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Social News 26/3
Passengers survive bus plunge in Quang Nam
Ten people were injured when a bus suddenly fell into an abyss
yesterday morning in Dai Quang Commune, in the central
The bus, carrying 37 passengers and being driven by Pham Quang
Dung, a resident of the Central Highlands
When the bus reached My An Village, it suddenly turned right
and rolled down the hill. Luckily, the bus got stuck on the edge of the hill,
saving the lives of all passengers and the driver.
Dai Loc District police and local office workers immediately
reached the accident site and carried out rescue work. At least 10 passengers
were injured and sent to a local general hospital.
Six of the injured persons were discharged from hospital
yesterday afternoon, three were still being treated and one seriously injured
passenger was shifted to
All the rest of passengers were transferred to another bus and
sent to their home village.
Initial investigation showed that the speeding bus had come
close to a truck, travelling on the same way, which broke down suddenly.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.
Police bust online soccer betting ring
The
The owner of Nhat Nguyet Cafe allegedly said she allowed
people to bet money on soccer matches, and told the police an unidentified
man reportedly named Hung provided her with the website bong88.net, betting
accounts and e-money worth VND60 million (US$2,900).
The café owner said Hung paid her VND1 million per day to
introduce the site to customers, in addition to the commission she received
on the bets.
Two arrested for possessing drugs, guns
Two people were recently arrested for illegal possession of
three guns, the city police said yesterday.
On March 17, Vo Quang Vu, 36, from the central
A search of his house led to the discovery of a revolver with
nine bullets inside, while another revolver, a Makarov K59 gun and hundreds
of bullets were found in the house of his accomplice Nguyen Thi Ngoc Suong.
Vu reportedly said he had bought the meth in
Gun trafficking was also allegedly part of Vu and Suong's
business.
In his criminal record, Vu already spent four years in prison
for snatching and another 18 years for illegal drug trafficking before.
Ha Noi to crack down on illegal taxi enterprises
Ha Noi police and transport departments have been asked to
make a comprehensive inspection of taxi firm operations in the city.
Ha Noi People's Committee has ordered that unqualified taxis
lose their licences, said the committee's deputy chairman, Nguyen Quoc Hung.
However, he said qualified taxi firms should be permitted to
run more cabs following the establishment of a project to look at the
management of taxis approved last October.
Officials in transport and police sectors have been required
to arrange sites for taxis to pick up or drop off passengers at major
conjunctions, hospitals, stations, residential areas, cultural, sport and
tourism sites or shopping centres.
The city also asked the transport department to try and
increase bus frequencies on bus route No. 74 from My Dinh Coach Station to
Xuan Khanh Ward of Son Tay District and Bus route No.61 from Van Ha Commune,
Dong Anh District to Me Linh District.
The transport department also suggested the establishment of
long-distance bus routes from the city to Da Chong area, Ba Vi District to
meet demand.
Asia-Pacific targets malaria eradication
Health experts from 17 countries will discuss challenges to
achieve a malaria-free Asia-Pacific region by 2030 at a meeting of the
Asia-Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN).
The 4-day event opened in Hoi An Town yesterday evening.
National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology
Director Tran Thanh Duong said at a press conference yesterday morning,
"Ever since artemisinin-resistant malaria was found in the Greater
Sub-Mekong Region, it has become a major challenge for malaria control and
elimination efforts in the region, including
Duong said the potential spread of artemisinin-resistant
parasites to other regions in a country and between countries via mobile
populations such as migrants and seasonal workers was a critical problem.
"
Last year,
The commitment to eliminate malaria aims to address growing
concerns of resistance to the drug artemisinin, which is the front-line
treatment for malaria.
Reaching the regional malaria eradication goal will require
significant investment from governments and donors, sustained political
commitment and strong collaboration among countries.
Dr Ben Rolfe, executive secretary of the Asia-Pacific Leaders'
Malaria Alliance Secretariat, stressed drug-resistant malaria threatened the
well-being and economic prosperity of
"That leaders across this region have agreed to strive
for an Asia-Pacific region free of malaria by 2030, shows extraordinary
vision and leadership in addressing this emergency, and APMEN has a pivotal
role to play in supporting eradication across the region," Rolfe said.
Founded in 2009, APMEN has provided a critical platform for
countries to share knowledge on common challenges, promote cross-border
collaboration and strengthen regional malaria eradication in the Asia-Pacific
region by 2030.
All
seamen rescued from ship that ran aground
Binh Duong No 688 collier was still stuck in a rocky shoal in
Khanh Hoa province, Director of the Nha Trang Maritime Port Authority Pham
Van Chuong said late yesterday.
Early yesterday, the Khanh Hoa border guard army force
received reports that the ship, containing 1,900 tonnes of coal, had run
aground in the central province's Van Ninh District's coastal area.
Chuong said the port authority was discussing rescue measures
with the ship's owner and rescue forces.
Spokesman of the Nha Trang maritime rescue co-ordination
centre Nguyen Xuan Binh said all nine seamen of the collier were in good
health in
Captain Hoang Ngoc Minh asked the
The provincial border guard army force immediately instructed
the local army stations to carry out rescue work.
The city department of market surveillance said more than 300
enterprises and household businesses in HCM City were found selling smuggled
goods since early this year.
In its operation report for the first quarter of 2015, the
department said it seized nearly 200,000 types of products that did not have
valid invoices and documents to prove their place of origin. Among them toys,
watches, smartphones and clothes were the largest in number.
Smuggling of cigarettes was one of the most serious
violations, with nearly 235,000 packs and 154 motorbikes and trucks used to
transport smuggled cigarettes being seized by the department in the last
three months.
The department also reported another 135 cases involving fake
goods of well-known brands, which led to more than 1.7 million products of
different types being seized.
Earth Hour event saves
The capital city has saved 240,000 kilowatt hours, an
equivalent of over VND400m for turning off unnecessary lights for one hour
during the Earth Hour on March 22.
The data was provided by the National Load Dispatch Centre,
under Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN).
This year tagline for Earth Hour campaign is "Use your
power to change climate change." The event is jointly held by the
Ministry of Industry and Trade, Embassy of Denmark in
Other activities will also be held, in particular, 1,000
students will ride bicycle around public places and pick up trash.
After
Earth Hour was first organised in
Nation’s ‘heroic mother’ monument inaugurated in Quang
Vietnam’s largest monument to the women whose children
sacrificed their lives fighting for the country was inaugurated on March 24
in Tam Ky city, the central province of Quang Nam, to mark the 40th
anniversary of the province’s liberation.
The event was attended by Politburo member and Permanent
member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat Le Hong Anh, Depupty Prime
Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and representatives from ministries and local
authorities.
Speaking at the ceremony, Le Phuoc Thanh, Secretary of the
Quang Nam Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee,
declared that the monument is dedicated to the ultimate sacrifice made by
heroic Vietnamese mothers during the national struggle for independence.
The memorial complex covers an area of 15 hectares in Tam Phu
Commune on
Thu lost nine children, one son-in-law and one granddaughter
during the war against the
Inside the monument building the names of nearly 50,000 heroic
mothers are listed, along with stories about their lives and the
contributions they made to the nation.
The six-year construction was built at the total cost of over
410 billion VND (19 million USD), sourced from the State and provincial
budgets.
Quang
Canals replenished to transport sugar cane in fields
Water from
Previously, more than 70,000 tonnes of sugar cane grown by the
residents, which was ready for harvest, was found to be undeliverable to the
markets due to the extremely low water level of the canals, thus hindering
boats from approaching the land and transporting the plants.
The dryness of the channels posed a serious threat to local
farmers as boats were the only mode of transport linking the mainland and the
sugar cane field surrounded by water.
Local residents grew some 1,500ha of sugar cane across the
district, yet only about 500ha, or one-third of the total amount, could be
harvested from last month to mid-March.
In an effort to keep the farmers from losing their income, the
Nhon Trach People's Committee and the Dong Nai Irrigation Works Operation
Co., Ltd. decided to pipe the
However, this solution is only temporary, Nhon Trach Economy
Division Acting Head Bui Phuoc Quyen said.
"The salinity of the
As a long-term solution, the authorities should start dredging
the 33 canals in the area as soon as possible, he added.
A plan to dredge these 33 canals, which total more than 51km
in length, was already approved by the provincial Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development in 2013, with priority given to eight transportation
canals that are mostly used for sugar cane delivery.
The cost of the plan was estimated at VND21 billion (US$1
million), yet a shortage in the budget left the plan untouched for years.
People’s ownership may be made into law
The controversial concept of people’s ownership may be made
into law as it has been added to the latest draft revisions to the Civil
Code.
People’s ownership, according to the draft, is defined in
Article 213 as ownership of public assets like land, water resources,
minerals, marine resources, airspace, natural resources and other assets
invested and managed by the State.
Article 224 of the draft amended Civil Code says the State
represents the people as owner of such assets. The Government manages and
ensures the proper, effective and economical use of the assets owned by the
people.
Speaking to the Daily on the sidelines of a seminar on the
draft held by the Ministry of Justice and the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) in
People’s ownership is one of the three concepts on forms of
ownership as specified in Article 213 of the draft. The two others are
private ownership and shared ownership.
Article 213 of the draft simplifies many concepts regarding
forms of ownership mentioned in Article 172 of the 2005 Civil Code.
Though Article 172 makes no mention of people’s ownership,
such a concept is used to make clear six forms of ownership – State
ownership, collective ownership, private ownership, shared ownership,
ownership by political organizations and socio-political organizations, and
ownership by socio-political-professional organizations, social organizations
and socio-professional organizations.
According to lawyer Nguyen Duy Lam, head of the business
legislation club, the division of forms of ownership based on the functions
and duties of subjects is inappropriate and should be changed. In fact, in
Meanwhile, Dr. Vu Thi Hong Yen from
Yen added the draft does not define the land use rights and
only Article 132 states the land use rights are mentioned in the Civil Code
and Land Law.
Despite general control of infectious diseases, they remain a
threat to the health of the country coupled with up to 73 percent of
mortality as a result of non-infectious diseases, mostly heart disease and
cancer, she said at a seminar on the interaction of contagious,
non-contagious and environmental diseases in
She said she hopes seminar participants will suggest priority
plans for researching, disrupting and preventing diseases in
Reports at the event revealed that like many other low-income
countries,
Stroke, coronary disease, liver cancer and lung disease are
four of the leading causes of death in
Air pollution is a major contributor to the heavy disease
burden, said the report, adding that dengue fever is expanding with over
70,000 cases each year. Bird flu virus H5N1, foot-and-mouth disease and
measles are also among threats to the community.
The two-day seminar will also focus on clarifying infectious
challenges in Vietnam, impacts of environmental pollution to communicable and
non-communicable diseases, and the role of the private sector in dealing with
the double disease burden.
Binh Thuan faces large-scale drought
Worrying water levels in all 16 reservoirs of central Binh
Thuan province is likely to lead to a widespread drought across the locality,
reported the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The dry season and low rainfall rate last year are to blame
for the worst-case scenario, said the department.
Tuy Phong district has thus far borne the brunt of the extreme
condition; all three local reservoirs are running out of water, particularly
the Da Bac reservoir which now contains only 800,000 cubic metres of its 4.5
million cubic-metre capacity.
Huynh Nhat, a senior officer in charge of Tuy Phong’s
agriculture sector, noted that the prolonged water shortage is severe in the
Vinh Hao and Vinh Tan communes where a number of cultivation activities have
been cut this year.
In Vinh Hao commune, the available water can serve only 600 of
the 1,800 households, forcing a number of them to pay out of pocket at a
relatively high cost of 90,000-250,000 VND (4-12 USD) per cubic meter of
water.
Programmes to improve and expand clean water supply sources in
Binh Thuan have been prioritised but the efforts cannot match the increasing
water demand.
Provincial authorities have focused on implementing drought
prevention measures in a bid to save thousands of hectares of crops.
Just half of residential areas in HCMC have central wastewater
treatment facilities while the city’s target is 90% of new urban areas and
50% of existing residential areas in the 2011-2015 period.
According to the city’s report on the 2011-2015 pollution
control program, the city currently has 42 new residential areas. Of the 20
operational areas, only half have central wastewater treatment facilities.
The city’s Binh Hung Hoa wastewater treatment plant is able to
treat 30,000 cubic meters of wastewater a day in Tan Hoa-Lo Gom basin with a
population of around 120,000 people. Binh Hung facility treats 141,000 cubic
meters of wastewater a day in Tau Hu-Ben Nghe and Kenh Doi-Kenh Te basins.
The combined capacity of the two plants is 171,000 cubic
meters a day, which represents a mere 13% of the total volume of urban
wastewater daily discharged in the city.
Many other wastewater treatment projects have been mapped out
but work on them has yet to start. For instance, the expansion of Binh Hung
plant and the construction of Thanh My Loi facility will not be ready until
2019 due to a lack of funding.
The city’s targets are to reduce water pollution in downtown
areas and on the outskirts by 80% and 60% respectively until the end of this
year. However, only the first target is likely to be met towards the
year-end.
Meanwhile, the targets for air and noise pollution reductions
set for the 2011-2015 period are highly unattainable, according to the city
government.
Some of the targets the city has realized in the past five
years are 85% of 3,300 waste sources having standard treatment facilities and
all industrial parks, export processing zones and industrial zones having
standard wastewater treatment facilities.
The Vietnam News Agency officially introduced its five new
products to the public on March 24.
They include online graphic news, audio news and I ntegrated
News and Photos services which are available on the agency’s official website
vnanet.vn, the bi-monthly
The online graphic news service, piloted on September 15 last
year, covers both domestic and world news in a wide range of fields, from
politics, economics, culture, sports to disasters and accidents and consumer
prices.
The audio news service went into trial operation in late 2014,
offering 40 minutes of current affairs and 20 minutes for music at 8pm every
day.
After the pilot period, the service will increase the number
and the duration of broadcast news.
Meanwhile, the Integrated News and Photos service combines
news and photographs with many photos used to illustrate each story.
The bi-monthly
With the three new editions, the Ethnic Minority and
Mountainous Region Pictorial magazine now has 11 bilingual publications in
Vietnamese and another ethnic languages, namely Mong, Khmer, Cham, K’Ho,
M’Nong, Ede, Jrai, Bahnar, Tay, Co Tu, and Xe dang.
The publications have reached the hands of ethnic groups in
mountainous areas across nearly 50 provinces.
As a media complex with over 1,000 reporters and editors
producing nearly 60 domestic and international media products, the Vietnam
News Agency produces the highest number of publications in the largest number
of forms and languages in the nation currently.
With the new releases, the Agency has strengthened its
position as a major multi-media platform in
Ho Chi Minh City: 65,000 jobs available in Q2
Businesses in southern
Marketers, sellers, technicians, HR managers and manual
workers in the IT, auto, service, garment & textiles and construction
sectors are in great demand, among others, the centre reported.
The need for unskilled workers and staff with tertiary
education accounts for 38 and 27 percent of the total demand, respectively.
Vice Director of the centre Tran Anh Tuan said the number of
people seeking employment in the commercial hub, including graduates and
workers from neighbouring localities, is expected to rise by 20 percent.
A job centre under the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has
launched a programme supporting the unemployed at four major bus stations,
aiming to provide free recruitment information and prevent scams.
Meanwhile, a job service centre under the municipal Department
of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has run 58 fixed and mobile job fairs
allowing recruiters to meet with potential candidates at industrial parks and
in several local districts.-
However, through years, activities implemented in the country
has achieved the World Health Organization’s basic goals which detect over 70
percent of tuberculosis patients and cure over 80 percent of fresh
tuberculosis people.
Thanks to its huge efforts in fighting against the dangerous
disease,
Professor Nguyen Viet Chung, director of the
According to Professor Nguyen Viet Chung, patients’ families
and the society must join hand to fight against the disease and provide
free-of-charged treatment to patients to reduce the financial burden for them.
Moreover, the most important in the tuberculosis prevention
program is to change people’s awareness of the disease.
Anti-tuberculosis program's leaders should call for social
contribution and enhance education of the disease in the community via media.
In addition, it is expected that
10 injured in head-on bus crash in Quang
A tour bus plunged off a mountain road into a ravine following
a head on collision with another vehicle in southern Quang
The driver of the bus, carrying about 37 people, was
travelling about 70km per hour when it swerved into the path of an oncoming
vehicle to avoid a parked car and fell into a wooded area.
The passengers said they were fast asleep when the accident
occurred.
"The only door of the bus was blocked. Rescuers had to
smash the windows to free the passengers", said Nguyen Thi Kim Anh.
At least 27 survivors were freed from the wreckage and boarded
another bus to continue their journey to
The accident happened at around 3am on March 24 in the Dai
Quang commune of Dai Loc district and difficult access to the site hampered
the rescue effort, a local official said.
Exhibitions
to mark 40 years since Quang Ngai liberation
Exhibitions on the history of central Quang Ngai province were
launched on March 23 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the locality’s
liberation (March 24, 1975 – March 24, 2015).
An exhibition on the province’s 21-year struggle against the
United States showcases around 200 photos, documents and objects representing
the milestones and victories as well as sacrifices and losses of locals
during the war.
Meanwhile, a collection of 2,500 books has been on display in
The books offer insight into the history of the local
Communist Party Committe, geography of the province and its districts over
time, outstanding community members and rebuilding and socio-economic
development during the period.
The same day, Student Week was kicked off in several local
museums, including the provincial
Some 5,000 pupils and students are expected to turn out for
the week-long event running from March 23-30.
New Study Highlights Barriers to Land Access
Results from a recent research study on land rights were
released last week at a workshop in
Initial findings from the study indicate that women had less
information than men on land access. Less than half of the women interviewed
knew how to obtain a Land Use Right Certificate, compared to between 50 and
60 percent of men. The survey indicated that lack of knowledge about land
laws is one important barrier to farmers’ ability to access land. Women,
however, face additional barriers due to traditions that preference men over
women with respect to land. The research team found that preference for sons
over daughters in inheritance is still prevalent despite the fact that the
law mandates that all Vietnamese citizens have equal rights. More
importantly, when asked about their perceived ability to solve land-related
conflicts, women, more than men, answered that they did not feel they had the
ability to solve such conflicts.
In addition, the study found that women and people with low
incomes have become more vulnerable as agricultural land is increasingly used
for commercial purposes. As younger household members migrate to large cities,
women, who stay behind to take of children and the elderly, remain dependent
on agricultural land for their livelihoods. This suggests a need to carefully
consider the interests of women and low income rural households as land use
policies are changed.
The study, carried out in December 2014, surveyed couples from
847 households in Hung Yen and Long An provinces. Commune authorities and
members of commune organizations in both provinces were also interviewed.
The Land Access for Women project is working with community
volunteers to increase access to land for farmers, especially women. The
project, a two-year pilot effort, trains teams of grassroots community
volunteers to help farmers, particularly women farmers, in the northern
province of Hung Yen and the Mekong Delta province of Long An to improve
their understanding of land rights. Workshops to train volunteers to provide
commune-level legal rights counseling and education are scheduled for March
and April 2015. The project also works with social and mass organizations to
advocate for gender-equitable implementation of land regulations.
Healthcare outreach a success story
Grassroots health care is the foundation of
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, senior Party and Government
officials, and delegates from the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Bank
(WB) and the European Union (EU) attended.
Tien said that after the birth of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam in 1945, the Party and Government paid special attention to
grassroots health.
By now,
She said that in the North in 1954, there were only 2,000
health stations in a total of 6,000 communes.
They were served by 258 assistant doctors and doctors; 5,000
nurses and nursing assistants and 78 pharmacists and secondary pharmacists.
But now, the nation has almost 11,000 communal health stations with hundreds
of health workers, including well trained doctors and nurses.
"Our health system, particularly grassroots health
networks, are commended by international organisations for their service to
the people, particularly in mountainous and remote areas and on offshore
islands," Tien said.
Although the grassroots healthcare system has had many
successes, there are many difficulties and challenges. One of the obstacles
is the rapid change in disease models, including in non-communicable and
communicable diseases as well as food poisoning and environmental pollution.
She said the health of people living in mountain regions had
been considerably improved, but their health index was still much lower than
those living in the delta areas.
"That's why we need to consolidate and expand the
grassroots health network, particularly in the domain of human resources,
infrastructure, finance and lucrative policies to attract more healthcare
workers willing to work in remote areas," Tien said.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said he appreciated the
Ministry of Health's initiative to co-ordinate with WHO, the European Union
and the World Bank.
Dam laid down eight tasks for the grassroots health system,
including defining the role of the system and the relations between
grassroots health system and family doctors and assessing technical services
provided and preferential policies for medical staff. The eventual goal was
full health coverage for every Vietnamese.
Takeshi Kasai, from the WHO office in the Western Pacific
Regional Office (WPRO) said
Franz Jassen, head of the European Union delegation in
Thomas Palu, director in charge of Global Population-Nutrition
programme at the World Bank, said
However, he said
Children’s fund to mobilise VND75 billion in 2015
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) plans to
raise VND75 billion (US$3.5 million) this year from domestic and
international resources for programmes to protect and care for children and
provide education assistance.
The target was determined during a NFVC Sponsorship Council
meeting chaired by Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan, who is also Chair of the
council, on March 24 in
According to an NFVC report, the fund mobilised a total of
VND97 billion (US$4.55 million) in 2014, exceeding its annual target by 26%.
Its support activities benefited over 86,800 disadvantaged
children across 63 cities and provinces nationwide.
To operate the fund effectively, the Vice President proposed
improved activity capacity, strengthened supervision, and close collaboration
with locals.
She also suggested that the fund focus on building more
boarding scholls for ethnic children and playgrounds this year.
Since its establishment, the NFVC has mobilized more than VND4
trillion (US$186 million) and aided 28 million children.
Source : VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri
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