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Social News 21/4
Unexploded bombs found in garden in Quang Tri
Five unexploded bombs were removed from the garden of a family
in Tan Hop Commune in the central
The bombs comprised one 160mm bomb, weighing 38kg, and four
130mm bombs, weighing 25kg each.
The bombs, accompanied by their original detonators, were
found during an investigation of war martyrs. Vo Minh Hieu, who owns the
garden, said he had buried 70 other bombs, but could not identify the
location.
The search for the remaining bombs is ongoing.
Quang Tri was hit hardest by American bombs during the war.
Several unexploded devices were left behind. The province is also home to 80
per cent of the country's disabled people, including those who were injured
in bomb blasts after the war.
North-South train services return to normal
The rail track, badly damaged in an accident early this month
in the central Quang Binh province, has been fully repaired, the Quang Binh
Railway Management Company Ltd said.
Company Director Do Ba Tam said the track had been repaired to
allow train speeds up to 90kmph, as was the case prior to the accident.
On April 3, the HCN3T1 goods train had derailed in Quang Ninh
District's Vinh Ninh Commune, while travelling in the southern direction, and
destroyed 3,805 sleepers over 4km of the track.
The Quang Binh Railway Management Company temporarily allowed
rail services on the track with train speeds of 5kmph about three hours after
the accident, and up to 70kmph several days later.
Some 30 workers are still working at the scene of the accident
to monitor the situation.
Festival ritual causes forest fires in Cao Bang
Two forest fires broke out in the northern Cao Bang province
yesterday, allegedly caused by residents burning paper for their ancestors
during the traditional Thanh Minh Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day.
The second fire was reported at about 5pm in the area around
Suoi Cun Hydropower Plant in Hoa An District, which destroyed more than 5ha
of a pine forest.
Another blaze broke out in Tan Giang Ward in
The municipal forest protection department head Hoang Phuong
Vy said the negligence of the residents in burning paper and incense caused
both fires.
Fire destroys factory in Hung Yen Province
A big fire broke out yesterday evening at the Hameco Ltd. Co.
in the
A witness said he saw smoke first and then flames going up
from the factory at around 6pm yesterday.
The factory contained inflammable material, including
dressings, synthetic rubber so the fire spread fast to the entire workshop.
Six fire trucks from the Hung Yen fire fighting police and two
from the Ha Noi police were immediately dispatched to the area, and were able
to stamp out the fire in an hour. Fire fighters also localised the outbreak
of the fire.
A 2,000-square metre store next the factory managed to stay
safe.
No casualties were reported in the fire.
Market watch arrests man for transporting smuggled cigarettes
The Ha Noi Market Watch detained a man yesterday after he was
found transporting 350 packs of smuggled cigarettes of the Hero and 555
brands.
The organisation said he was on the way to deliver the said
cigarettes to someone else, when he was stopped for inspection by a patrol
team from the market watch force.
Deputy Captain of the Ha Noi Market Watch Team-1 Nguyen Thi
Viet Hang said current regulations stipulated that individuals found
possessing, transporting, selling or buying smuggled cigarettes of quantities
greater than 1,500 packs would face criminal charges.
She said smugglers often split their goods into smaller
quantities to avoid these charges.
The city's scientific community will devote themselves
wholeheartedly to the development of the country and HCM City, heard a
meeting between the Union of Associations of HCM City Scientists and
Technologists and the Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee on Saturday.
Prof Nguyen Ngoc Giao, chairman of the union, urged city
authorities to create links between industry and education and research to
enlist more scientists and technologists for the cause of the city's
socio-economic development, especially its major development programmes.
Many scientists believed making over education and training
was essential to produce qualified personnel for the country's construction
and development, he said.
Le Thanh Hai, Secretary of city's Party Committee, saying
scientists and technologists had contributed directly and significantly to
the development of the city, asked them to suggest measures to resolve social
issues, especially for comprehensive renovation of the education and training
sector.
He also sought their suggestions for fixing urban issues like
flooding, pollution, traffic accidents and administrative reform.
Nearly 350 scientists representing the million-strong union
attended the meeting.
Soldiers' remains brought back home
The northern
Their remains were returned to
The bodies of the soldiers were found and brought back to
their homeland with the help of the local authorities in both
Deputy Chairman of the Dien Bien Province People's Committee
Lo Van Tien expressed his gratitude and respect for the sacrifices and
contributions the soldiers made for the country, as well as to the people in
More people suffer from chronic kidney diseases
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), or chronic renal failure as it
is also known, is a growing burden for many Vietnamese families.
Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung of
The number of patients nationwide currently stands at 6.73% of
the population or about 6 million people, of whom, about 800,000 patients
(0.09% of the national population) are at stage five (final stage).
This means that they need renal replacement therapy through
blood filtration (haemodialysis) or a kidney transplant to stay alive.
But, Dung said, only 10% of stage-five patients could afford
haemodialysis while the rest had to face a grim future.
Meanwhile, a report by the Department of Health Examination
under the Ministry of Health, said all the centres that did blood filtration
were overloaded and could not handle all the work.
Dr. Vu Le Chuyen of
This is because a deficiency of blood, caused by CKD, occurred
slowly, thus going unnoticed, Chuyen said, adding that the more critical the
shortage, the more serious the disease.
This was the reason the Health Information and Education
Centre under the HCM City Health Department held a recent seminar Understanding
the deficiency of blood in patients.
The seminar was an opportunity for CKD doctors to educate the
general public about CKD as well as how to detect the disease at early stages
and to keep it from getting worse.
Following are the symptoms doctors say might appear at early
stages of CKD:
Appetite loss, general ill feeling and fatigue, headaches,
itching (pruritus) and dry skin, nausea and weight loss without trying.
And if kidney function deteriorates, patients may develop the
following symptoms:
Abnormally dark or light skin, bone pain, drowsiness or
problems concentrating or thinking, numbness or swelling in the hands and
feet, muscle twitching or cramps, breath odour, easy bruising or blood in the
stool, excessive thirst, frequent hiccups, problems with sexual function,
menstrual periods stop (amenorrhoea), shortness of breath, sleep problems,
vomiting - often in the morning.
Workshop promotes employee rights
A workshop was held in
VASS Vice President Professor Dr Nguyen Quang Thuan, said the
European Union supported
The project aims to enhance the capacity of Vietnamese trade
unions to supervise and understand worker circumstances as well as support
employees in legal issues and raise awareness of their legitimate rights.
Speaking at the workshop, Project Coordinator Dr Michela
Cerimele from
The scholar underlined the need to respect the basic rights of
labourers including ensuring appropriate incomes and social welfare.
Project partners conducted research studies and provided legal
consultancy services for labourers working at industrial parks in
Training courses were arranged for members of labour unions in
legal advice centres in the localities, offering insight into scientific
study methods, international labour standards as well as experience in the
legal consulting activities of other countries.
Attracting OVs talent to Vietnam
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) recently
convened a roundtable discussion in
Vietnamese are facing heightened economic pressures and
competition from the effects of globalization as workers from
Advances in technology and transportation now mean that
Vietnamese workers more and more are competing with workers overseas—not just
in manufacturing, but also in high-skill and most all of the high-wage
sectors.
Growth in information technologies, in particular, has
facilitated deeper integration of economies across the globe while also
posing both new opportunities and new challenges for the
To assist the nation attain an economic leadership role in the
world and promote broad-based growth at home, the MOST has initiated a US$110
million project entitled FIRST.
The project targets the development of effective policies to
support the country in research, innovation, and access to advanced
information and telecommunications technologies.
“Through the establishment of a worldwide network of
Vietnamese experts, there will be greater co-ordination among Vietnamese in
research and innovation,” said Dr Ta Ba Hung, a consultant for the project.
Hung added that the project enhances knowledge-sharing among
OVs with their domestic counterparts and encourages greater contribution to
the country’s development.
Innovation has long fuelled economic growth around the globe,
often giving rise to new industries and new jobs.
According to Hung, the growth of economies throughout the
world has been driven largely by the pursuit of scientific understanding, the
application of engineering solutions and continual technological innovation.
What makes knowledge, innovation and technology such powerful
drivers of economic growth is that, unlike capital and labour, they do not
suffer from diminishing returns.
3,000 people walk to raise donations for disadvantaged
students
About VND830 million (US$38,500) was raised for disadvantaged
students in Ho Chi Minh City and nearby areas in a walk joined by 3,000
people on April 19.
Participants in the 2nd "Wing of the Future" walk,
held by the Ho Chi Minh City Fund for Education and Young Sport Talent (HEAF)
walked for nearly an hour around the central lake at the Dam Sen Park.
They also enjoyed music, aerobic, dance and martial art
performances by the students and voluntary clubs in the city.
Huynh Thi Minh Tam, HEAF deputy chairwoman cum director, said
many students from remote and rural areas have gained good results despite
multiple difficulties.
“We hope the scholarships could help them overcome
difficulties to study well and become good and successful people.”
According to HEAF, donations from the event will be granted
for disadvantaged students in HCMC, Dong Nai, Tay Ninh and Long An provinces.
Organizers will also bring them sport equipment and organize
classes to teach them swimming and martial arts.
Labourers' role key to socio-economic success
The strengthening role of workers and trade unions are key
factors to the success or failure of the nation's socio-economic development
strategy to tackle poverty, Vietnamese and European experts stressed at the
Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and Naples University
L'Orientale's workshop yesterday.
The workshop is part of the ongoing project,
"Strengthening the role of workers and trade unions," which began
in 2012 with the support of the European Union to develop recommendations for
policies regarding employee rights.
The programme was designed to enhance the capacity of
Vietnamese trade unions, to supervise and understand worker circumstances, to
raise awareness about workers' rights and provide legal support to workers.
Speaking at the workshop, project co-ordinator Dr Michela
Cerimele from Italy's University of Naples L'Orientale stressed that
empowering employees is a key target in development strategies that are
concerned with poverty reduction.
The scholar underlined the need to respect the basic rights of
labourers such as decent incomes and providing welfare necessities.
So far, collaborators of the project conducted research
studies and provided legal consultancy services for labourers working at
industrial parks in Ha Noi, northern Hai Duong and Vinh Phuc provinces.
Training courses were arranged for members of labour unions in
legal advice centres in the localities, educating them on international
labour standards and legal consulting activities for labourers done in other
countries.
Viet Nam has more than 7.5 million trade union members and
over 110,000 grassroots trade unions from all economic sectors.
The country's rapid industrialisation has brought a large
number of workers face-to-face with harsh and unforgiving working conditions
in foreign-invested factories with typically little regard to labour rights.
The project has helped improve the effectiveness of studies on
the needs of the workforce; provided legal consultancy assistance at
provincial levels; and increased the labour unions' role in policy
discussions to give a stronger voice to workers.
Farmers share water during drought
Many well-off farmers in Ninh Thuan, one of the provinces in
the central region hardest hit by drought, have dug and dredged wells, and
donated water to other farmers to help them save their crops and animals.
Nguyen Huu Tri in Ninh Hai District's Nhon Hai Commune, who
owns the only well with water in his area, has shared his well water with
more than 20 farming households in the Lon Spring area, Nguoi Lao Dong
(Labourer) newspaper has reported.
Tri is one of many well-off farmers in Nhon Hai Commune who
have dug wells and given free irrigation water for other neighbouring farmers
to save their crops.
Near the end of last year, Tri's 4,000 sq.m field of grape
plants was at risk of damage because of a water shortage as Lon Spring had
dried up.
Tri dug a 10 metre-deep well, which cost VND60 million
(US$2,800).
With the well water, he was able to save his plants and sell
the harvested grapes, which were worth VND100 million, in February after Tet
(Lunar New Year).
Nguyen Ha, who uses Tri's well water to irrigate his grapes,
said: "Without the help of Tri and his wife, my remaining grapes would
all be damaged."
Last December, 2,000 sq.m of Ha's 4,000 sq.m of grape plants
were destroyed by drought. But with the new well, Tri let Ha use the well
water to irrigate his grape plants.
Tri recently purchased an automatic irrigation system for his
grape orchard to save and share water with other farmers.
Since March, youth from the Ninh Thuan Province Communist
Youth Union have transported water to ethnic Raglai residents in the
mountainous Bac Ai District twice a week.
In Bac Ai's Phuoc Trung Commune, which was hit the hardest by
the drought in Ninh Thuan, volunteer youth helped the elderly and children
get water from the tank truck of the Youth Union of Ninh Thuan Enterprise
Block.
Chamlea At, a resident of Phuoc Trung Commune, said prolonged
heat had lasted for more than a year.
Hong Anh Dung, secretary of the Youth Union of Ninh Thuan
Enterprise Block, said drought was expected to last for five to six months.
The work of transporting water to drought-hit areas will last
until September, he said.
The cost of water transport is sponsored by philanthropists
and youth members, he said.
Chau Thanh Hai, secretary of the Ninh Thuan Province Communist
Youth Union, said his union planned to send youth volunteers to drought-hit
areas to dig wells for local residents.
Tran Xuan Hoa, deputy chairman of the Ninh Thuan People's
Committee, said the province appreciated the good deeds of farmers who shared
irrigation water with other farmers and the work of youth union members who
transported water to people in areas with the least water.
The People's Committee also plans to transport water for daily
use to mountainous areas, he said.
The cost of transporting water comes from the Government's
budget.
Health Ministry asks for report of illegal abortion
The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment under the
Ministry of Health yesterday sent a document to the Department of Health in
Ho Chi Minh City, urging to report an illegal abortion performed by a Chinese
doctor that nearly caused death of a Vietnamese woman.
The Department was also asked to verify the complication that
the Vietnamese women suffered to have best treatment.
The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment also
ordered the health sector in HCMC to tighten control of treatment conducted
by foreign physicians and issued penalties to organizations and individuals
who committed the sin.
As per the Department of Health in HCMC, the clinic can offer
examinations and treatment of gynecological diseases, pregnancy examinations
and monitoring, and other medical services, but it is not allowed to conduct
abortions as it is shown in the clinic's license.
The Ministry of Health requested its department to report the
case before April 27.
According to a complaint of the 48-year-old victim, when she
went the Quoc Te [International] General Clinic, located at 221 Nguyen Thi
Minh Khai Street, District 1, she met a Chinese female doctor, Lian Xing
Fang, who agreed to help her abolish the fetus without asking for any
documents proving her health conditions.
The Chinese doctor administered to her a kind of medication to
facilitate the removal of the fetus from the womb, but in the afternoon she
still failed to eject the baby.
The woman was taken to the city-based Tu Du Obstetrics
Hospital since she experienced a painful, failed abortion at the foreign
clinics.
Lian Xing Fang was licensed by the Ministry of Health in 2012
and has labor license issued by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social
Affairs.
HCMC prevents violence among students
The Department of Education and Training in HO Chi Minh City
has issued a document to schools in the city asking to increase measures to
curb violent acts among students.
As per its document, the Department ordered schools to manage
students as well as provide information of regulation and law to students
through extra-activities, aiming to help students raise awareness.
Educational facility managers should encourage students to
prevent and inform of violent acts that will take place so that school
leaders can have proper handling.
In addition, schools should closely liaise with police,
parents’ association, organization and related agencies in local to implement
drastic measures against violence among students and build a fresh and
friendly studying environment.
Schools are banned to hold extra-activities for twelve
graders; school management board has to ensure their twelve graders' students
to discipline this regulation until the academic year ends.
VEC to plant 700,000 trees along expressways
As per the Vietnam Expressway Corporation’s plan (VEC), 50,000
trees will be planted along the 245 kilometer Noi Bai-Lao Cai expressway,
which links Hanoi to the northern province of Lao Cai and around 200,000
trees will also be planted in the two expressways Cau Gie – Ninh Binh and
HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay.
VEC yesterday celebrated a tree planting program in a stop
station in Huong Son Commune in the Northern Province of Vinh Phuc’s Binh
Xuyen District.
In addition to planting trees in above-mentioned expressways,
the corporation will clean the expressways every month or every quarter.
The program is aimed to effectively exploit construction
attached with sustainable development and environment protection, creating a
beautiful image in expressways and deterring inhabitants along expressways to
encroach the space between their houses and the streets.
People under rail bridges to evacuate
Minister of Transport, Dinh La Thang, has agreed with a Ha Noi
People's Committee plan to resettle residents living under railway bridges to
help prevent encroachments and accidents.
At a conference yesterday, Minister Thang asked the committee
to work with the railway sector to resettle the many people who lived under
the Long Bien and Thang Long bridges by the end of this year.
He demanded that plans for relocation, including areas where
residents were to be shifted, must be clear.
Vice chairman of the committee, Nguyen Quoc Hung, said
encroachments onto railway corridors and level crossings was still a problem,
despite the authority's efforts.
Hung said people living under the bridges had encroached on
trading activities and negatively affected the image of the city.
He said the city had proposed to relocate these people many
times, but the problem remained unsolved.
Hung said the city would issue a supportive policy on housing
for these people if needed.
Tran Ngoc Thanh, general director of the Viet Nam Railway
Corporation (VRC) agreed to work with the city to solve the problem by the
end of this year.
At the same meeting, Colonel Dao Thanh Hai, deputy head of Ha
Noi Police Department proposed to move Ha Noi railway station out of the city
centre to reduce congestion and accidents.
He said that the relocation of the station, located in Hoan
Kiem District's Le Duan Street, was necessary as trains caused congestion at
city crossings.
The proposal received support from vice chairman of the city's
committee Nguyen Quoc Hung, who claimed that railway accidents were on the
rise.
However, Thanh, general director of VRC, said the location of
Ha Noi Railway Station was integral to the city's urban planning. If the
relocation was implemented, he had no idea how the urban railway system would
be affected in the next 10 years.
A report from the ministry's VRC showed that railway accidents
across the country increased by 30 per cent compared with the same period of
last year. They resulted in 37 deaths and 48 injuries.
Most of the accidents occurred at illegal crossing, it said.
The country has more than 5,700 railway crossings, 4,200 of which are
illegal. —
Satellites of big hospital work effectively
After two year implementation of satellite medical clinics,
the country has 48 satellite hospitals that have made huge contribution to
reduce of overloading in big hospitals.
14 major hospitals have transferred important techniques to
their satellite hospitals for two years.
Director of Pho Noi General Hospital in the northern province
of Hung Yen Dr. Nguyen Huu Hoang said that his hospital doctors had
received 46 techniques from their counterparts in Bach Mai hospital since Pho
Noi Hospital became Bach Mai hospital’s satellite clinic and more and more
patients have visited the hospital.
Hence the rate of patients who have left Pho Noi hospital for
big major hospitals has reduced by 34.6 percent.
Director of the General Hospital in the northern province of
Quang Ninh Dr. Nguyen Trong Dien said that his hospital physicians have been
able to conduct difficult surgeries including broken thighbone, joint
endoscopy, disc hernias, hear disease, brain injuries after hospital doctors
were taught techniques by their counterparts in Viet Duc Hospital So doctors
can save "golden time" during rescuing patients' life.
Head of the Medical Examination and Treatment Department under
the Ministry of health Luong Ngoc Khue said that after the success of
satellite hospital models built from Viet Duc and Bach Mai hospitals the
Ministry decided to implement a project to improve medical quality of clinics
in communes and districts, contributing to reduce of overloading in major
hospitals.
Some 48 important techniques of heart disease, trauma
surgeries, cancer, obstetrics and pediatrics have been transferred to 14
satellite hospitals. This helps improving treatment quality in small
hospitals to reduce transferring patients to central hospitals.
Mr. Khue said that though the project of setting up satellite
hospitals and transferring techniques to small hospitals was just at the
first stage, it proved to be effective as fewer patients have been sent to
big hospitals for treatment.
The rate of transferring patients is just 30-35 percent or
just 5-7percent in the General Hospital in the northern province of Phu Tho.
The General Hospital in the central province of Ninh Thuan had to transfer 83
people suffering brain injuries to big hospitals in 2013; however, the number
of transferred patients was 33 last year.
Currently only hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
participate in the project but in the near future more hospitals in provinces
across the country will do so.
Nam Son waste dump torments local residents
Heavy pollution from the Nam Son garbage dump has badly
affected the lives of residents in Ha Noi's Soc Son District, officials say.
Nguyen Tien Van, Vice Chairman of the Nam Son Commune People's
Committee, data compiled by the commune's healthcare office, show respiratory
diseases had increased over the past several years.
Environmental workers collect samples from the dump for
testing every three months, but the situation seemed to be under-evaluated
and reported, he said.
"We still have to live with the toxic smell and use
polluted water for daily life."
Vu Tien Luc, head of Xuan Thinh Ward, which is located about
300m away from the city's biggest garbage dump, said a total of 156 residents
were suffering from "terrible pollution of water and air."
Pointing to a stinking dump that looked like a mountain with
swarms of flies around it, Luc said that although residents used masks when
going outside, the stink and the polluted air penetrating directly and deeply
into their noses.
He said water, particular from bore wells, had turned black
and also stank badly.
The Nam Son garbage dump, covering 83.5ha was first put into
use in 1999. Everyday, it receives more than 4,000 tonnes of waste.
The three communes near the dump, Bac Son, Nam Son and Hong
Ky, are now suffering from severe air and water pollution.
Deputy Director General of the Viet Nam Environment
Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Hoang
Duong Tung, said most of solid waste disposal facilities in cities were
overland dumps that failed to meet quality and structural standards.
He said high costs and a lack of co-operation from provincial
and local authorities made he application of advanced technology for solid
waste treatment a very tough task for environment-protection agencies.
Currently, most solid waste collection and treatment was
undertaken by a small number of private small-scale companies, Tung said.
He called for a national programme in solid waste treatment
that would mobilise the efforts of all sectors and authorities.
Statistics compiled by the Ministry of Natural Resources and
the Environment show that about 28.5 million tonnes of solid waste is
generated every year, of which 19 million tonnes are generated by residents.
Source :
VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri
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Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 4, 2015
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