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Students
gain vital employment skills
Nearly 400 students
have benefited from a programme designed to provide students with soft skills
like communication and problem-solving.
Co-organised by
Nestle Viet
According to the
Ministry of Education and Training, 63 per cent of graduates could not find a
job.
Workplace
accident kills two in Vung Ang
A workplace
accident occurred on the morning of July 27 in the Vung Ang Economic Zone
(EZ) in central Ha Tinh province, claiming two lives and injuring three others.
According to
initial reports, the incident occurred while a group of workers were building
a water plant of a Taiwanese-invested Formosa Project. The victims who died
were identified as Bui Viet Thao, 23, from northern Ha
The three injuries
are currently in critical condition and receiving treatment at Ha Tinh
provincial hospital.
The cause of the
accident is under investigation.
Police nab
murder suspects
Police in the
central province of Ha Tinh yesterday arrested four people on suspicion of
murder - Pham Van Nghia, Dinh Van Hoat, Le Van Anh, all 19, and Le Cong Suc,
21, from neighboring Thanh Hoa province.
Police said they
were in a boat that became entangled in and and tore off a fishing net from
another boat.
A fight broke out
between the four and the owners of the fishing net, fishermen Nguyen Van
Phuong, 48 and Nguyen Ba Quang, 43.
Quang fell into the
sea after being hit by bricks, logs and bowls. His body was found a day after
with wounds on the head. Forensic analysis concluded that Quang died from
traumatic brain injury and drowning.
Scaffold
collapse leaves two dead
Scaffolding at a
construction site in the central
The collapse
occurred at about 7:30 am at a
The three injured
workers, who suffered brain injuries and broken arms and legs, were
immediately taken to Ky Anh District General Hospital and then transferred to
the provincial general hospital for better treatment. They are now in stable
condition.
Police seize
20 pangolins in Thanh Hoa
Police rescued 20
pangolins that were being illegally transported in a taxi belonging to the
Van Xuan Company on a stretch of National Highway No 1A through
Police caught the
taxi driver speeding while transporting the animals.
One man was found
in the back of the taxi with the animals.
The pangolins were
handed over to the provincial Forest Management Department.
The case is under
investigation.
‘Sovereignty
protection’ malware is of Chinese origin:
The malware
recently spread via email, disguised as a document promoting
The malicious software
mainly sent to Gmail addresses has the subject line “Protecting airspace and
waters in the defending of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” with a
Microsoft Word document attached.
The document, named
QTtacchienA-6-2014.doc and titled “Solutions for waters protection,” conceals
a remote access trojan, Vu Ngoc Son, deputy chairman of research and
development of Hanoi-based Bkav, warned.
The malware
covertly opens a backdoor on the victim’s computer, allowing cybercriminals
to remotely access it and steal personal data, Son said.
A backdoor is a
method of bypassing normal authentication, securing illegal remote access to
a computer and obtaining access to plaintext while attempting to remain
undetected.
Once executed, the
malware will automatically install three files, namely m.exe, msi.dll, and
m.dll.mov into the system of the infected computer. The trojan then opens the
backdoor and connects the computer with the hacker’s server, hosted at
moit.dubkill.com, according to the Bkav expert.
The server is registered
with a Chinese company, Bkav asserted.
The infected
computer is then put under control of the hackers, who can freely access its
data, capture screenshots, and install or remove applications.
“Hackers usually
take advantage of recent news to spread malicious software,” Son warned.
“Events such as the
tension in the
Computer users are
advised to install antivirus software or update their existing software to
ensure security.
HCM City People's
Committee yesterday honoured 4,665 distinguished students who have won
international, national and city contests in the 2013-2014 academic year.
At a ceremony
organised with the Department of Education and Training, the committee
recognised eight students who won international contests, including
Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics Olympiads, and in an
International Science and Engineering Fair.
A total of 299
students won prizes in national contests, including internet Mathematics and
English Olympiads, and four students who had the highest test scores on the
high school graduation examination. The remaining students won contests at
the city level.
Le Hong Son, the
department's head, told online HCM City Giao Duc (Education) newspaper that
the city had paid more attention to investing in students studying to prepare
for contests, especially international students.
However, many
parents are reluctant to allow their children to take part in contests
because they could fear that the time should be used to study material for
their exams.
More
dropouts in Binh Phuoc
An increasing
number of students are dropping out of lower secondary school in
At a meeting held
on Thursday, the provincial People's Council questioned the department
representatives about the continuing problem at local schools.
Nguyen Van Hung,
the department's head, said the department had asked schools to offer extra
free classes for students with poor learning results and given tuition
remission fees to families with financial difficulties and to ethnic minority
households.
Schools had also
been told to require teachers to meet with parents and discuss their
children's' problems.
However, many
parents did not show interest and even became angry when teachers spoke to
them about their children.
In the 2013-2014
academic year, 632 of 57,758 lower-secondary school students (sixth through
ninth grades) in the province dropped out. At least 305 high school students
dropped out.
The number of
students dropping out increased by 100 over the previous year.
The main causes
behind the dropout rate were family financial difficulties, and the distance
from students' houses to schools.
In addition, some
students drop out when their family has a new crop to harvest.
Hung told the
council that the department had banned extra teaching at home for primary
school students and for students studying during the day.
He said that
students at some schools were paying unnecessary fees that are not included
on the local education department's list of eligible fees.
Vang Anh Kindergarten,
for instance, collects fees for water, phone and allowances, which are then
given to teachers, many of them are not on the permanent staff of the school.
The department has
ordered schools to stop collecting these unnecessary fees and to fine
violators.
Apartment
buyers denied land rights
More than 36,000
apartment buyers in Ha Noi have been denied vital land-use right certificates
because the sellers have not completed legal documents, said vice director of
the city's Natural Resources and Environment Department, Nguyen Huu Nghia.
Without the
certificates, owners cannot legally live in their own premises.
According to the
department's statistics, 112,150 finished apartments were recently handed to
home buyers in the city, but only 36,110 buyers have been granted land-use
right certificates.
In a new urban area
north of National Highway 32 in Hoai Duc District, 551 out of 784 houses and
apartments completed two years ago have been handed to home buyers, but not
one has received a certificate.
A similar situation
happened in the city's first affordable housing project – CT1 Ngo Thi Nham in
Ha Dong District. Although 328 apartments were handed over to buyers in 2011,
they have not yet received certificates.
The lack of
certificates shows a gap between practice and policy as Ha Noi wants to
promote affordable housing projects for low income earners. Accordingly, as
soon as home buyers receive ownership certificates from housing developers,
they can apply for land-use right certificates.
Vice director Nghia
said that some investors refused to give buyers a "contract-completion
certificate" or "value- added invoices". This prevented them
from being able to complete procedures to obtain a land-use right
certificate.
Former deputy
minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Hung Vo said it was
unreasonable for home buyers to be forced to bear the consequences of faults
made by developers.
"Home buyers
should be granted land-use right certificates as soon as they fulfill their
financial obligations," he said.
Housing projects
and land-use right certificates should be considered two separate processes,
he said.
Previously, the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the municipal People's
Committee agreed that the responsibilities of sellers and buyers should be
kept separate so that buyers did not have to pay for the seller's mistakes or
problems.
Vice chairman of
the committee, Vu Hong Khanh, said that the city would speed up the granting
of land-use certificates and any violations or wrongdoings detected would be
punished strictly.
People's Committees
at districts were asked to work with investors of housing projects to find
solutions to the problems.
The names of
investors unwilling to co-operate will be reported to inspectors for further
examination.
Violators will have
their bank accounts frozen or be prevented from carrying out other projects
in the city.
Electricity
supply fully resumes in storm-hit areas
Electricity supply
fully resumed by late July 25 in the northern provinces which were badly hit
by super storm Rammasun nearly a week earlier, the Electricity of Vietnam
(EVN) group reported.
The group said the
storm caused heavy damage to the local power transmission network, cutting
supply to 246,853 customers. Total losses and repair costs amounted to 21.4
billion VND (around 1 million USD).
Storm Rammasun
swept through the northern mountainous provinces on July 19, unleashing flash
floods, landslides and lightning strikes, with Ha Giang, Lang Son and Lai
Chau provinces worst hit.
The storm killed at
least 27 people and caused economic losses of around 125 billion VND (5.87
million USD), according to the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm
Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue.
A total of 7,000
houses were submerged or had their roofs blown down while 4,000 ha of rice
and other subsidy crops were inundated.
The ferocious storm
also left at least 46 people dead in
Education
experts discuss leadership
Higher education
worldwide is in a period of transition affected by globalisation and
internationalisation which requires each institution to change or improve its
leadership to ensure development, Dr Le Van Hao, head of
Leadership and
management should be clearly separated at some level in the context of higher
education in
At Vietnamese
universities, rectors and officials act as both leaders and managers, a mix
of responsibilities that forces them to spend most of their time doing
management work, according to Hao.
As a result, their
devotion to leadership work such as building a vision and goals is often
limited.
The separation does
not mean that more people should be involved in either, just a proper
separation of the tasks.
Ideally, rectors
and deans should be seen as "leaders" and vice rectors or deputy
deans should be regarded as "managers," he added.
After being
affected by the centralised governance system for long, the leadership at
most of universities in
It was very important
that leaders should be good communicators and active listeners, incorporate
the ideas and thoughts of other members of the institution into a larger
overall goal, and "know how to help the team members meet their personal
goals," he said.
They should pay
attention to the development of the locality where their institutions are
situated and co-operation with other domestic and foreign institutions, he
said.
There are many
reports, papers, and research focusing on the limitations and challenges
facing higher education in
The conference
agenda also featured other topics like expectations in learning and teaching
and creating links between institutions and communities/enterprises.
It was organised by
the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation's Regional Training
Centre in
Authorities
order investors to supply clean water to residents
Ha Noi People's
Committee chairman Nguyen Quoc Hung asked the investor of Me Tri residential
area to provide clean water to the hundreds of households living in the area
by the end of this month.
Inspections will
confirm that the request was implemented.
More than 700
households in Me Tri suffered clean water shortages since they moved to the
area in 2006.
Few water pipelines
connected Me Tri to the city's clean water supply system, so these households
were forced to buy water from wells built by the Housing Renovation and
Development JSC, the investor of the area.
In 2009, Viet Nam
Clean Water Investment and Construction Corporation (Viwaco) built pipelines
in the area. The city authority asked the investor to let residents use the
water.
However, after five
years, the investor has done nothing and residents are still drinking well
water.
Pham Xuan Khoa, who
lives in the area, said that many meetings between representatives of the
residents and the investor had taken place, but that the investor had
steadily ignored the wishes of residents, claiming it had not yet been
decided who would pay the pipeline costs.
So the residents
were still purchasing well water at the cost of VND4,000 ($0.18) per cubic
metre, he said.
Nguyen Tien Doan,
general director of the Housing Renovation and Development JSC, said the
company had only signed a contract with Viwaco to supply clean water to the
area's water container; residents had to sign their own contracts with Viwaco
to get the pipes connected to their apartments.
The committee asked
the Department of Construction to review the situation and propose a solution
to the committee before August 20.
As many as 182
women living
The event is part
of the activities to mark the 67th anniversary of
Speaking at the
ceremony, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai
showed his deep gratitude to the women, saying that the title is to honour
their sacrifice for the national liberation and reunification.
In recent years,
the municipal authorities have taken practical actions to look after heroic
mothers.
As many as 3,108
women in the city have so far been presented with the title.
Invalids
and Martyrs remembered nationwide
War Invalids and
Martyrs Day, held annually on July 27, is a day set aside where we remember
and appreciate all the soldiers who were injured or died serving
The Hanoi Youth
Union, in coordination with other youth organizations in the capital city,
offered incense at Mai Dich Cemetery on July 26 evening to mark the special
day.
The event
demonstrates the younger generation’s deep gratitude for those who sacrificed
for national defence.
More than 2,000
youth union members offered incense at the cemetery, the final resting place
for many Party, State and Government leaders.
They also visited
and presented gifts to heroic Vietnamese mothers, a number of war invalids,
and families of fallen soldiers.
The same day,
similar events were held at many other cemeteries throughout
An incense offering
ceremony with thousands of flickering candles took place at
Nearly 1,000 people
were present at the event, which also included an art performance in
commemoration of fallen combatants.
On the occasion,
more than VND850 million was donated to Quang Tri province in support of
social policy beneficiaries. About 100 gifts worth VND1 million each were
also presented to poor families of war veterans.
Many other
activities were held in Quang Tri ancient citadel to celebrate Martyrs’ Day,
including a floral tribute, a music programme, a lantern release on Thach Han
river.
The Central
Highland
The province has
over 48,000 social policy beneficiaries. Since 2009, i thas mobilized nearly
VND38 billion for the “Paying debt of gratitude” fund to support needy
people.
Vietnamese
war heroes commemorated abroad, at home
A delegation from
the Embassy and other representative offices of
The delegation
offered incense and a one-minute silence in honour of those fallen volunteer
soldiers whose sacrifice has contributed to nurturing the fine friendship and
solidarity between
During the wars,
tens of thousands of Vietnamese soldiers and experts lost their lives while
undertaking international missions in
The two countries
are working hard towards the completion of the search, gathering,
repatriation and re-interment of the martyrs by 2020.
On the occasion of
On July 26, leading
officials of
Minister of Public
Security General Tran Dai Quang visited and presented gifts to war invalids,
who are under treatment at August 19 hospital in Hanoi.
Festival
reinforces student solidarity in Italy
Large numbers of
Vietnamese students in
The annual event,
the third of its kind so far, was organized by the Vietnam Students’
Association in Italy (ASVI) with the assistance of the Vietnam Embassy and
the Vietnamese Business Association in
At the opening
ceremony, Ambassador Nguyen Hoang Long hailed ASVI’s activities over the past
years as a contribution to helping promote exchange and strengthen solidarity
among Vietnamese students in
He also expressed
his pleasure at fruitful education cooperation between the two countries. He
noted that during a recent visit to
Long also took the
occasion to raise funds in support of Vietnamese marine police, fishermen and
surveillance forces who are making constant efforts in protecting the
country’s sea and island sovereignty.
Since it began
operations in August 2007, ASVI has launched numerous significant events for
Vietnamese students in
Red Journey
2014 volunteers descend on Hanoi
Thousands of youth
volunteers from across the nation began arriving in
The final festival
of the blood drive dubbed “Red Journey” aims to mark the 67th anniversary of
Vietnam's War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27) to commemorate fallen
soldiers who sacrificed for national independence.
Diverse activities
will be staged during the event such as art performances and camping
activities. Around 2,500 units of blood were collected during the first day
of the festival.
Last year, the Red
Journey campaign was organized for the first time in 15 localities
nationwide. This year, the drive has attracted 120 volunteers travelling to
25 provinces and cities.
More than 45,000
units of blood have been collected so far thanks to Red Journey 2014,
according to statistics from 25 provinces and cities participating in the
journey.
US helps
disabled people with community integration
The
Addressing the
donation ceremony in
The project aims to
help disabled youngsters better integrate and more confidently communicate
with members of the community as well as raise public awareness about the
obstacles disabled and invalid youngsters face in their daily lives.
It will include a
series of events, training courses on making handicrafts for sale, and art
performances.
Le Minh Hien, the
Centre’s director said that since its establishment in 2002, the Centre has
aimed to provide handicapped youngsters with vocational training and
necessary life skills to protect their health.
Tests
complete at Chemicals Olympiad
Competitors at the
2014 International Chemicals Olympiad (IChO 2014) sat for a five-hour
theoretical examination on July 25, following a five-hour practice test on
July 23.
After the test,
Karol Rzad from
A Vietnamese
competitor, Do Viet Hung from
The 46th annual
International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) opened in Hanoi on July 21 with 291
high school students from 77 countries and territories worldwide taking part.
This is the first time
The prizes will be
announced on July 28.
At the 45th IChO
held in
IFAD funds
climate change adaptation project in
A climate change
adaptation project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) kicked off in Tra Vinh province on July 25.
The project will be
implemented from 2014 to 2020 in 30 villages of 7 districts in the province,
benefiting 15,000 poor households.
Its total
investment is VND521 billion, of which VND233.5 billion is sourced from an
IFAD loan, VND126.5 billion comes from IFAD non-refundable aid, VND79.5
billion is from the Vietnamese Government and VND81.5 billion is contributed
by beneficiaries.
The project aims to
build sustainable livelihoods for poor rural people in the context of
changeable environment and improve their ability to adapt to climate change
impact.
Beneficial
localities will be assisted in building management mechanism for climate
change adaptation in agriculture and rural areas, making socio-economic plan
in combination with climate factors, managing natural disasters’ risks and
community-based adaptation, developing infrastructure and conducting research
on sustainable agricultural production models.
It will set up
support funds to help poor households access preferential loans for
production to escape poverty sustainably.
Tra Vinh is most
vulnerable to climate change in the Mekong Delta region. During the 2011-2013
period, whirlwinds, tidal surges, salt infiltration and coastal erosion
caused an estimated property loss of more than VND325 billion.
The province has
invested VND10 billion in fortifying its sea dykes and preventing landslides,
however, climate change has caused increased saltwater intrusion, coastal
erosion, tidal surges, landslides, and droughts, threatening agricultural
production and aquaculture.
More fallen
soldiers remains repatriated from Cambodia
Tay Ninh province
and the Military Zone 7 High Command held a ceremony on July 25 to lay in
their final resting place the remains of 206 volunteer soldiers killed in the
war in
The remains were
located by the K70 and K71 search teams of the Military Zone 7 and the
Provincial Military Command during the 2013-14 dry season.
Since 2001, the two
teams have unearthed and collected 2,908 sets of remains of volunteer
Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives in
A similar ceremony
took place at a cemetery in Hon Dat district, Kien Giang province the same
day.
Fifty-eight remains
were discovered by K92 team of the Military Zone 9 during the 2013-14 dry
season with significant assistance from Cambodian friends.
K92 has collected a
cumulative total of 1,803 sets of remains since 2001 and all have been
repatriated to Kien Giang province.
The ceremonies
express Vietnamese philosophy “When drinking water, remember the source” and
the spirit of great national unity epitomized by the nation’s unbending
determination to return soldiers who died in battle to their homeland.
The Cancer Centre
of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture will assist the
In three years from
now, the Vietnamese side will send its doctors, nurses and technicians to the
Kanagawa centre for one-year refresher courses, while the centre’s
experienced staff will come to Danang with technical consultancy.
At the signing
ceremony in the presence of Kanagawa Governor Yuji Kuroiwa, Chairman of the
Danang People’s Committee Van Huu Chien said his city hopes to receive more
support from the prefecture in the promotion of medical workforce capacity
and the procurement of advanced equipment.
Yuji Kuroiwa voiced
his hope that the cooperation between the two establishments will actively
contribute to the partnership between Kanagawa and Danang in the future.
Over the past
years,
Notably, Japanese
experts have trained caregivers and midwives of the
US$3.9
million for landmine clearance in Quang Binh
The Mine Advisory
Group (MAG) – a not-for-profit organisation clearing landmines, unexploded
ordnance (UXO) and other remnants – will provide US$3.9 million for a
landmine clearance project (5th phase) in the central province of Quang Binh.
The donation was
part of a recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between MAG and
central Quang Binh province.
Under the MoU, the
MAG-funded project will be implemented from January 2015 to December 2017,
aimed at minimising negative consequences caused by UXO and landmines left
over from the war, as well as helping boost the local socio-economic
development.
Since MAG’s
operation in
From 2003 to 2014,
MAG has cleaned up nearly 1.9 million square metres of contaminated land in
more than 1,200 hamlets. About 86,000 explosive ordnance and landmines have
been removed. Over 1.4 million people have benefitted from the project so
far.
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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