Centres

Da Nang to build up software centres

DA NANG — The central city's it companies gained VND3,200 billion (US$152 million) as well as an export turnover of $13.5 million this past year, the director from the city's information and communication department, Pham Kim Boy stated yesterday.In a seminar around the type of concentrated it for local provinces yesterday, he stated the town planned to construct an application park within the Da Phuoc urban area – the 2nd software park in Da Nang – throughout the following 5 years."The town is promoting

City intends to ease hospital overload

HCM CITY — HCM City targeted to alleviate the overload on its hospitals in 3 years, Individuals Committee vice chairman Hua Ngoc Thuan has stated.Speaking inside a recent public forum, he stated eight hospitals which were likely to open by 2015 is needed lessen the load by as much as 75 percent.They're planned to become built close to the city's four major entry ways and also have around 5,000 beds totally.Despite hr training and purchase of facilities and equipment since this past year, the town, the

Ageing population needs more nursing care

At 70, Nguyen Thi Chung has spent the last 10 years at a private care centre in Dong Ngac Village, Tu Liem District. Her husband died years ago and her only daughter became married.

Austria helps build fire and rescue centres

The Ministry of Public Security’s Fire Prevent and Control Police and Search and Rescue Department and the Austrian company Frequentis signed in Hanoi on Feb. 22 a project on construction of a centre for management of firefighting and rescue.

HCM City markets busy for Valentine’s Day

Markets in HCM are bustling with excited trading activities for Valentine's Day.

Thousands face Christmas in Philippine shelters

Thousands of people in the southern Philippines are facing Christmas in emergency shelters after floods that left more than 1,000 people dead and another 1,000 unaccounted for.

Hanoi busily prepares for Christmas

The spirit of Christmas has filled streets, shopping centres and many other places in Hanoi with striking colours, decorations and items.

English Centres ink pact with Oxford Press

The Viet Nam-USA Society English Centres (VUS) yesterday signed a co-operation agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP).

Penalties raised for driver training slips

Automobile and motorbike driver training centres which issue graduating certificates for trainees without training them properly will not be allowed to enrol new students for six months and directors of the centres will be docked their wages.

Number of addicts entering rehabilitation centres soars

More than 3,000 drug users were admitted to rehabilitation centres in HCM City from the beginning of the year to the end of September, an increase of 13.9 per cent against the same period last year, according to a recent report by the city's Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

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From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of