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Occupational diseases listed for support
Three more occupational diseases have been added to the Ministry of Health’s list of illnesses subject to monthly allowance and other special treatment. They are cadmium poisoning, conditions caused by body vibration and HIV infection caused by occupational accidents.
The specifications of the three conditions were outlined in the new Circular 42, which will take effect on January 15 next year.
With this addition, the number of occupational diseases subject to governmental insurance now totals 28.
Three policemen die when boat sinks after mission
Three police officers from Vu Quang District, Ha Tinh Province drowned when their basket boat was sucked under the Ngan Sau River by a whirlpool yesterday.
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The body of Tran The Dai was taken home in Binh Quang Hamlet, Duc Lien Commune. (Photo: VNN) |
After the investigation was completed, the two officers and Tran The Dai, 51, deputy head of the Duc Lien commune police, used a basket boat to cross the river to return to the district police office.
When their vessel was about 15 meters from the river’s bank, it was capsized and sunk by a powerful whirlpool, witnesses said.
All three officers tried to swim away, but they failed and were submerged by the swift current.
Local rescuers were called to the scene to look for the victims, but they could not find their bodies until 6 pm.
The victims’ bodies were taken to Duc Lien their families later that evening.
A number of officials from the provincial People's Commitee and the district authorities have visited the victims' families and given incense to the deceased.
No blackouts for upcoming holidays
No blackouts will occur in the capital city during the Christmas and New Year holidays, the local electricity company announced yesterday, Dec 8.
A second source of power will be supplied to important venues such as churches and entertainment centres.
Daily capacity has been forecast to reach 1,800MW while maximum electricity output would hit 35,000MWh during the festive period.
Hospital gives wrong babies to two mothers
On Wednesday, a nurse at Quang Ngai General Hospital mixed up babies by handing a male newborn to a woman who had given birth to a girl.
At 5:50 am, Tran Thi Hong Cam, 22, of Tu Nghia District, Quang Ngai Province, was very surprised when a nurse handed her a boy, since she knew she had given birth to a girl.
Cam complained to the hospital’s obstetrics department about the mistake, insisting that her newborn baby was female, not male.
Dr. Huynh Ngoc Thanh, head of the department, immediately launched an investigation and finally found that a nurse had handed Cam’s baby girl to 20-year-old Dinh Thi Hoai, who had given birth to a boy.
After postnatal care, the girl was handed to Cam, but a moment later the nurse took the baby to another area to keep it away from the from screams of another woman who was giving birth, Thanh said.
The nurse later accidentally returned Hoai’s boy to Cam, Thanh said.
“We confirmed the mistake after comparing the medical records of the two women and testing the blood of the two babies. The issue has been resolved and the two mothers have received their babies.”
Hoai explained to the department that after her childbirth, she did not know the gender of her baby, so she had no idea she was receiving the wrong baby from the nurse.
Hoai also said she had not had a fetal gender test before giving birth.
Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, director of the hospital, said, “Luckily, the mistake was discovered soon, and right at the hospital. If not for this, the issue may have become very complex.”
New centre to support Vietnamese migrants
The Department of Overseas Labour and the International Organisation for Migration have signed a project agreement to establish a Migrant Resource Centre in order to promote safe and sustainable labour migration from Viet Nam.
The project, implemented until June 2013, will help the department develop and deliver direct services to migrants through outreach and awareness-raising activities in areas with high out-migration. It will also foster the exchange of good practices in providing comprehensive migrant support services between Viet Nam and other Asian countries.
Fire rages through barley sugar factory
A raging fire swept through a barley sugar factory in Binh Tan rural district in Ho Chi Minh City during early hours of this morning, Dec 9.
A neighbor said the fire erupted following an explosion and almost immediately engulfed the factory belonging to Thanh Cong Ltd. Company.
At 5:25 am, firefighters arrived on the scene and successfully put out the blaze 3 hours later although many firefighters sustained burns and injuries while battling the flames.
Around 180m2 of the factory were burnt to the ground. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
According to initial information, the factory has been in operation for 10 years and is owned by Le Tan Loc, a local resident.
Hundreds of workers suffer food poisoning
Over 300 workers suffered food poisoning yesterday after lunch in the Havina Kim Lien Co Ltd canteen in the Nam Giang Industrial Park of central Nghe An Province.
Fortunately, no deaths were reported, victims having been taken to local hospitals named Nam Dan, Hung Nguyen and Vinh City.
Authorised agencies are co-operating with the health sector to investigate the incident.
Car, bus crash causes traffic jam in capital
A bus and car collided while driving parallel along Tay Son Street in Ha Noi yesterday morning, causing the car to hit two others.
The accident caused traffic congestion for nearly an hour on nearby Nguyen Luong Bang Street.
The original car was heavily damaged, but the other two only suffered scratches and were able to leave the scene.
Chinese man found dead in rented room
A man was found dead with many injures on his body in his rented room on Road 23, Ward 11, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, Dec 8, morning, local police report.
According to the initial investigation, the victim was a Chinese national named Ly De Jun, 43 years old, Dan Tri newswire reported.
The death was discovered at 8 am by his neighbors who knocked on his door and called him many times but got no answers.
Alarmed to the unusual situation, the owner of the house forced the door open and found Jun lying dead inside.
Local residents told the police that Jun and another Chinese man had rented the room for two months and usually went to work in the morning and came home in the evening.
The two Chinese were last seen in their room the night before the incident but when the room was forced open, Jun’s roommate was not found inside, locals said.
The district police said Jun suffered some serious injuries on his abdomen before he died.
As the victim was a foreigner, the local police kept the scene intact and reported to the city police, who later came at 2 pm to examine the scene and perform an autopsy on Jun before taking his body out of the house.
The police are continuing with their investigation.
Company fined for breaching tourist zone
Focus Travel Company in central Khanh Hoa Province was fined VND25 million ($1,190) for encroaching on the national tourist destination of Nha Trang Bay beach, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Wednesday.
Authorities found that the company had levelled 3,000 sq.m of beach area along Pham Van Dong Street in Vinh Hoa Ward to build a marina, without conducting a report on the potential environmental impact.
The marina project was suspended after the encroachment was revealed last month.
Hanoi zoo tiger tries to climb over fence
A video clip in YouTube shows a tiger in Thu Le Zoological Park in Hanoi trying to climb over a 10m high iron fence, causing a widespread panic among observers.
Nguyen Hoang Giang, a student in Hanoi, said he filmed the extraordinary scene at 4pm on November 12 at Thu Le Park located in Ba Dinh District.
As shown by the clip, a tiger weighing around 50 kilos climbed up his iron cage at a height of 9m from the ground and tried to go outside. However, just a half of his body reached outside while the remained was stuck by iron bars.
Huge crowds of curiosity-seekers including children flocked to the scene to see the ‘big cat’.
Around 10 employees of the park were then mobilized to rescue the tiger. They climbed over the fence and caught it using an iron net. A half hour later, the tiger was rescued safely.
“The case happened in a weekend when many people visited the park. I really don’t know what would happen if the tiger breaks out of his cage and run loose,” Giang said.
Nguyen Cuc Phuong, general director of the park, confirmed the incident took place at the park on November 12.
“This is a very rare incident and the first case at the park,” she said surprisingly, adding the tiger was born at the park in April, 2011.
The park’s management board has reinforced the fence in order to prevent similar incidents in the future.
HCM City reviews OV affairs
A conference was held by the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs in HCM City on December 9 to review six years of implementing the Political Politburo’s resolution 36 on overseas Vietnamese (OV) affairs.
The effective implementation of Resolution 36 over the past six years has attracted a large number of overseas Vietnamese to visit and invest in the homeland country.
Since 2004, more than 2.7 million Vietnamese nationals abroad have returned home during the Traditional Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) not to mention those who keep close contact with the committee to get updated information about Vietnam’s policies on land and housing, national citizenship, repatriation and residency.
To date, 2,500 overseas Vietnamese-invested projects with a total investment capitalization of VND45,000 billion have been licensed to operate in the country.
Nearly 450 overseas Vietnamese experts and intellectuals have decided to stay and work in HCM City.
At the conference, many delegates proposed measures to increase the operational efficiency of the committee in the new situation. They underlined the need for the State to complete legal documents overseas Vietnamese to fulfill their obligations towards the homeland.
The Chairman of the HCM City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, Phan Tham, said the committee will act as an advisor for the municipal People’s Committee to help the people to bring to life Resolution 36 which emphasizes that overseas Vietnamese is an indispensable part of the nation.
The committee will create the best possible conditions for overseas Vietnamese to get involved in the city’s socio-economic development, Tham said.
Uncle abducts nephew over debt
The man who has been detained for kidnapping another man turned out to be an uncle of the victim's wife, who allegedly owed him VND2.5 billion (US$119,000), said the Dong Nai Province police.
54-year-old Ha Xuan Gia, a native of Vinh Phuc Province but resides in Ho Chi Minh City, was arrested Tuesday, a week after his abduction of 34-year-old Le Van Dung, of Trang Bom District, local police reported.
The police seized Gia when he was forcing Le Thanh Hung, Dung’s father, to write a promissory note on behalf of his son.
The police are searching for Gia’s three accomplices, including Vu The Hien, 34, of Vinh Phuc, and two others who are not yet identified.
On December 4, fearful of being tracked down by the police, Gia’s group released Dung in a forest near National Highway 14 in Dong Nai by after holding him hostage for four days, the police said.
Dung, who is former general director of a Southern Telecommunications Joint Stock Company in Binh Duong Province, told the police he was kidnapped on the evening of November 30 when he was taken to dinner by Gia, who later drove him to Dak Nong Province.
Gia asked Dung to call home to instruct his relatives to pay VND3 billion for his release or he would be killed.
After negotiations, the ransom was gradually lowered until it was finally agreed at VND1 billion, and the group asked the victim’s family to pay them VND10 million in advance by wiring the money to a bank account held by a woman in Hanoi.
Dung’s family transferred the money to the account and reported to the police, who launched an investigation and summoned two suspects for questioning.
While the police were tracking down the culprits, the abductors informed Dung’s family that they would release him.
After his arrest, Gia told the police that Dung failed to repay him VND2.5 billion he borrowed from him a long time ago. Gia said he kidnapped Dung only to force his family to repay the amount to him.
Gia asked Hien and two other friends of Hien’s to help him with the kidnapping.
Meanwhile, Dung told the police that in early 2009, Gia contributed VND300 million to Dung’s company at an interest rate of 10 percent per month. Gia later used his house title as a collateral for a loan of VND2.5 billion that Dung’s company borrowed from a bank.
Gia later kept VND1.2 billion of the loan and left the remaining at Dung’s company as his capital contribution, but asked Dung to pay him interest at a rate of 5 percent per month on the full amount of VND2.5 billion.
In July 2011, Gia asked Dung to let him lead the company and keep the company’s seal and business license.
Dung refused Gia’s requests and disagreement arose between the two men until the day Gia kidnapped Dung.
500 international odontologists meet in Can Tho
More than 500 leading odontologists from Vietnam, Thailand, China, Laos, Indonesia, and Cambodia have attended the 6th sub-Mekong int’l odontology conference which was held in Can Tho City on December 8-9.
They listened to 39 scientific research reports by professors and experts from Vietnam and other countries, and discussed new trends of treatment.
This year’s event was jointly organized by Vietnam’s Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Thailand’s Mahidol University.
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