Seventy bridges need early replacement
Seventy degraded bridges along inhabitant highways in 25 provinces contingency be transposed by 2015, 3 years progressing than planned.
Transport Minister Dinh La Thang pronounced a devise had sum investment of VND8.254 trillion (US$388 million), including VND6.555 trillion ($308) from Japan International Co-operation Agency.
Until now, bids had been supposed for usually 4 of a 25 construction packages.
Replacement works for Tham Bridge and But Son Bridge on National Highway 10 in executive Thanh Hoa Province have started.
According to a ministry’s Project Management Unit 6 reserved to lift out a project, behest for a other 21 construction packages will open in November.
Thang asked a supervision territory to finish replacing all 70 bridges by subsequent year.
“If a territory can’t understanding with a task, a work should be common with other units,” Thang said.
He pronounced a devise would urge highway safety, accommodate travelling final and minister to socio-economic development.
Deputy executive of a supervision unit, Nguyen Tan Khoa, pronounced that a large problem was a delayed dispersion of funds.
On tip of this, many overpass designs and investment papers were not completed, so tenders could not be called,” Khoa said.
Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong pronounced that many of bridges in were usually 200 to 300 metres enlarged and would not take too many time to build.
“If a paperwork is solved, it’s probable to finish a devise subsequent year,” he said.
The devise includes appropriation for land clearway and substructure coercion for bridges, including Thot Not on National Highway 91 in southern Can Tho City, Muong Khai on National Highway 54 in southern Dong Thap Province and An Quy on National Highway 57 in southern Ben Tre Province.
Traffic overload worsens during some gateways in HCMC
Traffic jams have left from bad to worse in new days during some of HCMC’s categorical gateways in Binh Tan, Thu Duc and other superficial districts due to highway constructions and upgrades.
Vehicles were seen relocating along in. by in. in a 10km line during a territory of National Highway 1A in Binh Tan District on Jul 15 morning as a lanes have been rearranged in credentials for construction of an overpass during a crossroads between Road No. 2 and a inhabitant highway.
The highway territory in District 2 that leads to Phu My Bridge has been narrowed for upgrade, forcing hundreds of light and enclosure trucks to pierce brazen in. by in. on a overpass in a past 3 days.
The HCMC Department of Transport attributed a critical trade jam to a Urban Traffic Management Unit 2’s devise to raise a proceed highway from dual to 3 lanes. This territory has been told to speed adult construction so that a third line could be finished in a subsequent 10 days.
Heavy overload has lasted around one week during a territory of Kha Van Can Street nearby Go Dua Bridge in Thu Duc District. Residents vital along a travel pronounced vehicles have been tangled given barriers were set adult on a 3-kilometer-long territory for highway upgrade, withdrawal usually one line for traffic.
Health section in apocalyptic need of vaccines for infants
The nonesuch of vaccines for infants stays strident during a series of hospitals and clinics in HCMC.
The miss of much-sought-after forms such as Infanrix Hexa or those used to forestall chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella has been so distinguished for a past 6 months that suppliers have had to make use of all probable sources from unfamiliar countries.
The health section has been incompetent to make accurate predictions of diseases, creation it unfit to store adequate doses in a initial place.
In a initial half of this year, many relatives were fearful of removing their children vaccinated with Quinvaxem in a arise of some fatalities caused by a inauspicious drug reaction. As such, they have had to change to regulating Infanrix Hexa, ensuing in an undersupply.
A source pronounced Vietnam has usually a few vaccine manufacturers such as Sanofi Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline, though these companies pronounced it might take during slightest 6 months to perform orders.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam underneath a Ministry of Health has particularly announced a shipments of vaccines due to arrive in Vietnam shortly in an bid to encourage parents.
Hong Thuy Company will import 10,000 doses of five-in-one Pentaxim as early as Jul 20 and an additional 23,000 doses in Sep while May Cosmedic Joint Stock Company will import 12,000 doses of this form on Aug 10.
As for a six-in-one vaccine Infanrix Hexa, Saigon Pharmaceutical Company is approaching to have 100,000 doses on Aug 15. The Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No.1 will import 10,000 doses of Varicella-GCC.
Toll collection during Ngang Pass suspended
The Ministry of Transport has told Song Da Corporation, a financier of Ngang Pass hovel project, to stop a fee collection from final week until it has bound a subsidence on a territory heading to a hovel joining a executive provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh.
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam pronounced inspectors of a method found that a territory on National Highway 1A heading to a hovel has subsided and influenced trade reserve for vehicles during their operative outing to check works on a highway territory from Thanh Hoa to Thua Thien Hue provinces.
Previously, a directorate wrote to Song Da Corporation several times warning it of a subsidence though a financier has finished zero to correct a problem. So, a method had to make a preference formed on Circular 52/2013/TT-BGTVT requesting a residence to correct a falling section; otherwise, it will not be available to collect tolls from vehicles using by a tunnel.
Regional Road Management Unit 2 underneath a directorate has been reserved to manipulate a parties concerned in a hovel devise built underneath a build-operation-transfer (BOT) format to see if they have stopped a fee collection and correct a highway territory as systematic by a ministry.
Put into use given 2004, Ngang Pass hovel goes by Hoanh Son towering operation on National Highway 1A, and allows vehicles to pass a towering operation instead of using on a longer and dangerous highway circuitous on a pass.
The six-lane hovel is some-more than 2.1 km long. Vehicles are authorised to run during a limit speed of 60 kilometers per hour.
Central Citizen Reception Committee established
The Government Inspectorate has announced a preference to set adult a Central Citizen Reception Committee in Ha Noi.
The investiture of The Central Citizen Reception Committee is formed on a suggestion of a Law on Citizen Reception and censure and libel doing of a Government Inspectorate.
The Committee’s tasks are receiving, classifying, doing with complaint, petition and libel of citizens, quite a complicated, unsolved and enlarged ones to make resolution formed on regulations of a law.
The Central Citizen Reception Committee is obliged for running adults to perform a complaint, petition and libel in right order, organ, territory and particular who have jurisdiction.
Efforts done to save removed racial minority
Authorities in Ha Tinh Province have concluded to contention a devise devise to a supervision to build a highway that would couple a Chu racial minority organisation to a rest of a world.
The offer was done by Tu Van Dien, Chairman of a internal Fatherland Front during a new assembly of a provincial People’s Council.
If a offer is adopted, a 15-km highway will be built to couple a encampment of Chu racial minority in to save them from inbreeding that has had a critical impact on a children of a community.
Mr. Dien pronounced that Rao Tre Village, where Chu minority live, during has 45 households with 137 residents. Despite a support of internal authorities, vital conditions there are still difficult.
The many critical problem for a villagers is inbreeding. Up to 60% of internal people humour from asthma, while a rate of a infirm people has been on a rise.
The construction of 15-km highway is approaching to give a village entrance to a outward universe and hopefully assistance solve this problem.
Local authorities have shown support for a devise and will contention it to a supervision for consideration.
H1 sees fewer labor accidents in HCMC
The series of labor accidents reported in HCMC in a initial half of this year is 37, a rebate of 6 cases compared to a same duration final year, a city’s Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs announced on Jul 15.
Of a 37 accidents, that killed 37 people and bleeding one, 24 were in a construction sector, 8 in industrial prolongation and 5 in a services sector.
So far, authorities have pinpointed a causes of usually 10 labor accidents and a rest are still underneath investigation.
In a initial 6 months, inspectors of a city’s labor dialect imposed fines totaling some-more than VND306 million on 28 companies for violating labor reserve regulations.
The dialect also reported 184 fires occurring in a city during a period, that killed 7 people, harmed 10 and broken properties value scarcely VND8.5 billion.
The labor accidents, fires and explosions were blamed on employers’ failures to sight employees on labor reserve and use low-quality apparatus that can’t safeguard reserve for laborers during workplaces.
On a other hand, authorities have not particularly compulsory workers to reside by labor reserve regulations, that have also led to those accidents, pronounced a city’s occupational reserve office.
Highway 20 user told to correct highway or stop collection
The financier of National Highway 20 joining Dong Nai Province’s T-junction and Lam Dong Province’s Dalat City will be forced to stop a fee collection unless it completes regulating this deteriorating highway before Oct 30.
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam pronounced on Monday a maintenance, correct and ascent of some sections on National Highway 20 had not met standards, putting trade reserve during risk.
The parties concerned in this devise upgraded underneath a build-operate-transfer (BOT) format are obliged for correct a highway now full of potholes, generally in a territory in Lam Dong Province.
The project’s financier is a consortium between 7/5 Co. Ltd. underneath a Ministry of Defense, Hung Phat Co. Ltd., Dai Phat Investment and Development Co. Ltd., and Highway 20 BOT Joint Stock Company.
These companies would have to correct a shop-worn highway surface, repaint signboards and shear trees to safeguard visibility. They would also have to dredge and dilate a road’s ditches and drainage to boost runoff in a stormy season.
The Ministry of Transport will force a financier to stop a fee collection unless they finish a correct of a highway territory before a finish of October, a directorate pronounced in a matter sent to a consortium.
In early July, several accidents were reported on a shop-worn road, causing dual fatalities and enlarged trade jams on Highway 20’s territory in Lam Dong Province.
Previously, a fee hire on Highway 20 influenced adult controversies due to a plcae in Dong Nai Province instead of Lam Dong Province.
National Highway 20 is now being upgraded and stretched to offer trade from HCMC to Dalat and a travel of alumina from Lam Dong Province to Dong Nai Province’s Go Dau Port.
The directorate final Wednesday stopped a fee collection during Ngang Pass on National Highway 1A as a financier unsuccessful to ascent a shop-worn highway surface.
Tay Ninh to postpone polluting firms
Tapioca and rubber manufacturers that soiled a sourroundings in a southwestern range of Tay Ninh would be dangling from operations, pronounced a internal Department of Natural Resources and Environment director, Nguyen Dinh Xuan.
“There are 74 tapioca and 27 rubber manufacturers in Tay Ninh, though usually 31 of them have commissioned A-level wastewater diagnosis systems,” pronounced Xuan.
The metropolitan People’s Committee had systematic a remaining manufacturers to implement a complement by late Jun or face suspension, though they unsuccessful to accommodate a deadline.
The internal Department of Natural Resources and Environment conducted 360 inspections on wastewater diagnosis plants in a initial 6 months of 2014, collecting fines of VND1.9 billion (US$91,350).
Quang Tri military seize smuggled cigarettes
Huong Hoa Commune Police seized thousands of smuggled cigarettes in a executive range of Quang Tri on Wednesday.
The military found a products in a raid during a residence of 42-year-old Nguyen Thi Tuyen.
She unsuccessful to yield papers to infer a start of 8,000 packs of Jet cigarettes and 50 boxes of Ensure milk.
The products were value VND200 million (US$9,600).
Tuyen pronounced her residence was used to store smuggled products before they were ecstatic to Dong Ha City.
The box is underneath serve investigation.
Chief accountant jailed for embezzlement
A arch accountant who fake a signature of her company’s ubiquitous executive to misappropriate scarcely VND10 billion (US$476,000), has been jailed for 20 years.
Dam Van Anh, 31, lives in Dai Kim Ward, Ha Noi’s Hoang Mai District. So far, she has paid VND2 billion ($95,200) behind to a organisation and will have to lapse an additional VND8 billion ($380,900).
According to a indictment, Van Anh started operative as an accountant during a International Telecommunications Investment and Commerce Joint-stock Company in November, 2010. She was promoted to a post of arch accountant during a commencement of 2011.
Between Feb 24, 2011 and Jun 15, 2012, Anh fake a signature of Nguyen Thi Dung, ubiquitous executive of a company, to deceive a organisation and used a embezzled income to buy a automobile and 3 flats in Ha Noi’s Ha Dong and Hoang Mai districts, on gambling, and to loan a organisation VND700 million ($33,300) with interest.
Police seize smuggled drugs, medical equipment
About 7,000 bottles of smuggled antibiotics and medical apparatus were seized while being delivered to a hospital on Wednesday, pronounced Ha Noi Environmental Police Division Lieutenant Colonel Pham Giang Son.
The drivers of a dual three-wheeler vehicles, on that a smuggled products were being transported, could not uncover any papers per a origins of a drugs and apparatus which, they reportedly said, were going to be delivered to a 168 Clinic on Ngoc Hoi Street.
The clinic’s staff member, who was to accept a goods, was a immigrant and could not uncover any authorised papers associated to a drugs, a mechanism and a appurtenance used for gynecology.
The 168 Clinic, before famous as Thanh Tri Clinic, has progressing been penalised by a military for violating environmental norms.
The box is underneath serve investigation.
Workshop seeks to pull renewable appetite development
A convention was hold in Ho Chi Minh City on Jul 17 seeking to serve arise renewable appetite resources in Vietnam, generally in southern localities.
In new years, special courtesy has been given to researching and building solar and breeze appetite as a replaceable source of fuel for a country.
According to a Energy Institute, a map tracking breeze resources jointly done by a Ministry of Industry and Trade and a World Bank is approaching to be finished by 2015, hopefully helping projects to beget appetite from wind.
The nation is also seeking to arise other sources of renewable energy, such as bio-gas, balderdash appetite and biomass energy.
Ly Ngoc Thang from a Energy Institute pronounced a nation will face a augmenting needs for appetite and electricity in a entrance time and need to import spark for appetite era after 2015.
Therefore, a expansion of renewable appetite recourses should be speeded as hoary fuels are apropos exhausted. The pierce will assistance safeguard appetite confidence and strengthen a environment.
Ho Chi Minh City has carried out projects to spin plain balderdash into energy, bringing unsentimental advantages to a 10-million population, listened a workshop.
Experts suggested a State come adult with collateral support and cost funding policies to investors handling a field.
They called for clearing bottlenecks in executive procession and infrastructure for a sector’s development.
Binh Thuan moves to behind offshore fishermen
The People’s Committee of a executive coastal range of Binh Thuan has practical a series of support policies for fishermen during their long-term offshore operations.
According to Huynh Quang Huy, conduct of a provincial Fisheries Department, a policies focused on fuel assistance, word and communications devices.
Most of a fishing boats in Binh Thuan, accordingly, now have complicated communication devices, enabling fishermen to stay during sea longer than usual, contributing to safeguarding inhabitant sovereignty, combined Huy.
With a seashore of 192km, Binh Thuan is one of a 28 coastal localities personification a vital purpose in Vietnam ’s nautical strategy.
During a new revisit to Binh Thuan, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked a range to serve arise a nautical economy as it boasts one of a country’s 3 largest fishing grounds.
The range is now home to 7,500 fishing vessels, that hold 78,600 tonnes of seafood in a initial half of this year, adult 6.2 percent from a same duration final year.
In a initial half, Binh Thuan available a GDP expansion rate of 8.6 percent.
Overseas Vietnamese youths debate executive region
More than 170 abroad Vietnamese youths from 30 countries begun a five-day debate of Da Nang, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh on Jul 16.
The debate is partial of an annual summer stay that started in Hanoi on Jul 8 and ends on Jul 27 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The initial stop was Da Nang city museum to declare a collection of papers and maps surveying Vietnam’s government over a Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.
“It’s a initial time that we have visited Da Nang,” pronounced Hoang Hiep, 17, a high-school tyro from Poland.
“I left Vietnam when we was a baby. My relatives were from Bac Giang province,” he said.
“This is a third time we have returned to Vietnam, though this tour is really sparkling as we have assimilated adult with other abroad Vietnamese,” he added.
Khanh Ngan, 18, pronounced she was meddlesome in a annual summer stay given it gave her a possibility to find her roots.
Nguyen Huy Truong Nam, 18, from Moscow, pronounced he left Vietnam 4 years ago.
“The Vietnamese village in Russia has listened news of a East Sea tragedy and China’s bootleg chain of oil supply Haiyang Shiyou-981 inside Vietnam’s continental shelf,” Nam said.
“Many Vietnamese in Russia and their Russian friends flocked to demonstrations seeking China to repel a oil supply from Viet Nam’s waters,” he said.
“This tour will assistance me learn some-more about a Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) islands.”
Colonel Tran Van Dung, of a Zone 2 Marine Police, and Vuong Manh Hoa from a Fisheries Surveillance Force, talked to a youths about a acts of assault by Chinese ships that involved a lives of Vietnamese fishermen.
The youths were also shown a images of a mutilate of fallen fishing trawler DNa TS 90152, that rammed by Chinese boats in Vietnamese waters.
The youths will join a rite for souls of martyrs during Linh Ung Pagoda in Son Tra Mountain on Jul 19.
They leave for a outing to Ly Son Island in executive Quang Ngai range on Jul 18.
Ly Son Island preserves Am Linh Pagoda, a place of ceremony for seamen sent to a Paracel Islands in a Nguyen dynasty from a 17th century.
A museum of a dual archipelagos displays over 200 ancient papers and 100 objects that uncover that a dual island groups go to Vietnam.
The summer stay has been organized by a State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and a Ministry of Foreign Affairs given 2003.
The annual eventuality creates an event for abroad youngsters to learn about inhabitant traditions, enlightenment and history, as good as raise oneness and exchanges.
This year’s summer stay takes places in many localities opposite a nation with a thesis “My country’s sea and islands.”
HCM City to urge workers’ safety
The city is stepping adult a inspections of internal companies, generally those in a construction field, to forestall a common spike in a series of workplace accidents nearby a finish of a year.
Nguyen Quoc Viet, conduct of a labour-safety multiplication during a Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, pronounced a series of workplace accidents had declined in a initial 6 months of a year compared to a same duration final year.
Speaking during a assembly hold on Tuesday, Viet pronounced there were 37 workplace accidents during a initial half of a year, withdrawal 37 people passed and one chairman injured.
Forty-three deaths were available in a same duration final year, he said.
Most of a accidents are due to workers’ bad recognition of labour-safety regulations, and enterprises’ use of apparatus that does not safeguard work reserve during their factories and construction sites.
Viet pronounced that department’s inspectors had fined companies a sum of VND306 million (US$14,570) in a initial 6 months of a year.
In addition, a city available 184 fires in a initial 6 months of a year, down 45 per cent compared to a same duration final year. The fires killed 7 people and harmed 10.
Viet pronounced that many households and companies still had not bought glow extinguishers and other fire-prevention devices.
In HCM City, 82 enterprises with a sum of 8,385 employees work in a dangerous environment, according to a Centre for Environment and Health Protection underneath a Health Department.
Of these employees, 193 were diagnosed with occupational diseases, including stomach ulcers and detriment of hearing. Another 863 people have to be monitored closely for workplace-related ailments.
Japanese sourroundings firms deliver record in Soc Trang
Four sourroundings firms from a Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima introduced their technologies to their Vietnamese counterparts in a Mekong Delta range of Soc Trang on Jul 17, in an sell to strengthen their tie-ups.
The technologies are used to provide dangerous balderdash and H2O treatment, routine plantation by-products and arise aquaculture.
The sell is also meant to widespread a practices of tolerable tillage in a locality.
The commission grouped member from a Japan External Trade Organsation in Ho Chi Minh City, a Director of a Hiroshima Department of Commerce Industry and Labour and consultants from a Japanese organisation of sourroundings enterprises.
Demand for renewable appetite slopes upwards
Vietnam’s residential and business business have started to welcome solar and other forms of renewable appetite and a direct is foresee to arise fourfold by 2030.
This information was expelled during a convention hold in Ho Chi Minh City on Jul 17, deliberating measures for renewable appetite expansion in southern provinces and cities.
Ly Ngoc Thang, Deputy Director of a Centre for Renewable Energy and Clean Development Mechanisms underneath a Energy Institute, pronounced Vietnam will devour 7 times some-more appetite subsequent year than in 2010, and is expected to turn an importer of spark for appetite era after 2015.
He emphasized a need to arise renewable appetite sources to gradually reinstate a use of hoary fuels like coal, oil and gas. It is also essential to foster appetite potency to safeguard inhabitant appetite confidence and strengthen a environment, he added.
Other participants suggested that detached from breeze energy, Vietnam should concentration on other sources of renewable energy, such as solar, biogas and biomass.
Currently, HCM City has around 10 million residents who furnish between 8,000 – 9,000 tonnes of metropolitan plain balderdash (MSW) a day, so charity an event to beget thermal plant and furnish several profitable materials, they said.
Nguyen Trung Viet, a meridian change consultant in HCM City, pronounced MSW can make outrageous mercantile advantage if a city pays courtesy to balderdash diagnosis and recycling technology. Each year, HCM City can acquire VND1,553 – 2,782 billion from balderdash recycling, adequate to compensate for balderdash transfer sites that cost around VND2,208 billion.
He called for State incentives to emanate some-more enlightened conditions for investors in this field.
FLC persists with bootleg silt mining for golf course
FLC Group has continued a bootleg mining activities for a golf march devise notwithstanding a warning from a internal People’s Committee in a coastal executive range of Thanh Hoa.
The Ha Noi-based company, that specialises in tourism and services, perceived capitulation for silt mining from a People’s Committee late May, though has nonetheless to finish authorised procedures to lift out a mining.
Dozens of silt mining ships hired by a organisation were reportedly handling illegally in a Hoang Chau Commune’s Noi dune area progressing in June.
The mining hindered a current travel and influenced mangrove swamps and 20ha of clam plantation of a commune.
Thanh Hoa People’s Committee systematic a FLC Group to stop silt mining and finish authorised procedures before resuming.
FLC had nonetheless to brand and delimit a silt mining section inside an area of 60ha including 20ha in Noi dune area and 40ha of beach.
The organisation also had to contention an environmental impact comment news and skeleton for environmental reconstruction and reserve of waterways.
Despite a warning from a People’s Committee, a organisation is carrying on with a mining activities.
FLC is employing about 20 to 30 ships a day to work in a area. Most of a ships are internal or from a northern range of Hai Duong and Hai Phong City.
None of a boat owners have supposing registrations for their ships, silt mining licences and contracts with a FLC Group.
The Maritime Administration of Thanh Hoa is coordinating with internal authorities to understanding with a violation.
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