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About 29 people in
About
29 people in
An
average of 29 people contracted HIV every day in the first five months of
this year, announced a meeting yesterday in Ha Noi.
Bac
Ninh, Gia Lai, Lai Chau and Nghe An saw more HIV infections than last year.
Speaking
at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is also chairman
of the Vietnam National Committee for HIV/AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution
Prevention and Control, said that
New
infections declined for three consecutive years after the introduction of
methadone treatment for drug addicts.
Storm
death toll in central
The
8th tropical storm which brought torrential rains to the central coastal
provinces late last week has killed at least 22 people and injured six
others.
Seven
other people are reported missing, according to the National Steering
Committee for Floods and Storms Control.
Although
the rain let up, violent floodwaters and landslides prevented rescue work.
On
September 22, rescue workers found the wreckage of a 7-seater sedan washed
away by floodwaters on September 19.
The
car was found 500m away from Khe Ang dam in Nghe An province’s Nghia Dan
district where the incident occurred.
Four
dead bodies were retrieved from the wreckage, and rescue forces are trying to
search for the last fifth victim.
Seven
people were aboard the car when the incident happened. Two people, including
the driver, jumped out of the car before it was swept away by the violent
torrents of floodwaters.
Elsewhere
a strong whirlwind ripped through dozens of houses in the southern
10
houses collapsed and 15 others were unroofed as consequences of heavy rains
in the southern
Heavy
downpours are expected to dump on northern border provinces as typhoon Usagi
is weakening and heading towards
Quang
Tri arrests three swindlers
Police
in Gio Linh District of central
The
three arrestees –Nguyen Minh Tuan, Ngo Anh Tuan and Le Dao – forged
references, documents and the signature of an official at the provincial
Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs as well as seals from a job
promotion Center.
They
allegedly coerced people who wanted to work in Korea VND85 million ($4,025)
each.
The
investigation is ongoing.
Cabin
attendant caught allegedly smuggling new iPhones
Police
arrested a flight attendant working for national carrier Vietnam Airlines on
Sunday for allegedly smuggling 50 luxury iPhone 5S mobiles.
The
suspect was found carrying the undeclared iPhones after his Paris-Ha Noi
flight landed Noi Bai International Airport, said Colonel Nguyen Manh Hung,
head of Ha Noi Police's Department for the Investigation of Economic
Management Order and Position-related Crimes.
Hung
noted that in
One
policeman dead, two injured in shooting
A
shooting at Suoi Tre traffic police station yesterday in southern
Major
Tran Van Son, deputy director of the police station, was hit twice in the
abdomen and died two hours later at the provincial
The
shooting occurred after a dispute between police officials resulted in the
men opening fire.
Local
authorities are examining the scene and conducting investigations to identify
the cause of the death.
Car
accident kills two in Phu Yen
A
deadly traffic accident in central
The
victims have been identified as Nguyen Van Doan, 36, from
The
van had been transporting around two cubic meters of lumber when it allegedly
sped and collided with a pile of construction soil in the street, causing the
victims to die instantly.
Local
police are conducting further investigations.
Quang
Police
in the central province of Quang
Hundreds
of moulds of bachelor and associate certification stamps were found and
seized, along with tools to make fake documents.
The
group had been tracked by police since August last year. Now, alleged
ringleaders Tran Ngoc Sy, Nguyen Thanh Le and Nguyen Ba Than have been
detained and charged with forging the seals of authorised agencies and
organisations.
Two
other suspects, Tran Huyen An and Huynh Duc Tri, are being held for further
questioning in the police inquiry. Quang Nam Police have informed residents
about the case and promised people who bought fake certifications clemency if
they hand the documents over to police. The hotline to report to is
0510.3852589.
Nine
become ASEAN media, security officers
Nine
Vietnamese candidates have made the lists for Chief Information Officer (CIO)
and Chief Security Officer (CSO) at the 9th ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards in 2013.
The
director of
The
ASEAN CIO & CSO Awards, which is the first event of its kind in the ASEAN
community, was organised by the International Data Group (IDG) and aims to
honor outstanding individuals responsible for information management and
security.
Programme
helps disadvantaged youth
More
than 8,000 disadvantaged students have received performance-based tuition
subsidies under a three-year programme funded by the Global Partnership on
Output-Based Aid.
The
US$3million programme was implemented by the East Meets West (EMW) Foundation
between 2010 and 2013 and targeted poor students from 67 high schools in 12
provinces across the country.
The
programme has motivated schools to engage disadvantaged youth by funding
tuition expenses for each student. Funds are then reimbursed to the school
after students complete the academic term.
Speaking
at a ceremony held yesterday to mark the end of the three-year programme,
Nguyen Minh Chau, Country Director of EMW, said the model could be replicated
across
Programme
statistics show that only 4.5 per cent of beneficiaries dropped out of school
during the three years, mainly due to poor performance and economic hardship.
Volatile
birth rates a challenge for VN
Ten
years on from implementing the Population Ordinance project, the country
faces a number of new challenges including volatile birth rates across
different provinces and cities, gender imbalance at birth and an ageing
population.
Director
of the Ministry of Health's General Office for Population and Family Planning
Duong Quoc Trong made the claims at a conference in Ha Noi yesterday to
review results of the Population Ordinance implementation.
Deputy
Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan chaired the event.
The Population
Ordinance project was issued in January 2003 by the National Assembly
Standing Committee and came into effect four months later.
Despite
remarkable achievements such as decreasing infant and prenatal deaths and
ushering the nation into a golden population period, the workforce remained
limited in quality, said Trong.
The
golden population period refers to the present time when the majority of the
population are of working age. However, this is the only a period in the
course of population transition and challenges lay ahead.
"This
period offers abundant labour resources and creates an opportunity to
generate a large number of materials for the future, but there will be great
challenges if workforce quality does not improve," he said.
In
2009 only 13.4 per cent of youths aged 15 and over received professional
training, whereas the rate in
Gender
imbalance at birth remains high with 112.3 boys born for every 100 girls last
year.
In
addition, services to improve the population's quality of life including
pre-marriage health checks, pre-birth diagnoses and new-born screening, plus
social security for the elderly was still limited, especially in remote mountainous
provinces, said Trong.
Another
problem is the increasing number of people leaving the country. By 1999,
around 4.5 million people had emigrated – equal to around 6.5 per cent of the
total population - and by 2009, the number had reached 6.5 million people,
equal to 7.5 per cent.
In
To
overcome the challenges, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien proposed
giving priority to remote and mountainous areas in supplying reproductive
healthcare and family planning services.
Information
dissemination should also be improved to narrow the birth rate gap in
different provinces and cities, he said.
Relevant
bodies should set up measures to lengthen and take advantage of the golden
population period, as well as to hasten updates to the Law on Population.
"The
law will form an important base for solving new challenges appearing on the
horizon," said Tien.
Speaking
about the population's future duties, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan
said workers should learn from the experiences of
"If
population policies are not suitable and timely, it will be difficult to
change the situation, so the sector must find ways to maintain a sustainable
workforce scale," he said.
In
Vietnamese tradition, offspring take care of their parents when grow old,
thus the population sector should join hands with the education sector in
giving children training so that they have good awareness on the social
security needs of the elderly, he said.
The
population sector should also co-ordinate with labour and health sectors to
lengthen the golden population period until at least 2061 and take full
advantage of the period, he said.
"For
every population policy, encouraging each family to have two children is the
best policy for ensuring a stable population," said Nhan.
Police
study tourist sex-offence crimes
Police
officers in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province and neighbouring localities
attended sex-offender workshop here that ends today to learn how to track
down and identify tourists who exploit children.
The
two-day workshop is the first offered by the
Gender
issues related to child sexual exploitation were also discussed.
Zhuldyz
Akisheva, country manager of UNODC's
Travelling
child sex offenders pose a significant law enforcement challenge, she added.
Offenders
often travel away from their usual home location to prey on vulnerable
children, she said, adding that they are often go undetected.
One of
the counter measures developed in the
The
five-year project ending in 2014 is funded by the Government of Australia
through the Australian Agency for International Development.
The
project, which covers
Increased
knowledge of law enforcement and regional and international co-operation
helps governments to better equip themselves to identify and counter child
sexual exploitation in travel and tourism.
World
Vision works with governments and communities to prevent children from
becoming victims of sexual exploitation in tourism by raising awareness and
building community resilience.
Public
campaigns, training and telephone hotlines, used by governments, communities
and tourism industries, all contribute to better awareness on the
vulnerabilities of at-risk children.
Vietnamese
life expectancy four years longer after a decade
Vietnamese
people's life expectancy increased considerably for the past decade, from 69
in 2002 to more than 73 in 2012.
The
information was released at a conference on population in
The
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) forecast that by 2050
According
to the General Office for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP), life
expectancy in
GOPFP
General Director Duong Quoc Trong said
However,
gender imbalance at birth remains high with 112.3 boys born for every 100
girls.
The
Ministry of Health will develop the Population Law. The draft law will be
submitted the National Assembly by 2014 with many new contents, such as
purchasing sperm and ova, surrogate and surrogacy and artificial insemination.
US
further support
The
US
Deputy Chief of Mission Claire Pierangelo made the affirmation at the sixth
annual seminar on biotechnology in agriculture, which was co-organised by the
US Embassy and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in
The
importance of biotechnology in increasing crop productivity, promoting safer
and greener farming environment, mitigating climate change impact and
ensuring food security was underscored by US and Vietnamese officials
present at the seminar.
Biotechnology
is the best solution to the creation of plant and animal varieties with
highest economic value as well as environmental protection, said Tran Xuan
Dinh, Deputy Head of the Plantation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
Agricultural
biotechnology application has been diversified in the world over the years,
allowing more than 16 million farmers, as calculated by 2011, to enjoy higher
produce output and lower production cost.
The
people’s low participation in social and health insurance systems, a risk of
pension funds shutting down in a decade, an aging society and social
insurance management incompetence have posed pressing issues to state
agencies in time of building a complete social welfare system in Vietnam.
These
issues were also debated at a seminar in
The
event was jointly held by the
Addressing
the function, VASS Deputy Director Nguyen Giang Hai described social welfare
as a core policy that is decisive to stable and sustainable development of a
country.
It
also contributes to reducing inequality and harms caused by risks in the
daily life for each individual and the whole community, Hai added.
Participants
agreed that in
Professor
Hiroi Yoshinori from
Organic farming
to receive assistance
President
of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
Andre Leu has vowed to help
While
meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in
The
move is to get the Vietnamese wider access to organic farm produce, he noted.
Deputy
PM Phuc, for his part, hailed the IFOAM’s active operations in the region and
the world over the past time, which, he said, has benefited consumers,
producers and the environment.
He
said he hopes the organisation will help develop
Scientists
and institutional managers from
The
September 23 seminar is a part of the Joint Science and Technology
Cooperation Committee’s 8th meeting (JCM8).
They
emphasized the importance of sci-tech cooperation as a key pillar in
comprehensive cooperation between
They
shared information and experience in improving public-private partnership
efficiency during research.
Delegates
from the two countries also discussed mechanisms for expanding bilateral
cooperation in science and technology.
Pink-eye
disease spreads in localities
The
number of people suffering from pink-eye disease (conjunctivitis) has
increased rapidly in many localities in
Since
the beginning of September, more than 100 patients, mostly children, have
visited the eye hospital in the Mekong Delta city of
The
patients mainly come from Can Tho and other Mekong Delta provinces, including
Hau Giang, Soc Trang and Vinh Long.
In the
central
The
central city of Danang has also counted more than 300 cases of the disease
due to unhygienic water source as a consequence of the recent eighth storm.
Local
healthcare agencies have stepped up educational activities on how to prevent
the disease, particularly keeping personal hygiene, and urge patients to seek
treatment at medical stations.
The
Lao government has honoured 63 Vietnamese collectives and 148 individuals for
their efforts to locate and repatriate the remains of Vietnamese voluntary
soldiers and experts who died during the war in
At a
ceremony in
He
thanked the Vietnamese Party, State, Government, army and people for offering
Every
success in Laos ’ past struggle for independence and current development
process has been attached to the solidarity and valuable support from the
fraternal Vietnamese people, he said.
He
said the collectives and individuals’ excellent work in searching for and
repatriating the remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts has
helped tighten the special friendship, solidarity and comprehensive
cooperation between the two countries.
Nutrition
manual for HIV/AIDS carriers published
A
manual book on care and nutrition support for people living with HIV/AIDS
(PLWA) has been introduced to health workers to enable their better food
counseling services to these people.
The
book was introduced at a conference co-hosted by the National Institute of
Nutrition (NIN) and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department in
According
to NIN Deputy Head Le Danh Tuyen, HIV infection in
The
virus can worsen the malnutrition that has already attacked the infected,
weakened their immune system and increased opportunistic infection
vulnerability, he said.
The
manual, compiled by the NIN and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department in
coordination with international organisations, is expected to help local
health staff improve their counseling for both PLWA and their families
regarding nutrition issues.
Govt
moves to strengthen child adoption practices
The
Government has urged ministries and local authorities to set up a database
for child adoptions and make a list of children living in social care centres
in order to protect adopted children, particularly in cases with foreign
adoptive parents.
It has
also asked the Ministry of Justice to work with local authorities to monitor
and protect Vietnamese adopted children abroad.
The
ministry will provide advice on finding families for children with
disabilities and serious diseases in an effort to lift adoption rates in
cities with large numbers of orphans. Cases of child abuse such as sexual
exploitation and child labour will be punished according to law.
The
Government has asked the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to
profile children in disadvantaged circumstances at social care centres to
relocate them to new homes. The Ministry of Public Security will be
responsible for verifying the origin of abandoned children for adoption.
The
Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be responsible for promulgating procedures
on child adoption through its foreign-based offices and protecting adopted
children abroad.
The
Law on Child Adoption was promulgated in 2010.
Men
called to ensure gender balance
International
and domestic experts have sought for men’s broader involvement in dealing
with gender imbalance at birth as it has become a burning issue in the
country’s family planning work.
A
symposium was held in
The
situation would have negative effects on social life and security as well as
the nation’s sustainable growth, said Vice -Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers’
Association Leu Vu Dieu.
At the
event, co-organised by the Vietnam Farmers’ Association (VNFU), the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Vietnam Women's Union, UNFPA
Representative in Vietnam A Thur ErKen cited the shortage of 117 million
women in the world, mostly
He
blamed uncontrolled abortions and the use of advanced technologies to select
gender at birth, which has become popular in many countries including
The
General Department of Population and Family Planning (GDPFP) estimated that
Co-management
plan to protect Soc Trang's mangroves
More
than 3,000ha in the Mekong Delta city of
This
means that local communities will share decision-making power, management
responsibility and accountability. The move aims to provide local communities
with legal access to natural resources in protected forests while ensuring
that the resources are used sustainably.
It is
part of a Vietnam-Germany technical co-operation project that started in 2007
with the goal of protecting the coastal wetlands of Soc Trang province for
the benefit of the local population.
The
forest co-management model has played an important role in mangrove forest
protection in recent years. Thanks to policies that limited access to forests
and mandated sustainable use of resources, the mangrove areas in Soc Trang
have been protected while local people have enjoyed higher incomes from them,
according to Bianca Schlegel, the project technical consultant.
IAEA
offers
Experts
from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have shared experience in
the management of nuclear power plant project under the
Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) contract with Vietnamese relevant
agencies.
At a
seminar held in Phan Rang-Thap Cham city of the south central coastal
The
seminar, part of the IAEA cooperation technical project, aimed to help
The
experts also shared other countries’ experiences of the duties and
responsibilities in an EPC contract and lessons learnt from the operation of
nuclear power plants.
Those
from France, Finland and Canada also talked about nuclear insurance, the
relations between investors, contractors, consultants and local authorities
and the procurement, design appraisal, licensing and construction supervision
process.
Poverty
rate expected to drop to 7.6% by year-end
The
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has predicted that
The
figures were released at a conference held by the National Assembly (NA)
Committee for Social Affairs in
The
event aimed to review the MoLISA and the Health Ministry’ budget spending in
2013, make budget estimates for next year and, collect opinions on
adjustments to a number of laws.
Participants
highlighted the MoLISA’s achievements in vocational training, job generation,
child protection, and incentive policies for the poor and social-policy
beneficiaries.
The
MoLISA reported that more than 990,000 were employed after the eight months
of this year, meeting 62% of the yearly set target. Over 1 million workers
are expected to be trained in 2013.
However,
many delegates noted with deep concern about the gap between the rich and the
poor and between urban and rural areas, adding that poverty reduction should
be ensured on a sustainable basis.
While
touching upon salary and employee recruitment, MoLISA Minister Pham Thi Hai
Chuyen pledged greater attention to job creation, poverty reduction and
people credited with revolutionary service.
Binh
Dinh refutes story on damage from water release
Local
authorities in the central
Speaking
to a Vietnam News Agency reporter, deputy chairman of the district People's Committee
Do Van Si said that the plant had released water according to plan.
After
the hydro-power plant released water at full capacity of 50 cubic metres per
second into the stream in 2011, reportedly damaging about 2.5ha of
State-owned and agricultural land, the management board were forced to sign
an agreement with the district People's Committee.
Under
the agreement, it committed to not release water at the speed of 50 cubic
metres per second during the rainy season.
It
also remedied the consequences caused by releasing water, including
compensating local farmers and building a bridge over Cat Stream for local
people.
Nguyen
Van Cuong, head of the plant's Administrative Office, said that they only
released water at 25 cubic metres per second during the rainy season so it
could not affect the upper reaches of the stream and agricultural land.
Last
body's name identified in Dak Lak
Local
police yesterday identified Vu Trong Bach, 32, as the last of seven victims
who were swept away by a flash flood triggered by the eighth storm in the
Central Highland
His
body was discovered on Monday afternoon near the Ea Sup Thuong Reservoir.
He was
swept away while swimming across a local stream near the reservoir to get
home after harvesting maize last Saturday.
Local
authorities have provided nearly VND10 million (US$473) in support to each
family of the victims.
In
another development, the last body from a car, which was tragically swept
away by floodwater in the central
The
body of 9-year-old Vo Ba Hai, the last of the five victims, was found
floating in the
The
driver of the car allegedly ignored flood warnings, resulting in the tragedy,
according to initial findings.
The
investigation of the case continues.
United
Healthcare breaks ground for new plant in Vietnam
United
Healthcare broke ground for a new manufacturing plant at the Hi-Tech Zone on
September 21 in
The
VND219 billion (US$10 million) plant will provide high-quality treatment
devices for heart diseases. The HCMC People’s Committee will provide VND91
billion ($4.3 million) for the first seven years and the Ministry of Science
and Technology will give VND47.5 billion for the construction of the new
plant.
The
new plant will be able to produce 18.000 bare metal Stent units annually
satisfying 12 percent of the demand, and 60.000 non-drug and drug eluting
balloon units.
It
will provide medical tools that will be 80 percent cheaper than imported ones
in the market.
The
factory is following the whole manufacturing technology transferred from
United Healthcare Inc.,
Foreign
doctors must have practising licence in VN
The
HCM City Department of Health will continue to carry out inspections on the
use of foreign doctors at private health clinics and illegal touts outside
hospitals.
Cosmetic
centres in the city will also be inspected until the end of this month.
The
department will check dental centres and health clinics located near large
hospitals, including
According
to Dr. Bui Minh Trang, chief of the city Health Department's inspector, no
private health clinics in the city have registered to use foreign doctors.
Under
the regulation, foreign doctors who want to work in private health clinics in
However,
the department still has discovered that foreign doctors are working at many
health clinics.
Two
private health clinics including Hiep Hoa in Tan Binh District and Apollo in
District 1 use Chinese doctors that do not have a licence to practise.
They
also have used drugs that are not allowed in
Authorities
withdrew licences and imposed fines on the clinics. The Chinese doctors have
also been deported.
Trang
said that he and his colleagues had faced difficulties in inspection at
private health clinics, especially ones that use foreign doctors illegally.
Most
of the information about the clinics had been found in the media, he added.
Some
TV channels had aired false advertising claims from these clinics, Trang
said, adding that these adverts had attracted more clients
Vietnamese
Seed Fund presents 20 scholarships to bright students
The
Vietnamese Seed Fund, an academic sponsorship fund co-organized by Nhan Dan
Newspaper, on September 24 gave away 20 scholarships to students who come
first in the university entrance examination in
The
fund presented 20 scholarships worth VND20 million (US$960) each to excellent
students who come from disadvantaged families. Of them, Bui Chi Huong, from
Co Loa Commune in Dong Anh District in
Nguyen
Huu Tien, who passed the entrance examination for the
Another
good example is Tran Thanh Hoang from Van Phuoc Commune in Van Ninh District
in the central
Vietnam
Women Prize awarded to ten individuals, five teams
The
Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) on September 23 announced the winners of the
Vietnam Women Prize, which went to ten individuals and five teams who have
achieved pre-eminence in public life.
VWU
also marked their 83rd anniversary, during which they introduced Creative
Women Day.
This
year, the winners have been selected for both excellent models in scientific
research and those who overcame daily difficulties to become successful woman
in society and support other unfortunate persons in the community.
Ten
individuals received the prize including Dr. Khu Thi Khanh Dung, Vice
Director and Chief of Neonatal Department at National Hospital of Pediatrics
in Hanoi; Pham Thi Huan, Director of Ba Huan Company; Giang Pao My, Chairman
of Lai Chau People’s Council; and Pham Thi Viet Nga, Director of DHG
Pharmaceutical Joint-Stock Company.
Ten
teams including female staff of the Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute;
female medical workers in Le Huu Trac National Institute of Burns; and
members of Women’s
On the
occasion, an exhibition themed to highlight Women’s Rights and Economic
Background will display 38 exhibits in Vietnamese Women’s Museum from October
1.
The
Hanoi International Women’s Club (HIWC), a non-profit group whose membership
is open to all expatriate women living in
Having
been born with glass bone disease and confined to a wheelchair throughout her
life, Nguyen Thi Lan Anh has overcome her difficulties to help people with
disabilities living in
Through
her project Xuong Rong Van No Hoa (Cactus Blooming), her center provided
people with disabilities in Ba Vi and Soc Son Districts in
Nguyen
Duc Kien scam to go on trial later this year
A
number of big corruption cases in
The
information was given by Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission
Nguyen Ba Thanh at a meeting with voters in
The
Ministry of Public Security has recently completed their year-long
investigation into the violations by Kien, who was the founder of Asia
Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB). Three major real estate assets owned by
Kien and his wife have been seized.
The
charges against Kien are as follows: Illegal business, extortion, asset
appropriation, tax evasion and intentional breach of state regulations on
economic management. These alleged crimes have had serious repercussions in
The
case has stirred up public concern over the past year due to its major size
and the seriousness of the violations that involved several bank leaders.
According
to Thanh, “The case of Nguyen Duc Kien will be brought to court later this year.
The trial of many complicated cases need to be carried out in many phases,
depending on the inspection results. The big cases with the inspection
results announced will be on trial in June 2014,” he added.
Thanh
received many voters’ questions about corruption issues. Voter Le Xuan Lan
from Phuoc My Ward said fight against corruption should be more drastic,
adding that rampant corruption is among reasons hindering the country’s
development.
Meanwhile,
Minister of the Public Security Tran Dai Quang was cited by the government
website saying that inspection of corruption case in Vietnam National
Shipping Lines (Vinalines) will be completed soon for the prosecution and
trial scheduled to take place by the end of this year.
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