Sleeper train collides with enclosure truck, injures 6
Some 6 passengers were harmed when their sleeper train collided with a enclosure lorry early now on a My Phuoc – Tan Van Expressway in a southern Binh Duong Province’s Hiep Thanh Ward.
The collision occurred while a sleeper bus, carrying 19 passengers, was travelling from HCM City to Binh Duong.
The means of a accident, that left a train in a wrecked state, stays unknown. The harmed were treated during a Binh Duong General Hospital.
Local military are questioning a case.
Unions ready Tet support for workers
Trade unions in southern localities will support workers with gifts and train tickets during Tet, that falls in a center of Feb this year.
In Binh Duong Province, a provincial Federation of Labour designed to give giveaway train tickets to 1,220 workers from executive and northern provinces to ride home for a holiday. The association is giving 10 per cent some-more workers tickets than final year.
The kinship also organized a array of art performances, and due that a Binh Duong People’s Committee give 6,000 gifts to low-income workers, pronounced Nguyen Thien Phuoc, clamp government of a federation.
Meanwhile, Dong Nai Province mobilised about VND80 billion (US$3.8 million)to support a workers. Aside from charity giveaway train tickets, a range will benefaction gifts to about 400 families who can’t means to go behind to their hometowns for a holiday.
HCM City, that houses 15 mercantile zones and industrial parks with 280,000 workers, will give out 6,000 train tickets and 1,500 gifts to bad workers.
Huynh Cong Khanh, government of a Trade Union for trade estimate zones and industrial parks in HCM City, pronounced a residence would work with internal estimate zones and industrial parks to guard wage, income and reward payments for workers.
No increment in 2015 Tet bonus
The normal Tet reward for labourers will approaching stay a same as final year, pronounced Pham Minh Huan, a Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
“In general, enterprises still have financial problems this year,” he said. “Based on reports from localities, many have usually managed to say a reward from final year.”
Last year, labourers’ Tet bonuses augmenting by 20 per cent to VND4.4 million (US$206) per person. A FDI craving in HCM City had a top reward of VND709 million (US$33,320), adult 9.2 per cent from 2013.
In 2012, bonuses grew by 10.8 per cent, to VND2.8 million (US$131) per person.
Although Tet bonuses would not be rising, many enterprises have done other purchases for their employees, such as building accommodation or insurance.
The method is still in a routine of collecting reports on Tet bonuses from localities. It will recover a final news in January.
Ministries step adult efforts to get overloaded trucks off a roads
Overloaded trucks will no longer be a open regard subsequent year, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang pronounced in a discussion on Wednesday in Ha Noi.
“There’s no such nonsense as certain people’s interests removing in a way. We can do it. We have achieved many tasks that were even some-more challenging,” pronounced Thang.
Weighbridges opposite a republic have checked over 416,000 trucks given final December, of that 64,885 were fined VND331 billion (US$1.5 million) for weight violations.
The government also temporarily criminialized 1,885 truck-type vehicles from trade and 42,066 drivers had their licenses taken away, according to a corner news by a Ministry of Transport (MOT) and a Ministry of Public Security, that organized a conference.
President of a Viet Nam Automobile Transportation Association Nguyen Van Thanh pronounced travel companies appreciated a stepped-up bid from a authorities though hoped for even stricter moves to stop overloaded trucks.
“It has been a problem we have had to live with for a final 30 years. We know it is really formidable to stop,” pronounced Thanh.
In certain provinces, lorry drivers even done deals with hurtful officers to equivocate weighbridges, Thanh said. He due augmenting fines for weight violations and origination internal authorities obliged for any overloaded trucks found in their areas of jurisdiction.
Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong, emissary apportion of a Ministry of Public Security, urged military chiefs and other high-ranking officers to join highway unit army to set an instance and boost morale.
Colonel Nguyen Trong Phuong, emissary executive of a Hai Phong police, pronounced some-more weighbridges were indispensable to cover all a traffic-heavy routes. For example, there was usually one weighbridge on National Route 5, so overloaded trucks were means to use choice routes to equivocate it.
Minister Thang responded that MOT was deliberation equipping fee collection points with weighbridges and cameras.
Moreover, overloaded trucks will be systematic to lapse to their depart indicate instead of unloading partial of their load as commanded in stream regulations.
Fire breaks out during scent workshop
A glow pennyless out about 9am now during a Thanh Huong scent workshop, located during 81, Hang Bo Street, Ha Noi.
Eyewitnesses during a stage pronounced that they saw fume entrance out of a second building of a building and a glow shortly after.
People in a village attempted to put out a glow with glow extinguishers, though were catastrophic due to a vast volume of combustible component stored in a workshop, such as paper and incense.
Ten glow trucks were dispatched to a scene, though a glow had not been totally extinguished as of 11.25am, reports said.
One firefighter reportedly compulsory medical courtesy given of a complicated smoke.
Two ‘rhino horn traffickers’ arrested
The Nam Tu Liem District military arrested dual suspects for bootleg possession of about 100gm of white rhino horn on Tuesday night in Ha Noi.
The suspects are a 34-year-old lady of a city’s Trang Thi Street, and a 29-year-old male from a northern alpine Cao Bang City.
The dual suspects certified to a military that a 100gm of white rhino horn was value VND100 million (US$4,670).
The military also seized other forms of unclear horn from a suspects’ houses.
The military pronounced that a dual suspects were associated to a rhino horn trafficking ring, believed to be handling for 4 years in a city.
Explosion during petrol sinecure injures 4 persons
Four customers, including dual women, were harmed in an blast during a petrol sinecure in a Mekong Delta Soc Trang Province’s Hung Vuong Street yesterday.
The certified agencies fast extinguished a glow caused by a explosion. However, a blast broken a petrol sinecure and shop-worn a residence behind it.
The means of a blast stays unknown. The harmed perceived diagnosis during a Soc Trang General Hospital.
The internal military are questioning a case.
Japan, GMS countries to concur on civic environment
Japan and Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries have concluded to step adult team-work in improving civic sourroundings in a Mekong segment while stability to pursue their mercantile expansion targets.
At a third Green Mekong Forum hold on Dec 25 in Bangkok, Thailand, a concerned parties were also committed to enhancing ability to cope with healthy disasters in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The countries reiterated that a team-work between open and private sectors, including a impasse of internal authorities, plays a pivotal purpose in addressing environmental issues in a region.
The formula of a forum will be reported to a United Nations discussion on mitigating a risks of healthy disasters in Sendai, Japan, subsequent Mar and a Japan-Mekong limit in July, 2015 in Tokyo.
Health word law to enhance benefits, coverage
New amendments to a health word law will enhance benefits, boost coverage among bad people and inspire some-more people to join plans, a comparison executive has said.
Le Van Kham, Deputy Director of a Department of Health Insurance, pronounced on Dec 23 during a discussion that a new changes will take outcome during a commencement of subsequent year.
Under a amendments, inpatients purebred during province-level hospitals can get treated during central-level hospitals by profitable 60 percent of their fees, instead of a stream 70 percent.
Similarly, those purebred during district turn hospitals though wanting to get diagnosis during provincial comforts will have to compensate 40 percent of their fees instead of a stream 50 percent.
Inpatients removing diagnosis during district-level hospitals after being purebred during commune-level hospitals will continue to compensate 30 percent of a fees.
Poor patients and those belonging to racial minority groups in disadvantaged districts will have 100 percent of their fees covered, instead of a stream 80-95 percent.
From Jan 1, 2016, health word label holders will be authorised to revisit any sanatorium in communes and districts for discussion and treatment. Those from bad households and minority groups can revisit any sanatorium in a country.
Under a nice law, a State bill will compensate 100 percent of a diagnosis losses for those who’ve had health word for 5 uninterrupted years and whose sanatorium fees surpass 6 months of their simple salaries.
Japan aids Vietnam’s disaster mitigation, primary education
The Japanese organisation has affianced to extend scarcely 700,000 USD in non-refundable assist to Vietnam in a 2014 mercantile year, with a perspective to ancillary a republic to lessen healthy disaster risks and urge primary education.
Documents to this outcome were sealed in Hanoi on Dec 24.
Of a aid, 214,345 USD will come to a plan on enhancing preparation ability on healthy disaster risk slackening for schools and a coastal village in a executive range of Quang Nam.
The project’s beneficiaries are 6 coastal areas, namely Hoi An and Tam Ky cities, and Dien Ban, Duy Xuyen, Thang Binh and Nui Thanh provinces.
Through a project, Japan’s lessons and believe in healthy disaster quarrel will be common to internal residents.
Meanwhile, over 482,000 USD will be saved to a plan on improving primary preparation for racial minority groups in northern Ha Giang range and executive Quang Binh and Quang Ngai provinces.
Plan Japan, a non-governmental organization ensuring children’s rights, will coordinate with a Ministry of Education and Training and applicable agencies to lift out a project.
The plan will concentration on a alleviation of preparation sourroundings by building classrooms, installing spotless apparatus and provision purify H2O as good as providing textbooks and training courses for teachers.
A array of workshops will be hold to plead measures to urge programmes and share training methods among teachers while compelling educational activities in a localities such as reading festival.-
Youth kinship executive committee’s 6th eventuality kicks off
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee convened a sixth eventuality in Hanoi on Dec 25.
Addressing a opening ceremony, First Secretary of a cabinet Nguyen Dac Vinh pronounced that a two-day eventuality reviews a news on girl kinship activities in 2014 and discusses orientations for a following year.
Outstanding girl kinship activities and movements in 2014 are scheduled to be comparison during a session.
During a year, girl kinship organisations during all levels operated effectively, assisting encourage youngsters’ pioneering and intentional purpose and creativeness in a means of republic building and safeguarding.-
Localities told to stay warning for influenza viruses, diseases
The Ministry of Health has urged all provinces and cities inhabitant to feature measures preventing influenza viruses and diseases amid a coming Lunar New Year holiday, a pierce triggered by reports of avian influenza outbreaks in some localities.
Earlier, a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)’s Animal Health Department pronounced influenza pathogen aria A form H5N1 was available on a organisation of ornithology in 3 communes of a Mekong Delta provinces of Tra Vinh and Vinh Long. Meanwhile, pathogen A/H5N6 influenced quails in Tinh Ha commune, Son Tinh district, a executive range of Quang Ngai.
Avian influenza pathogen A/H7N9 has been distracted in China given 2013, generally in winter-spring months.
Surge in food purchasing energy will start in preparations for a Lunar New Year holiday, that will tumble in late Feb subsequent year, and will a trade, transport, and massacre of vulnerable poultry. Additionally, respiratory and digestive diseases are also approaching to fungus during a time due to a wet weather, a MARD warned.
The Ministry of Health, therefore, asked localities to compensate special courtesy to farming and remote areas as good as a localities influenced by influenza viruses in a past.
Local health departments contingency tie organisation during communities and limit gates and rigging adult for influenza impediment and studious treatment.
They were also compulsory to step adult food reserve investigation and particularly retaliate markets, food stores, restaurants, and common kitchens that violate applicable regulations.
Project helps lift recognition of Thalassemia in Hoa Binh
A plan aiming to revoke a array of Thalassemia sufferers carried out in a northern alpine range of Hoa Binh in 2009-2014 has proven effective, assisting lift open recognition of a disease.
It was reported during a discussion in a locality on Dec 25 that Hoa Binh is one of a localities carrying a top rate of people carrying a gene that causes this disease. As many as 13,000 students and 3,800 profound women in a locality were identified to have a gene during a plan time.
The provincial People’s Committee asked a defective authorities and applicable agencies to boost communication works as partial of efforts to revoke a growth of Thalassemia in a locality.
Over a final 5 years, t he commander plan organized a array of training courses for internal medical workers, and investigate projects in a margin were also implemented. The internal village was versed with surety measures opposite a disease.
In 2015, a plan will be serve stretched in all districts and towns. Activities associated to communication works, training, screening test, and prenatal consultancy will be also intensified.
Thalassemia is a form of hereditary autosomal recessive blood disorders characterised by aberrant arrangement of haemoglobin. It can means poignant complications, including iron overload, bone deformities and cardiovascular illness.
Scholarships assist Thai Nguyen’s needy children
Scholarships underneath a “Together with we to school” programme were presented to 120 disadvantaged children in a northern alpine range of Thai Nguyen on Dec 25 to support their study.
Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan, Chairwoman of a National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC), postulated a scholarships, value 3 million VND each, to a children.
More than 4 million out of 26.7 million children in Vietnam, including orphans, a disabled, a homeless, and dropouts, need help.
The NFVC’s programme, launched in 2012, postulated scarcely 7,700 scholarships totaling over 23 billion VND (1.09 million USD) to a aim organisation in all 63 provinces and cities nationwide. The NFVC has lifted over 4 trillion VND (190.47 million USD) from organisations and people to support 28 million needy children over a final 22 years.
Improving workforce’s peculiarity a contingency for Central Highlands
The Central Highlands needs to fast boost both apportion and peculiarity of a workforce so as to accommodate mandate of a automation and modernisation, listened a discussion on vocational training and pursuit origination in Dak Lak range on Dec 25.
The region, comprising Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, and Lam Dong provinces with 45 percent of sum race being racial minorities, is foresee to be home to 5.5 million people in 2015 and 6 million in 2020, accounting for 6 percent of a nation’s population. Of those figures, people of operative age will array around 3.6 million subsequent year and 4 million in 2020.
About 857,000 people are approaching to accept training between 2011 and 2020, lifting a array of lerned labourers to 1.3 million in 2015 and 1.7 million in 2020, origination adult 41 percent and 50 percent of a workforce, respectively.
During a period, a segment skeleton to concentration on training crew for spearhead sectors such as hydropower industry, mining, farming and forestry product processing, and coffee, rubber, cocoa, and cashew industries. It will also urge internal workers’ ability in finance-banking and tourism sectors.
To such ends, any range needs to have during slightest one vocational college that offers training on dual or 3 vocations assembly ASEAN criteria and 3 to 5 gratifying inhabitant standards.
The informal localities are also compulsory to re-organise a network of vocational training facilities, gain modernized equipment, lift staff apportion and quality, and digest suitable policies ancillary trainees.
A news during a discussion review that some-more than 805,950 people in a Central Highlands cumulative jobs from 2005 to 2013, mostly a immature in farming areas. Around 37 percent of them were lerned workers.
Participants during a eventuality suggested a Government and ministries rectify vocational training policies designed for racial minorities, yield some-more appropriation for a work, restructure a vocational training system, and give support to vocational training comforts and racial minority trainees.
Vice President presents scholarships to bad Bac Ninh students
Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan presented scholarships, any value 3 million VND (142 USD, to 110 bad students excelling in studies during a rite in a northern range of Bac Ninh on Dec 25.
As partial of a “Together with we to school” progammme launched in 2012, a eventuality was co-hosted by a National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) and a provincial People’s Committee.
The programme has come to 61 cities and provinces, benefiting less-privileged kids with a sum sum of over 22 billion VND (1.1 million USD) given a launch in 2012.
Over 4 million children are in need of help, including 1.5 million orphan, infirm and homeless kids, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Hong Lan told a ceremony, adding that a grant programme contributes severely to assisting a disadvantaged children pursue study.
Over a past years, a NFVC has lifted over 4 trillion VND (190 million USD) and offering assistance to some-more than 28 million children.
People with disabilities need improved workplaces
If businesses yield people with disabilities with suitable comforts to work, they can boost their output, a conduct of a tiny association that hires such people told a new seminar in Ho Chi Minh City.
Tran Thi Trung Thuan, Director of Thien Tam Service, Trade and Manufacture Co.Ltd, told a seminar hold by a Disability Research and Capacity Development (DRD) Centre, that her company, that produces herbal products like healing herbal pillows and face masks, has 3 people with disabilities — a male with Down syndrome and one any with discussion and steer impairment.
They have passion for their work, she said.
The male with assuage egghead incapacity cuts spices and threads after stitching pillows, cloth bags, and face masks, and his products “are of improved peculiarity than those done by his non-disabled colleagues,” she said.
The male with a discussion spoil draws beautifully, and she took advantage of his cultured gifts to occupy him as an embroiderer, she said, adding he is now a company’s categorical embroiderer.
However, many businesses do not trust people with disabilities, and sinecure few of them, according to a investigate by a city’s Institute for Development Studies.
A 2010 news from a Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs pronounced usually 6,000 out of 18,000 people with disabilities of operative age have jobs.
Luong Thi Quynh Lan, emissary conduct of a DRD Centre, pronounced a pursuit is a critical component in assisting people with disabilities confederate simply into society.
Another reason for a low array of infirm people with jobs is that they are prevented from operative by sensitive parents, Thuan said.
“They feel empathize for their child with incapacity and even some-more empathize when they work.
“They do not consider that work will be a therapy for their child. It is a approach for them to confederate into society.”
The male with Down syndrome, for instance, had to quit his pursuit twice, she revealed. At home, he was cramped to his room to watch radio all day.
“He was dissapoint and constantly shrieked. He remembered his pursuit and so would cut adult books in his room like slicing leaves and threads.”
Pained by his conditions when visiting him, she swayed his relatives to send him to behind to work.
Le Huu Thuong, a pursuit consultant during a DRD Centre, pronounced he once swayed a association to partisan a chairman with incapacity and it agreed, though a chairman afterwards told him her relatives refused to concede her to work.
Parents of people with disabilities should be wakeful of a significance of jobs for their children, he added.
Luu Thi Anh Loan, conduct of a DRD Centre, pronounced a centre skeleton to organize workshops for relatives of people with disabilities to teach them about this issue.
National plan helps forestall respiratory diseases
A inhabitant plan on bronchial asthma and ongoing opposed pulmonary illness (COPD) has been implemented in 30 provinces and cities opposite a republic in 2014 has helped widespread believe about a diseases in a community, it was reported during a discussion in Hanoi on Dec 25.
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen, pronounced a plan also significantly contributed to improving diagnosis and diagnosis of a diseases during internal hospitals, bettering health caring for people and easing a overkill for central-level hospitals.
Operated by Bach Mai Hospital as partial of a National Target Programme for Preventing Non-communicable Diseases in a 2012-15 period, a plan has organized a array of training courses for medical workers, while over 1,000 people perceived discussion in a horizon of a project.
COPD is now one of a 3 heading killers in a world. The latest statistics uncover that about 4.2 percent of Vietnam’s populations humour from this disease.
In 2015, a plan will be stretched to 15 some-more localities. Activities associated to communication works, training, screening check-up will be also strong in a time ahead.
Conference raises bargain of branch cell
Researchers and experts on biotechnology from opposite a republic collected in a Dec 24 discussion themed “Stem Cell Day 2014” to encourage bargain of branch dungeon investigate and intensity applications to illness and damage treatment.
The eventuality was co-organised in Ho Chi Minh City by a metropolitan Society for Stem Cell Research (SSCR) and a Laboratory of Stem Cell Research and Application underneath a Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City’s University of Natural Sciences.
Chairman of a SSCR – Ho Chi Minh City Truong Dinh Kiet pronounced while branch dungeon investigate has done good strides over new years, contributing to restorative many deadly diseases, a open know small about a use.
He remarkable that Vietnam now has 5 branch dungeon banks, that keep about 10,000 samples, accounting for usually 0.05 percent of a annual birth rate.
Meanwhile, Dr. Pham Van Phuc from a University of Natural Sciences stressed a need for advancing associated technologies, observant that old-fashioned apparatus pushes adult diagnosis costs while there is a necessity of branch dungeon supply and support technology.
Participants also forked to a miss of peculiarity researchers and doctors specializing in a field, with a array of specialists concerned in branch cell-related activities during around 300.
In Vietnam, branch cells investigate and focus in medical diagnosis have been carried out given a 1990s. The record has been used in a diagnosis of blood diseases, cardiology, dermatology, mind paralysis, and surgery.
In 1995, a republic conducted a initial branch dungeon transplant for a 26-year-old studious with blood cancer.
By now, many hospitals have practical a record in health treatment, including Hue Central Hospital, National Paediatric Hospital, Hospital 108 and Aug 19 Hospital, a Haematology and Blood Transfusion Hospital, Hospital 115.
Hundreds of branch dungeon transplants have been carried out inhabitant so far, mostly on patients of blood diseases.
Workshop talks decentralised wastewater treatment
Domestic and unfamiliar experts collected during a seminar in Hanoi on Dec 25 to share believe in requesting a decentralised wastewater diagnosis indication in Vietnam.
They were updated with policies facilitating a use of a indication in a region, and marketplace opportunities for providers of hygiene services in Southeast Asia.
They also learnt about a latest regulations on wastewater management, and decentralised wastewater diagnosis systems now in use in several localities.
Representatives from a United Nations Human Settlements Programme and a UN Economic and Social Commission for a Asia-Pacific praised a initiatives that Vietnam put onward during a event, observant that they will be useful not usually for a pattern of a country’s possess plan on rubbish government though also for other countries in a region.
The eventuality was co-hosted by a Vietnam Association of Conservation of Nature and Environment and a Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s General Department of Environment.
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