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The car that the teacher of Vân Hồ Primary School reverses and kills one student last Thursday.— VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — National Committee for Traffic Safety has ordered the Ministry of Education and Training to direct all schools nationwide to ban car parking in school premises or on pavements near schools. The order is to be enforced during school hours. The move comes in the wake of the death of a primary school student and injury of another when a teacher was reversing her car, with the registration number 26A-054.29, in Vân Hồ Primary School in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La last Thursday. In December 2016, a second grader in Hà Nội’s Nam Trung Yên Primary School was hit by a taxi while playing on the school grounds. The taxi, carrying the principal and vice principal, rammed into the student and fractured his right leg. The committee has, therefore, decided to issue the order to tighten safety for students … [Read more...] about Car parking banned in all school premises

A family of endangered red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathryx nemaeus) at the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng. National parks and nature reserves have been urged to develop eco-tourism in the central and central highlands regions. — Photo courtesy GreenViet Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG  — "Việt Nam’s nature reserves and national parks are aiming to boost eco-tourism to facilitate both conservation and economic growth, but their efforts have been hampered by a lack of planning, human resources and funds," said Lê Văn Lanh of the National Association for Nature Reserves in Việt Nam. Lanh, speaking at a conference in Đà Nẵng on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the central and central highlands regions last weekend, said just 61 out of the country’s 167 nature reserves had developed eco-tourism services in line with sustainable development goals. Slow planning and poor long-term strategies by State agencies and local administrations had left sites of rich … [Read more...] about National parks focus on eco-tourism development

An underground car parking lot in Hà Nội. — Photo thethaovanhoa.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A regulation recently issued by the Hà Nội People’s Committee requires basements be part of new constructions in the inner city. The severe shortage of parking space in the capital is behind the regulation, the Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper reported. Some 590 parking lots with total area of 38.9ha are currently in use in the central areas of the city, meeting only 8-10 per cent of parking demand in these areas, according to the city’s statistics. Most of the parking lots are filled beyond capacity. Due to limited public land, public parking lots throughout the city only serve 66 per cent of the city’s total parking demand, precipitating the need for new constructions to have parking basements. The regulation provides specific guidance on the size of the basements. It applies to constructions that are going to get built within the area from Ring Road 2 to the city centre, … [Read more...] about Hà Nội tackles parking space shortage

A cabin travels on the world’s longest sea cable car which was inaugurated in Phú Quốc Island District in the southern province of Kiên Giang yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Lê Sen Viet Nam News KIÊN GIANG — The world’s longest sea cable car route connecting An Thới Town and Hòn Thơm Island in the southern province of Kiên Giang’s Phú Quốc Island District was inaugurated yesterday, reducing travel time by half compared to speed boats. The sea cable route is nearly 8.9 kilometres long, thought to be the longest in the world, with one end in An Thới Town and the other in Hòn Thơm Island, the largest in the An Thới island cluster to the south in Phú Quốc. The maximum speed of the cable car system can reach 8.5 metre per second so the total time from the start to the final station is just 15 minutes. The system has 69 cars capable of carrying 30 passengers each and uses modern three-rope cable car technology. The cable car system is the first item of the Sun World Hòn Thơm Nature … [Read more...] about World’s longest sea cable car route launched in Kiên Giang Province

Minister apologizes for misuse of public car The Saigon Times Daily Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh - PHOTO: VGP HCMC - Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh on January 8 wrote to the local media apologizing for the misuse of a State-owned car to pick up his wife right at the stairs of a plane at Noi Bai International Airport late on January 4. He said in the letter, which is also available on the website of the ministry, that as the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and a family member involved in the case, he admitted his mistake in the case. Through the media, he wants to apologize to all the passengers on board Vietnam Airlines Flight VN262 on which his wife was traveling on January 4. Especially, he apologized to the people, leaders of the Party and the State, and his colleagues at the ministry. “I consider this a painful lesson for myself, my family and the ministry,” Anh said. In explaining why he just spoke up four days … [Read more...] about Minister apologizes for misuse of public car

A parking lot near Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked Hà Nội’s People’s Committee to revise its construction plan and build more parks and parking areas to serve people. In particular, the city should focus on constructing more irrigation lakes to increase water regulation capacity and reduce flooding in the city. Dũng also asked the municipal People’s Committee to review comprehensively its technical infrastructure plans, making sure transport plans are coordinated and consistent with the city’s approved master plan. In addition, Hà Nội needs to pay attention to the planning of underground spaces and the construction of traffic points connecting the inner city with suburban areas and satellite towns. The city should boost investment toward building traffic junctions linking bus stations, parking lots with specific investment plans and building mechanisms to attract … [Read more...] about Gov’t asks HN to build parking spaces, parks

Ladder car punctures VNA’s Boeing 787 The Saigon Times Daily A hole is seen in the lower half of a Boeing 787-9 plane’s back door after being hit by a ladder car on August 21- PHOTO: TPO HCMC - A ladder car, while approaching a Boeing 787 aircraft operated by Vietnam Airlines (VNA), punctured the body of the plane on August 21, resulting in the cancelation of a flight from HCMC to Japan’s Osaka. The incident occurred at 11:10 p.m. when the Boeing 787-9 plane (registration number VN-A865) was being parked at Tan Son Nhat International Airport to prepare for the flight to Osaka. The ladder car, operated by Vietnam Airport Ground Services Co., Ltd, hit the jet, leaving a hole in the lower half of the plane’s back door, reported Tuoi Tre newspaper. The national flag carrier had to ground the aircraft for technical examination and repairs. All 265 passengers on flight VN320 were flown to Osaka on another Boeing 787 the following morning. The Southern Airports … [Read more...] about Ladder car punctures VNA’s Boeing 787

Farmers harvest shrimp in Bạc Liêu Province. Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc urged the agriculture sector to foster hi-tech agriculture amid increasing climate change impacts.—VNA/VNS Photo Duy Khương Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – The Government is determined to maintain the trust it has built with people and the whole political system since it began the 14th tenure nearly 10 months ago, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said. He made the remark at the Cabinet’s regular January meeting yesterday, asking all sectors and authorities at all levels to immediately get down to work after the freshly concluded weeklong Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday. The Cabinet would push ahead toward building an incorruptible and action-oriented Government to serve people and enterprises, he stressed, noting that it would continue implementing Resolution 35 on developing the business community and Resolution 19 on facilitating the business climate. He urged ministers to foster hi-tech … [Read more...] about Gov’t resolved to maintain trust: PM

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (centre, right) talks with Rene Van Der Plas, Director of the Port of Rotterdam International on Monday in the Hague.— VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đức Viet Nam News THE HAGUE — National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân advocated stronger co-operation between Việt Nam and the Netherlands to develop seaports. She said this at a reception for Rene Van Der Plas, Director of the Port of Rotterdam International (PORint) in The Hague on Monday. During the reception, the Vietnamese legislator affirmed that her ongoing official visit to the Netherlands was aimed at promoting and further deepening the friendship and cooperation between the two nations in general and their parliaments in particular. She also highlighted the fruitful bilateral relations across fields over the last 45 years as well as ceaselessly reinforced political trust. Việt Nam and the Netherlands are now important economic and trade partners. … [Read more...] about National Assembly Chairwoman hosts Rotterdam International Port’s Director

Ha Noi’s road regulations at odds with national law (03-02-2006) HA NOI — Regulations that allow Ha Noi’s police to seize vehicles involved in traffic violations are against the law, according to the Ministry of Justice. The capital city’s decision 26/2003 states that motorbikes and cars found to break the Road Traffic Law must be impounded for between 15 to 60 days, depending on the extent of violations. However, an official from the justice ministry’s Department for Inspection of Legal Documents said such penalties were in conflict with the law. Ha Noi’s impounding regulation was also one of three city decisions that were unworkable as they exceeded the capital city’s boundaries of authority. The two other regulations causing concern at the justice ministry include decision 167/2003, on the confiscation of small vehicles that are released from impounding but not collected by owners, and decision 02/2005, concerning the city’s efforts to reduce dust from vehicles … [Read more...] about Ha Noi’s road regulations at odds with national law