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The task is set in a directive on some missions to promote sustainable agricultural and rural development in the region in response to climate change, recently signed by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh.
Especially, measures must focus on directing and implementing the regional planning scheme for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050; the strategy for sustainable agricultural and rural development for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050; the national strategy for natural disaster prevention and control to 2030, with a vision to 2050; the agricultural restructuring plan for the 2021-2025 period; the national target programme on building new-style rural areas for the 2021-2025 period; and the master programme for agricultural development in the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change.
HCM City’s students to access AI teaching next academic year
Ho Chi Minh City is planning to offer courses in artificial intelligence (AI) at all secondary and high schools, starting from the 2022-2023 academic year, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.
Deputy head of the department Nguyen Bao Quoc said that the sector is building a system to manage education, and organise teaching, learning and intelligence assessment in order to carry out the city’s smart education and lifelong learning project in the 2021-2030 period.
Over the past three years, several schools in the city have been teaching AI for students, but the scale remains small and limited.
In the 2022-23 academic year, Ho Chi Minh City will pilot including an AI teaching programme in the curricula at its secondary and high schools. Accordingly, the city will pick five high schools to apply the AI teaching pilot programme, while each district will select a secondary school.
Students will learn AI through informatics and a series of clubs, extracurricular activities and science, legos and robotics contests. Apart from the selected schools for the pilot project, other schools can teach AI via voluntary on-demand programmes.
Bac Lieu confirms cluster of COVID-19 infections in hospital
The general hospital of the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu confirmed on June 22 that 25 child patients have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and a child has died of the virus.
The two-day-old baby suffered severe pneumonia symptoms, and test results showed the baby was positive for the virus.
Through tracing, the authorities found that on June 14, a 5-month-old boy in Tan Thanh commune had a fever and stopped breastfeeding. He was taken to a private medical facility but did not respond to the treatment.
Three days later the boy was transferred to the Bac Lieu General Hospital 16 where he tested positive.
Twenty-five other children at the hospital’s pediatric department have since contracted the virus through testing.
There are six patients on ventilators, a doctor told local media outlets, adding only few of the child patients have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
VN fighters to compete in Jujitsu World Beach Cup
Việt Nam will compete in the Jujitsu International Federation World Cup Beach 2022, to be held on June 23-24 on Jomtien Beach, Pattaya, Thailand.
The 18-athlete team is led by Trần Văn Thạch, head of Việt Nam Sports Administration's Jujitsu Department.
The highlights for the team are the world champion Phùng Thị Huệ who just won a gold medal at the recent SEA Games in the women's U45kg, and SEA Games winner Đào Hồng Sơn (men's U56kg). Other potential faces are Đặng Thị Huyền (women's U52kg), Phạm Trí Dũng (men's U69kg), Trần Ngọc Lượng (men's U62kg) and Nguyễn Cát Tùng (men's U77kg).
They will vie for trophies against powerful rivals from South Korea, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the hosts.
They will compete for titles in 10 weight categories for both men and women in the No-Gi discipline in which fighters don't wear the traditional uniform but shorts and T-shirts or a rash guard.
National stamp exhibition to be held in Hanoi after two-year hiatus
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National postage stamp exhibition – Vietstampex will start tomorrow at the Việt Nam-Soviet Friendship Labor Culture Palace in Hà Nội.
Events include a workshop on developing Việt Nam's stamp collection movement, an issuance ceremony for the stamp set 'Vietnamese Sea and Island' and the release of the stamp set 'Vietnamese Fairy Tales' over the course of three days, beginning on June 24.
Vietstampex is a once-every-five-years event. The inaugural exhibition was held in 1998, and additional ones followed in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015.
The highlight of the design is the four stamps in the heart of the globe, which carry the message of the postage stamp as an information portal linking people throughout the world, according to the organisers.
The numerals on the logo are also stylised into the shape of a magnifying glass and Hà Nội's Khuê Văn Các (Constellation of Literature pavilion), which is the site for the event. The logo is a blend of blue, yellow, and red hues that signify joy, creativity, knowledge, sustainability and togetherness.
VN feature films compete at Golden Kite Awards
Eleven feature films are nominated for Best Feature Film at the 19th annual Golden Kite Awards organised by the Việt Nam Cinematography Association.
The movies most likely to win the awards are Cơn Giông (A Thunderstorm) directed by Trần Ngọc Phong, and Bình Minh Đỏ (Red Dawn) by Nguyễn Thanh Vân, which are set in the war and post-war periods.
Meanwhile, Bình Minh Đỏ tells stories of woman soldiers who were chosen to be truck drivers to transfer arms, food and medicines to battlefields during wartime.
Other outstanding nominees for the awards are high-grossing movies of 2022 such as Bẫy Ngọt Ngào (Naked Truth), a directorial debut by female director Đinh Hà Uyên Thư, and Chìa Khóa Trăm Tỷ (A Billion Key), a remake of the 2012 Japanese movie Key of Life by director Võ Thanh Hòa.
The organiser received 136 entries, including 14 drama series, 45 documentaries, 10 scientific films, 28 animations, 35 short films and three research works on movie critics.
The Golden Kite Awards ceremony will be held on August 9 in Nha Trang of Khánh Hòa Province
In the framework of the event, the organiser will offer free film screenings from August 1-8 to the public at the city’s cinemas.
Vietnamese doctors in South Sudan help in monkeypox response
Soldiers of Việt Nam’s Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 have provided training and updated knowledge on the epidemiological situation, diagnosis and treatment of monkeypox for Level-1 field hospitals in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, according to the Việt Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
With the disease developing in many countries, including in Africa where it was first detected, the training aims to equip medical workers with basic knowledge and necessary epidemiological skills, thus helping the health system take concerted measures in response to the disease.
Monkeypox is not a new disease, but many doctors are not familiar with its diagnosis and treatment. The training session will help give staff peace of mind and be prepared for the disease.
Soldiers of the Vietnamese hospital also joined civil-military cooperation activities.
Booster doses necessary to maintain COVID protection: deputy health minister
First and second booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are necessary to maintain protection against the virus, Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương said on Monday.
Hương joined other health officials and local leaders in a meeting on healthcare and pandemic prevention, which Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam chaired.
According to the deputy health minister there is currently no scientific proof that the COVID-19 vaccine poses long-term health risks to people, though its effectiveness wanes over time.
Therefore, people must receive the third and fourth doses as booster shots in accordance with instructions from the health ministry.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed that as of June 17, Việt Nam had administered over 225.2 million COVID-19 vaccines, equivalent to 98.6 per cent of the population.
Embassy of State of Kuwait’ staff donates blood to thank VN
The Embassy of State Of Kuwait staff, led by Chargé d’Affaires Faraj Shebeeb Mda Alajmi, donated blood at the 108 Military Central Hospital on June 20.
The blood donation was part of the Embassy of the State Of Kuwait’s social activities to support patients needing blood, and the emergency and treatment demands of the health sector on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day.
Speaking at the event, Chargé d’Affaires Faraj Shebeeb Mda Alajmi praised the achievements that the Government of Việt Nam and the health sector have gained in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in the past years.
During the pandemic, the State of Kuwait did not hesitate to provide vaccines and everything to support Việt Nam in driving back the COVID-19 pandemic. I want to affirm that we will continue to donate our blood as a gesture to thank the Government of Việt Nam and the health sector,” said Alajmi.
Children aged 12-17 to receive COVID-19 booster five months from last dose: Health ministry
The Vietnamese health ministry has issued guidelines for the administration of the third COVID-19 vaccine dose/booster for children aged 12-17.
According to the document signed by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương which has been sent to local health departments and Pasteur institutes and the hygiene and epidemiology institutes, the booster will be Pfizer shots (Comirnaty) that will be administered five months after the second dose.
The health ministry asked health departments to report the number of vaccines needed for this booster rollout by June 20, 2022, and the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology must ensure sufficient supplies and allocation for localities.
Việt Nam has only cleared Pfizer shots for the primary course for children in this age group and the inoculation was rolled out in late October last year, starting first with HCM City after the country’s severe outbreak there began to ease.
To date, the country has administered over 225 million doses of vaccines, with first-dose and second-dose coverage in children 12-17 years reaching 100 per cent and 97 per cent approximately.
The health ministry also asked for the completion of third dose for adults and the rollout of primary courses of vaccines for children from five to under 12 years old within the second quarter of this year, in line with the Government’s request.
HCM City sets out activities for overseas Vietnamese
The HCM City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese announced several practical activities to support overseas Vietnamese by the end of the year, Phùng Công Dũng, its chairman, said at a conference held in the city on Friday.
The committee planned to continue organising exchanges, investment conferences and meetings between overseas Vietnamese and local people and businesses.
It will organise a get-together for Overseas Vietnamese to celebrate the National Day of Vietnam (September 2).
A visit offering gifts to 750 disadvantaged ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia will be included.
An annual Summer Camp will be organised for young overseas Vietnamese from countries and territories worldwide to give them the opportunity to interact with local youth.
Hot weather forecast to continue in northern, central regions
As the northern and central regions are experiencing scorching heat, the forecasting centre said temperatures could rise further.
Extreme temperatures are forecast for the northern region as well as northern and central parts of the central region in July. There is a 70 - 80 per cent possibility of temperatures to top 37 degrees Celsius, according to Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Mai Văn Khiêm.
However, heatwaves are unlikely to be as severe or as long as in 2021, he noted, adding that temperatures in the north this July will be around the average of previous years, but around 0.5 degrees higher in August - September and 0.5 degrees below average in October - December.
The same forecast was issued for the central region.
Meanwhile, the temperatures in the Central Highlands and southern regions will be about 0.5 degrees higher than average in July - September and around average in the last quarter of 2022.
Tennis ace Hoang Nam wins M15 Tay Ninh for third consecutive time
Vietnam’s leading tennis player Ly Hoang Nam successfully beat Digvijay Pratap Singh (India) to triumph in the men’s singles at the ITF Men’s World Tennis Tour M15 Tay Ninh professional tournament (Week 3) - Hai Dang Cup.
In the first set, Nam put in a poor performance and was ultimately defeated with a score of 6-4.
However, the local player turned the tide in the second set when he equalized the score, and overwhelmed the Indian player in the third set, clinching the title after nearly 3.5 hours of competition.
This is the title Nam has won three times in a row. The Vietnamese player earned 45 points to officially return to the top 400 of the ATP rankings.
Danish Film Weeks to get underway in four Vietnamese cities
Hanoi, Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City are scheduled to host the Danish Film Weeks 2022 from July 1 to July 14 as part of activities to celebrate 51 years of bilateral diplomacy between Vietnam and Denmark.
Six movies to be screened during the festival are ‘The Good Traitor’, ‘The Purity of Vengeance’, ‘That Time of Year’, ‘A Perfectly Normal Family’, ‘Daniel’, and ‘Land of Mine’.
These films have won several awards and nominations at prestigious Danish and international film festivals, with some having requirements relating to age limits.
All the movies will be shown in their original language and will feature English and Vietnamese subtitles.
Free tickets are available in Hue and Da Nang from June 22, as well as in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from June 24.
Tiara for Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 pageant unveiled
The organising board of Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 revealed a luxury tiara at a press conference held on June 20 that will be presented to the winning beauty queen at the competition.
The tiara, named "Vinawoman - Infinity", is adorned with three golden sapphires located in the centre which symbolise the prosperity of as a whole society.
Furthermore, it also contains 2,137 diamonds and 279 sapphires that come in various different sizes.
Furthermore, the two runners-up at the competition will also receive other tiaras.
Moving forward, the semifinal of Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 is scheduled to take place on June 21, while the final night will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25.
International passengers to Vietnam by air surge
Around 650,000 international passengers came to Vietnam by air in May, up 45.87 percent compared to April.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, nearly 30 foreign airlines and Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air and Bamboo Airways had operated flights connecting Vietnam and 22 countries and territories by mid-June.
Flights linking Vietnam and Brunei, Indonesia, Myanmar and Macau have not yet been reopened after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Of the total number of 650,000 foreign passengers to Vietnam in May, 254,200 were transported by Vietnamese airlines, up 58.2 percent against April.
Six Vietnamese airlines are operating on 55-60 domestic air routes.
Between January and May this year, Vietnamese airports served 33.04 million passengers and 608,900 tonnes of goods, up 28.9 percent and 3.4 percent on-year. Among the figures, Vietnamese airlines carried 16.33 million passengers and 122.8 million goods, up 26.6 percent and 1.6 percent on-year.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam forecasted Vietnamese airports would serve 70-80 million passengers this year, including 10 million foreign arrivals, compared to 116.5 million in 2019.
227-kilo wartime bomb found in Quang Tri
A 227-kilo bomb left from the American War has been discovered by a stream in the central province of Quang Tri.
Local residents told PeaceTrees Vietnam about a bomb found in Tri Village, Huong Lap Commune.
The US-produced MK-82 bomb is 1.54m long and weighs 227 kilos. It was moved to a safe area to await deactivation.
Tri Village is quite far from the commune centre, so it has taken more time to relocate the bomb.
PeaceTrees Vietnam are responsible for clearing bombs and mines in the districts of Huong Hoa and Dakrong in Quang Tri.
Vietnam-Australia Centre officially launched
The Vietnam Australia Centre (VAC) has been officially launched by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), becoming a milestone in the Vietnam-Australia strategic partnership.
The Hanoi-based centre aims to help Vietnam access Australia’s knowledge, skills and expertise, experience in training and scientific research, thereby strengthening mutual understanding and deepening the fruitful partnership relationship between the two countries.
The VAC, to be jointly operated by the HCMA and the DFAT through the Aus4Skills Programme, also focuses on improving the capacity of Vietnamese leaders and managers to meet the requirements of integration and development of the country, and contributing to beefing up the close, positive and sustainable Vietnam-Australia cooperation relationship.
Earlier on June 8, the HCMA and DFAT signed an agreement on cooperation in implementing a project on establishing and building capacity of the VAC.
Energy Observer Odyssey comes to HCMC
From June 18 to June 29, residents in HCMC can witness Energy Observer Odyssey, the first hydrogen-powered, zero-emission vessel to be self-sufficient in energy, advocating and serving as a laboratory for ecological transition. HCMC is the 73rd stopover of its round the world odyssey.
On the occasion, the Energy Observer crew will be able to present the ship’s autonomous zero-emission system to several hundred visitors and decision-makers, and as always to many students and school children in collaboration with the French Consulate General in HCMC.
Vietnam is one of the last stopovers of the Energy Observer Odyssey in Southeast Asia, after Singapore and Thailand.
HCMC wants separate lane for bicycles, pedestrians on Hanoi Highway
The HCMC Department of Transport is seeking to open a separate lane for cyclists and pedestrians on Hanoi Highway in the east of the city.
Director of the department Tran Quang Lam has just asked the Road Traffic Infrastructure Management Center of HCMC and related agencies to conduct a study to this effect, and the study must be completed and submitted to the department in July.
This scheme is in response to the Government’s Resolution 48 on improving traffic safety and easing congestion, which also asked HCMC authorities to organize separate lanes for bicycle riders on a trial basis.
The separate lane for bicycle riders and pedestrians on Hanoi Highway is the vacant strip of land sandwiched between the main route and parallel roads stretching nearly four kilometers from Rach Chiec Bridge to Saigon Bridge in Thu Duc City.
Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to be split into two: minister
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam will be reorganized into two departments, with one responsible for roads and the other for expressways, said Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The.
The imminent reshuffle is meant to improve State management, as the model of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam no longer suits the current requirements in terms of mechanism and policy. “The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam will surely cease to exist” when the plan is approved by the Government, the minister is quoted by the local media.
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam has recently submitted a plan to the ministry proposing splitting itself into the Department of Road Management and the Department of Expressway Management. Nguyen Van Huyen, head of the directorate, said he had submitted the plan to the ministry as told, but he did not agree with it.
Minister The said his ministry was working on a scheme to collect feedback from ministries, agencies and the public over the restructuring of the directorate before forwarding the plan to the Government for the final say. He said there are differences but it is the Government and the Prime Minister that will decide.
HCM City moots 33 km elevated section for express railway in city
The HCMC Department of Transport has proposed that a 33-kilometer section of the HCMC-Can Tho express railway in HCMC should have elevated tracks to facilitate the project’s execution.
At a meeting between the Ministry of Transport and localities on the express railway on June 17, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Transport Phan Cong Bang said the express railway was designed to be 174 kilometers long with 13 stations and pass through six localities—Binh Duong, HCMC, Long An, Tien Giang, Vinh Long and Can Tho.
The project will start at the An Binh Station in Binh Duong’s Di An City and end at the Can Tho Station in Can Tho City’s Cai Rang District.
Earlier, the section in HCMC had been planned to include a 12-kilometer elevated section.
The HCMC-Can Tho express railway project requires an estimated investment of over VND169 trillion and a cleared site of 916 hectares. The project will be a double-track line, allowing a maximum speed of 190 kilometers per hour for passenger trains and 120 kilometers per hour for cargo trains.
Once the railway is completed, it will take 75-80 minutes to travel from HCMC to Can Tho, instead of the current four to five hours.
UNESCO proposes not to build road through World Biosphere Reserve’s core zone
In its official dispatch on the construction project of the Ma Da Bridge and the National Highway 13C connecting Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc southern provinces, passing through the core zone of Dong Nai World Biosphere Reserve, the UNESCO office in Vietnam proposed not to build a road through Dong Nai World Biosphere Reserve’s core zone.
According to UNESCO, the construction of a highway passing through the core zone of the Dong Nai World Biosphere Reserve causes the ecosystem to be fragmented, leading to the loss of continuity, the connection of biodiversity corridors being broken adversely affecting the habitat of rare and precious animals and killing wildlife due to vehicles on the road, causing soil, water and air pollution caused by the road construction process itself.
These bad impacts will lead to environmental degradation, loss of habitat, and biodiversity, and failure to meet the criteria and functions of the core zone of the biosphere.
Moreover, the construction of the Ma Da bridge and the highway project would be simultaneously inconsistent with the country’s law goals of forest protection and biodiversity conservation.
Ministry of Health warns peak of dengue epidemic
The Ministry of Health was yesterday warning of the peak of the dengue epidemic period- the rainy season - which is believed that climate is an important factor for dengue transmission.
In its yesterday dispatch to chairpersons of people's committees in provinces and cities, the Ministry of Health asked to strengthen the prevention of dengue fever.
According to the Ministry of Health, the peak of the dengue epidemic period is currently coming with an increase in the number of dengue fever cases in many provinces and cities lately, mainly in the South region and some provinces and cities in the central region.
According to medical experts, dry seasons followed by a period of excess rainfall can lead to a high risk of dengue outbreaks. In the summertime, there is humidity in the atmosphere during the rainy season which is a favorable environment condition for mosquitoes to breed; as a result, an upsurge in cases of dengue has been observed.
The Ministry of Health forecasts that the number of dengue patients will continue to increase in the coming time and may cause large-scale outbreaks if local governments and the health sector do not take drastic measures to prevent the disease.
To date, the country has recorded more than 60,000 cases of dengue fever. In particular, this year, the number of severe cases increased rapidly, much higher than the same period two years ago. Worse, more children succumbed to the disease than adults this year whereas the mortality of adults due to dengue is higher than in previous years.
Hanoi ensures public satisfaction with public services
The Hanoi People's Committee is developing e-government towards digital government which is expected to operate transparently and effectively to ensures public satisfaction with public services.
Accordingly, Hanoi has issued a plan on applying information technology in the activities of public agencies, developing e-government towards digital government and ensuring the city’s network information security in the period of 2022- 2025.
The move shows the local authorities’ commitment to carrying on the administrative reform, urging all localities to put in efforts and enhance efficiency in public services.
Besides, it aims to basically complete digital transformation in public agencies and gradually provide open data to promote digital economy and society.
The city government will operate on the capacity of data analysis, bringing Hanoi into the top five localities in the country in developing e-Government and forming a digital government.
The plan has also set a target of involving the private sector and non-state organizations in providing at least 50% of new public services; 100% of civil servants will be assigned digital identifiers; 100% of the city's public agencies participate in opening data and providing open data for developing digital government, digital economy and society.
Moreover, all civil servants in charge of information security and technology and employees in the city’s public agencies will be trained in cyber security knowledge, skills and techniques in accordance with professional requirements.
Source: VNA/SGT/VNS/VOV/Dtinews/SGGP/VGP/Hanoitimes
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