SOCIETY IN BRIEF 22/7 One million people get jobs in one year One million Vietnamese people enter working age each year, according to the More than 50.3 million people aged from 15-60 work in different economic sectors and 15 million are regular salary earners, including over 1.7 million working in the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector. Thousands of people are also working abroad under time-limit labour contracts. The numbers of people working in education, health care, services, industry, construction and the non-State owned economic sectors are on the rise while those working in agriculture, forestry and the State-owned economic sectors are showing a downtrend. In general, Vietnamese workers are young and able to access advanced science and technology thanks to their improved academic standard and professional. The number of skilled workers reached 42% and around 32% of workers had vocational training. The quality of labour forces in oil and gas, aviation, electricity, electronics, information technology, post and communications, bridge building, hydroelectricity and machinery assembly is higher than those in other fields. In recent years, State incentive policies and the national target program on job and vocation training have facilitated job creation with more than 1 million people getting jobs. However, the impact of financial crisis and global economic downturn as well as national economic difficulties have forced many businesses to declare bankrupt, dissolve and scale down their operations leading to a large unemployment rate. Deputy PMs pay visits to mark War Invalids and Martyrs' Day Deputy Prime Ministers Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Nguyen Thien Nhan on Saturday made separate visits to families of war invalids and martyrs in Bac Giang and Lam Dong provinces on the occasion of War Invalids and Martyrs' Day (July 27). Speaking to war invalids living at the Lang Giang care centre, Phuc said the Party and State always kept in mind the great contributions of war martyrs and invalids during the national construction and defence. He praised the centre staff for their efforts to take good care of the war invalids and commended the provincial Party Committee and authorities for their measures to improve the material and spiritual lives of war invalids and those who had made contributions to the nation. Phuc also visited Heroic Mother Nguyen Thi Kinh, whose husband and only son laid down their lives for the country, in Dinh Tri Commune. In Lam Dong, Nhan visited three families of war invalids and martyrs in Da Lat City. One of them was veteran Do Thi Nguu, who lived alone in a 12sq m room. He also visited the family of war martyr Phan Van Khuong, who died in 1980, and highly recognised Da Lat City's people committee for giving his family members land to build a home and stabilise their lives. Officials estimate there are about 1,1 million war martyrs and 600,000 veterans in City moves to alleviate overcrowding in bus stations Recently, Ha Noi's Transport Department proposed that the municipal People's Committee transfers 400 buses by the middle of next month, from the city's busiest bus terminus, My Dinh, to other bus stations to reduce instances of overcrowding.
The first moves started last month, with 57 buses being relocated. Another 91 scheduled buses that run from the station to northern Hoa Binh Province and 76 buses that work the routes to Ha Nam, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An will also be transferred to Yen Nghia Station in Ha Dong Distict. Seventy buses that run to Cao Bang, The department also proposes transferring 376 buses to Phap Van Station, as construction work is expected to completed by next year. At present, over 1,600 buses operate from My Dinh Station with roughly 950 working daily, but at peak times, over 1,200 buses arrive and depart from the station. Overcrowding at the station, along with illegal parking and passengers being picked up in the surrounding area, has given the capital's authorities a serious problem to address. The move is also part of the city's plan to reorganise bus stations. Diplomatic, foreign vehicles under scrutiny Out of all the hundreds of cars that have diplomatic or foreign licence plates, 317 were still being used after their registration had either expired or been revoked, according to the latest inspection by the Ministry of Public Security's Department of Road and Railway Traffic Police. The inspection was part of a wider campaign that will run until the end of this year to tighten up the management of diplomatic and foreign registered vehicles in Ha Noi and From now on, cars that have diplomatic or foreign licence plates will be subject to random checks by traffic police. The traffic police will also work closely with vehicle registration centres and parking centres to crack down on illegally plated vehicles. Australian war vets to hand over memorabilia A delegation of Australian war veterans will arrive in These memorabilia were collected by This is part of a project which has been launched by a group of Australian researchers and war veterans since 2010. Phan Nhu Hai, deputy director of Binh Dinh province’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, says the handover of the memorabilia is a noble deed of the Australian veterans as Vietnam is celebrating 66 years of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27). Big C collects second-hand clothes for charity French retailer Big C yesterday, July 21, succeeded in collecting 12 tonnes of used clothes, equivalent to 40,000 pairs of shirts and trousers, under a charitable programme which aims to support children in need. These clothes, together with books and school supplies, will be given to poor students under the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund, National University of Ha Noi, northern Ha Giang Province's Quan Ba District and northern The programme also set the world record for "the biggest number of clothes collected within 24 hours", recognised by Guiness World Records. Households await dam resettlement Nineteen households in Son Dung and Son Long communes of Son Tay District have not been resettled as part of the Dakdrinh Hydro-power Plant, which is scheduled to start generating power on August 31. The project's 900-ha reservoir covers the communes of Son Long, Son Lien and Son Dung in Son Tay District of central Quang Ngai and also KongPlong district in Kon Tum province. Le Van Tung, deputy chairman of the Son Tay District People's Committee, said the hydro-power plant committee did not expect these households would be inundated once the plant's reservoir started filling up. Costs for resettlement were estimated at VND20 billion (US$970,000). While waiting for authorities and relevant agencies to act, Tung said these households would be temporarily relocated to makeshift houses to ensure safety. Korean doctors provide free surgery for disabled children Thirty-eight children with harelips and cleft palates in the central region have received free surgery provided by doctors from Hue Medicine and Professor Shin Hyo-Keun, vice rector of Chonbuk National University, said that during the visit to Vietnam from July 14 to 21, Korean doctors provided medical checks-up for 61 child patients, and 38 of them received free-of-charge operations. This is the eighth visit to So far, Fifteen Vietnamese asylum seekers had been returned home, according to the The group have departed from The decision was made following the Australian government's decision to expand regional processing arrangements to ensure unauthorised maritime arrivals are transferred to The department emphasised that those who paid smugglers to help them enter HCM City outlines early treatment for HIV A programme to provide early anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to people with HIV is likely to be piloted in It will target people with a CD4 cell count (the number of white blood cells in a cubic millimetre of blood) of 350-500. Researchers have found that earlier intervention reduces the death rate among HIV patients as well as HIV transmission and the number of AIDS cases, Le Truong Giang, chairman of the city Public Health Association told Sai Gon Tiep Thi (Sai Gon Marketing) newspaper. Now HIV-positive patients only start treatment when the CD4 count falls to 350 except in certain cases like pregnant women and children, Giang said. While the treatment is now free, under the proposed programme patients have to pay around VND7,000 per day, he said. It will be submitted to the city People's Committee and the Ministry of Health for approval this year. If approved, implementation would begin early next year, Giang said. Over VND40 billion raised for fishermen in Truong Sa, Hoang Sa The program to call for support for fishermen in Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes has raised nearly VND40 billion over the past two years. Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL), Hoang Ngoc Thanh said that fishermen, depending on level of damage they suffer, can receive aid worth up to VND200 million to VND500 million to help them overcome their difficulties when they are in distress at sea. Nearly two years after its launch, the program has called on youth unions, labourers, businesses, organisations and millions of individuals nationwide to help hundreds of fishermen as a contribution to protecting the sovereignty of the nation’s sea and islands. Thanh said VGCL President Dang Ngoc Tung granted the sum to fishermen. In addition, VGCL has also sent delegations to pass on best wishes and provide timely support to help fishermen buy fishing tools or boats. Over 100 business players and top economic experts converged at the seventh Viet Nam-Japan Economic Dialogue in Co-hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in Addressing the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Doan Xuan Hung declared that with steady effort, He said that through official development assistance (ODA) and direct investment, the Japanese government and people had actively contributed to However, the Ambassador noted that bilateral economic links had yet to meet each side's potential. He also admitted that snags remained in Etsuro Honda, special advisor to the Japanese Cabinet, stressed that economic policies named "Abenomics", advocated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were behind the closer ties between the two nations. He cited nursing care for the elderly as a potential co-operation field as He said Director of the Viet Nam Institute of Economics Tran Dinh Thien said He also introduced The scheme highlighted priority fields that needed Japanese investment, such as electronics, car manufacturing, shipbuilding, energy, agro-forestry-fishery and environment. Pangolins rescued from ‘dinner table' Authorities in the The mammals, believed to be heading for the dinner table, weighed a total of more than 620 kilos. At noon on Thursday, police in Ha Long City stopped the first car as it travelled from Ha Long to Mong Cai District and found 75 pangolins without legal documents. The driver admitted he was taking them to A day before, police in Hai Ha District discovered another 62 pangolins also headed for HFM disease spreads in Dong Nai Province Virus EV71, which is the main cause of hand-foot-mouth disease, remains prevalent in southern The test was conducted on throat fluid of 10 people, including adults and children, by the provincial Preventive Medicine Centre in June. The province has reported 3,400 hand-foot-mouth cases since the beginning of this year, including one death. The number saw a year-on-year increase of 40 per cent. Tonnes of diatomite seized Authorities in the central The substance is the remains of hard-shelled single-celled plants and can be used in toothpaste, for filtering beer, and as cat litter. The diatomite was packed in bags ready for sale. The authorities also discovered about 1,200cu.m of the mineral scattered in the fields of nearby residents. Earlier, the provincial People's Council checked on a shortage of clean water in two villages in the commune and found that the Diatomite Viet Nam Joint Stock Company drilled 40 different holes hunting for the mineral since the beginning of last year. This caused 15 wells in the villages to run dry, affecting the lives of 200 households containing 700 people. Illegal diatomite exploitation in An Xuan Commune has occurred off and on for the past 10 years. Diatomite was used to make filtering powder for liquor, beer and soft water manufacture, or used as an environmental purify substance in aqua culture. VNN/VOV/VNS/VNA |
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