Vietnam skeleton World Day of Road Traffic Victims
Vietnam is formulation a array of events to pitch World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (November 16), a third of a kind to be hold in Vietnam.
From Nov 3-8, a National Committee for Traffic Safety will set adult 5 operative groups that will revisit a families of highway trade victims in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, a northern provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai, a executive provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, and Can Tho city and Vinh Long in a south.
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha will horde a commemorative rite for a defunct during Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov 8, while a observance rite will be hold in Hanoi on Nov 16.
A media campaign, workshops and forums are also planned.
Road accidents kill 1.3 million people any year a universe over, a figure that is foresee to stand to 1.8-1.9 million in a nearby future. In Vietnam, 9,000 people die in highway accidents any year, some-more than 20 per day on average, Transport Minister and Vice Chairman of a cabinet Dinh La Thang said.-
An Giang province, Cambodian localities settle twin villages
The southern range of An Giang and a Cambodian range of Takeo twinned their limit villages, creation it easier for locals to yield mutual support.
An Nong and An Phu communes and Tinh Bien city in Vietnam are twinned with Phnum Den, Xom and Kom Nop communes in Cambodia’s Kirivong district.
The signing rite in An Giang on Nov 3 is partial of a chit of bargain between a Chairman of a provincial People’s Committee and a Governor of Takeo province.
From now on, a dual sides will be means to coordinate trade and informative exchanges improved in sequence to boost mutual understanding.-
Vietnam seeks to raise Geographic Information Systems
An general discussion on geographic information systems (GIS), that are modernized forms of technological program used to analyse and benefaction geographical data, took place in a northern range of Thai Nguyen on Nov 3-4.
GIS is a mechanism complement designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, conduct and benefaction all forms of spatial or geographical data. Its applications and technologies are renouned around a universe in a series of fields, including inhabitant defence, a environment, healthcare, mercantile development, cultivation and forestry, tourism, civic and trade management, healthy disaster warning and meridian change response.
Vietnam started researching GIS in a 1980s and a series of a top-rated collection are practical in cultivation and forestry planning, timberland management, maps and surveys, land registry, information and ride management, tourism and meridian change adaptation.
The University of Information and Communication Technology (UICT), partial of a Thai Nguyen University, has been successful in integrating GIS into monitoring open buildings and creation sourroundings maps for tillage production, among others.
At a symposium, scientists submitted some-more than 30 papers on GIS in remote sensing, information record and communications, medical techniques, meridian change response, and tolerable cultivation and forestry development.
On a occasion, a UICT announced a investiture of a GIS investigate centre that is approaching to open adult team-work opportunities with scientists around a region.
The eventuality was co-hosted by a UICT and Feng Chia University of Taiwan (China).
Excellent Bac Giang students honoured
Thirteen students of northern Bac Giang range who performed superb achievements in investigate and university opening exams in 2014 have been postulated awards by a locality’s Hoang Hoa Tham account of a provincial Youth Union.
Initiated by a union’s Fund for Supporting and Developing Young Talents, a account aims to honour kinship members and immature internal residents who grasp glorious academic, veteran and investigate results.
So far, a account has postulated awards to 400 internal pupils and students, ancillary them in posterior their dreams.
During a endowment rite on Nov 3, a provincial Youth Union also hold a convention on favourite Ly Tu Trong, a instance he set for today’s youth, and new girl enlargement models.
Ly Tu Trong, a initial comrade youth in a Vietnamese revolution, was arrested by a French army in Feb 1931 and executed in Nov during a offer age of 17.
Bac Giang focuses on building training society
The northern range of Bac Giang has stepped adult a debate to mobilize a appearance of all people strata in preparation and training with a perspective to building a training multitude from a grassroots level.
Vice President of a provincial Study Encouragement Association (SEA) Giap Minh Quang pronounced his organization has set adult a branches in 230 communes and wards, over 1,600 agencies and businesses, and 737 schools.
The organization during all levels has significantly contributed to building adult a healthy preparation sourroundings though drug and assault as good as enlivening tens of thousands of disadvantaged pupils to go to school.
The SEA has cooperated with a Training and Education Department in building many encampment investigate centres in remote areas in a bid to assistance internal people urge knowledge, so shortening misery and expelling illiteracy.
It has lifted scarcely 73 billion VND (3.4 million USD) in supports to prerogative some-more than 719,000 superb pupils and those from formidable circumstances.
Thanks to these efforts, a range now has 3,990 “studious family lines” and 70,870 “studious families”, Quang said.
In time to come, Bac Giang will compensate some-more courtesy to lifting open recognition of building a training society, improving a peculiarity of a activities of a SEA during all levels, and bettering preparation and training consultancy.
Website helps urge educational management
The Ministry of Education and Training launched a website during http://truonghocketnoi.edu.vn , aiming to assist a organization and supervision of veteran activities in a educational and training sector. The site, upheld by a complicated IT infrastructure built by a military-run telecom organization Viettel , is approaching emanate a energetic and effective preparation sourroundings to foster easier entrance to preparation programmes for everyone.
At a launch rite hold in a northern range of Bac Giang on Oct 31,
Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan emphasised a stress of a network in not usually portion a organization of serve training for teachers though also in arranging “creative experience” terse activities for students during schools.
Accordingly, a Ministry, along with educational departments and offices and schools, will be obliged for handling and regulating a website and monitoring activities and associated formula of a system’s users during their management-level.
Teachers, who are members of a network, will have online training courses to improved their veteran skills. Meanwhile, member-students will exercise assignments tasked by their teachers as good as holding tests accessible on a site.
Bac Ninh: Canon renovates kindergarten in bad tillage commune
Canon Vietnam Limited Company has built new classrooms and toilets for Phu Lam 2 kindergarten in An Phu village, Phu Lam commune, Tien Du district, a northern range of Bac Ninh as partial of a digest “Canon Friendship Schools Chain” 2014.
During a handover rite on Nov 1, Canon Vietnam Director Katsuyoshi Soma presented to a propagandize a pivotal as a pitch of loyalty between a organization and Phu Lam commune’s people as good as seat and stationery to support a education.
Principal Do Thi Xuan voiced her thankfulness to a association for providing 120 children in An Phu encampment and surrounding areas with improved comforts and training conditions.
The digest “Canon Friendship Schools Chain” aims to inspire educational sourroundings for teachers and students vital in bad alpine regions.
It has been ancillary 38 schools in 17 northern and executive provinces given 2009 by appropriation a construction of new classrooms, teacher’s rooms, restrooms, hand-washing stations and gifting books, bicycles, beds, cameras, printers and computers to a students.
In Sep this year, it launched a bicycle concession programme in Bac Giang province, aiming to support superb disadvantaged students by a concession of 140 bicycles, value 154 million VND (7,700 USD) in total.
Under a programme, called “Canon – With we to school”, 100 bikes are to be distributed to 4 schools participating in a programme for a initial time, while a rest will be given to 4 schools that assimilated final year.
Canon Vietnam also launched a “Light adult a countryside” project, that will manage a designation of travel lights along some-more than 9 kilometers in disadvantaged areas in Bac Giang. The lighting system, that costs scarcely 200 million VND (9,400 USD), will assistance say amicable confidence in tillage areas.
Since a digest commenced in 2013, a association has invested 600 million VND (28,500 USD) in lighting adult over 28 km of roads in 4 districts in Bac Ninh range and dual others in Bac Giang province.
Patients still wait hours for medical exams
Patients still have to wait long, routinely 4 to 8 hours, for their spin to take medical checkups notwithstanding reduced executive procedures, according to a consult of a city’s health department.
The consult took batch of a tangible opening of open hospitals in HCMC that are reforming medical hearing and diagnosis procedures.
Earlier, many hospitals compulsory patients to take 8 to 12 stairs to register for medical checkup or treatment. The series has depressed by half now.
Meanwhile, a watchful time has decreased somewhat to dual hours during many medical facilities. Previously, patients had to wait 4 to 6 hours on normal to see a doctor; and a watchful time even surged to 8 or 10 hours during some places.
According to a HCMC Department of Health, this is a step brazen in a executive remodel as it has helped revoke nuisance for patients and sentinel off hurtful practices during hospitals.
However, there is still no alleviation in Tu Du Maternity Hospital, Hung Vuong Hospital, Mekong Maternity Hospital and HCMC Heart Hospital. People entrance to these hospitals have to wait 4 to 6 hours with many unwieldy procedures to be finished before they can see a doctor.
Only 10 out of 51 hospitals in HCMC have cut down on procedures, watchful time and other final for medical checkup or treatment. Most medical workers in open hospitals have been reflected as delayed and unsuited in terms of use and attitude.
At hospitals in districts 3, 5, Tan Binh and Thu Duc, people have to finish 10 to 12 procedures and wait 6 to 7 hours for their turns. They also have to go by 3 or 4 stages to get tested or wait an hour to compensate sanatorium fees.
Besides, hospitals’ leaders are also demure in slicing nonessential procedures to boost a process. Especially, some medical workers are delinquent in serving, creation life formidable for patients and their relatives.
In a entrance time, a city’s health dialect will step adult executive reforms, shortening or mixing surplus procedures to grasp a health ministry’s pattern on shortening watchful time and overkill during hospitals.
The dialect will open some-more entrance points to accept medical checkup and diagnosis records, as good as deposit heavily on equipment, watchful bedrooms and staff. Doctors, laboratory, pharmacy and price collection departments will be connected to sanatorium leaders and applicable offices to revoke watchful time.
HCM City says no to overpass delay
The HCMC supervision has sought Government capitulation for starting work on a new Thu Thiem overpass digest in a downtown area subsequent year as scheduled, instead of loitering it until 2018 as due by a Ministry of Defense.
According to a request a city sent to a Government Tuesday, a Thu Thiem 2 Bridge is among a 14 over a Saigon River a city has put in a master digest designed to bond Thu Thiem New Urban Area in District 2 and a city’s downtown in District 1.
Thu Thiem 2 will pass by Ba Son Shipyard underneath a administration of a Defense Ministry when it is finished in 2017 as designed by a city government.
The city authorities remarkable that early work on a new overpass would assistance accelerate a enlargement of a new civic area, and palliate trade overload in a city.
Project owners Dai Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Company has finalized a feasibility study. The city will contention a pattern of a digest to a Ministry of Transport for capitulation subsequent month.
After that, a city supervision will finish a digest evaluation, mangle belligerent for a digest subsequent year, and finish construction work within dual years as expected.
Earlier, a Defense Ministry asked a executive Government to check a digest until 2018 to concede Ba Son Corporation to perform a invulnerability contracts by a finish of 2017.
The building of a bridge, a method reasons, will occupy around 12,000 block meters of land during Ba Son Shipyard, and directly impact a firm’s shipbuilding operations. It can even box whole operations of a shipyard due to an 10-meter clearway of a bridge.
The VND2.3-trillion Thu Thiem 2 Bridge is designed to be 852 meters in length, incompatible entrance roads during both ends, and 19.3 meters in width. The financier has practiced a 1.2-kilometer overpass from 4 lanes to 6 lanes.
At slightest 1 million bad people to accept giveaway health check-ups
A charitable debate launched by a Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) and a Ministry of Health aims to yield giveaway health check-ups and diagnosis for over one million bad people any year in Vietnam , VRC Chairman Nguyen Hai Duong pronounced on Oct 30.
The campaign’s launch rite will be hold in Hanoi on Nov 2 with a appearance of around 2,000 volunteers. Eight groups of doctors will debate bad districts in a northern and executive provinces such as Lang Son, Hoa Binh, Lai Chau, Phu Tho and Thanh Hoa.
Red Cross Societies and health sectors in 17 out of a 63 cities and provinces around a nation will attend in a campaign, that calls for encampment rendezvous in holding caring of people from disadvantaged and socially severe backgrounds, prioritising those in remote areas and limit and island localities.
A examination seminar is scheduled to take place on a arise of a Vietnamese Doctors’ Day on Feb 27, 2015.
Under a thesis “Joining hands for encampment health”, a debate will concentration on augmenting internal residents’ recognition of personal hygiene and environmental sanitation, as good as equipping residents with essential skills in initial aid, healthy disasters response, and puncture rescue efforts.
The organization house will yield houses, cows, and health word for those vital underneath a misery line and inspire people to attend in blood concession programmes.
The debate is partial of a 2014-2017 partnership programme sealed this Jul between a VRC, a Ministry of Health, a Vietnamese People’s Army’s General Department of Politics, and a Vietnamese Young Doctors Association.
USAID penetrating to embody private zone in HIV-related market
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a programme to kindle a marketplace for HIV-related products and services with a impasse of a private zone in Ho Chi Minh City final week.
The digest will yield financial support and incentives to inspire a impasse of private enterprises in importing, producing and distributing HIV-related goods.
Addressing a launch ceremony, a Assistant Administrator for Global Health during USAID, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, highlighted a purpose of a private zone in facilitating entrance to HIV-related products in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, Director of a Ho Chi Minh City bend of a Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), Vo Tan Thanh, highlighted a public-private partnership on HIV-treatment and surety services.
The digest will run until 2019 with a sum investment of 15 million USD. It will be implemented by Path International Vietnam, a health non-governmental organisation, and a Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population.
Da Nang mitigates meridian change impacts in civic areas
The Da Nang People’s Committee and a French Development Agency (AFD) jointly hold a discussion final week to examination a digest on slackening of meridian change impacts in a executive city’s civic areas.
The eventuality directed to foster support solutions for trade with healthy disasters and exercise a inhabitant devise on immature enlargement with a goals of shortening hothouse gas emissions by 8-10 percent and those from appetite immoderate activities by 10-20 percent by 2020.
Data from a metropolitan electricity dialect in 2013 showed that Da Nang ’s appetite expenditure is as most as that of a European city, with a sum of some-more than 264,000kWh per year.
Project dilettante Vu Thi Mai Huong emphasised a need to urge open recognition of risks from hothouse glimmer from appetite immoderate activities and inspire people to use energy-saving equipment
A deputy from ADF pronounced a organization pledges to continue support for Da Nang in this margin so as to make it an environmental city by 2020.
Wild animals expelled behind to nature
The Hanoi Wildlife Rescue Centre has expelled 331 furious animals into Tay Yen Tu inlet haven in a northern range of Bac Giang.
The expelled animals embody 275 red-whiskered bulbuls, 14 Bourret’s box turtles, 15 stripeneck root turtles, 22 keeled box turtles and 5 furious cats.
The centre pronounced this month it has perceived 217 animal people including 4 sunda pangolins, 210 red-whiskered bulbuls, one furious cat and dual stump-tailed macaques.
The State-run centre is housing many furious animals detected from poachers and bootleg traders.
Also in Oct 2014, a Hanoi Forest Ranger Department rescued and punished 7 cases of violations to a law on timberland insurance and development.
Hau Giang to digest formulation for biomass energy
The southern range of Hau Giang has been selected as a indication to digest a master digest for biomass appetite by a German enlargement group GIZ, deliberation a abounding source of plain tillage wastes.
Hau Giang relies only on cultivation for mercantile enlargement with 200,000ha of rice and 12,000ha of sugarcane, generating tens of thousands of tonnes of straws and bagasse – pivotal materials for producing power.
At a seminar to launch a work on a master digest in Hau Giang on Oct 29, Director of a New and Renewable Energy Department, an arm of a Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Pham Trong Thuc pronounced a digest should be finished by Feb subsequent year.
The digest will cruise a intensity of a existent biomass, outline a order to use this source of appetite and cruise probable impacts on hothouse gas emission, he said.
During a workshop, technical experts from GIZ presented an overview of a Vietnam – Germany renewable appetite enlargement digest and a purpose of biomass in Vietnam’s tolerable enlargement strategy.
Nguyen Duc Cuong, Director of a Centre for Renewable Energy and Clean Development Mechanism underneath a Institute of Energy, pronounced biomass pot in Vietnam are estimated during 150 million tonnes a year, homogeneous to 50 million tonnes of wanton oil. Besides bagasse and rice husk, all kinds of fiber and rubbish from tillage and forestry activities after collect could be used as fuel for electricity generation.
The nation is also seeking to rise other sources of renewable energy, such as bio-gas and rubbish energy.
Over 700 students take partial in Informatics Olympic Contest
Ministry of Education and Training in partnership with Vietnamese Informatics Association hosted an opening rite of a 23rd Vietnam Informatics Olympic Contest and a 2014 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM/ICPC) during Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City on Oct 29.
This year’s competition captivated a appearance of 702 Vietnamese students from 66 academies, universities and colleges. The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest aims to name best contestants to attend in a 2015 ACM/ ICPC World Finals in Marrakesh (Morocco).
The competition takes place during Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City from Oct 29-31.
At a opening ceremony, a organizers awarded first, second, third winners and championship during a 2014 online inhabitant ACM/ICPC contest.
Newborn baby ejected from womb in collision no longer uses ventilator
The baby baby who was burning out of his mother’s womb right after a trade collision in a Mekong delta range of An Giang and had his right leg dejected no longer use ventilator, pronounced a Children Hospital No.1 yesterday.
Doctors are checking his organ function. They fretted about infection in right leg. Best antibiotic kinds have been used to provide a infection to save his life. The Hospital and a Insurance Company will cover his diagnosis fee.
The profound immature lady was driven to sanatorium to broach her second child in An Giang Province by his father on Oct 25.
However when they were pushing along a National Highway No 91 nearby a construction site of Rach Goi Lon Bridge in a province’s Long Xuyen City, a petrify mixer lorry strike a integrate from behind.
The mom was dejected by a lorry and was killed instantly. The impact also forced her unborn son out of her womb. The tot got one of his legs dejected while his father had one of his legs severely broken.
The baby baby was shortly eliminated to a Children Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City. He has been underneath complete caring given then. However, notwithstanding doctors’ efforts to save one of a baby’s legs, they finally had to amputate it.
The father is being treated during An Giang General Hospital. He also had one third of his right leg amputated.
Forest rangers suspected of complicity in bootleg logging
Danang City officials have vowed to particularly retaliate anyone concerned in a box that resulted in a vast money of joist found nearby a bureau of internal timberland rangers.
On Oct 27, during a assembly on a bootleg logging, during Ba Na-Nui Chua’s special-use forest, many officials suggested that bootleg loggers could be removing assistance from timberland rangers. The emanate was brought adult in a arise of an occurrence in that 43 cubic metres of joist were found nearby a hire of timberland rangers.
Pham Ngoc Su, executive of a Ba Na-Nui Chua Forest Management Unit, said, “We’ve attempted to remove explanations from those employed during a Ca Nhong Forest Protection Department, and those found to have been concerned will be transposed with some-more able officials.”
Tran Van Luong, conduct of a Danang Sub-Department of Forest Protection, said, “We have no goal of covering adult for hurtful officials or loggers. Corrupt officials will be prosecuted.” A series of other officials concluded that a volume of joist detected was due means for prosecution.
The clamp authority of Danang People’s Committee also concluded that it was a matter to be taken severely and asked agencies to particularly understanding with violators.
On slight patrol, a group from a Quang Nam Province Department of Forest Protection found over 10 cubic metres of illegally-cut joist during dual carpentry workshops on Oct 24. On enlargement of a investigation, they found some-more joist that had been buried. This joist was in tighten vicinity to a district’s executive area as good as a Ca Nhong Forest Protection Department.
Last week, dozens of cubic metres of bootleg joist were also found nearby Ba Na-Nui Chua special-use forest.
Five officials during a Ca Nhong Forest Protection Department have been called to attest in a investigation.
HCM City wants aloft Highway 1 tolls
The HCMC supervision has asked a People’s Council for capitulation to correct adult tolls on a National Highway 1 territory in a city by 30% to 100% from subsequent year.
The new tolls, if endorsed, would request to a 14-kilometer territory of National Highway 1 regulating from An Suong Intersection in District 12 around Binh Tan District to An Lac Roundabout in Binh Chanh District.
Those regulating this highway territory now compensate tolls during An Suong-An Lac Toll Station in Binh Tan District.
Infrastructure Development Investment Joint Stock Company (IDICO) has been upgrading this widen of a cross-country highway underneath a build-operate-transfer (BOT) format.
In a new request sent to a council, a city supervision due IDICO be authorised to adjust adult tolls to a smallest rates supposing in Circular 159/2013/TT-BTC of a Ministry of Finance and those authorized by a People’s Council of a city for a Hanoi Highway and Binh Trieu Bridge fee stations.
The new tolls would come into force from Jan 1, 2015.
The highway ascent digest is being implemented in 3 phases. The widened territory of a initial proviso value over VND831 billion was non-stop to trade in Dec 2004 and a financier started to collect tolls on this territory in Jan 2005.
In a second phase, IDICO built dual interchanges and overpasses between National Highway 1, and provincial roads 10 and 10B as good as a divider between lanes for autos and motorcycles during a sum cost of VND705 billion.
The association is now constructing an rotate between National Highway 1 and Huong Lo 2 in a final proviso with sum investment collateral of VND407 billion.
Aside from a fee travel proposal, a city supervision has suggested a highway map for fee increases during a An Suong-An Lac hire in 2020, 2025 and 2030 to assistance a financier redeem collateral by 2033.
The An Suong-An Lac territory of National Highway 1 links HCMC and provinces in a southeastern, southwestern, executive and northern regions.
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