 billion (US$737,700) to fix the
broken lines.
Inspections
by the Ministry of Construction confirmed sub-par pipes caused all the
ruptures.
The
nine defendants were reported to have signed 73 product quality checks to
confirm the quality of over 5,000 pipes and other parts. Many were later
proved to be of low quality.
They
were all charged with breaching construction regulations causing serious
consequences.
The
trial is expected to last for 10 days.
More households in Đắk Lắk to get electricity
Some
250 villages in the
In
the first phase of the project, at least 29 villages, with over 2,000 ethnic
households, have been supplied electricity ahead of Tết (Lunar New Year).
The
six-year project was implemented in 2016, with a total investment of VNĐ887
billion (US$39.4 million).
The
project includes building and upgrading hundreds of kilometres of medium- and
low-voltage lines and transformer stations to bring electricity to communes
and hamlets, making their daily lives and economic activities easy.
Lưu
Văn Khang, deputy head of the power management office, said there were 221
villages that were still not connected to the national grid.
Local
authorities have directed construction units to accelerate power supply
projects to help all households get access to electricity by 2020, Khang
said.
Đắk
Lắk has the highest number of communes and households with electricity in the
PM calls for preventive measures against cold wave
Prime
Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has issued an official dispatch on urgently dealing
with the cold wave that is affecting cattle and people alike.
The
dispatch asks the people’s committees of provinces and cities in the north
and north central regions to adopt plans and preventive measures against the
cold wave.
According
to statistics of the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the cold spell has so far killed
more than 2,000 cattle.
The
mountainous
The
Central Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Centre predicts that the cold wave
will continue to prevail in the north and north-central regions for a couple
of days. These provinces may witness a strong cold spell after Tết (Lunar New
Year) holiday, the centre said.
To
cope with the situation, the Prime Minister has ordered the people’s
committees to direct relevant agencies and local authorities to support local
people in deploying measures to protect animals and plants.
According
to the dispatch, localities can use its reserved budget for preventive work
and support poor households or policy beneficiary families to buy food for
cattle and warm up cattle farms as well as purchase biochemical substances to
enhance the resistance of plants.
It
is the responsibility of the local governments to report about the damage to
the MARD so that timely assistance can be provided to affected farmers.
The
People’s Committee of provinces and cities are accountable for the loss if it
is caused as a result of not following instructions to care for cattle and
plants in this weather.
The
MARD has been assigned to frequently inspect, monitor the implementation of
preventive measures against the cold wave and prepare plans for production
recovery.
The
Ministry of Health has been ordered to give recommendations on warming-up
measures and ensure that adequate medicine is stocked in case of emergency.
The
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been requested to closely
monitor the weather and give regular updates on mass media, while the
Ministry of Information and Communications has been asked to direct press
agencies to report more on the weather so as to keep the public informed.
Meanwhile,
mountainous provinces in the northern region have actively come up with
solutions to fight the cold wave.
The
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Điện
Phạm
Thị Tuyên, head of the Division of Agriculture and Rural Development of Điện
Farmers
from Quài Tở, Quài Cang and Tỏa Tình communes have moved thousands of
buffaloes and cattle to warmer areas to avoid the bad weather, Tuyên said.
In
the northern mountainous
Similar
actions have also been carried out by
“We
have requested farmers not to graze cattle if the temperature drops to below
12 degree Celsius and to maintain a larger feed storage than usual”, said Bùi
Văn Phượng, head of Yên Thủy District’s livestock and veterinary station in
the province.
Bad weather cuts off Lý
Thousands
of households in the central
The
residents have been isolated for more than a week now.
Lê
Tấn Hải, director of Sa Kỳ Port Management Board, told zing.vn on Monday that
high-speed and transport ships travelling from Sa Kỳ Port to Lý Sơn Island
and vice versa were forced to suspend operations over the week due to strong
wind and waves.
“Goods,
essentials and dozens of Kumquat tree pots for Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New
Year) festival are stuck at Sa Kỳ Port due to prolonged bad weather,” Hải
said.
Some
people who want to return home early have rented fishing boats in
The
port management board has called on the provincial Department of Transport
for timely measures to protect people’s lives and property.
Nguyễn
Viết Vy, secretary of Lý Sơn Island District’s Party Committee, said strong
waves prevented thousands of local households from going to the mainland to
buy food for Tết.
Local
authorities have asked Coast Guard Zone 2 to mobilise special ships to help
fishermen return to their homes in Lý Sơn Island if the bad weather persists,
Vy said.
The
provincial hydrometeorological station predicts that the cold spell will ease
gradually from Wednesday.
Naval force records positive performance in 2017
The
Vietnam People’s Navy carried out all solutions it has set to consolidate
soldiers and officers’ political and ideological firmness and strengthen
training to enable its force to fit a variety of tasks, especially combat
readiness on ships, in islands, and off-shore platforms.
The
Vietnam People’s Navy reported its performance in 2017 at a press conference
held in
The
navy has maintained its regular patrols at sea ports and on territorial seas
to promptly notice and deal with any emerging problems and operations
conducted by foreign countries, helping firmly maintain the peaceful
environment, the relations with other countries, and political stability in
the country.
Attention
was also given to logistics activities and the modernisation of weapon and
other specialised equipment, heard the conference.
Search
and rescue missions were also a highlight of the force in 2017, with 160
campaigns launched and 7,000 personnel deployed. These helped save 85 people
on islands and off-shore platforms, and 190 people in distress at sea, and
support 200 ships to reach safe shelters during stormy seasons.
The
navy has made efforts in boosting bilateral and multilateral cooperation with
their peers from the ASEAN member nations and
At
the conference, Major General Tran Hoai Trung, Political Commissar of the
Vietnam People’s Navy, asked the media to continue promoting the force’s
protection of national sovereignty at sea, particularly concerning the Hoang
Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes.
He
suggested the coverage of the navy’s work in human resources training to build
a regular, modern, and competent marine force.-
Protesting
the war in
Senior
members of the union shared their memories about these activities with
Vietnam News Agency’s reporters on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of
Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties (September 21, 1973).
The
union, founded in December 1947, organised many meetings opposing the
From
early 1965, the movement against the
Morita
Kenichi, former President of the Yokohama Labour Union in the 1985-1992
period, was a pioneer in anti-war activities. To prevent the
During
a visit to
Two
other senior members of the Yokohama Trade Union, Yoshizawa Teiko and
Motoyoshi Ryokichi also actively participated in anti-war activities in
As
chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association, Motoyoshi regularly
organises people-to-people exchanges and activities to support Vietnamese
expatriates in
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