Social News 11/10
Hanoi honours outstanding locals
Hanoi leaders present certificate to nine outstanding locals
Hanoi honoured nine outstanding locals together with
961 role models in various fields in 2016 at a ceremony on October 10 on the
occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the city’s liberation day.
Addressing the event, Chairman of the municipal
People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said that this year marks the 24 th
anniversary of Hanoi’s “good people, good deeds” movement, which has been
responded by a large number of locals.
Those with creative minds came up with effective
solutions in various fields, including production, science and technology,
business and administrative reform, he noted.
There were also those who bravely fought the bad, Chung
said, adding that a number of movements in charity, economic development,
poverty reduction and protecting security have been spread to all
districts.
Among the honoured people was Ta Thi Ngoc Thanh, Vice
President of the Study Encouragement Association of Dich Vong Hau ward in Cau
Giay district who donates about 20 million VND each year to help poor
students though her family has been living in difficult conditions and her
husband is disabled.
Currently, she is sponsoring 14 orphans and helping two
others whose fathers are working in islands. She has also registered to
donate her cornea to blind children after she passes away.
During the rest of the year and 2017, Hanoi will focus
on promoting the “good people, good deeds” movement and fulfilling all
socio-economic targets.
Nearly 500 people recruited at job
fair
Close to 500 job seekers found their jobs at a career
fair co-organised by the Southeast Job Service Centre and the Dong Nai
provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on October
10.
About 70 units including enterprises and vocational schools
and thousands of workers, most of them were fresh graduates of universities
and colleges, took part in the fair.
The attended firms offered about 4,000 at vacancies,
including positions for bachelors, engineers and technical workers, said Pham
Van Cong, Vice Director of the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and
Social Affairs.
The fair created links between schools, enterprises and
labourers, helping them understand recruitment demands, job requirements and
schools’ curriculums in order to have training programmes and career guidance
in line with businesses’ demands, he added.
Fields with high recruited demand were garment, leather
footwear, food, transportation, electronic fibre production, according to the
job centre’s representative.
Some enterprises such as Bosch Vietnam, Hyosung
Vietnam, Ajonomoto and CP Vietnam recruited a large number of employees at
the event.
Tran Thi Thanh Huong, a candidate participating at the
event, said the fair was a good environment providing many job opportunities
for workers, especially fresh graduates.
HCM City rejects waste treat plant
refusal to take rubbish
Authorities in HCM City have just rejected the proposal
by the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex to refuse accepting more rubbish from
the city.
Vo Van Hoan, chief of office at the Ho Chi Minh City
People's Committee, confirmed on October 7 that the complex should still
accept all the rubbish from the city as agreed in their contract before they
can find a new solution.
"We've passed on a report on the environment
problems in the area to the prime minister," Hoan said. "There are
some shortcomings in the waste treatment technologies of the complex and they
need to try to fix it. And we will work with agencies and experts to discuss
the best measures to treat the waste so it does not affect the
environment."
The Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex has recently
informed the municipal authorities that they would not accept an additional
2,000 tonnes of waste per day in response to the resident complaints of a
foul odour emanating from the plant.
The additional garbage, which has been received since
late 2014, will no longer be handled, beginning October 10 until the
expansion of the wastewater plant at the complex is completed, scheduled for
next February, according to the Vietnam Waste Solutions, the investor of the
complex.
The complex, which cost over USD100 million, was
treating around 5,400 tonnes of waste a day.
There have been complaints about the bad smell from
people living in District 7, Nha Be and Binh Chanh districts since August 30.
Local people already suspected that the smell came from Da Phuoc Waste
Treatment Complex.
Hoan said that after monitoring Da Phuoc's operation,
it looks like the wastewater tank and the rubbish pit were the causes of the
problem.
However, Hoan said this was not an environmental
disaster because the smell appeared at different times and depended on the
wind direction. "This is a technical and management problem," he
said.
Official refutes Hanoi air pollution
claims
An official from the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment claims that while Hanoi faces air pollution, he couldn’t imagine
it could be the second worst in the world.
Hoang Duong Tung, Head of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment's Environment Department, said Hanoi was
experiencing a photochemical smog phenomenon caused by straw burning in the
city's suburban areas. However, environmental monitoring stations showed that
the city's air quality remained within permitted levels.
Tung made the statement following the widely spread
news that the US Embassy in Hanoi had reported record-breaking air pollution.
The monitoring station at the embassy at No. 7 Lang Ha
Street, Dong Da District, indicated that the Real-time Air Quality Index in
Hanoi was at an alarming level of 245 on the morning of October 5. With the
figure, Hanoi posted the second highest of all cities recorded the same
morning and just behind India's Ardhali Bazar with 471.
According to Tung, Hanoi had the high dust content in
the air, but couldn't be the second worst in the world. The embassy's
monitoring station could only measure the city's air quality in a specific
area within a short time; so it was impossible to use the figure of 245 as
the conclusion for the whole city's pollution.
Work begins on capital water
treatment project
The ground-breaking ceremony for the Yen Xa water
treatment project was held on October 7. The project is intended to help
restore some of the capital’s polluted rivers.
The Department of Construction said this was the
capital's biggest waste treatment project to date. The 13 hectare treatment
complex has the capacity of 270,000 cubic metres a day and will serve 900,000
residents and improve heavily-polluted rivers including To Lich, Lu and Nhue
rivers.
The underground drilling technology will help limit the
affected land size, infrastructure and the daily activities of the locals.
Waste in Hanoi is often thrown into sewers and canals
and washed into the rivers, leading to severe pollution. The project will
deal with waste from seven districts including Ba Dinh, Cau Giay, Thanh Xuan,
Dong Da, Hoang Mai, Ha Dong and Thanh Tri.
The total investment is USD800m including ODA from
Japan International Co-operation Agency and Hanoi's own funding.
Hanoi's Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung said Yen Xa water
treatment project was a vital environmental improvement project, and would
clean up the city and go some way towards the city’s sustainable development
objectives.
Cancer kills 200 in Vietnam every
day
Around 200 Vietnamese die daily from cancer, while
130,000 new patients are diagnosed annually with the disease, a hospital head
said at a conference in Hanoi on Thursday.
According to the data, cancer results in 70,000 deaths
in Vietnam per year, Dr. Tran Van Thuan, director of Hanoi-based K Hospital,
said at the conference on cancer prevention.
Nguyen Chan Hung, chairman of the hospital's Vietnam
Cancer Society, said that lung cancer is one of the most common forms of the
disease in Vietnam and the world as a whole.
“One third of the patients in Vietnam are women, and
passive smoking is one of the main causes,” Hung added.
More than 70 percent Vietnamese with cancer seek
treatment in hospital at late stages, which has dramatic negative effects on
their recovery ability and survival rates, according to Dr. Thuan.
“The proportion of patients internationally who fully
recover from cancer is 80 percent, but in Vietnam the rate is only 33 percent
for men and 40 percent for women,” he added.
Thuan said that most types of cancer in the Southeast
Asian country are on the rise, except cervical cancer, thanks to the rise in
prevention awareness amongst Vietnamese women.
Vietnam cancer rates are ranked at 78 out of 172
countries and territories, according to a 2014 survey by the WHO Global
Cancer Countries.
Speaking at the conference, French experts noted that
there will be around 189,000 new patients diagnosed with cancer in Vietnam in
2020, nearly triple the 70,000 cases recorded in 2000.
Pundits suggested that Vietnam aim to cure treatable
cancer types, including breast cancer, and cervical cancer, while providing
higher living standards and medical treatment quality for those who suffer
from cancer types that are more difficult to cure, like lung cancer.
They added that Vietnam should follow developed
countries to focus on early cancer detection.
Dr. Thuan said that Vietnam only conducts regular
medical investigations in Hanoi, Thua Thien-Hue, Thai Nguyen, Hai Phong City,
Can Tho City, and Ho Chi Minh City.
“We will increase the number of localities where new
cancer cases and deaths are tracked to nine in the near future,” Dr. Thuan
said.
Former Deputy PM Vu Khoan issues
diplomatic book
The National Political Publishing House yesterday
launched the book ‘Diplomatic Art’ of author Vu Khoan, Former Deputy
Prime Minister of Vietnam.
The book reflects wisdom and enthusiasm in his
diplomatic career over the past 60 years.
The author shared the diplomatic skills based on
different books and document sources inside and outside the country. Besides
that, his colleagues also contributed their experiences and observation share
for success of the book.
Mr. Vu Khoan analyzed basic and important skills of the
diplomatic sector in the book such as doing research, negotiation and
situation handling.
HCM City to host Young Magic
Festival 2016
Ho Chi Minh City Young Magic Festival will be held on
October 29-30 by the HCM City Cultural Center.
The event will attract the participation of magic and
circus troupes in the city and neighboring provinces, such as Tien Giang,
Vung Tau, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and others.
The festival will be a chance for artists to exchange
their experiences and performing skills together as well as present
interesting items to audience.
Participants can register with the organization board
from known until October 20.
Husband of Zika infected expectant
mother experiences symptoms similar with disease
The husband of a pregnant woman, who is the first case
infected with Zika virus in the southern province of Binh Duong, has showed
similar symptoms of the disease two days after she was tested positive for
the virus.
That was announced by doctor Huynh Thi Phuong Nguyet,
director of the health clinic in Thuan An town, Binh Duong on October 10.
Local medical workers have not been able to determine
if the man has caught the virus because he is a truck driver and regularly
missing from home.
The 27 year old pregnant woman is a grocery owner whose
fetus is six month old.
She was admitted to the HCMC Hospital of Tropical
Diseases on October 2 in the state of fever, rash, muscle and join paints and
eyestrain.
After the woman was tested positive for Zika on October
6; the hospital, Pasteur Institute and Tu Du Hospital have worked with the
Preventive Medicine Center of Binh Duong province to localize areas where she
lives and works and implement measures to prevent Zika.
At present, the expectant mother’s health has been
stable and doctors are still keeping a close eye on her health.
Czech newspaper highlights Vietnam’s
religious policy
Parlamentnilisty.cz, an e-newspaper of the Czech
Republic, has recently run an article saying Vietnam pursues consistent
guidelines and policies of respecting and ensuring the right to freedom of
religions and beliefs, as well as non-religious freedom of ethnic groups.
Different religions and beliefs have coexisted in
Vietnam’s history, said the article, titled “Philosophy and religion in
Vietnam”.
It added that Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and
Catholicism have contributed to the development of Vietnamese culture. The
Marxism-Leninism then made its presence in the country in the 20s and 30s of
the 20 th century, together with the patriotism, to drive the country on the
path towards independence, democracy and socialism.
The article cited Ho Chi Minh, a national hero, a
thinker and the world’s man of culture, as a typical representative of the
country’s modern history.
Pavel Herman, the article’s author, noted that Vietnam
is home to about 24 million believers, making up about 27 percent of its
population. Some 95 percent of Vietnamese lead their lives with beliefs and
religions.
He dubbed the Southeast Asian nation, with around 8,000
festivals each year, as the world’s museum of religions that helps enrich the
country’s culture.
Such religions and beliefs, despite their differences
in origins and practice mottos, have existed harmoniously, reflecting the
rich spiritual life owned by Vietnamese as well as the great national unity
bloc they built up, the article said.
Ca Mau deals with drought, saltwater
intrusion
The southernmost province of Ca Mau will implement 10
emergency projects to prevent and surmount the consequences of drought and
saline intrusion, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has decided to
provide 80 billion VND (3.6 million USD) for the province to carry out these
projects, added the committee.
The projects will focus on repairing, upgrading and
expanding water networks, building reservoirs on Hon Khoai Island and
irrigational works to keep fresh water, and dredging canals.
Ca Mau has a 254 km long coastline with thousands of
rivers and canals. Due to impacts of climate change, natural disasters such
as drought, landslide and saltwater intrusion, happen regularly in the
locality, resulting in economic losses worth tens of billions of VND each
year.
Therefore, these projects are expected to help local
people affected by natural disasters develop production and stabilise their
lives.
Art programmes celebrate Hanoi’s
Liberation Day
Various art programmes are being taken place across
Hanoi on the night of October 10 to mark the 62th anniversary of the
Liberation Day of the capital city.
At the The Huc bridge and Ngoc Son temple by the Hoan
Kiem Lake, a fashion show themed “Huong Sac Thang Muoi” (Fragrance and Colour
of October) is performed by the Hanoi Traditional Opera Theatre. Within 60
minutes, a programme introduces three collections of ao dai (Vietnamese
traditional dress), intervened by singing and dancing performances.
According to Trinh Thuy Mui, Director of the Theatre,
the programme is meticulously staged to honour Hanoi cultural values as well
as Vietnamese culture in the capital’s major event.
An art performance is also held at the Octagon House
nearby.
At the My Dinh Stadium’s square, the Thang Long music,
dance and song troupe stages an art performance with best songs about
Hanoi.
Earlier on October 8-9, art programmes took place at
districts and town.
According to the municipal Department of Culture and
Sports, the city set to organise around 20 art programmes featuring
traditional opera, quan ho singing, cai luong (renovated opera) across the
city on this occasion.
Autumn Keo pagoda festival kicks off
The Keo Pagoda festival began in Vu Thu district in the
northern province of Thai Binh on October 10 or the 10th day of 9th month in
lunar calendar.
The autumn festival is held annually to honour Zen
Master Khong Lo (1016-94) – founder of the Keo Pagoda. It features a wide
range of religious rituals and communal activities, including palanquin
parades, cockfighting and love duet singing on boats.
The festival lasts until October 15.
The Keo pagoda, where the event is taking place, was
founded in 1061. After it was swept away by a terrible flood in 1611, the
pagoda was rebuilt in 1632 and most of its architectural features, including
17 structures with 128 rooms, remain until today. In 2012, it was recognised
as a national special relic site.
In addition to the autumn festival, another spring
festival takes place here annually on the 4th day of the first lunar
month.
The pagoda attracts more than 2,500 visitors to Thai
Binh every year.
HCM City, Binh Duong urged to take
measures against Zika virus
HCM City and Binh Duong, where the two latest Zika
infection cases were detected, have been urged to take urgent measures to
prevent the virus from spreading among the community.
On October 8, it was confirmed that a 28-year-old woman
in Ho Chi Minh City and a 27-year-old pregnant woman in neighbouring Binh
Duong province, tested positive to Zika virus.
T he Department of Preventive Medicine under the
Ministry of Health (MoH) said on October 10 that it has instructed the two
localities’ Departments of Health to investigate the source of the
infections, including vectors, in the areas where the two patients live and
work as well as surrounding areas.
The departments were also asked to decontaminate areas
where infections were found and monitor the pregnant patient in order to
provide timely consultation for her.
Earlier, Vietnam recorded three infections in HCM City,
Khanh Hoa and Phu Yen.
The Zika virus is transmitted to humans primarily through
Aedes aegypty mosquito bites and sexual intercourse.
The symptoms of Zika infection include fever,
conjunctivitis, headaches and muscle pains. Zika infection during pregnancy
may lead to microcephaly in children, which is responsible for incomplete
brain development and an unusually small head.
A vaccine for the Zika virus has yet to be discovered.
Hải Phòng eases ban on National
Highway No 5
The transport department in Hải Phòng City has decided
to ease regulations on banning vehicles travelling on National Highway No 5.
Accordingly, trucks weighing over 13 tonnes (including
goods) and trailer-trucks will not be allowed to travel on the highway from
5am to 11pm.
The adjustment was made following feedback from
enterprises and the media about the difficulties they faced due to the
complete ban.
Vehicles in car parks and loading goods stations in the
prohibited area will be guided to go in and out by the local transport
police, according to the department’s announcement.
“We have listened to comments from enterprises and the
shortcoming has been addressed. The department also reported the situation to
the Ministry of Transport and the Viet Nam Road Administration,” Hoàng Triệu
Hùng, the department’s deputy director, said.
There may be further adjustments if required, he added.
Sections of the highway that are blocked for
construction work are from the junction of Nguyễn Văn Linh-Hồ Sen-Cầu Rào 2
to Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm-Lê Thánh Tông.
Hà Nội introduces new suburban bus
routes
Hà Nội Transport Corporation (Transerco) this morning
began operations of two new bus routes linking downtown Hà Nội with suburban
districts.
They include bus route No. 87 starting from Mỹ Đình
Coach Station in Cầu Giấy District, through Quốc Oai District, to Xuân Mai
Town in Chương Mỹ District, and bus route No. 88 from Mỹ Đình station,
through Hòa Lạc District, to Xuân Mai Town.
This is part of the city’s plan to extend bus services
to suburban districts in the west and southwestern parts of Hà Nội, which
still lack access to buses, with the aim of boosting socio-economic
development in these rural areas while reducing traffic jams in the centre of
the capital city.
Tickets cost VNĐ9,000 (40 US cents) per leg and the
buses are scheduled to travel from 5am to 7.45pm every day.
Passengers can access free wi-fi on these buses.
Transerco Deputy Director General Nguyễn Công Nhật said the new bus routes
will help locals in rural areas have better access to bus services with high
quality and low price. Until now, they primarily travelled by coaches.
As planned, the capital’s bus network will be extended
to a large number of suburban districts, including Ba Vì, Quốc Oai, Mỹ Đức
and Thạch Thất, between now and 2020.
Transerco will overhaul service quality, with some 2,000
bus stations being upgraded.
Room for bus service expansion in Hà Nội remains
extensive, as it currently caters to only 15 per cent of local demand, which
could increase to 50 per cent in the future.
Hồng wins special prize at Cano
Marathon contest
Nguyễn Thị Phượng Hồng, has topped 3,000 entrants to
win the special prize of Canon Marathon contest 2016 for her photo Hà Nội
Autumn Smile.
Her photo shows a villager making Cốm (sticky rice ), a
traditional job of Vòng Village and special dish of Hà Nội in Autumn.
She won a trip to Japan worth US$5,000, a Canon camera
and printer.
Meanwhile, Nguyễn Hoàng Nam, Nguyễn Phương Nghi and Vũ
Minh Đức won first prize for different themes while Nguyễn Quang Minh, Nguyễn
Kim Hiền and Nguyễn Trọng Chuyên bagged second prize and Lê Việt Khánh, Hồ
Anh Tài and Hồ Anh Đức won third prize.
Jurywoman Hà Kin said “ I was very impressed with the
photos, mostly taken by amateur photographers.”
University of Medicine students win
short-film contest on traffic
Chờ (Waiting), a short film by students at the Phạm
Ngọc Thạch University of Medicine, has won the top prize at the S-Shortfilm
contest designed to raise student awareness about traffic behavior.
The awards ceremony for the contest, organised by the
Trẻ (Youth) Film Studio, was held at District 1’s Galaxy Nguyễn Du cinema on
October 8.
Chờ is a four-minute film featuring a young man who
witnesses a traffic accident between two men.
One of them who runs a red light and hits the other is
unconscious, but no one stops to help him except the witness.
Nguyễn Minh Quang, leader of the winning team, said:
“My team and I want to send a message to people about driving carefully and
slowly to avoid accidents. We hope people can be kind and stop to help the
victims.”
The second and third prizes were given to Thông Điệp
Giao Thông (Traffic Messages) and Cuộc Đời Là Những Chuyến Đi (Life is a
Trip). Both of them were produced by two student groups at the University of
Agriculture and Forestry.
The S-Shortfilm contest began in September with
workshops on video clips and short filmmaking at eight universities across
the city. After the workshops, the participants developed and made their own
films.
The jury, consisting of directors Luk Vân and Xuân
Trung, and the director of the Youth Film Studio, Phan Văn An, selected the
20 best productions for the finale early this month.
Photos of Spratly Archipelago on
display in Germany
Three photos featuring the Trường Sa (Spratly)
Archipelago by artist Nguyễn Thu Thủy are among more than 1,200 pictures on
display at the ongoing fourth Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary
Photography in Berlin, Germany.
Thủy is the only Vietnamese representative of 445
contemporary artists from 41 countries to attend the event, which runs till
October 30, held by the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards.
Thủy’s three photos, entitled “Trường Sa ahead of the
Storm’,”“Boys in Trường Sa” and “Peaceful Lotus on Trường Sa” were taken
during her trips to the archipelago.
Earlier, the pictures were selected for the final round
of the seventh edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Female
Photographers.
Two other photos of Thủy’s are also on display at the
Berlin exhibition, featuring a a ceramic mosaic mural in Hà Nội and a lotus
mosaic in the central province of Thanh Hóa, both community art projects.
Under the theme “Emotions and Commotions across
Cultures”, the exhibition represents different photography styles from
diverse cultures on various topics.
The event honours talented photographers and helps them
further their careers.
Mai Châu to get 1m visitors by 2030
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism
coordinated with the People’s Committee of Mai Châu District for an event
held last weekend announcing the Mai Châu Destination Planning Decision.
The decision will be a legal base to manage and urge
domestic and international investors to conduct research, invest and exploit
resources to develop Mai Châu destination.
Under the Mai Châu destination development planning
decision in the 2014-2020 period with vision to 2030, Mai Châu District will
play an important role in Hòa Bình Province’s tourism development.
The destination will cover a total size of some 700ha
by 2030.
By 2020, Mai Châu District expects to have 530,000
tourists, 30 per cent of whom will be foreigners. It is expected that the
number will reach more than one million by 2030, with revenue of more than
VNĐ1,300 billion (US$58million).
Mai Châu District covers some 60,000ha and has a
population of more than 54,000, comprising seven ethnic groups, including
Thái, Tày, Mông, Kinh, Dao, Mường and Hoa.
Mai Châu is a small town in the northern mountainous
province of Hòa Bình.
The district had nearly 100 homestays and 300,000
tourists with revenue of more than VNĐ90 billion ($4 million) in 2015.
Landslides threaten Thừa Thiên-Huế
households
More than 500 households living along the banks of the
Bồ River in central Thừa Thiên-Huế have been threatened by serious landslides.
A severe landslide suddenly occurred on the banks of
the Bồ River in Hương Xuân Ward’s Thanh Lương Village last Friday, sweeping
away large bamboo plants and tens of cubic metres of land.
The slide mass was nearly 50 metres long and about 5
metres wide.
Local authorities have installed warning signs in the
area.
Nguyễn Công, head of residential area number eight in
Thanh Lương Village, said there were three landslide hot spots in the village.
A landslide measuring more than 20 metres occurred
right in front of Thanh Lương Kindergarten last year.
Landslides also threaten the main road of the village.
Local residents are very worried about the situation.
“I’m afraid the situation will worsen quickly. Landslides
will sweep away our houses and gardens if we don’t build a dyke along the
riverbank,” Công said.
Công said illegal sand exploitation on the river
contributed to the landslides.
In the past two years, local residents and local
authorities have strengthened inspection of, and reporting on, illegal sand
exploitation cases to avoid landslides. But the danger still persists during
rainy seasons.
Residents reported the situation and asked authorised
agencies to invest in a dyke system along the riverbank passing through the
village but had not received replies, Công said.
Ngô Quang Thảo, chairman of Hương Xuân Ward’s People’s
Committee, said the committee proposed that authorised agencies assure the
safety of people along the key road of Thanh Lương Village and the safety of
more than 500 households living along the riverbank.
Nguyễn Văn Công, deputy head of Office of Finance and
Planning under the People’s Committee of Hương Trà Town, said the committee
had mobilised people to put bags of sand on the riverbank to minimise danger.
The committee also plans to survey high risk zones and
require households in danger to move promptly to other places which are
safer.
Phan Thanh Hùng, an official of the provincial Steering
Committee of Flooding and Storm Prevention and Control, said the committee
has asked the provincial People’s Committee to allocate money from the State
budget to build a temporary dyke of bags of sand and stones along 150 metres
of riverbank as a stopgap measure during the current storm season.
The Flooding and Storm committee would work with the
provincial committee to set up plans to build a 1-kilometre dyke protecting
the landslide-prone spots to assure the safety of residents, Hùng said.
Respiratory infections on the rise
among kids
The number of hospitalised child patients with
respiratory infections has risen to a record high at two paediatric hospitals
in HCM City as the diseases reached a seasonal peak from late September
through December.
Between 400 and 510 children have been admitted to
Paediatric Hospital No.1 each day in the last few days, according to Trần Anh
Tuấn, head of the hospital’s Respiratory Department.
Five to six patients have had to share one bed as the
department has only 100 beds.
Many parents have to stay with their children in the
corridors of the hospital.
Nearly 60 per cent of in-patients live in other cities
and provinces where local residents do not trust the quality of health
services and rush to HCM City for treatment of respiratory diseases.
Paediatric Hospital No. 2 is also overloaded with
500-600 hospitalised patients with respiratory infections, according to Trịnh
Hữu Tùng, deputy director of the hospital.
The rise in the number of children with respiratory
diseases would continue until December, doctors said.
Around 3,000 children each day had health examinations
at the National Paediatric Hospital in Hà Nội recently, with respiratory
diseases accounting for 35 per cent, said Lê Thị Hồng Hạnh, deputy head of
the hospital’s Respiratory Department.
“The large differences in temperature between day and
night has badly affected the health resistance of children,” Hạnh said.
Bạch Mai Hospital’s Paediatric Department also reported
a surge in the number of hospitalised children with respiratory infections in
the past few days.
Two-thirds of children having health check-ups at the
department were diagnosed with respiratory diseases.
Job broker arrested for suspected
fraud
Police in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province said
yesterday that they arrested a woman who worked as job broker for allegedly
misappropriating more than VNĐ 700 million (US$31,500)
According to police, from 2014, the broker Phan Thị
Thùy Trang, 36, of Huế City, portrayed herself as having relationships with
staff in hospitals and schools and promised to help graduates find jobs.
Each client paid her from VNĐ 80 million ($3,600) to
VNĐ 100 million ($4,500) but none of them found work.
Her clients eventually reported her to police.
Black box for HCM City garbage
trucks
Black boxes will be installed on all garbage trucks in
HCM City next month so the city can supervise trash management.
The HCM City Urban Environment Ltd Company, Districts’
public services Ltd Company and Agriculture-Industry Transport Co-operative
will pay for the installment.
The city will also open bidding to select providers for
services like street solid waste collecting or carrying waste from
residential areas to waste treatment plants, said vice chairman of the
municipal People’s Committee Lê Văn Khoa.
More than 7,000 tonnes of waste are discharged daily in
the city. However, the waste collecting system has failed to keep pace with
the increased volume of waste.
Truck accident kills one, injures
one
A truck plunged off the Bó Củng Bridge in northern Lạng
Sơn Province early yesterday morning, killing one person and injuring another.
The truck broke into two pieces after colliding with
the bridge’s central divide. The driver escaped with injuries while his
assistant died trapped in the vehicle.
Police are investigating the cause of the accident.
Ha Noi’s railway a step closer to
reality
The final railway beams of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban
railway were inserted on Saturday, finishing the basic infrastructure of the
skytrain project.
Completing this part of the project will create a
viaduct system for the entire project and allow contractors to begin
constructing railways, stations and trains.
According to the Ministry of Transport, funding for the
project is fully prepared, so contractors can focus on speeding up
construction.
It is expected that by the end of this year the project
will complete construction, including all concrete work, stations, and paths.
Equipment will be installed from January next year, taking about 6 months.
The railway will be open for use next September.
The elevated railway project began in 2011 with
investment of US$552 million, of which US$169 million came from Chinese
official development assistance.
However, in November 2014, it was announced the project
would need a total of US$868 million, US$300 million more than initial
estimates.
The line, constructed by the China Railway Sixth Group
Co, Ltd starts at Cát Linh Street in Đống Đa District and ends at Yên Nghĩa
station in Hà Đông District.
In total, the project includes 12 stations and a depot
at Phú Lương Ward in Hà Đông District.
From Hoàng Cầu Lake, the railway runs along the streets
to the Yên Lãng intersection.
The elevated project has a length of 13 km. The depot
at Ha Dong spans 19.6 hectares.
It has a capacity to operate 13 trains with carrier
frequency of every two minutes with a maximum speed of 80 kilometres per
hour, but will most likely operate at 35 kilometres per hour.
VN set to tackle smuggled tobacco
More efforts will be made to prevent smuggling of
tobacco into the country, a seminar on safety and efficiency in the fight
against contraband heard in HCM City yesterday.
“The fight against tobacco smuggling has been robust
and efficient, and it will be stepped up,” Đàm Văn Thế, office manager of the
National Steering Committee for fighting against smuggling commercial frauds,
counterfeit goods.
The efforts would focus on both border regions and
cities and provinces, including retail shops, he said.
If there is proper surveillance, smugglers cannot
succeed either in border areas or inside the country, he said.
The seminar heard that tobacco is smuggled in from all
borders that Việt Nam neighbouring.
A Việt Nam Tobacco Association report said last year
over one billion packs of cigarettes were smuggled into the country,
accounting for 25 per cent of the market.
Smuggled cigarettes were sold all over the country and
included all the big brands like Hero, Jet, League, Luxury, Cambo, Ram, and
Golden Deer.
Smuggling is rampant in the border provinces of Cao
Bằng, Quảng Ninh, Lào Cai, Tây Ninh, Long An, Đồng Tháp, An Giang, and Kiên
Giang.
Phạm Văn Miên, editor in chief of Công An Nhân Dân
newspaper, said contraband tobacco was having a very adverse impact on the
economy.
In the last two years it caused the Government tax
losses of VNĐ10 trillion and loss of jobs for five million farmers and
600,000 other workers each year, he said.
Participants said local people need to be educated
about their rights and responsibilities in preventing the smuggling.
Programmes to improve the lives of people living in
border provinces are also key to wean them away from smuggling, they said.
Đồng Đại Lộc, deputy director of the General Police
Directorate, said the police should co-operate with other forces like market
watch and border troops, exchanging information and surveilling border
regions.
More modern equipment and funds are required to
strengthen the fight against smuggling.
A Đồng Tháp Province official said cigarette makers
should offer higher quality, cheaper products price to take on smuggled
tobacco.
In the last two years police have investigated nearly
4,000 cases, filing cases in 327 of them, and seized nine million packs of
cigarettes.
Competition for happy families
The final round of the Family Club Competition, themed
‘Happy Family’, will take place from today to Friday in the central province
of Quảng Nam.
Forty-four clubs from various cities and provinces will
perform plays on family values, equality and the fight against domestic
violence. Judges will also ask participants to solve common domestic
problems.
The competition, organised by the Ministry of Culture,
Sports and Tourism, aims to build happy families and civility. The qualifying
round was held on the occasion of the National Family Day (June 28) to find
44 clubs for the final.
VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/TT/TN/Dantri/VNE
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Thứ Ba, 11 tháng 10, 2016
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