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It is estimated to
cost VND4 trillion (US$190 million), which will come from the Tan Binh Phu
Trading, Service and Real Estate Company, a joint-venture between the Tan
Binh District Public Service Company and Tan Quang Limited Company.
The trade centre
will be built on 7,000 square metres while the traditional market with 5,000
kiosks will occupy the rest of the space.
Tan Binh Market was
built before 1975 and has been upgraded several times. It has 3,300 kiosks,
two-thirds of which measure less than one square metre.
The beehive of a
market is highly vulnerable to fire.
Course
helps protect endangered primates
The Frankfurt
Zoological Society's
The annual course,
which began on Saturday, aims to raise awareness about endangered primate
protection in
Farmers in the Cuu
Long (
Nguyen Minh Tam in
"Farmers here
are happy about the current prices," he said.
Trader Ho Van Hai
of Cai Be District said he had never seen the price of the summer-autumn rice
crop increase as strongly at the crop-end as it had this year.
A month ago, the
price of normal-quality paddy was about VND4,000-4,300 a kilo, he said,
adding that in some areas the price was VND3,800-3,900 a kilo.
Traders attributed
the price hikes to an increase in
However, many
farmers did not benefit from the price increase because they had harvested
their paddy and sold them before the price hikes.
Nguyen Van Boi in
Cai Lay District's Phu Nhuan Commune in Tien Giang said: "Half of a
month ago, many farmers and I harvested paddy and sold fresh paddy at the
fields."
Farmers in the
Mekong Delta have harvested more than 1.5 million hectares of summer-autumn
rice crop with an average yield of 6 tonnes per ha as of last weekend,
according to the Southern Plant Protection Centre.
The remaining
320,000ha of the crop are in the blooming stage or have milk-stage grains,
mostly in An Giang, Dong Thap, Kien Giang and Tien Giang provinces.
The delta's flood
waters are rising and threatening the remaining summer-autumn rice in
flood-prone areas, according to the centre.
Rice blast disease
and rice leaf blight, among other diseases, have infected more than 3,200ha
of summer-autumn rice.
Ho Van Chien,
director of the centre, said to protect nearly ripe summer-autumn rice from
floods, farmers should consider harvesting them early.
Next year, farmers
in flood-prone areas should not plant the autumn-winter rice crop in areas
where there is no protection dyke, he said.
The delta farmers
have seeded more than 626,300ha of the autumn-winter rice, as of last
weekend.
Dong Thap, which is
one of the delta's most flooded provinces during the flooding season, has
about 3,000ha of nearly ripe summer-autumn rice, which have not been
harvested and 30,000ha of newly planted autumn-winter rice.
A large area of the
province's rice is estimated to be flooded when flood waters rise high.
This year, the
delta's flood season caused by the rising levels of the
Nguyen Van Duong,
chairman of the Dong Thap People's Committee, has ordered departments and
district authorities to consolidate dykes and encourage farmers to finish
harvesting the summer-autumn rice crop before the flood waters rise.
Last month, flood
water broke a 20-meter dyke section in Hong Ngu District's Thuong Phuoc 1
Commune, destroying 78ha of summer-autumn rice and causing an output decline
of 50 per cent for 61ha of summer-autumn rice.
In Long An
Province, farmers in Tan Hung, Vinh Hung and Tan Thanh districts have had to
harvest nearly 1,000ha of summer-autumn rice seven to 30 days earlier than
scheduled to avoid floods.
Long An farmers
have also planted 14,851ha of autumn-winter rice crop. Of the figure, 90 per
cent are planted in dyke-protection areas.
In
Pham Van Thanh,
head of the Cai Be District's Agriculture and Rural Development Bureau, said
the district had harvested more than 12,000ha of the 17,000ha of the
summer-autumn rice.
Cai Be would
complete harvesting the summer-autumn rice today, he said.
Water supply
stations remain broken for years
For a decade,
people living in many areas of central
A recent inspection
of the provincial People's Committee has found that up to 148 water supply
stations out of 496 in the province do not work.
In Ba To District's
Ba Xa Commune, about 1,700 households have had to use stream water because
their water supply station has not worked for a decade, Nguoi lao dong
(Labourer) newspaper reported.
Ba Xa residents
were happy when the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department
built the VND600 million (US$28,300) water supply station in 2003, recalled
resident Pham Van Le.
However, their excitement
did not last long because the station broke down after just a few months.
Residents submitted repeated requests for repairs to authorised agencies, but
they were ignored.
The same situation
also happened in Nghia Hanh District's Hanh Duc Commune, where a VND2.2
billion ($103,700) water supply station was built in 2003.
Chairman of the
provincial People's Committee Le Viet Chu said that authorised agencies were
working to identify the violations of each station.
Inspectors also
discovered that agencies in charge of building 107 water supply stations
overspent capital. The overspending was estimated at VND1.6 billion ($75,000)
and occurred in Ba To, Duc Pho, Minh Long and Tay Tra districts.
About 100,000
people in 34 disaster-prone communes in Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Lao Cai
provinces are equipped with the knowledge, skills and facilities required for
disaster prevention and response.
The information was
revealed at a workshop yesterday on the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project
funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The VND45.3 billion
(US$2.1 million) project aims to increase the resilience of target
communities against the negative impact of disasters, therefore reducing the
loss of human life, property, health and livelihoods.
The project pays
special attention to the most vulnerable groups such as women, children and
people with disabilities, the elderly and those living in high-risk
(disaster-prone) areas.
The project focuses
on three main areas: infrastructure and facilities improvement; communication
to enhance awareness and promote behavioral change of communities; and
capacity building for government officials, Red Cross staff and volunteers in
community-based disaster risk reduction.
"Disaster risk
reduction and climate change adaptation are among the priorities of the
Norwegian co-operation with
PM seeks
thorough vaccination coverage
The Prime Minister
has asked all provinces and cities nation-wide to ensure that the measles and
rubella vaccination campaign covers at least 95 per cent of the children
under 14.
The six-month-long
campaign, launched recently by the Health Ministry, aims to administer the combined
measles and rubella vaccine to around 23 million children for free under the
framework of the National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI).
The Prime Minister
directed the health ministry to work with the relevant agencies and the
provincial and municipal People's Committees to build detailed plans for the
vaccination campaign. The ministry must ensure a sufficient supply of
vaccines, necessary materials and technical support for all localities.
The PM asked the
Ministry of Education and Training to raise the awareness of teachers,
children and parents about the importance of vaccination. The Ministry of
National Defence was requested to assist the vaccination efforts in the
mountainous and remote areas and islands.
As the largest-ever
programme in the country, the vaccination campaign is one of the measures
being implemented to eradicate measles in Viet Nam by 2017 and rubella by a
future date, according to EPI director Nguyen Tran Hien.
As of September 18,
the vaccine had been provided safely to more than 28,000 children in Co Kuin
District in the Central Highland
The Ministry of
Health's statistics showed that there were 4,462 measles cases among nearly
20,000 suspected cases reported from 62 to 63 provinces and cities
nation-wide since late 2013. Seventy-six of the total number of measles cases
were reportedly mainly in children under the age of 10.
Dong Thap
prepares land for large-scale paddy fields
The Mekong Delta
The project, which
will be carried out until the end of 2015 or early 2016, is an effort of the
Dong Thap Province's People's Committee and a South Korean corporation with
funds from Official Development Assistance (ODA) from South Korea.
The provincial
government expects the project will help farmers become more economically
efficient and thus limit their cultivation expenses.
The cleared land
will be divided between several paddy fields of 1,000ha each. They will be
managed by households in the province's northern districts of Tam Nong, Tan
Hong, Thanh Binh, Thap Muoi, and others. The area involves 9,000 households
in the districts.
According to the
provincial agricultural sector, the province has a total of 225,220 hectares
of land for paddy cultivation.
Of the province's
total 156,679 households, more than 70 per cent cultivate paddy on less than
one hectare of land, and more than 12 per cent of the households own one to
two hectares of paddy farmland.
Nguyen Van Duong,
chairman of
Upon realising the
project, expenses for fertiliser, labour and water would be saved.
Productivity and
rice quality would be improved, Duong added.
Nguyen Van Cong,
director of Dong Thap Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development, said that when farmers agreed to combine their land for
large-scale production, rice quality would be improved and enterprises would
sign contracts to purchase rice.
With traditional
production methods, farmers were forced to sell their paddy to traders at
unfair prices, he added.
Currently, there
are several cooperatives cultivating paddy on large-scale fields such as Tan
Cuong, Tan Tien and others.
For Pham Van Tuan
Hai, a farmer who combined his fields for a large-scale farm at Tan Cuong
Cooperative, the model has saved him at least VND1 million (US$50) per
hectare, while paddy productivity and rice quality has improved.
Construction
triggers traffic jams in City
The District 6 in
HCM City has faced major traffic congestion due to infrastructure
construction for a week now as thousands of vehicles that travel between the
city centre and the Western Bus Station each day have been stuck in the area
of Ong Buong 1 and 2 bridges from morning until midnight.
With those bridges
closed for repairs, residents turned to alternative routes like Tan Hoa and
Dang Nguyen Can streets, only to find out that they were also under
construction.
"Tan Hoa and
Dang Nguyen Can streets are being constructed while Ong Buong 1 bridge is
blocked. We have no way to go," a resident in the Ong Buong 1 bridge
area told Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourer) newspaper. "It took me nearly one
hour to go 1km."
Nearby routes like
Hau Giang, Nguyen Van Luong and Minh Phung were also filled with traffic as
residents tried to avoid construction sites, especially during rush hours.
Motorbike drivers
tried to cut through the small alleys that connect the congested streets in
an effort to get out of the area, which caused traffic jams throughout the
alley network.
The traffic jam
also spread to neighbouring Tan Phu District when an underground electric
grid project on
The HCM City
Department of Transport reported the situation to the municipal People's
Committee, blaming the city Management Board of Urban Construction and
Investment for not implementing agreed-upon traffic measures such as building
temporary bridges and putting up warning signs to balance the traffic.
Sweet-toothed
insect plagues
A species of
sugarcane stem borer that has appeared for the first time in
The new borer
(Chilo tumidicostalis Hampson), which has four stripes and a brown head,
multiplies rapidly to up to 100 larvae to a sugarcane, according to the
Sugarcane Research Institute.
Sometimes the plant
is killed, especially young ones.
The insect, which
has a life span of around 50 days, has plagued other countries like
First noticed in
Tay Ninh in June, it infests mostly the top three joints of a sugarcane.
The province's
worst affected areas are in Chau Thanh, Tan Chau, Duong Minh Chau, Tan Bien,
Ben Cau and Hoa Thanh districts, and Tay Ninh city.
Chau Thanh is worst
hit, with about 3,600ha out of its 5,900ha of sugarcane affected, according
to the district Agriculture and Rural Development Bureau.
Pham Dinh Gian,
deputy head of the bureau, said the figure was based on sugarcane with
withered and yellow tops, and the actual figure could be higher since the
tops look green in the early days of infestation.
Vuong Quoc Thoi,
deputy director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development, said the stem borer had infested more than 5,000ha out of the
province's 21,000ha of sugarcane.
The department was
instructing farmers in measures to combat the pest, including spraying of
pesticides, he said.
He has called on
local sugar mills to buy sugarcane earlier than scheduled.
The harvest was to
have begun in November.
Ho Van Chien,
director of the Southern Plant Protection Centre, said the central Plant
Protection Department had ordered the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development to announce the pest outbreak.
To prevent the
spread of the stem borer, other provinces should desist from buying sugarcane
saplings for planting from Tay Ninh, he said.
Social
welfare programmes address poverty
The Fatherland
Front Committee of the northern mountainous province Lao Cai provided houses,
worth 60-120 million VND each, for 25 low-income families in Si Ma Cai
district this month.
The committee’s
Vice Chairwoman Ban Thu Thao said the committee would support the
construction of 25 additional houses by November. Since 2012, the province
has raised close to 40 billion VND (1.88 million USD) to implement social
welfare programmes, she added.
Meanwhile, the
southern
According to the
deputy director of the provincial Department of Education and Training, local
authorities are working to reduce the proportion of under-weight children and
children with stunted growth to less than five percent and one percent,
respectively.
On September 19,
the Thien Tam Foundation under Vingroup donated 1,000 cows to poor households
in Cu Jut district in the
Earlier, the group
gave 2,000 cows to poor residents in Kon Tum and Dak Lak provinces.
Programme
135 benefits ethnic people in Gia Lai
The Government’s
Programme 135, which aims to improve living conditions for rural residents
with a particular focus on ethnic minority communities, has proven effective
in the Central Highlands
The province has
spent over 1 trillion VND (47 million USD) out of the 1.5 trillion VND (75
million USD) allocated from the programme fund so far on infrastructure,
focussing on upgrading rural roads; building schools and medical stations;
and setting up irrigation and water supply systems; thus contributing to
socio-economic development in the locality.
The programme also
helped ethnic minority groups improve their farming techniques by applying
advanced technologies and new cultivation methods, which has boosted their
incomes due to higher yields.
With an area of
more than 15,500km2, Gia Lai is home to more than 1.3 million people.
Forty-five percent are ethnic minorities, mainly Bahnar and J’rai.
In recent years,
the Party and Government paid special attention to improving the living
conditions for ethnic minority communities in the
As a result,
chronic hunger was eliminated in Gia Lai, and the number of low-income
households reduced rapidly.
The communities in
the locality are connected via roads accessible for cars, busses and trucks.
Every village is connected to the national electricity grid, and over 70
percent of households have access to clean water.
All the villages
have access to schools and medical facilities, with 95 percent of school-age
children attending school.
Dong Thap
prepares land for large-scale paddy fields
The Mekong Delta
The project, which
will be carried out until the end of 2015 or early 2016, is an effort of the
provincial People's Committee with funds from Official Development Assistance
(ODA) from the
The provincial
government expects the project will help farmers become more economically
efficient and thus reduce their cultivation expenses.
The cleared land
will be divided between several paddy fields of 1,000ha each. They will be
managed by households in the province's northern districts of Tam Nong, Tan
Hong, Thanh Binh, Thap Muoi, and others. The area involves 9,000 households
in the districts.
According to the
local agricultural sector, the province has a total of 225,220ha of land for
paddy cultivation.
Of the province's
total 156,679 households, more than 70 percent cultivate paddy on less than
one hectare of land, and more than 12 percent own one to two hectares of
paddy farmland.
Nguyen Van Duong,
Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, was quoted by Tuoi Tre (Youth)
newspaper as saying that the large fields create favourable conditions for
mechanisation in paddy cultivation.
Upon realising the
project, expenses for fertiliser, labour and water will be saved, he said,
adding that productivity and rice quality will be improved.
Nguyen Van Cong,
Director of the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development,
said that when farmers agree to combine their land for large-scale
production, rice quality will be improved and enterprises will sign contracts
to purchase rice.
With traditional production
methods, farmers were forced to sell their paddy to traders at unfair prices,
he added.
Currently, there
are several cooperatives cultivating paddy on large-scale fields such as Tan
Cuong, Tan Tien and others.
For Pham Van Tuan
Hai, a farmer who combined his fields for a large-scale farm at Tan Cuong
Cooperative, the model has saved him at least 1 million VND (50 USD) per
hectare, while paddy productivity and rice quality has improved.
Village
helps youngsters in career path
A ceremony was held
on September 19 to kick off construction of a start-up village for youths in
Bac Ai mountainous district, central Ninh Thuan province.
Covering over 1,000
ha in Phuoc Dai commune, the village is designed to have a cultural house, a
sports ground, a kindergarten, and other necessary facilities.
The project, worth
54 billion VND (2.53 million USD), is expected to be completed by 2018. It is
one of the 15 youth start-up villages approved by the Government for the
2013-2020 period.
Once operational,
the village will benefit 150 youth households with 540 people who will
receive technical assistance in cultivation for sustainable household
economic development.
It will also
encourage youngsters to take an active part in building new-style rural areas
in order to bring a new facelift for the locality, according to Secretary of
the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s provincial chapter Chau Thanh Hai.
On the occasion,
the chapter presented 20 scholarships, each worth 500,000 VND, to
disadvantaged students in Bac Ai district.
Vietnamese
social scientists visit Norway
A delegation from
the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), led by its President Nguyen
Xuan Thang, met with scientists in Norway from September 17-19 to exchange
research results on issues of mutual concern.
The delegation held
working sessions with several leading social science institutions, including
the Research Council of Norway, the Norwegian Institute for Social Research,
the
During the
meetings, participants discussed a number of issues, including the State’s
role in a market economy; global competitiveness; and economic restructuring.
They also exchanged
views on reforming State-owned enterprises, reducing State ownership in
The experience
gained by the VASS during this visit is expected to help the institution
increase its consultative capacity to review the country’s 30 years of
renewal and draft a development report for 2014.
Khmer
celebrate Sene Dolta Festival
Thousands of Khmer
people in the Mekong Delta region are celebrating the Sene Dolta festival, a
joyful annual celebration to honour ancestors.
Thanks to the State
and Government’s efforts, living conditions have improved for the Khmer
community in Tra Vinh province. Many residents are celebrating the festival
in their new home, with more than 40,000 Khmer households provided with housing
assistance under the Prime Minister’s Decision No.167/TTg.
Additionally, the
province invested in building and upgrading irrigation systems, transport
infrastructure and schools.
The province aims
to provide access to electricity for 18,900 households in remote areas by the
end of 2014, increasing the proportion of Khmer households supplied with
power from 92.93 percent to 95.76 percent.
Meanwhile, Khmer
people in Soc Trang province are enjoying a successful harvest. Prices for
rice and farm produce increased significantly, raising their income.
Sene Dolta is one
of the largest annual Khmer festivals, along with Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year)
and Ooc Oom Bok, a festival that pays tribute to the Moon for good harvests.
During the Sene
Dolta festival, Khmer people get together to pay tribute to their ancestors
and enjoy traditional songs and dance after a hard year’s work.
This year’s event
is held from September 22-24. On this occasion, authorities in the Mekong
Delta provinces, home to a large population of Khmer, organised meetings and
visited dignitaries and monks at a number of pagodas as well as local Khmer
residents in their communities.-
Can Tho
The Mekong Delta
city of
Le Hong Anh,
Political Bureau member and standing member of Party Central Committee’s
Secretariat, attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
With an investments
of 850 billion VND (40.476 million USD), the ten-storey hospital has 18
clinical, five paraclinical departments and 8 functional rooms.
A 19.5 million EUR
loan from the
The Can Tho General
Hospital is a key project in the government’s plan to develop the national
medical network by 2020 with the aim of furthering competence and quality in
health care sector.
According to Le
Hung Dung, Chairman of Can Tho’s People’s Committee, the city is leading the
Mekong Delta region in terms of health care with an average 10,55 doctors and
29.51 hospital beds for every 10,000 residents.
The Lawrence S.Ting
Community Support Fund offered 473 scholarships worth VND 4.12 billion to
students of 34 high schools, colleges and universities in the country on
September 20.
Of these, each secondary
school students received VND 4.5 million, and VND 10 million for college
& university students during the academic year.
The fund also
donated more than VND5 billion to the central and local charitable funds
across the country.
The award ceremony
2014 was attended by Ms. Truong My Hoa, former Vice President of Viet Nam and
Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tat Thanh Cang.
In the last 9
years, the Lawrence S. Ting Fund has given nearly 4,330 scholarships with a
total amount of VND 30 billion; and 62,252 scholarships worth VND 41 billion
through the support of central and local charitable funds and healthcare
areas throughout the country.
HCMC puts
preschool education top priority
One of the good
policies is that babysitters will be a regular member of the public kindergartens
and it means babysitters will receive earning from state budget like
teachers.
In addition, salary
of managers and teaching staffs in state-run preschools will be increased by
25 percent depending on their job.
Teachers’ earning
will be surged by 35 percent. Newly graduated teachers will be financially
supported.
Preschool education
investors who plan to build new facilities are eligible for a loan without
interest within 15 years.
This is the first
year that HCMC has placed preschool education top priority as Hua Ngoc Thuan,
deputy chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, said that the city’s
population increases drastically; accordingly though the city allocates VND5
trillion (US$ 235,960,358) per year to build more 1,500 classrooms, it can
not still meet the increasing demand.
Trinh Ngoc Thach,
Deputy Head of the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth,
Adolescents and Children appraised the city’s new policies and instructions
to preschools.
Currently, the city
lacks around 2,000 preschool teachers. It is scheduled to supplement more for
the new academic year 2015-2016 newly graduated students is just around
1,567; as a result, the still suffer shortage of teachers in kindergartens.
No report
of vaccine side effect in mass immunization campaign
There has not been
report on side effects of immunizations in babies and young children in the
mass free-of-charge vaccination campaign in the country, said Professor
Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
at a press brief in
The Ministry of
Halth has been carrying out a gratis campaign to vaccinate over 95 percent of
children ( 23 million children) in the ages of one to fourteen to reduce
infections of measles and rubella.
The vaccination
campaign includes three phases. The first phase is from September to October
for children from one to five year old; the second phase is from November to
December for children from six to ten and the third phase will kick of from
January to next February for those from eleven to fourteen.
The campaign has
been first launched in four districts including Thanh Son District in the
So far, over 18,000
children in district Cu Kuin and Vung Tau city have received vaccine shots.
There is no report of side effects of immunization.
Head of the Ministry
of Health’s Preventive Health Department Tran Dac Phu stressed that medical
workers had carefully examined children’s health conditions before
administering a shot.
After the campaign,
the Ministry of Health will officially include measles and rubella vaccine
into the National Extended Vaccination Program.
Measles and rubella
is an acute, contagious viral infection which can cause serious complications
and deaths. It can spread rapidly and 90 percent of children who have contact
with measles-suffering peers may catch measles and rubella virus.
Moreover, there is
no specific for the two diseases. as per the World Health Organization’s
warning, the best way to prevent the two diseases is to vaccinate.
European-funded
project improves Ha
A capacity
development project for the health sector in northern Ha
Since 2009, the
project has purchased more than 1,420 pieces of equipment for 116 clinics in
the locality, including image-diagnosis machinery, test equipment and
essential medical tools, and provided refresher courses for medical staff.
Director of the
provincial Department of Health Nguyen Xuan Quy said many staff members paid
the course fees themselves to learn about new equipment and treatment
methods. He added that local clinics were also expanded to accommodate more
patients.
Leaders of
grass-roots health units said the measures had improved Ha
Last year, communal
medical centres in Thanh Liem district conducted ultrasound exams for more
than 1,200 patients, while thousands of others were examined and treated
according to their diagnoses.
The project also
benefitted the
Source: VNN/VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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