WB-funded plan improves Vietnam civic infrastructure
The World Bank has supposing some-more than US$382 million for a plan to titillate infrastructure and critical conditions for low-income people in 4 Vietnamese provinces and cities.
At a hearing assembly in Can Tho on May 30, a WB emissary reported that a plan was implemented from 2004 to 2012 in Haiphong (US$39.9 million), Nam Dinh (US$38.5 million), Ho Chi Minh City (US$266.7 million) and Can Tho (US$37.2 million).
Can Tho City
The WB emissary pronounced a plan was carried out successfully, assisting 11 million people in a 4 customer localities lift their critical conditions by protected H2O and energy supply, sanitation, and irrigation sub-projects.
It also helped titillate infrastructure in low-income residential areas and build resettlement areas for replaced people.
Vietnam, RoK concur in copyright protection
The ministries of culture, sports and tourism of Vietnam and a Republic of Korea (RoK) sealed a chit of bargain on copyright word team-work during a discussion in Hanoi on May 30.
The pierce is approaching to foster a authorised use of artistic works and rise a dual countries’ enlightenment and innovation, listened a function.
Protecting copyright during a time of tellurian formation is essential for ensuring a legitimate interests of a creators and producing a healthy sourroundings for competitiveness, experts said.
After apropos some-more wakeful of copyright self-protection measures and a self-execution of authorised regulations, artists and businesses have been operative closely with Vietnamese law coercion agencies to stop any violations in a field, pronounced emissary conduct of a Vietnam Copyright Office Pham Thi Kim Oanh.
Vietnam ’s laws outline fines of 250 million VND (12,000 USD) for copyright violations by people and 500 million VND (24,0000 USD) by organisations.
Last year, a Vietnamese method collected over 2 billion VND (about 95,200 USD) in fines from businesses for program copyright violations, and systematic 3 websites to mislay thousands of pirated films.
It also perceived 60 letters of censure on copyright disputes over 142 book editions from 25 edition houses during a year.
Vietnam and a RoK have stepped adult co-operation for copyright word given Jan this year, with a RoK Copyright Centre opening a emissary bureau in Vietnam.
Workers abroad fined for violating contracts
The Vietnam Embassy in a Republic of Korea (RoK) has announced fines for dual Vietnamese workers sent to a republic for violating work contracts sealed with their Korean employers.
Under Decree No 95/2013/ND-CP released by a Vietnamese Government on fines for violations associated to work rights, amicable word and abroad work contracts, a fines of 90 million VND (4,230 USD) and 100 million VND 4,700 (USD) have been imposed on Vu Van Duong and Ngo Van Hiep, respectively.
Duong, innate in a northern range of Nam Dinh, transient from his operative place in a RoK on Jul 26, 2013. This pennyless his work agreement with his Korean employer, that would have run until May 15, 2014.
Meanwhile, Hiep, a workman from executive Nghe An province, ran divided from Incheon International Airport after entering a RoK on May 20.
The embassy has sent a commercial to a Overseas Labour Management Department underneath a Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs and a localities that are home to a dual men.
A emissary from a handling house for Vietnamese workers in a RoK pronounced a physique will continue to observe and news on such workers in a nearby future. These are approaching to turn a stream basement for applicable agencies to levy fines when necessary.
MoH orders reports on health hotlines
The Ministry of Health systematic health departments of provinces and cities to contention biannual reports about a efficacy of hotlines by Jun 10 and Dec 10.
The hotlines, determined final year, accept complaints from patients in sequence to titillate a peculiarity of hearing and treatment.
The method also compulsory a departments to upload feedback from patients into a ministry’s system.
Workers hospitalised for bearing to impassioned prohibited weather
As many as 79 workers of a VMC Hoang Gia in a southern range of Tay Ninh’s Tan Bien District have been hospitalised given yesterday afternoon.
Five of them were in critical condition and were taken to a Tay Ninh General Hospital. The remaining workers were treated during a Tan Bien District Medical Station.
The workers suffered spells of fainting, queasiness and convulsions.
Initial examination showed that these workers had been operative in impassioned feverishness in an area that was not scrupulously ventilated with uninformed atmosphere for breathing.
HCM City Customs officers seize drug precursor
The HCM City Customs Department seized dual cosmetic jars yesterday containing scarcely 10 kilos of pseudoephedrine, value VND7 billion (US$330,000).
Pseudoephedrine is a pivotal part in methamphetamine production. Found churned with shrimp sauce, a drug predecessor was being sent by a authority critical in District 6 to an residence in Australia.
The dialect is co-operating with military to examine a case.
The dialect has confiscated some-more than 67 kilos of drug precursors for methamphetamine and around 4 kilos of heroin dark in food and cosmetics in a past 8 months..
Children’s fun day forges Vietnam-RoK ties
The Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) in Hanoi will organize an party programme directed during children from Vietnam and a Republic of Korea (RoK) on Jun 1.
The event, that aims to emanate a fun stadium for children on a arise of International Children’s Day (June 1), expects to attract a appearance of about 200 children, including many from disadvantaged backgrounds, while others are students from a Korean International School.
KCC Director Park Nark Jong pronounced a eventuality will tie a bond between a dual countries’ children, serve bolstering a shared loyalty in a future.
Through introducing folk games and normal foods, a eventuality also helps foster a enlightenment of a dual nations, he added.
US army helps build bridges in An Giang
Ten tiny bridges were inaugurated on May 30 in Long Xuyen city, a Mekong Delta range of An Giang, as gifts from a US Pacific Command.
Construction of a bridges, in a city’s My Thoi sentinel and My Hoa Hung commune, commenced in Oct final year during a cost of 728,900 USD to reinstate a aged and vulnerable bamboo bridges in a localities. The new ones have a loading ability of 1 tonne each.
According to Robert Ogburn, US Deputy Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, a bridges’ construction cost was sourced from a account for charitable assistance of a US Department of Defence.
Since 2000, a account has also helped ascent a internal infrastructure complement and build schools in remote and bad areas that were tough strike by a war, he noted, adding that identical activities will continue in a opening years.
Mormon Church member to form executive Vietnamese committee
The Government Committee for Religious Affairs has postulated approval to a provisional cabinet representing a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose categorical bend is called Mormonism.
The cabinet will act on interest of a Mormon Church and a supporters in Vietnam. It will contain a conduct and dual other members, any portion a two-year term.
Addressing a extenuation rite on May 30 in Hanoi, that captivated a appearance of a US Embassy member in Vietnam and many leaders and supporters of a Church, Deputy Minister of Interior and conduct of a Government Committee for Religious Affairs Pham Dung congratulated a Church and a followers.
Dung pronounced he believes that a supporters will continue to use their eremite activities in suitability with a law, while staying trustworthy with their internal communities.
He also voiced wish that a Church will shortly turn a 38th eremite organization and a 14 th recognized sacrament in Vietnam .
The Mormon Church was introduced in Vietnam in 1962. However, in 1975 it dangling a operation in a republic for 20 years. Since resuming a activities in 1995, it has collected scarcely 1,000 followers, mostly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Established in a US in a early 19th century, a Mormon Church now has scarcely 16 million supporters in over 100 countries and territories.-
Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane lift science, record ties
Vo Van Thuong, permanent Deputy Secretary of a Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, hosted a accepting on May 30 for a commission from a Vientiane Science and Technology Department of Laos.
The commission is led by Deputy Secretary of Vientiane’s Party Committee Sihoun Sitthileuxay.
Thuong settled that a normal friendship, special oneness and endless team-work between Vietnam and Laos, as good as between Ho Chi Minh City and Vientiane, are building in a sustainable, endless and complete manner.
He suggested a dual cities strengthen connectors in economics, science-technology, health and education.
Sihoun Sitthileuxay voiced his sense on Ho Chi Minh City’s energetic development, observant that his delegation’s revisit aims to boost a dual sides’ cooperation, quite in scholarship and technology.
Vietnamese students learn about Japan culture
Vietnam and Japan jointly hold a training march for 600 Vietnamese students in Tokyo on May 30 that saw a appearance of 36 Japanese schools from Tokyo, Kanto and Koshin Etsu.
Association for a Promotion of Japanese Language Education (APJLE) President Sato Jiro pronounced that a march directed to titillate Vietnamese students’s bargain of Japanese culture, preparation and training and a internal authorised system, to assistance them best cushion into multitude and give them a softened possibility of success in their selected careers.
Jiro also remarkable that a series of Vietnamese students in Japan has augmenting neatly in a new past. He quoted statistics observant approximately 8,000 Vietnamese students complicated in Japan in 2013 that is four-fold a series in 2012.
Vietnamese solicitor in assign of preparation and training Do Van Trung stressed that some-more such courses will be hold in a destiny to supply Vietnamese students with compulsory believe of life and regulations of Japan.
APJLE statistics uncover 81.4% of Vietnamese students upheld tertiary opening examinations after finishing investigate in Japanese schools in 2012.
Japanese schools also produce scholarships to inspire students to continue their study, with 583 students authorized in 2013.
Continued conflict to China’s bootleg acts
Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) around a creation are stability to theatre pacific marches and demonstrations in antithesis to China’s rare bootleg penetration into Vietnam’s territorial waters.
The chain of a Haiyang Shiyou-981 drilling oil supply in Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf has overwhelmed off an strenuous arrangement of nationalistic support by OVs and ubiquitous friends alike.
The Vietnamese Community in Cuba hold a assembly on May 29 during that they cursed China’s bootleg act and released a commercial job on China to stop all provocations and repel a oil supply from Vietnam’s territorial waters.
Mai Thao, President of a Overseas Vietnamese Association in Cuba, voiced his faith in a Vietnamese Government’s correct reaction, that not usually demonstrates assent amatory suggestion and limit patience though also clever integrity to strengthen government over sea and islands.
Le Anh Thu, a Vietnamese student, pronounced that any Vietnamese authority should lift his or her voice in sequence to assistance ubiquitous friends know a genuine conditions in a East Sea and mount joined in antithesis to China’s blatantly bootleg acts.
On a occasion, OVs in Cuba lifted supports value US$2,300 for seashore ensure army who are safeguarding a inhabitant sovereignty.
*** Around 50 Vietnamese people and students in Barcelona, Spain, collected during Cataluna Square to criticism opposite China’s violation.
They sealed a minute addressed to a Chinese Embassy in Madrid and a Consulate General in Barcelona, seeking China to mislay a drilling oil supply and chaperon ships out of Vietnam’s waters.
Participants lifted scarcely EUR1,000 to support Vietnamese seashore guards and fishermen whose fishing boats were pounded and broken by Chinese vessels.
*** Julio César Tinoco Oros, Secretary of a Mexican Party of a Democratic Revolution (PRD) in assign of ubiquitous affairs, on May 29 handed over a PRD’s matter protesting China’s East Sea defilement to a Vietnamese Embassy in Mexican city.
The matter called on parties endangered to practice patience and settle disputes by pacific measures.
The PRD called on Vietnamese and Chinese Governments to deescalate tensions by domestic negotiations formed on ubiquitous law and suggested that a United Nations play a accommodating purpose and concede a International Arbitration Court to decider a case.
It urged a Mexican Foreign Ministry to uncover a position on this emanate and hoped that Mexico will play a some-more active purpose in seeking and gripping assent in a world. It asserted that it respects government and self-determination of any republic in a universe and supports peace.
Earlier, a Mexican Labour Party (PT) and a Mexico-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group released their matter to support Vietnam’s pacific outlook and asked a Upper House, Lower House and Foreign Ministry to cruise a emanate and adopt a matter soon.
Health zone launches endless review
The 30-year hearing of Viet Nam’s health zone reforms should outcome in some-more policies for non-state hospitals, ubiquitous executive of Vinmec Hospital, Professor Do Tat Cuong, pronounced yesterday in Ha Noi.
During a half-day discussion hosted by a Party Central Committee’s Commission for Publicity and Education and a Ha Noi Medical University, health experts discussed investigate methods and a hearing on a country’s 30 years of health zone reform, that will run until 2016.
Cuong pronounced that non-state hospitals were personification an increasingly critical purpose in a health zone and assisting revoke overcrowding in state hospitals. They were also contributing softened services for patients, he said. However, non-state hospitals were not receiving any support from a State coffers, while in need of priority policies, additional staff and training.
“The hearing should conclude clearly and accurately a purpose of non-state hospitals and afterwards rise correct rights and policies for a hospitals,” pronounced Cuong.
Professor Le Vu Anh, authority of a Vietnam Public Health Association, due a hearing to concentration on surety medical services.
The surety medical zone has helped to power in epidemics during a grassroots levels and helped assuage overcrowding during large hospitals. However, surety medicines had not accept most attention, he said.
Nguyen Kim Phuong, representing Vietnam’s section of a World Health Organisation, pronounced a hearing should not concentration on a standing quo and that it indispensable to conclude a health sector’s indication for a future, and rise a roadmap for implementation.
The health zone indication should have minute information on a services, appropriation for a services and policies ancillary revoke socio-economic groups, pronounced Phuong.
The hearing should also establish hurdles that a indication will cope with and measures to solve a challenges, she said.
Health experts titillate aloft tobacco tax
Health experts have asked for boost in taxation on tobacco as an effective magnitude to revoke production, trade and use of tobacco.
Speaking during a assembly to symbol World Tobacco Day (May 31), Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen settled that a stream taxation on tobacco, that is 41.6 per cent of sell price, was revoke compared to other countries in a region.
“Increasing taxation on tobacco to 60–70 per cent of sell cost will be an effective magnitude to revoke a use of tobacco among a girl as good as relieve a repairs to people’s health and community,” stressed Xuyen.
“In sequence to revoke a inhabitant smoking rate by 1 per cent per year, special expenditure taxation on tobacco should be lifted from a stream 65 per cent to 105 per cent by 2015, to 145 per cent by 2018 and to 155 per cent by 2020,” settled Xuyen.
Xuyen combined that augmenting taxation on tobacco will also assistance in augmenting financial source for a State Budget.
Dr Gabit Ismailov from a World Health Organisation also forked out that a boost of taxation on tobacco will assistance Viet Nam to equivocate between 5,000 and 9,000 deaths per year and revoke a masculine smoking rate to 39 per cent by 2020.
The health method consult suggested that 47 per cent of adult group and 1.4 per cent of women above a age of 15 were smokers, homogeneous to 15 million people. Around 21.6 per cent of a youth, aged 16–24, were smokers. A investigate on tobacco use among students aged 13–15 suggested that some-more than 10 per cent of masculine students and 4 per cent of womanlike students pronounced that they dictated to fume in a future.
The country’s sum mercantile weight caused by 5 tobacco-related diseases in Viet Nam was over VND23 trillion (approximately US$1.1 billion) in 2011, accounting for 0.91 per cent of a country’s GDP.
The World Health Organisation reported that around 6 million deaths associated to tobacco use start any year, including 600,000 from pacifist smoking. If stream trends continue, by 2030, approximately 8 million people will die any year from tobacco use, of whom 80 per cent will be from low- and middle-income groups.
CIAT launches plan to strengthen food security
The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) on Tuesday launched a new tellurian investigate plan for a 2014-20 duration in Ha Noi.
The plan aims to strengthen food confidence and bioefficiency in pleasant countries, including Viet Nam.
It defines 3 objectives that are executive for formulating ceiling spirals of tolerable growth: to make affordable high-quality food straightforwardly accessible to a tillage and civic bad by boosting cultivation capability and enhancing a nutritive peculiarity of tack crops; to foster tillage income expansion by creation smallholder tillage some-more rival and market-oriented by softened farming value chains; and to produce a means to rise some-more complete and rival cultivation in an environmental accessible manner.
Under a strategy, in a opening years, CIAT will continue to combine on building some-more volatile and prolific stand varieties, including common beans, cassava, pleasant forages and rice, a 4 critical crops in a pleasant and subtropical areas.
CIAT Director General Ruben Echeverria pronounced that pleasant countries face many hurdles during their mercantile growth, including urbanisation and environmental pollution, and combined that a alleviation of crops and tolerable cultivation could assistance residence a challenges.
CIAT emphasised a significance of cassava, animal feed and tolerable dirt government in achieving bioefficiency in Asia.
According to CIAT, cassava is a third-most critical food stand in a pleasant segment and also serves as stock feed and industrial tender material.
About 8 million tillage households opposite Southeast Asia count on a annual prolongation of about 75 million tonnes of cassava grown in 4 million hectares.
In Viet Nam final year, cassava and associated products brought an trade value of US$1.13 million.
Head of Viet Nam Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Nguyen Van Bo pronounced that cassava was progressing blamed for dirt degradation.
However, if it is grown with a right techniques, it is means to adjust to a changing meridian and beget some-more income for farmers, given it can be used as animal feed and as tender element for bio-energy and curative industries.
“Science and record are an critical cause in assisting titillate a farmers’ income,” he said, job for serve systematic team-work between Viet Nam and a ubiquitous partners.
The CIAT’s new plan is approaching to foster team-work in building some-more volatile and prolific varieties and record transfer.
The CIAT formed in Colombia given 1967 is a member of a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. CIAT develops technologies, methods, and believe that softened capacitate farmers, generally smallholders, to lift eco-efficiency in agriculture.
Shrimp farmers told to hindrance polluting practice
The Directorate of Fisheries and internal authorities have told farmers in Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta not to multiply white-legged shrimp in uninformed H2O areas as wastewater from tact could infect H2O sources.
White-legged shrimp live in brackish, salty H2O and are routinely bred in coastal areas. To multiply a shrimp in uninformed H2O areas, farmers have been regulating wearied good water, to that they supplement salt.
Farmers who have no entrance to rubbish diagnosis have been releasing rubbish H2O directly into rivers and canals.
The recover of salty rubbish H2O in uninformed H2O areas will impact rice production, a Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 2 has said.
Last year, many farmers in a Delta began lifting a essential white-legged shrimp in unzoned areas notwithstanding warnings from internal authorities.
Farmers warranted a distinction VND500-700 million (US$23,800 – 33,300) per ha for one stand (bred over 70 to 90 days) of white-legged shrimp final year.
Because of aloft yields and prices due to trade demand, boost were aloft than those from rice cultivation and other nautical species.
Last year, a country’s 600,000ha of black tiger shrimp had an outlay of 268,000 tonnes, while a 66,000ha of white-legged shrimp yielded 280,000 tonnes, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Many farmers in uninformed H2O areas have incited their orchards, rice fields and fresh-water ponds into white-legged shrimp ponds.
As of final month, in a delta’s uninformed H2O and salt H2O areas, farmers had bred some-more than 1,200ha of white-legged shrimp in unzoned areas, according to a directorate.
White-legged shrimp tact has grown fast in upstream provinces like Dong Thap and An Giang.
In Dong Thap Province, for instance, 57 households in fresh-water areas have bred white-legged shrimp on a sum area of some-more than 64 ha.
Of a 57 households, 14 have harvested white-legged shrimp, with an normal produce of 5.6 tonnes per ha. One kilo of 70 shrimp sells for about VND93,000 ($4.4). Most of a households use wearied good H2O to multiply shrimp.
The large exploitation of groundwater to multiply white-legged shrimp could exhaust this H2O source, according to a directorate.
In addition, if shrimp illness outbreaks start in upstream provinces, they could bluster shrimp cultivation in downstream provinces, it said.
Speaking during a convention hold in Dong Thap on May 14, Nguyen Huy Dien, emissary conduct of a directorate, pronounced a tact of white-legged shrimp had brought evident mercantile advantages given of high yields and prices.
However, a inauspicious impact will be severe, generally in fresh-water areas, he said.
Dien asked a directorate’s Aquaculture Division and other agencies to emanate a news on a tact of white-legged shrimp to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The directorate’s Aquaculture Division was asked to introduce measures to tie a government of white-legged shrimp tact and anathema a exploitation of groundwater for tact a shrimp in fresh-water areas.
Local fisheries sub-departments were also suggested to indoctrinate farmers about a long-term impact of tact white-legged shrimp in fresh-water areas, he said.
Winter-spring rice sees high yields notwithstanding bad weather
Farmers national are stating high yields for their winter-spring rice stand notwithstanding unlucky continue in many provinces, including a cold call and a plant-disease conflict in a north.
Two enlarged cold spells in Feb and cold continue in Mar in a north have extended a flourishing duration of rice before a lush theatre by 7 to 10 days.
Despite this, farms have had high yields as farmers have used special cultivation techniques, a emissary of a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) pronounced during a assembly in Thanh Hoa Province on Tuesday to hearing a northern region’s rice output.
The north has had an normal produce of 6.2 tonnes a hectare, adult 50 kilos opposite final year’s winter-spring crop, a method said.
Northern provinces have planted some-more short-term rice and high-quality rice varieties this year, and a cultivation of hybrid-rice varieties has augmenting capability and output.
Le Quoc Doanh, MARD’s emissary minister, pronounced farmers should closely guard their fields to forestall illness outbreaks.
The northern segment has planted over 1.1 million ha of rice, down 1,500 ha opposite a 2012-13 winter-spring crop.
In a executive region, rice yields in many provinces like Quang Nam and Quang Ngai have reached a record high.
Tran Thi Do, who has harvested 1,500 sq. m of a rice margin in Nghia Hanh District’s Hanh Thinh Commune in Quang Ngai Province, pronounced her plantation had constructed 700 kilos of paddy.
“In prior years, we could usually get about 500 kilos.”
Quang Ngai has planted over 38,800ha of rice in a winter-spring crop, harvested an normal produce of 5.7 tonnes per hectare, pronounced a province’s cultivation department.
The dialect attributed a high capability rate to several factors, including high-quality and disease-resistant seeds, suitable cultivation methods and sufficient irrigation water.
The range has faced several unlucky continue conditions, such as enlarged rain, floods and cold spells after initial planting, and drought in a center of a crop.
In Quang Nam Province, a winter-spring stand has achieved a record-high yield, pronounced a province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The province’s rice outlay is approaching to strech 244,000 tonnes, adult 6,500 tonnes opposite final year.
MARD pronounced farmers in a Mekong Delta, a country’s rice basket, had finished a harvesting of 1.6 million ha of a winter-spring crop, with an normal produce of 6.8 tonne per ha, an boost of 0.3 tonnes over a guess by a ministry’s Plant Cultivation Department.
The delta this year also stretched a area of large-scale rice fields to over 100,000ha for a winter-spring crop, adult 34,000 ha opposite final year, according to a Steering Committee for Southwest Region.
An Giang Province and Can Tho City have a largest areas of large-scale rice fields in a delta. Farmers of these fields pointer contracts with companies to grow high-quality rice for export.
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