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The first phase of upgrading the Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery was inaugurated at a ceremony in the central province of Quang Tri, on July 22.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said the Vietnamese Party, State, and People are always grateful to the heroes, fallen soldiers and war invalids who sacrificed themselves for national liberation.
The upgrade of the cemetery is a practical action to express the nation’s gratitude, he said.
The Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery is the resting place of over 10,000 soldiers, most of whom were killed during fierce battles along Road 9 and in Laos.
Men held for smuggling 50 airguns into VN
Two men who arrived in Hanoi on a flight from Russia have been caught smuggling 50 airguns, which are banned from being imported into Vietnam.
At 8:35 am on July 22, customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport found the guns, which had been set apart, in the deposited luggage of Nguyen Van Duoc and Nguyen Ngoc Hoan, who arrived on the same Aeroflot flight from Russia.
Duoc is a resident of Nam Dinh Province while Hoan is from Nghe An.
The case was handed over to the local economic security police, who confirmed that the guns were manufactured in the Czech Republic.
Duoc and Hoan told police that they were hired to bring the guns to Vietnam for sale.
Such a gun is sold for just 3,100 koruna (VND3.1 million or US$149) in the Czech Republic, but in Vietnam it can be priced up to VND10 million ($480), Duoc said.
The two men said they had been sent to the Central European country to work under a labor export program and they took the flight home to visit their families.
According to the Ordinance on Management and Use of Support Tools, such airguns are listed as weapons banned from being imported into Vietnam, police said.
A similar case happened at this airport on September 13 last year when an unnamed Laotian national was caught carrying 0.5 kg of TNT along with a shotgun and ammunition into Vietnam from Paris.
Security officials detained the Laotian for inquiry, but the Laotian embassy offered its guarantee for the passenger. They allowed the person to fly home a day later, pending investigation by Vietnamese and Laotian authorities.
Laos honours Vietnamese scientists
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and its scientists were awarded with Lao honours at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 23.
At the event, Lao Minister of Science and Technology Boviengkham Vongdara presented the Order of Labour, second class, to VAST along with ITXALA Order, second class, and the Medal of Labour to its scientists.
On the occasion, VAST granted the honorary doctorate to Vongdara in recognition of his contributions to scientific cooperation between the two countries.
Passengers miss flight due to airlines staff’s miscalculation
Hoang Ngoc Dinh and his family missed their flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi early Sunday morning because a ticket sales staff member miscalculated their airfares.
Previously Dinh had bought eight tickets at a Vietnam Airlines booth in the city’s Tan Son Nhat airport. The six adults and two kids were waiting to get on a plane departing at 5.30am when they were called back to the booth on the speaker system.
The staff then told them the airfares were miscalculated and they had to pay VND1 million (US$50) more to be able to fly.
Dinh and his family did not agree with the staff’s explanation. Both sides consequently got into a fight, resulting in Dinh and his family missing their flight. However, they later got on a flight at 8.45am and did not have to pay any extra money.
Ngo Thu Hien, head of ticket sales and booking in the Vietnam Airlines southern office, told Tuoi Tre after checking the system that it turned out to be a mistake of their staff. The head of the ticket sales at the airlines booth in Tan San Nhat airport has already called to apologize to the customers for all the trouble.
“We will wait until they come back to Ho Chi Minh City to meet in person and say sorry for the inaccurate action of our staff,” she said.
The employee, who just started working three months ago, was new to the ticket system and did not know about different fares for economy tickets. Worried about having to compensate for the loss, the worker did not act appropriately and caused misunderstanding.
The staff at the ticket booth later tried to move the passengers to the 6.10am flight, but could not do so.
“The responsibility is on the employee who miscalculated, as well as the manageron duty, who did not solve the problem flexibly. We will draw a lesson from this,” Hien said.
Passenger fined $4800 for plane ‘bomb joke'
An airline passenger was sentenced to 15 months' probation and fined more than VND100 million (US$4,800) for joking about having bomb after boarding a flight from Ha Noi to Da Lat.
On July 9, Ho Thi Thanh Tuyen, 25, reportedly said her luggage contained a bomb to a flight attendant.
The flight attendant reported Tuyen's statement and informed the captain and security officers.
The plane was immediately moved to an isolated area in Noi Bai Airport for security teams to search the plane and luggage, causing a delay of more than three hours.
The plane took off after checks revealed there was no device on board.
Under police questioning, Tuyen said she had been joking and didn't realise it would have such large repercussions.
Stolen ducks feared infected with bird flu
Three men in central Quang Binh Province are being sought in relation to the theft of scores of ducks feared to be infected with bird flu.
The three men are understood to have fled the province.
The case in An Ninh Commune, Quang Ninh District, was detected when the duck owner carried out an inventory on the ducks for culling as required under the regulations related to infected poultry, said commune People's Committee chairman Ho Van Mien.
Scores of stolen ducks which had been stolen and sold to other farmers were confiscated and destroyed by the People's
Committee.
Three miners drown when mine floods
Three miners died when underground water suddenly filled a coal mine of the Uong Bi Coal Factory in the northern Quang Ninh province at noon yesterday.
Factory director Nguyen Truong Giang said nine workers were in the mine at the time; four escaped and a rescue team saved two others.
The three miners who died are Pham Van Tuan, 32, Le Cong Mao, 49 and Le Van Truc, 38.
The two rescued miners are in a serious condition at Viet Nam-Thuy Dien Hospital.
Quang Ninh Province's People Committee has supported families of the dead with VND6 million (US$300) each while VND3 million ($150) was given to each family of the injured.
11 Chinese “doctors” work without permit in HCMC
Eleven of the 18 Chinese nationals working at three Chinese clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have no work permit issued from the local Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, city health inspectors reported.
An inspection team from the department has carried out inspections at seven Chinese clinics and found that at three of these facilities 11 Chinese nationals, called “doctors” by their clinics, have yet to be licensed to practice.
At Hue Ha Traditional Medicine Clinic, 199 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Ward 12, District 5, the inspectors found that only one of the five Chinese health workers there was working as a licensed oriental medical doctor.
The Chinese Traditional Medicine Clinic at 141 Phan Dang Luu Street, Phu Nhuan District, has employed seven Chinese staffers, but only three of them are doctors.
Similarly, at the Trung Nam International General Clinic at 1505 Ba Thang Hai Street, District 11, only three of the six Chinese health workers have permits.
The inspectors also found that the three clinics violated 22 other labor laws, such as employing unlicensed foreigners, not regularly reporting the use of foreigners, and not making plans to train Vietnamese employees as a replacement for foreign health workers.
These clinics have been given administrative penalties.
Meanwhile, the four remaining Chinese clinics were closed or did not have a representative available to receive the inspectors when they arrived to carry out their task.
As previously reported, the city Health Department has revoked the business licenses of five city-based Chinese clinics, including the Chinese Traditional Medicine Clinic at 141 Phan Dang Luu Street, Phu Nhuan District; Dong Phuong Traditional Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Clinic at 762 Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, Tan Binh District; Anh Sang Oriental Medicine Clinic at 928 Lac Long Quan, Tan Binh District; Hue Ha Traditional Medicine Clinic at 199 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, District 5; and Dam Sen Clinic at 54 Hoa Binh Street, District 11.
These clinics have committed a series of violations, such as employing doctors without practitioners’ licenses, issuing false diagnoses, overcharging patients, selling expired or unapproved medicine, and offering unlicensed services on their advertisements.
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