HCM City to immigrate 16 trees to build metro station
The HCMC Department of Transport reliable on Mar 31 that 16 trees on Ton Duc Thang Street in a downtown area will be relocated instead of being felled to make room for building a sinecure of Metro Line No.1 now underneath construction.
Tran Quang Lam, emissary executive of a department, pronounced a trees will be replanted during Gia Dinh Park and Go Vap Cultural Park subsequent month. The specific devise for a tree relocation will be announced in a entrance time.
Earlier, a HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) denounced a devise to clout down a dozen trees and immigrate 4 of a 16 trees on a ride to make room for a construction of Ba Son Station of a city’s initial metro lane stretching 19.7 kilometers from Ben Thanh Market in downtown HCMC to Suoi Tien Park in District 9.
The dialect distributed it costs VND3-5 million to clout down any of a trees and VND5-20 million any to immigrate and uproot a trees.
Lam pronounced a dialect is operative on skeleton to understanding with a remaining trees on a street.
The Thu Thiem 2 overpass devise also affects a greenery in a city. Earlier, a city designed to cut down and immigrate many immeasurable trees due to a bridge, that is now underneath construction.
Fish exporter arrested for loan fraud
Police in Can Tho city announced that they co-operated with a Ministry of Public Security’s mercantile military territory in a review and detain of a executive of a fisheries association in a VND700bn (USD31.8m) rascal case.
Phan Ba Tong, executive of Thien Ma Seafood Company, and Tran Thi Diem, his conduct accountant, were arrested on Mar 31. Tong’s residence on Tran Phu Street and his bureau during Tra Noc Industrial Zone were searched.
Thien Ma Seafood Company was dynamic in 2005 with VND70bn in licence collateral to trade mostly trout and basa fish. The association quick stretched operations and climbed to a tip of Mekong Delta fishing industry. Tong had loans during several banks in Can Tho City and wider Mekong Delta region.
In 2011, a association due a banks over VND430bn and VND50bn to other lenders. All 3 factories had to hindrance operations. In 2012, Tong pronounced his association was confronting loses and due a banks over VND600bn. It’s misleading how he got capitulation for so many loans and it is suspected a association accounts were altered.
In 2014, his cherished Hummer H2 was seized and sole to cover VND4bn of a VND10bn loan that Toan had taken with one internal bank, though plenty bad debts remain.
First Book Festival reason in Hue
The classification house of a initial book festival in Hue pronounced it will give 20 percent of sum income from a festival to gift fund.
Yesterday, a Information Culture Center in a executive range of Thua Thien Hue non-stop book festival, aiming to respond to Vietnam Book Day (April 21).
Over 10,000 books are displaying during a festival.
Many books cost customarily VND 1,000 to 10,000. The classification house pronounced a festival is also to inspire reading habits to people and assistance waste students to have possibility to buy books.
The festival lasts to Apr 3.
HCMC cherry freshness festival to open in April
The Ho Chi Minh City cherry freshness festival 2016 will open in a Sep 3rd Park in District 1 on Apr 22-23.
A accumulation of informative and humanities exchanges between Vietnam and Japan will be reason during a event, such as ride expo presenting destinations, tourism products and services of a dual countries, food fair, convention on graduation team-work and tourism growth investment, art perfromance and more.
The eventuality is partial of informative sell activities celebratin a 43th anniversary of tactful ties between Vietnam and Japan.
Water festival prompts controversy
In Thailand, a cradle of a H2O festival famous as Songkran, authorities have asked Thai people to scale down this year’s festival as drought is holding a formidable fee on a communities vital along a Mekong River. In Vietnam, farmers in a Mekong Delta are struggling with drought and salinity intrusion. However, youths in HCMC are energetically gearing adult for a immeasurable H2O festival.
“Every year, thousands of people from around a universe and generally Southeast Asia organisation to Thailand for Songkran festival. This year is not an difference as Bangkok will be hosting a event. For those who can’t make it to a Thai capital, Saigon Outcast is here to solve your problem. We are formulation to reason a biggest Songkran festival ever in Saigon. Following a good success of final year’s Songkran festival in a city, Saigon Outcast will chuck a H2O celebration on Apr 16.”
“Saigon Outcast’s H2O festival final year was unequivocally a hit, with scarcely 10,000 people display interest. We were concerned by such outrageous support. But unfortunately, we were authorised to classify a festival for 1,000 people only. This year, Saigon Outcast will reason a eventuality on a incomparable scale for 5,000 participants during another venue in Saigon.”
This is what has been posted on a Facebook party pages and a websites for youths to publicize a Vietnamese chronicle of Songkran, that is approaching to take place from noon to 22 p.m. on Apr 16 during a Youth Cultural House, 4 Pham Ngoc Thach Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1.
Saigon Outcast is a organisation that manages an outward artistic space in District 2 where festivals and sell events for immature people are customarily organized.
Tickets for a H2O festival in HCMC, that is called “Get Wet: Songkran Water and Music Festival”, are now accessible on ticketbox.vn during VND130,000 (US$5.82) per sheet for early birds, VND260,000 for ubiquitous acknowledgment and VND360,000 per sheet during a door.
Songkran is distinguished in Thailand as a normal New Year’s Day. Thai people trust throwing H2O during other people would assistance rinse divided bad fitness in a aged year and pierce good fitness in a new year.
This year, Thai people will have a longer Songkran festival that lasts from Apr 12 to 17 as a eventuality falls on a weekend. Due to a stream H2O predicament in Thailand and a region, Bangkok has told residents to chuck H2O in customarily 3 days between Apr 12 and 14 and stop all H2O throwing activities before 9 p.m.
The volume of H2O use via Songkran in Thailand is routinely 3 times aloft than on normal days and a Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports has called on cities inhabitant to extent a use of H2O during a event.
On a contrary, immature people in HCMC are fervent to make it big, generally during a time when 11 southern provinces are feeling a splash of drought and saltwater penetration and when people are spending adult to VND150,000 shopping a cubic scale of purify H2O compared to a normal cost of several thousand dong.
Young people who are behind a H2O festival in HCMC and those formulation to join it should demeanour during those areas pang from drought and salt penetration before they pierce on with a H2O festival plan.
Authorities that have given accede to a organizing of a H2O festival in HCMC should give a second thought.
Iron overpass collapses in Đắk Lắk
A 60m-long iron overpass collapsed early on Friday in a Central Highlands range of Đắk Lắk’s Xuân Phú Commune, injuring 3 people.
The means of a collision was suspicion to be an overloaded van, containing sand, regulating along a degraded bridge, channel Krông Năng River, according to a internal police’s initial investigation.
The van’s driver, his messenger and a 13-year-old lady roving on an electrical-engine bicycle all fell into a river.
At a stage in Xuân Phú Commune of Ea Kar District, internal military announced that a overpass had separate in two, a lorry was upside down in a stream and customarily a lady had been taken to a health centre. The other dual victims suffered customarily teenager injuries.
The collapsed overpass blocked trade until 3.30pm Friday.
The outpost driver, Nguyễn Thành Luân, 32, was a internal man, who told military he had been hired to lift silt from Krông Pắk District to Xuân Phú Commune.
Luân and his messenger were reason in control during a village military sinecure for serve investigation. The district’s military force will also join a investigation.
Japanese devise improves Can Tho University’s investigate capacity
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a devise to arise a investigate ability of Can Tho University in agriculture, seafood and environment, during a seminar reason in a Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Apr 1.
Through JICA, a Japanese Government supposing a loan of 100 million USD – that will be used during a finish of 2016, and another 4 million USD for technical team-work starting from Mar 2016 and finale in 2020.
Chief Representative of JICA Office in Vietnam Yasuo Fujita pronounced ancillary Can Tho University is one of a many critical activities of JICA in a Mekong Delta, that reserve 50 percent of rice, 65 percent of seafood, and 70 percent of vegetables and fruit for Vietnam , contributing 25 percent to a country’s sum domestic product (GDP).
The devise will assistance a university lift a investigate ability in agriculture, nautical tact and environment, so augmenting a value of plantation furnish and safeguarding a sourroundings in a Mekong Delta, he added.
JICA will support a university in building tellurian resources and building educational investigate comforts as good as yield financial support for corner investigate between it and Japanese universities and companies, he said.
Rector of Can Tho University Ha Thanh Toan pronounced his university aims to arise into a investigate campus. It is now conducting 382 systematic investigate projects during all levels.
He total that a active financial and technical support of JICA and a Japanese Government will assistance Can Tho University lift a capabilities in investigate and technological transfer, and open new team-work opportunities with Japanese partners.
Established in 1966, Can Tho University has turn a pivotal educational establishment in a region. Its idea is to turn one of a heading universities in Vietnam and a Asia-Pacific segment in investigate and training by 2020.-
Hanoi hastens ride construction to revoke trade jams
The People’s Committee of Hanoi on Apr 1 urged metropolitan departments, sectors and applicable offices to speed adult construction on pivotal ride projects and put them into operation in 2016, to revoke trade overload in a capital.
The pivotal projects are 6 flyovers, a viaduct, and a territory on belt highway 3 between Mai Dich and Thang Long bridge.
Regarding a Nhon-Hanoi Station metro railway section, a People’s Committees of Ba Dinh, Dong Da, and Hoan Kiem districts were asked to coordinate with a metropolitan Department of Transport and contractors to dive a capitulation of remuneration and assistance for resettlement.
Amidst regard about trade safety, contractors were requested to safeguard they implement warning signs during construction sites.
Figures from a city uncover that about 20,000 motorbikes and 8,000 cars are purebred each month.
On average, scarcely 1,000 new cars and motorbikes are total to a trade each day.
It is estimated a city will have about one million cars and 7 million motorbikes by 2020.
The quick boost of particular vehicles is putting outrageous vigour on a capital’s ride infrastructure.
Children with autism face problems over authorised loophole
Vietnam has nonetheless to incorporate autism into a incapacity law, so autistic children have perceived tiny support from a Government, Nguyen Trong An, Deputy Director of a Research and Training Centre for Community Development, told a Vietnam News Agency.
According to him, in a final dual years, a Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has worked to residence a loophole by accelerating a way attesting autism as a disability. Preparations, including providing superintendence materials on autism and training personnel, are underway.
Meanwhile, a decrease of state supervision concerning medical caring and preparation supposing for a autistic village has led to some dire issues. For instance, many educational centres and health clinics were dynamic defrauding people with a fake wish that they can heal their desired ones who humour from autism. As a result, many families were overcharged for medical or fee fees, and even worse, some autistic children were abused.
An remarkable that in Vietnam, relatives have been overloaded with information around autism – a mental problem that causes people to be incompetent to promulgate scrupulously or to form relations with others.
Thus, a child who learns to pronounce reduction quick than a peers, or is hyperactive, can simply turn wrongly suspected of carrying autism, he said, adding that in fact, a occurrence of autism is one in many thousands of children.
He pronounced no central investigate on autistic people has been published in Vietnam, though health experts estimated in 2013 that there were between 160,000 and 200,000 children with autism vital opposite a country.
An stressed a need for genuine movement to strengthen this exposed group, quite by applicable agencies, that he pronounced should learn from ubiquitous knowledge on a emanate and make support process accessible to these children soon.
“Early diagnosis of autism formula in a softened possibility for autistic children to live a normal life and confederate into society” is a summary value spreading, he said, concerning a purpose of a media.
According to him, a many critical means in assisting autistic children urge lies in their families, generally a parents.
Hanoi puts limit bid into Zika prevention
Hanoi’s Health Department reason a assembly on Mar 31 to mobilize all accessible resources as precautions for a Zika outbreak, after a Ministry of Health lifted a Zika pathogen puncture turn to 2.
Head of a dialect Nguyen Khac Hien pronounced alarm bells are ringing, as approximately 8,000 foreigners entering a collateral city by Noi Bai Airport on a daily basis.
According to him, 62 internal ubiquitous hospitals are tasked with gripping a tighten watch on their patients, and communities opposite a city contingency guard residents returning from abroad – generally Zika-hit countries.
The city is handling 65 mobile disease-prevention teams and stockpiling a immeasurable volume of applicable chemicals and medical equipment.
A graduation debate will be carried out during limit checkpoints so visitors know where to go if they have any symptoms of Zika.
Locals are suggested to strengthen themselves and their families regulating butterfly repellent, and firmly cover all containers of H2O to forestall mosquitoes from entering them and laying eggs.
Currently, Hanoi has no cases of Zika virus. Six suspected dengue-fever samples were tested, producing disastrous results.
According to a WHO, 59 countries and territories have accessible Zika cases. Some foreigners, after withdrawal several Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, a Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, were also reported to have tested certain for Zika.
Zika is especially transmitted by a Aedes Aegypti mosquito, that also carries dengue fever. The pathogen has been related to microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to be innate with scarcely tiny heads and, in a immeasurable infancy of cases, mind damage. Currently there is no vaccine or specific medicine to yield a disease.-
Dien Bien: Traditional festival reason in memory of rancher hero
The Ban Phu Citadel Festival was non-stop in Noong Het commune, in a northern range of Dien Bien, on Apr 1 to compensate loyalty to Hoang Cong Chat, who easy assent to a alpine segment scarcely 300 years ago.
In around 1740, a Phe invaders from China came to occupy a Muong Thanh area of Dien Bien and widespread to Thuan Chau, an area that is now in circuitously Son La province.
Hoang Cong Chat led his infantry to a assigned regions in 1751 and concurrent with Lo Ngai and Lo Khanh, who were internal peoples. They degraded a Phe invaders 3 years later.
In 1758, Chat’s infantry began building Ban Phu Citadel and finished a construction in 1762. They formed themselves in a bulwark and stable a immeasurable area in a northwest of Vietnam.
The Ban Phu Citadel Festival is organized on a 24th day of a second lunar month – a genocide anniversary of Hoang Cong Chat, that falls on Apr 1 this year.
Visitors to a two-day eventuality can declare normal rituals such as a palanquin way and a ceremony of Hoang Cong Chat, and join in folk games like tug-of-war, throwing “con” (sacred balls) by a ring, and pulling canes.
Twenty-five pledge humanities troupes opposite Dien Bien will also pierce to a festival performances deeply flushed with their racial groups’ identities.
On Mar 31, a certificate was presented to recognize a Ban Phu Citadel Festival (or Hoang Cong Chat Temple Festival) as partial of a inhabitant unsubstantial informative heritage.
The same birthright standing was also given to a ancient “xoe” dancing of a Thai racial organisation in Dien Bien.
Number of health word holders surges over new sanatorium fees
An further of 500,000 people took out health word opposite Vietnam in a initial dual months of 2016, according to statistics of a Vietnam Social Security Agency.
In Ho Chi Minh City alone, 130,000 people purebred for health word in Jan and February, mountainous 13-fold from a homogeneous duration final year.
The call was fuelled by a new process on Mar 1 that lifted sanatorium fees by between 30 and 50 percent, pronounced Tran Dinh Lieu of a Vietnam Social Security.
Pham Luong Son, Head of a Health Insurance Policy Board underneath Vietnam Social Security , pronounced health word spending is approaching to enhance by 50 percent this year in line with augmenting sanatorium fees.
The revised Health Insurance Law stipulates that as from Jan 1, 2016, people with health word cards during district turn can entrance checkups or treatments during any district-level health trickery they wish within their province, though requiring mention papers as before. They will also get full word cover for sanatorium expenses.
The cardholders will advantage severely from a nice law, Son said, indicating to their guaranteed diagnosis during any district-level medical territory located outward their staying area, though a need of mention papers.
The law also allows patients to select among these comforts for a best choice that offers aloft services, he noted.
Son pronounced that a new conditions also need softened management.
For example, a stream database systems have nonetheless to be means to guard a studious that uses medical services during opposite comforts within a day or week, that might lead to a injustice of a health word fund.
Statistics from Vietnam Social Security accessible no poignant arise in a series of patients with health word for district-level hospitals in a final dual months, as a new law took outcome in and with a lunar New Year holiday. However, a bang in a series of health word subscribers is foresee in a nearby future.
Locals join hands to quarrel opposite salty intrusion
In their quarrel opposite drought and salty intrusion, farmers in Tiểu Cần District of a southern Trà Vinh Province have contributed their possess income to build canals and ditches.
Each domicile in a Trung Tiến Hamlet of Tân Hùng Commune contributes about VNĐ70,000 (US$3) per each 1,000sq.m in sequence to sinecure people to siphon water. The H2O is pumped from a immeasurable stream named Cần Chông to canals and ditches in a interior field. From there, a farmers siphon H2O to their possess paddy fields, pronounced Trương Văn Giảng, conduct of Trung Tiến Hamlet.
“Up to 30ha of rice in a village have been saved,” he said.
Other communes in a region, such as Tạp Ngãi, Ngãi Hùng and Tân Hòa, also request a model.
“About 1,669ha out of a 2,369ha of rice in Tiểu Cần District that are during risk of being strike by salty penetration have been saved,” Trần Văn Quân, emissary conduct of a district’s cultivation department, pronounced while articulate about a model’s efficiency.
In further to farmers’ initiatives, a internal cultivation zone has spent billions of đồng on dredging canals and ditches. The zone has also sent officers to check a salt levels of fields and consider a dump caused by salty penetration in sequence to yield adequate assistance in a future, he said.
So far, a sum of 11 provinces in a Mekong Delta and Central Highland regions, including Trà Vinh Province, have announced a state of puncture due to a drought and salty intrusion. More than 11,000ha of crops were broken in Trà Vinh Province.
Fungal illness destroys Hậu Giang sugarcane
Phụng Hiệp District’s cultivation dialect has strictly remarkable a fungal illness called bệnh gỉ sắt (uromyces appendiculatus) that is destroying internal sugarcane crops.
In a final week, sugarcane growers in Hậu Giang Province’s Tân Phước Hưng Commune have voiced regard about a quick widespread of a kind of root decay disease.
A rancher from Lương Văn Tính in a Tân Phước Hưng Commune pronounced that all a villagers were concerned about a capability of a 2016 sugarcane crop, fearing that a illness could kill trees on a immeasurable scale.
“Diseased sugarcane trees have red-spots on their leaves and seem singed,” he said.
His family sprayed several kinds of bomb on a sugarcane, though a symptoms have not improved.
“My family’s tree acreage isn’t influenced by a new salty intrusion. we don’t know a means of a disease.”
Many gifted internal farmers were also confused as to a reason of a disease’s spread. A infancy of sugarcane areas in Phụng Hiệp District are now influenced by a disease, Tính said.
According to Nguyễn Thế Tự, emissary conduct of Phụng Hiệp District’s cultivation department, this illness has occurred frequency in new years, though a latest conflict occurred in a kibbutz on areas of shop-worn land.
“Our initial end about a causes of a illness swelling is a enlarged prohibited continue and a miss of H2O sources. The longer a prohibited continue lasts, a some-more a illness will spread,” he said.
“It is critical to H2O a sugarcane as most as possible.”
“We have several products that are specialized to strengthen opposite this illness accessible during a market, so farmers should mist immediately on a disease-affected acreage,” he warned.
Farmers should be not be overanxious about a disease. If they request a right measures, a influenced sugarcane area will recover, he said.
Phan Hồng Phước, authority of a kibbutz People’s Committee, pronounced a infestation had customarily occurred over a final week, though a illness had widespread quick and broken a immeasurable area of crops.
“The illness initial pennyless out in a sugarcane fields of dual families, afterwards it fast widespread to a whole commune,” he said, adding that “The sugarcane leaves are singed.”
Communal authorities have destined that a disease’s widespread should be monitored, and that a district’s cultivation dialect be kept ceaselessly updated.
Farmers in Phụng Hiệp District of a Mekong Delta range of Hậu Giang have 7,800ha of sugarcane fields.
The Tân Phước Hưng Commune authorities guess that during present, 1,055ha of a sum of 2,300ha of sugarcane has been influenced by a disease.
HCM City gets devise on educational entrance for students with disabilities
A devise that will support university students with disaiblities in their studies was launched by a HCM City Disability Research and Capacity Development Centre on Thursday (March 31).
Under a sponsorship of a Embassy of Ireland, a devise will be carried out during a University of Social Sciences and Humanities and a University of Education.
The incapacity centre expects to enhance a one-year devise to other universities in a city.
The students will be supposing study-aid inclination such as audiobooks, and volunteers will assistance with their studies. The students will also be done wakeful of their rights to full educational access.
University staff, who will be lerned in incapacity rights and awareness, will yield assistance to a students.
The students with disabilities will also accept support so they can request for internships during companies or jobs after graduation.
Lưu Thị Ánh Loan, a centre’s behaving director, pronounced that students with disabilities still faced problems during universities and colleges.
For instance, building entrance is still poor, and a procedures for fee and theme grant are also complicated.
The students also miss inclination to assist their training such as textbooks in Braille or audiobooks. This has caused many of them to dump out.
There are 6.1 million people with disabilities aged 5 and above in a country, accounting for 7.8 per cent of a sum population, according to a 2009 Population and Housing Census.
Of these, reduction than 0.1 per cent investigate during universities or colleges.
Green civic areas lacking: architect
Việt Nam needs to have minute criteria and policies that foster a growth of immature civic areas to urge vital standards, designer Lê Thị Bích Thuận has said.
Thuận wrote in a story for a Việt Nam Architecture Magazine that immature civic formulation had not been given adequate courtesy as an altogether resolution for safeguarding a sourroundings and enhancing vital standards in civic areas. Both investors and residents were not amply wakeful of “green civic areas,” while increase rather than a long-term interests of a village remained a aloft priority.
Thuận pronounced policies should be lifted to inspire genuine estate developers to deposit in building immature projects.
The bang in building skill projects in new decades in Việt Nam, notwithstanding formulating a different supply for a market, strong vigour on a ecosystem and vital sourroundings and increasing a direct for civic open spaces among city dwellers.
Vũ Cương Quyết, executive of a Northern Greenland Service and Real Estate Joint Stock Company, pronounced home seekers now had a flourishing need for immature projects that incorporate amenities and appetite assets as softened incomes would prompt them to hunt for projects with a good vital environment.
Quyết pronounced developers should compensate courtesy to building a connected infrastructure as good as amicable amenities and open spaces.
A deputy from CBRE pronounced projects with a finish infrastructure and a immeasurable commission of immature space, in fact, captivated some-more courtesy from home seekers.
A skill developer pronounced immature projects would have aloft liquidity though remarkable that not each organisation was able of building this form of devise as support stays limited.
However, a miss of minute criteria for immature civic growth is treacherous for both developers and buyers, experts indicate out.
According to Nguyễn Tiến Đông, Head of a Credit Department underneath a State Bank of Việt Nam, several banks have taken immature building standards into care when extenuation credit for skill projects. However, a necessity of minute criteria creates this analysis difficult.
The supervision has released several discipline to foster appetite assets and immature development, such as Decree 102/2003/NĐ/CP and Decision 1393/QĐ-TTg, though some-more minute instructions are needed.
According to Thuận, building a compress city total with civic open spaces and open travel that boundary emissions could be a resolution for civic growth in Việt Nam.
Tracer – first-ever film to shade in both film and concert
Audiences in Vietnam will get an eventuality to try a new film and unison knowledge with a arriving screening of a Vietnamese movement thriller Tracer (aka Truy Sat).
In a film, Truong Ngoc Anh plays a policewoman whose family is murdered. She is dynamic to revenge their deaths and is helped by an clandestine patrolman played by Thien Nguyen.
The new screening format is a initial ever for Vietnam and will come in Danang, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. It has captivated a appearance of actors Truong Ngoc Anh, Vinh Thuy, Cuong Seven, Thien Nguyen, Lamour Vissay, and Hieu Nguyen.
Famous DJs and singers – Thu Minh, Dong Nhi, Duong Trieu Vu, Trinh Thanh Binh, John Huy Tran, BoB, MoS – have also announced their appearance during a new character film and unison event.
According to a organizing board, during a event, a collection will be taken adult to lift supports to yield grants and scholarships to underneath absolved girl to assistance them continue their university studies.
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