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Students disdain
social sciences
Low salaries and the fear of unemployment make social
sciences less and less appealing to students, academics said yesterday at a
seminar held in
Tran Chut, vice president of Van Hien University, the host, said the number of candidates applying for social sciences is declining every year, leading even to the closure of related faculties at many places.
Delegates blamed the situation on the tendency of society to think poorly of social sciences and discourage students from opting for them.
High schools are also to blame for failing to educate students about their positive sides, they said.
A common perception is that social science majors get meager salaries and face the threat of unemployment.
Bright students
allowed to gallop past their peers
Children with superior ability will be allowed to start and complete junior high and high school at an earlier age than normal, under new regulations released by the Ministry of Education and Training.
Parents and guardians should write to the school seeking permission for this.
On the other hand, the upper age limit for underprivileged children, those from ethnic groups, and overseas Vietnamese students has been relaxed – they can join three years later than normal.
In other rule changes, teachers are prohibited from using cell phones in class, verbally or physically assaulting students and colleagues, and forcing students to come for private tutoring.
The regulations will take effect on May 15.
VN to have tsunami
early warning stations in July
The Da Nang People’s Committee has identified locations for the country’s first 10 tsunami early warning stations - to be put into operation in July by the military-run telecom company Viettel.
They include one each on
Two of them will be equipped with a 30-35 m high antenna for wave absorption and an alarm system with a siren.
When the antenna captures tsunami signals, the siren will go off to warn residents so that they can take safety measures.
The eight others will capture information about tsunamis, including how powerful and how high they are, when they will make landfall, which areas will be most affected, and which areas need to be evacuated.
The stations will sound the alarm around 30 minutes before a tsunami hits.
IT scholarships for
100 disabled people
The Vietnam Search Engine Optimization Club will offer 100 disabled people full scholarships for joining a course that will teach them to optimize text content and format websites so that search engines can locate them easily.
The course will be held every Sunday for two months at the
On completion, the trainees will get jobs at one of Vietnam SEO Club’s member companies.
Applicants can send their profiles to nghilucsong@gmail.com
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Drunk cop assaulting
woman to be punished
The provincial Police Department would consider the report and give a punishment to Dung for his offense, said Major General Nguyen Chi Phi, director of the department.
On the evening of March 29, Dung, who got drunk, came to a
hairdresser’s on
Dung insulted O. and beat her on the face and chest. Witnessing the case, local residents called emergency police 113.
At that time, four policemen of ward 6 police rushed to the shop, but Dung heaped insults on them.
Meanwhile, curiosity-seekers had flocked to the scene, blocking the road and causing an accident, local police said.
The man later fled when the police 113 force arrived.
It was the third time Dung caused such an incident in the city, said the My Tho City Police Department.
4 hooligans attack
on-duty police, 2 arrested
In two assault incidents, police in two districts in
In the first incident, the police arrested Nguyen Van Phu, 29, while two other hooligans escaped from the scene.
At 1:00 am March 27 on
When a policeman, Kien, was examining Phu’s papers, Thai suddenly attacked Kien by throwing a brick onto his face. Phu and Thai then dealt out blows to the two policemen.
Kien fired a shoot into the air to warn them and the two hooligans ran away with their motorbike. At this moment, a man, later known as Duong, rushed to the scene from a lane nearby and used a piece of brick to strike the police motorbike.
Phu and Thai returned and continued to attack the policemen with Thai throwing a plant pot at Kien, injuring him.
Phu used a tree branch in the attack but he was later seized by the policemen who handed over him to local police.
The Tan Binh district police yesterday decided to detain him for criminal investigation and are hunting down his accomplices.
The same day Binh Thanh police also detained Tran Quoc Thanh, 37, a local man, for attacking a team of traffic police with two knives.
At 0:30 a.m. March 27, Thanh was driving without wearing a
helmet on
Instead of presenting his papers, Thanh used two knives hidden under his clothes to assault the policemen, who managed to grab the knives from them and seized him.
Thanh was handed over to the local police before Binh Thanh district police decided to detain him yesterday for criminal investigation.
Sexiness at a price
Ever since she spent VND 70 million (US$ 3,300) to have her breasts and buttocks implanted with silicone at a beauty center in Ho Chi Minh City three years ago, N.T.H, 26 from Hanoi has been in pain.
She was recently hospitalized at
Doctor Tran Thiet Son, head of
When doctors pressed on the breasts of this patient, silicone oozed out from the nipples.
Son said in the cases of these two patients, doctors must immediately remove the silicone or else, it would cause scars and deformity of the mammary glands and migrate to other body parts.
And once it migrates to other body parts through blood vessels, fatal complications such as heart attack, lung or cerebral infraction that causes paralysis can occur.
There are reports of women dying from these complications right during the implant, Son said.
Pham Quoc Khanh, deputy head of
Recently, P.T.T, a 32-year-old woman from the southern
The patient had had breast implant abroad 8 years ago and recently felt breast lumps and pain.
Trung Vuong’s doctors later operated to remove inflammatory tissues from her breasts, but their original contours were permanently damaged.
Khanh said in HCMC, there are many unlicensed beauty centers providing silicone implant whenever customers ask for it, utterly disregarding their safety.
“Some patients even said they did the implanting themselves,” he said.
Local artists to
raise $500 mln for children
A charity program launched last year by a group of Vietnamese artists to raise money for poor children suffering from heart disease aims for VND 10 billion (US$500 million) this year.
After holding musical shows and auctions to raise enough money to pay for surgeries for 100 children last year, this time around, Understanding the Heart asks people to donate VND 8,000 through a text message or VND300 through an online message at the program’s website www.vnn.vn/hieuvetraitim.
Organizers said they also planned other activities as part of this year’s campaign such as appearing on TV talk shows and at schools around the country.
A filmmaking competition will also be held from April to July.
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With the message of “Cutting unnecessary power consumptions in 365 days and acting for the following years”, the campaign aims to raise public awareness of the economical and effective use of electricity and develop an energy-saving habit for Hanoians, helping ensure national energy security.
To make the movement effectively, the organising board has trained 3,000 communicators on how to use home electric appliances in an efficient way along with boosting dissemination through systems of loudspeakers in wards and residential quarters.
A similar movement was launched in
Accordingly, a project aimed at establishing theoretical and
realistic foundations for the creation of a national talent strategy was
launched in
The project was led by Ho Duc Viet, former Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) and former Chairman of the CPVCC’s Organisation Commission.
According to the official, since its founding
He said Party and State have adopted various training projects to enable excellent university students and competent State officials to study abroad, in an effort to prepare a contingent of proficient personnel for the nation’s sustainable development.
Viet also referred to policies and guidelines aimed at attracting talented people working in different fields inside and outside the country, as well as conditions to make the best utility of their gifted capacity.
However, the official pointed out that the lack of strategic programmes and plans hindered the early detection of the talented from schools and universities and that insufficient preference given to talented people failed to lure them to work in the political system.
The project focused on studying talented people involving in leadership and management, science and technology, production and business.
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